Dua Lipa and famous fiancé keen to avoid one thing at their wedding

Daily Mirror

20-06-2025

With a dream wedding said to be on the cards, it seems Dua Lipa has finally found Mr Right in actor Callum Turney - but there's one thing they don't planning having when they say their "I Do's"
So many of Dua Lipa's songs are about failed and messy relationships that you might imagine her facing life as a perpetual singleton. However, nothing could be further from the truth, as she has been blissfully loved-up with British actor Callum Turner for nearly 18 months.
The pair were said to have got engaged at Christmas, almost a year after first being seen together at the premiere of Callum's Apple TV+ series, Masters Of The Air, in January 2024. They were then spotted enjoying dinner dates in LA and looking cosy at afterparties for the BAFTAs, the BRITs and the Grammys.
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In an Instagram snap last October, they appeared smitten following the recording of Dua's televised Royal Albert Hall concert in London, with Callum kissing her on the cheek. 'Post-show fun and so much love!!!' Dua wrote. And during Paris Fashion Week this January, a viral clip showed them smooching, dancing and taking selfies under the Eiffel Tower.
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Callum was previously in a long-term relationship with The Crown actress Vanessa Kirby, but while being quizzed about upcoming movie Eternity earlier this year, he appeared to confirm his and Dua's rock-solid status. Asked who he wanted to spend all eternity with, his short but sweet reply was, 'My girlfriend.'
Dua and Callum first sparked engagement rumours on Christmas Eve when she shared an Instagram snap that showed a ring on her wedding finger. Another photo of her sipping a martini on New Year 's Eve also showed the beautiful gold band with a diamond at its centre.
However, the lovebirds have not publicly confirmed any marriage plans, preferring to keep their relationship as low-key as possible. 'Dua seems to have found 'the one', but she's not someone who talks about her love life openly,' says music journalist John Earls. 'I think she'll want to avoid any sense of it becoming 'The Dua and Callum Show', so we probably won't know much if and when they marry.'
Music writer and broadcaster Matt Charlton believes Dua has found the perfect balance between her public and private persona. 'Some celebrities broadcast every minute of their lives on social media, but Dua's not like that, and she keeps enough of herself back,' he says.
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'She retains an old-school aloofness while still being aware of her image and brand, which I think is a good place for her to be.' Prior to falling for Callum, who played Theseus Scamander in Fantastic Beasts, Dua dated French film director Romain Gavras, 43.
She was seen with him at a BAFTA afterparty in February 2023, and they made their red carpet debut together at the Cannes Film Festival that May. But in December 2023, they reportedly called it quits, with a source saying Dua wanted to end it 'before things turned sour'.
The song French Exit from her Radical Optimism album was thought to reference the split, with lines such as, 'It's not a broken heart if I don't break it, Goodbye doesn't hurt if I don't say it, And I really hope you'll understand it, Only way to go is a French exit.'
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Dua also briefly dated Paul Klein, frontman of the US band LANY, and she had an on-off romance with British chef and model Isaac Carew, making her Met Gala debut with him in May 2019.
Scheduling conflicts are thought to have caused their break-up a few weeks later, and Dua was then linked with Gigi and Bella Hadid 's model and musician brother, Anwar, 25.
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After meeting him at a barbecue, the pair confirmed they were an item with a public kiss at the American Music Awards in November 2019, and Dua once said, 'I'm very comfortable in the relationship, more so than any others.'
They spent part of 2020 isolating on Anwar's family farm in Pennsylvania, and describing life in lockdown, Dua said, 'It's been really great – easy and fun and chill. We've been making the most of this because we got all this extra time, that we weren't expecting, to just hang out.'
She and Anwar even adopted a puppy together, Dexter, whom she called 'our tiny best friend', but after more than two years, they went their separate ways in late 2021. In a May 2022 interview, Dua revealed that the 'next chapter' of her life was about 'truly being good with being alone'.
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Speaking about single life on her At Your Service podcast, she added, 'This is the first year I've not been in a relationship for a very long time. It's been really great to just be alone and only think about myself and kind of be quite selfish.'
She even took herself on a solo date in New York, saying, 'Some people on the internet were like, 'Oh, Dua went out for dinner on her own, blah blah, I do this all the time.' And I think that's amazing if you do it all the time. You must be so confident. But it was a big step for me. I was nervous – like, what am I gonna do? I don't want to be on my phone.'
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In an interview shortly before she got together with Callum, she reflected on the difficulties of meeting someone new. 'Dating, overall, is just a little confusing,' she said. 'It's either through friends of friends or people you trust where you can meet new people, because [dating] is not really so straightforward when you are a public person.'
She found it especially tricky as her parents' strong marriage had always shaped her own perceptions of love. 'You have such high expectations,' she said in 2018. 'My mum married the first man she fell in love with – first boyfriend, first everything. It does kind of paint this ideal love story in your head.'
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Not surprisingly, Dua found herself enduring plenty of bad dates while navigating singledom, which played out through the candid lyrics of songs like Houdini and Training Season. But as John points out, those days are now long gone.
'I don't think she'll write another album that focuses on failed relationships when she doesn't have them in her life any more,' he says. 'Perhaps her next album will instead consist of 10 songs about how great love is. I'm sure Dua can make a happy album, but we'll have to wait and see.'
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