How Ariana Grande Spent Years Getting Burned by Celebrity Romances, Before Finding Happiness With a Realtor

Sometimes we make the same mistakes over and over again, leading to the same negative consequences. And in order to get a different, positive, result, we have to change our tactics. Ariana Grande, who spent years building relationships with famous men, learned her lesson the hard way; every time ending up with a broken heart. Then she married a realtor. And guess what? She seems to have found the path to her happiness.

Relationships with celebrities

Ariana Grande started her career at a very young age. As an 8-year-old she was already singing in front of stadium audiences, at 15 she performed on Broadway, and by the age of 20, she had reached such heights in her career that she was compared to Mariah Carey herself. Media scrutiny became a constant in her life, and her personal life was no exception. Especially since the singer was dating other famous people.

While working in the Broadway musical 13, she met the actor Graham Phillips, and their relationship lasted several years. Grande later dated singer Nathan Sykes, as well as rappers Big Sean and Mac Miller. But these relationships never really took off.

Ariana Grande’s romance with comedian Pete Davidson was a veritable reality show for the public. The couple posted together on social media and didn’t hide from the cameras, appearing together in public. After just a month of their relationship, they got engaged. Four months later, however, they broke up just as publicly, exposing to the press all sorts of facts, including division of property.

In fact, said “property” concerned a shared pet, Piggy Smallz, and a $100,000 engagement ring. As a result of the separation, Grande got the pet and the ring was returned to Davidson. However, Ariana was also able to benefit from it. She released a break-up album, Thank U, Next, for which she received a Grammy nomination. Despite the success, the singer had a broken heart. She said of herself, “closed for renovation, until further notice”.

A “spy” romance

When the press and fans are around every corner and in every newspaper, discussing your break-up with your fiance, it can’t be a very pleasant experience. Plus, Pete Davidson himself made money off her name after the break-up, by discussing their relationship in his stand-ups. Unsurprisingly, henceforth, the singer tried her best to hide her private life from prying eyes.

However, for a world-famous star, this mission is nearly impossible. In early 2020, paparazzi caught Ariana making out with a young man in a Northridge café. From that moment, the press and the fans joined forces to figure out — who is this stranger?

Fans and the press did a job that Sherlock Holmes himself would be proud of: they scoured the pages to which the singer is subscribed, finding other followers in common with Ariana. As a result, the most attentive found the answer in a few shots from some social media ’stories’ - Grande’s new boyfriend is someone called Dalton Gomez.

Confirmation of their speculations came in the spring of 2020. First, the star posted a snippet of her new song: “You got me all up in my feels in all kinds of ways”. And then she appeared with Dalton in the music video for the song Stuck With U, a collaboration with Justin Bieber.

Ariana knew right away that Dalton was something special. He was nothing like her ex-boyfriends and had nothing to do with show business. Gomez is a luxury real estate agent in Los Angeles. According to his friends, the young man couldn’t care less about her fame, and he wasn’t afraid of fading into her limelight. In him, Ariana found what she had been looking for so long: he is very grounding for her.

A record-breaking wedding

Grande’s romance with Gomez is the complete opposite of the one with Davidson. The lovers cherish their relationship, keeping it away from prying eyes. So it came as a shock to the singer’s fans when, in May 2021, she announced that they were married.

As Grande predicted for herself in the song Thank U, Next, she walked down the aisle holding her parents’ hands. The wedding was tiny and very intimate — fewer than 20 people were invited. The guests spoke of the celebration as if it were something magical: “The room was so happy and full of love. The couple and both families couldn’t have been happier”.

Despite the modesty of the occasion, the whole world was talking about the wedding. One of the reasons being that it set a record: in just 1 hour and 41 minutes, Ariana Grande’s social media post got 10 million likes. This made it the most popular post in the history of Instagram.

Today, the couple continue to live life their own way — without appearing too much in front of the cameras. Only occasionally does Grande post photos of them together. But, as before, many details of their lives can be gleaned from her songs: “I ain’t tryna sign no lease. I’m just gon’ make you my home”.

If you were a celebrity, would you hide your private life, or would you be happy to share it with the public?