R5‘ Ellington Ratliff is our favoritest drummer ever and for really good reason.
The 24-year-old musician will be heading back out on tour in Europe on the New Additions tour with his band — girlfriend Rydel Lynch, and her bros Rocky, Riker and Ross Lynch.
But before he leaves, JJJ caught up with him to get to know him even better and found out 10 Fun Facts about Ellington.
Check them all out below!
I was named after the Famous Jazz musician Duke Ellington
I play drums in the band R5
When I was thirteen I did the workshop and LA company of 13 a musical by Jason Robert Brown (famous composer in the theater world) and later Ariana Grande did the same show on Broadway
The biggest show I/R5 ever played was in front of 8,000 people in Argentina. It was insane. Ross (lead singer) fell into the crowd on the first song
I’m writing this list from Mexico and soon we’ll be coming to Europe and South America so come to a show if you’re around!
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Usually, Rydel Lynch can smell a surprise coming her way a mile away — however, for her recent 24th birthday, she had no idea about boyfriend Ellington Ratliff‘s.
The R5 drummer actually got up a 6 A M — yes, you read that right. 6 AM in the morning to go and get Rydel her fave drink from Starbucks, which he stuck in the fridge along with her gorgeous birthday present.
And on top of that, had cameras EVERYWHERE to film the whole thing.
Ross Lynch and Raini Rodriguez had a mini-Austin & Ally reunion last night at Variety’s Power Of Young Hollywood event held at TAO on Tuesday night (August 8) in Los Angeles.
“I missed this woman,” Ross shared on Instagram later, melting our hearts a million times over.
Rydel Lynch is confusing just about everyone today!
The R5 keyboardist and social star was getting all types of messages online after posting a some cute videos on her Instagram Stories with her wearing Mickey wedding ears — but she’s not engaged. She’s just celebrating her birthday a little early.
“Early bday celebrations!” Rydel captioned. “I keep getting ‘happy birthdays’ & ‘congratulations’ because apparently i have on the wedding mickey ears. i wish ladies & gentlemen… i wish ???? lookin at you @ratliffr5.”
So, Rydel isn’t engaged to Ratliff yet (emphasis on that yet), but how cute are those Mickey ears on her?!
Rydel Lynch and Ellington Ratliff are one of those couples who you can’t help but love — and it’s because they do things like this!
The R5 bandmates couple, lovingly referred to as Rydellington, were on Instagram Stories yesterday ahead of their Atlanta concert with the band, when Ratliff made the comparison between Rydel‘s current look and one of the evil Despicable Me 2 minions.
After sharing one video of her in the car with her purple hair, Ratliff shared a pic of the minion right after — and the responses just took off from there.
“hahaha, it’s never ending,” Rydel snapped and shared on her Stories. “I love it!”
Rocky Lynch just makes our hearts melt with a live performance of “Lay Your Head Down” with R5 on Good Morning America on Tuesday (July 4).
The lead guitarist took over the keyboards for the performance of the track, off of the band’s New Addictions EP, which they’re currently on tour with.
The two met when Ellington became a childhood friend of the Lynch family, who later formed a band, including Rydel. They fell in love and have been working side-by-side ever since.
Rydelington weren’t open about their relationship in the early days of R5, but now they are clearly and very openly in love.
It doesn’t hurt that all three of Rydel‘s brothers in R5 — Ross, Riker and Rocky — completely support their relationship. After all, there’s nothing worse for love than an disapproving brother, lol.
Today, Rydel wants the world to know that she’s not sharing her boyfriend with anyone, and it’s adorable.