The ‘Petal’ vocalist celebrated a new month with an Instagram carousel that featured her boyfriend.
ByJaelani Turner-Williams
November 2, 2026
Ariana Grande kicked off the new month with an Instagram carousel featuring a rare look at her boyfriend, Ricky Alvarez.
On Monday (Nov. 2), the Petal singer posted a series of photos to Instagram, with two that showed her getting close to Alvarez, who she reconciled with over the summer after roughly a decade apart. The actress-singer last dated her Wicked costar Ethan Slater amid the actor’s separation with his now-ex-wife Lilly Jay.
Alvarez, a dancer and photographer, met Grande when he joined her 2015 Honeymoon Tour as a backup dancer. The couple dated for about a year before breaking up in July 2016, and she later mentioned him in the opening lines of on her 2019 hit “Thank U, Next.”
“Ariana has always considered Ricky a friend,” aince their split]. Ricky is dependable, trustworthy and very supportive. Ariana feels she can be herself around Ricky.”
After months of speculation the pair got back together, the couple confirmed their reconciliation in a previous Instagram carousel from August, which showed a blurry mirror picture of Grande and Alvarez.
