Ariana Grande Gives Nod to Boyfriend Ethan Slater with Inventive Christmas Decoration

The couple first met on set of the upcoming movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical ‘Wicked’

Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater. PHOTO: 

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Ariana Grande’s Christmas decorations include some special love for boyfriend Ethan Slater.

On Thursday, the Grammy-winning singer, 30, shared a carousel of photos to Instagram, including one snap that showed a Spam can ornament hanging on a wall Christmas tree made of green garland.

Of course, fans will know the ornament is a shoutout to Spamalot, the 2005 Tony-winning musical adaptation of Monty Python and The Holy Grail. A revival of the comedy is currently running on Broadway, starring Slater, 31, in a variety of roles.

Grande has been a visible supporter of the show, heading to the St. James Theatre in New York City to see Slater in the musical multiple times since it began rehearsals in October. She was seen cheering him on during the show’s first preview performance on Halloween and attended the opening night of the Broadway musical on Nov. 15.

She also posted photos a series of selfies on her Instagram Story Thursday, snapped as she and friends sat in the Spamalot audience.

Ariana Grande Christmas decoration shared on Instagram on Dec. 21, 2023. 

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Grande and Slater met on the set of the upcoming movie adaptation of Wicked, and developed a romance offscreen.

The pair’s relationship, which was first confirmed by PEOPLE in July, began after her separation from husband Dalton Gomez and Slater’s separation from wife Lilly Jay. Grande and Gomez, 28, settled their divorce in October after two years of marriage.

Both Grande and Slater have a love for musical theater in common. He made his Broadway debut in 2017, as the title character in SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical. Grande got her start on Broadway too, with her first big credit in Jason Robert Brown’s short-lived 2008 musical 13.

Ethan Slater (center) ‘Spamalot’ castmates Jimmy Smagula, Taran Killam, Leslie Kritzer, Nik Walker, Christopher Fitzgerald, Michael Urie and James Monroe Iglehart on opening night. 

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While Grande has been seen at Spamalot often, she and Slater have yet to make their red carpet debut.

And though there may be love between them off-screen, it won’t be that way in Wicked. In the musical, Slater portrays Boq, a Munchkin who crushes on Glinda, played by Grande. Disinterested, she pawns him off on sister Nessarose (Marissa Bode), much to his dismay.

Production on the film adaptation, which be broken into two parts, paused during the writer’s strike with just 10 days of shooting left to go. The halt on production, however, has not appeared to have an affect on the film’s release date. Wicked Part 1 is scheduled to hit theaters on Nov. 27, 2024, while Part 2 will come out a year later, on Nov. 26, 2025.

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Meanwhile, elsewhere in Grande’s Instagram post Thursday, the star shared a mirror selfie of her posing in a turtleneck black mini dress, as well as a photo of a string of Christmas lights on the floor. 

Other pictures included screengrabs of a family Facetime call, which featured her brother Frankie Grande and mother Joan Grande.

The artist shared too various selfies with friends, before finishing the post with a pic of two furry animals.