SpongeBob SquarePants actor Tom Kenny has spoken about being linked with Ariana Grande, when she was actually dating his Broadway counterpart Ethan Slater
The internet can be a confusing place, as Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, discovered when “hilarious” and totally false rumors circulated last year that he was dating Ariana Grande.
The gossip started when news began emerging that Grande, 31, was dating someone who played SpongeBob. Of course, we now know that the someone in question was her boyfriend Ethan Slater, who played the iconic yellow sea sponge in the SpongeBob Broadway musical as opposed to Kenny, who voices the character on the long-running Nickelodeon show.
Grande and Slater, 32, met while shooting Wicked and have now been seriously dating for over a year — but for a crazy minute there, happily married Kenny, 62, was in the mix, following the singer’s split from husband Dalton Gomez. Thankfully, Kenny saw the funny side, and has now spoken about how it all played out. “That was hilarious,” he told E! News earlier this week at an event to celebrate 25 years of the much-loved series. “It said ‘SpongeBob actor dating Ariana Grande.’ And people were like, ‘Wow, Tom Kenny, he’s a player.’ I was like ‘How did they find out?’. Ariana and I have been trying to keep a lid on this explosive secret. Ariana and I didn’t want Ethan to find out.
Kenny has also revealed that he knows Slater pretty well. “When he was training for the part, he came to Nickelodeon and we got to know him during the process and I saw the show when it was in previews in Chicago,” he said. “He just knew exactly what to do. SpongeBob was a part of his formative stages. So he had his own definitive take as far as SpongeBob's physicality and all that, which he had to do live on a stage.
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