In nearly two months of dating, they’ve given us an internet sensation, nauseating PDAs, and matching tattoos
In case you hadn’t heard, Ariana Grande and SNL star Pete Davidson are dating now. Not only that, but they’re engaged, after only a month together. Whether you’re sickened by their public displays of affection or are shipping the new couple, you’ve got to agree calling this a whirlwind romance seems like a bit of an understatement. Let us guide you through a timeline of their relationship, which actually started – at least in some way – longer ago than you might think.
September 2014: Ariana appears as the musical guest on SNL. Pete, who has just joined the cast, makes his debut on the very same show. No confirmation on if they actually met on this occasion, but it’s not unlikely.
March 2016: Ariana returns to SNL, this time to serve as guest host. At the time, she’s still in a relationship with fellow musician Mac Miller, while Pete has just started dating writer and actor Cazzie David (Larry David’s daughter). The two apparently keep in touch.
May 10 2018: Over two years later, Ariana confirms she is no longer with Mac in an Instagram story, calling him “one of my best friends in the whole world and favourite people on the planet.” She added: “I respect and adore him endlessly and am grateful to have him in my life in any form, at all time, regardless of how our relationship changes or what the universe holds for each of us!” However, the two unfollow each other shortly after.
💔brb, crying.
@ArianaGrande explains her split with @MacMiller 😭 pic.twitter.com/phhasroEhc
— WiLD 94.9 (@Wild949) May 10, 2018
May 20: People reports Ariana and Pete are spotted hanging out together backstage at the Billboard Music Awards. The site quotes a source as saying: “After Ariana’s performance, they were backstage and he had his arm around her. They seemed very lovey-dovey. He was hanging out with her and her friends with his arm around her. She seemed quite smitten.”
May 21: That alleged smitten look is explained the next day when reports begin to circulate that the pair is dating. Those same reports are quick to point out, however, that the new relationship is “casual” and has “just started.”
May 23: So much for casual. Fans note the couple already have matching tattoos – small clouds on their fingers. Meanwhile, Ariana hits back at a fan who says she should have stayed with Mac. In a post on her Twitter page, she criticises the poster for “minimis[ing] female self-respect and self-worth by saying someone should stay in a toxic relationship because he wrote an album about them.” She continued to tell them to stop “shaming/blaming women for a man’s inability to keep his shit together” and that she hadn’t previously shared “how hard or scary it was was while it was happening, but it was.”
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May 30: The next day, the pair finally make it Instagram official with a Harry Potter-themed photo. “The chamber of secrets has been opened…” Pete captions a photo of the two in Gryffindor (him) and Slytherin (her) robes. Ariana comments on the post: “u tryna slytherin (I’m deleting my account now).”
June 2: Pete gets more tattoos for his new love, this time getting a ‘Dangerous Woman’ bunny mask behind his ear and Ariana’s initials on his thumb.
We had a good night.
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June 12: So much for casual, part two. Rumours begin to swirl that the couple are engagedafter a month of dating. Ariana begins to like fans’ tweets about their apparent engagement, seemingly confirming it to be true.
June 15: Pete posts a photo on his Instagram that all but confirms their engagement. “U know what you’d dream it’d be like? it’s better than that,” he captioned the picture, which showed the pair’s hands, legs and feet. On Ariana’s ring finger? A fuck-off huge diamond ring.
u know what you’d dream it be like ? it’s better than that
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June 19: They move into a $16 million, five-bedroom apartment in New York together and Ariana reveals there’s a song called ‘Pete’ on her new album. This will later cause an internet sensation.
June 20: Pete appears on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, where the duo’s engagement is confirmed beyond doubt. Asked by the host about it, the comedian replies: “It’s fucking lit, Jimmy. I feel like I won a contest.”
@ArianaGrande 10 INCHES SIS OMFG pic.twitter.com/8zYEQY1NZf
— 𝒥aya🕊 (@JayaHampton) June 22, 2018
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June 26: Ariana celebrates her 25th birthday with a series of gushing Insta posts from Pete. “Happy birthday to the most precious angel on earth! you’re my favourite person that ever existed 
I love you sm,” reads one of them. Footage later appears on Ariane’s Insta story of the pair duetting to Evanescence’s ‘Bring Me To Life’ at her karaoke birthday party.
This article was originally published by: NME
