Ethan Slater Informed Wife Lilly Jay About Ariana Grande Romance ‘Days Before the News Broke’

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Ethan Slater informed his wife, Lilly Jay, that he was done with their marriage shortly before his romance with Ariana Grande went public, according to a source.“Ethan sat Lilly down a few days before the news broke about him and Ariana and said that he wanted a divorce,” the insider exclusively tells Us Weekly. “Lilly never saw it coming!”Slater, 31, and Grande, 30, connected on the set of the upcoming Wicked movie — and weren’t shy in front of the cast and crew, per the source.“Ariana and Ethan weren’t careful,” the insider says. “They’d hold hands on set in between takes.

They were sloppy and not hiding it.”Slater and Jay, who welcomed a son in 2022, celebrated 10 years as a couple last November, one month before he left to film Wicked in London.

While he has since gone private on Instagram, his Mother’s Day tribute to his high school sweetheart raised eyebrows amid headlines about him and Grande.“Happy first Mother’s Day to the most loving caring and wonderful mom/person in the world. — from me and this little guy,” Slater gushed on the app in May.Us confirmed earlier this month that things turned romantic between Slater and Grande amid the “Thank U, Next” singer’s own separation from now-estranged husband Dalton Gomez.“Ariana and Ethan are dating; however things are fairly new.

Ariana and Dalton split in January, and Ethan is separated from his wife,” a second source told Us. “Ariana and Ethan have only recently begun seeing each other but they have a lot of fun together and are enjoying each other’s company.”Gomez, for his part, is “devastated” by the impending divorce, a third insider explained.“Dalton is really hoping to make things work with Ariana,” a fourth source said. “Despite the rocky patches they’ve been