SpongeBob Voice Actor's Wife Jokes He's 'Not' Dating Ariana Grande

June 2024 · 3 minute read

Actress Jill Talley took to Instagram to elucidate which SpongeBob SquarePants actor is recently dating Ariana Grande — and it’s not Talley’s husband, Tom Kenny.

“Hi everyone, I’m married to Tom Kenny (who voices SpongeBob at the tv display.) He is not dating Ariana Grande,” Talley, 60, commented on a recent Instagram post shared by The Cut which featured the headline, “Is Ariana Grande Dating SpongeBob Now?”

Kenny, 61, has portrayed SpongeBob SquarePants’ titular sponge on the loved Nickelodeon animated sequence — in addition to spin-offs The Patrick Star Show, Kamp Koral and more — since 1999. Us Weekly showed on Thursday, July 20, that Grande, 30, meanwhile, is dating her Wicked costar Ethan Slater, who earned a 2018 Tony nomination for his portrayal of SpongeBob in the SpongeBob SquarePants Broadway musical.

“I don’t know if Ethan Slater (who performed SpongeBob within the musical) is or isn’t dating Ariana Grande,” Talley persevered. “However, they’re each lovable and I completely send it.”

Talley — who herself has voiced Karen the computer since SpongeBob’s 1999 premiere — concluded her comment with a candy update on her and Kenny’s marriage. “PS: as for me and Tom Kenny — we're celebrating our twenty seventh wedding ceremony anniversary as of late,” she wrote.

Last week, a supply told Us that Grande and Slater’s romance used to be “moderately new,” adding, “Ariana and Ethan have best lately begun seeing each and every other however they have got a large number of a laugh together and are enjoying each and every different’s corporate.”

Grande’s new courting update came days after news broke that she and her estranged husband, Dalton Gomez, had separated after two years of marriage. “Ariana and Dalton have been having some problems for months now,” a 2nd insider told Us on July 17. “They had been having problems ahead of she left for Wicked filming [in London] that they couldn’t resolve, and the gap didn't lend a hand. They haven’t been speaking and are separated, and a divorce is most probably.”

Slater, 31, for his phase, recently separated from his wife, Lilly Jay. They married in 2018 and welcomed a son together in 2022.

Earlier this yr, he praised his now-ex in a candy Mother’s Day Instagram post, writing, “Happy first Mother’s Day to probably the most loving caring and lovely mother/particular person on this planet — from me and this little man.”

Slater plays Boq in the upcoming Wicked films along Grande as Glinda the Good Witch, Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Jonathan Bailey as Prince Fiyero. In the degree show, Boq has an unrequited love for Glinda, who in the long run sets him up with Elphaba’s sister, Nessarose (Marissa Bode), while she pursues Fiyero.

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Amid Grande’s breakup from Gomez, a third supply told Us that the Grammy winner was “made up our minds to transport forward” and that her family members are “happy” about her non-public existence growth.

Gomez, in the meantime, used to be “devatated” via the cut up. “A separation isn't what he’s wanted,” another source exclusively told Us. “He wanted the fairy story, satisfied finishing, and it’s now not looking that means.”

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