Ariana Grande and Ricky Alvarez are red-carpet official. The couple was photographed arriving for the premiere of Focker-in-Law in New York City on Wednesday evening, 11 November, with Alvarez affectionately wrapping his arms around the singer and actress for the cameras.
Grande, 33, wore an off-white and grey tartan-patterned ballgown, styling her hair in a signature sleek ponytail with her new shorter haircut. The appearance marks the couple’s first red-carpet outing together since they rekindled their romance earlier this year — a relationship that first began briefly in 2015.
A return to the spotlight
The premiere appearance comes after Grande’s representative announced in August that she would be “stepping back from public-facing work” following the 1 September conclusion of her Eternal Sunshine tour, to spend more time on her personal life. She also stepped away from a planned West End production of Sundays in the Park with George, alongside Jonathan Bailey, which had been set to debut in the spring.
Now she is back in front of the cameras for Focker-in-Law, the new comedy in which she stars alongside Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller. The film is tracking for a $40 million to $50 million five-day Thanksgiving opening, according to Deadline, sharing the holiday frame with Disney’s animated Hexed.
A romance back on
A source told Page Six in September that Grande is “in an amazing place” and “really happy” since getting back together with Alvarez, a dancer. In September, she also appeared to hint at how serious the relationship has become, changing a lyric in her hit “thank u, next” during a performance to suggest she would like it to be permanent.
The romance follows Grande’s split from her Wicked co-star Ethan Slater after three years of dating. With a major film release ahead and a public relationship back on, Grande’s return to the spotlight is arriving on her own terms — and the red carpet is where she chose to make it official.
It has been a week of big entertainment moments — from the trailer for Danny Boyle’s Ink to the Netflix release of Colleen Hoover’s Reminders of Him — and Grande’s premiere night adds another headline to the season.
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