Ariana Grande’s alleged new boyfriend – and Wicked co-star – is reported to be a Nice Jewish Boy from Washington. According to TMZ, the two met on the set of the Broadway musical-turned-film and have recently started dating.
Ethan Slater was born to Jewish parents Jay Slater and Ellen Goldmuntz, and raised in a conservative Jewish household. He has previously said in an interview with the Times of Israel that Judaism has informed “every aspect of his life”.
As a child, the Slater family belonged to Ohr Kodesh shul, where he had his Bar mitzvah. He attended the Charles E Smith Jewish Day School in Washington DC, and took classes at Shoresh Hebrew High throughout high school, which was co-founded by his dad.
Slater shot to fame in 2018 with a starring role in the Spongebob Squarepants Musical. He first watched the show which inspired the musical “at [his] bubbe’s house,” he told Variety.
