Ariana Grande announces engagement after seven months of dating

Pop star Ariana Grande has exchanged rings and promises to tie the knot with luxury real estate agent Dalton Gomez, she announced on Instagram on Sunday.
Sharing photos of herself with Mr Gomez (and a diamond and pearl ring), she captioned her post, “forever n then some.”

Grande had dropped hints of being in a relationship with Gomez last year, as she shared several adorable photos tucked with him on Instagram.

A music video of her collaboration with Justin Bieber on Stuck With U, which was a nod to quarantine, was the couple’s public debut in spring, reported The New York Times. It featured a clip of Grande and Gomez dancing.

Along with its “unapologetically and sometimes humorously libidinous lyrics,” Grande’s most recent album, Positions, has “occasional slips of vulnerability that reveal the giddiness and anxiety of new love,” according to the outlet's review.

Gomez, a real estate agent at the Aaron Kirman Group in Los Angeles, was born and raised in Southern California, according to his profile on the agency’s website. He has worked in luxury real estate for five years, overseeing sales of homes like Pierre Koenig’s Case Study No. 21 in Los Angeles, which served as the set of Charmed.

Shortly after the release of Grande’s 2018 album, Sweetener, her ex-boyfriend and rapper Mac Miller, died of an accidental overdose. He had collaborated with Grande on her hit track, The Way, in 2013.

“I adored you from the day I met you when I was nineteen and I always will,” she wrote about Miller in a post on Instagram after his death.

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