In the summer of 2022 this site ran a story about Dua Lipa that had two plot lines: a new title from the president of Kosovo and a mystery man on a beach in Portofino. Four years on, both plots have resolved more neatly than most Hollywood scripts. The title turned into citizenship, and the boyfriend question has been answered with a marriage certificate from a town hall in west London.
From singer to honorary ambassador
Lipa was born in London to Kosovo Albanian parents. The family moved to Pristina in 2008, the year Kosovo declared independence from Serbia, and she came back to London as a teenager to chase music. With her father, Dukagjin Lipa, she runs the Sunny Hill Foundation, which supports people in Kosovo and stages the Sunny Hill Festival in Pristina.
In August 2022, while she was in Pristina for that festival, President Vjosa Osmani named her an honorary ambassador of Kosovo. Lipa used her Instagram caption to make one specific demand: “The youth of Kosovo deserves the right to visa liberalization, freedom to travel and to dream big.” She had already made the same case on stage at the Atlantic Council awards in November 2021.
Here is the part our 2022 version could not know: it happened. Since January 1, 2024, Kosovo passport holders can travel to the Schengen area without a visa for up to 90 days. One pop star did not do that alone (diplomats would like a word), but she kept the issue on front pages that rarely mention Pristina. Albania granted her citizenship in November 2022, and in August 2025 Osmani handed her Kosovo citizenship at a ceremony in Pristina. Lipa said it completes “the duality I have always had within.” My read: this is the rare celebrity cause with a measurable outcome, and she earned the passport stamps.
After Anwar Hadid
Lipa and model Anwar Hadid, Bella and Gigi’s younger brother, were together for about two years before their split was reported in December 2021. Our original story filled the gap with guesses about therapy sessions, cooled friendships and sad photos of a dog. None of that came from either of them, so it is gone. What can be said is simpler: neither ever explained the breakup in public, and both moved on without a single passive-aggressive caption. In this business, that alone deserves a small award.
The boyfriend question, answered
The man photographed with her on the beach in Portofino in 2022 was never identified, and she never commented, so that chapter stays closed. The one that matters started in early 2024, when Lipa and the British actor Callum Turner (Masters of the Air, and her co-star in Argylle) were first seen together. They went Instagram official later that year.
In June 2025 she told British Vogue: “Yeah, we’re engaged. It’s very exciting.” About the ring: “I’m obsessed with it. It’s so me.” She also said that they first met at The River Cafe in London, where she was having dinner with her father, and that they bonded in Los Angeles a year later over reading the same book. I find that detail more romantic than any yacht.
On May 31, 2026, they married in a small civil ceremony at Old Marylebone Town Hall in London, which local officials confirmed to the Associated Press. She wore a white skirt suit and a wide-brimmed hat; he wore navy. Lipa announced it herself with an Instagram carousel captioned “31.05.2026”, and later posted more photos captioned “Mr and Mrs”. A three-day celebration in Sicily followed in early June, with guests reported to include Charli XCX, Troye Sivan, Mark Ronson and Joe Alwyn. The Elton John piano moment comes from press reports, not from the couple. As of mid-October they have been photographed walking their dog in New York, which is about as newlywed as headlines get.
What is Dua Lipa doing now?
A correction first: in 2022 we wrote that “Sweetest Pie” with Megan Thee Stallion was the lead single of Lipa’s second album. It was not. Her second album, Future Nostalgia, had come out in 2020, and “Sweetest Pie” appeared on Megan’s album Traumazine. Lipa’s third album, Radical Optimism, arrived in May 2024, made with Kevin Parker of Tame Impala among others, and took her on the Radical Optimism Tour.
The 2026 news is less glamorous and more legal. In May she sued Samsung Electronics in federal court in California, claiming the company used a photo of her, taken at the 2024 Austin City Limits festival, on its US TV boxes without permission; the suit seeks at least $15 million. Samsung said, according to AFP, that the image came from a third-party content partner for Samsung TV Plus. Trade reports in September tipped her as a Coachella 2027 headliner; nothing official has been announced, so file that under rumor until the poster drops.
The 2022 headline promised a new boyfriend and a move into politics. What actually happened was better: the cause won, and the boyfriend turned out to be someone she met over dinner with her dad. New rules, as she once sang, and she seems to have kept them.
Sources
- Dua Lipa on Instagram, October 2026
- Dua Lipa on Instagram (@dualipa): wedding posts “31.05.2026” and “Mr and Mrs”; honorary ambassador post (Aug 2022)
- ABC News: Dua Lipa shares wedding photos with Callum Turner (June 2026)
- NBC News: Dua Lipa confirms engagement to Callum Turner, quoting British Vogue (June 2025)
- Hello!: Inside the three-day Sicilian wedding (June 2026)
- Consequence: Dua Lipa named honorary ambassador of Kosovo (Aug 2022)
- Exit News: Dua Lipa calls for Kosovo visa liberalisation at Atlantic Council awards (Nov 2021)
- Dua Lipa granted Albanian citizenship (Nov 2022)
- Dua Lipa granted Kosovo citizenship (Aug 2025)
- Cyprus Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Visa liberalization for Kosovo passport holders (from Jan 1, 2024)
- ABC News: Dua Lipa sues Samsung Electronics (May 2026)
- AFP via Citizen Digital: Dua Lipa sues Samsung over use of her likeness on TV box, with Samsung’s response (May 2026)
- Stereogum: Coachella 2027 headliners reportedly include Tame Impala, Dua Lipa (Sep 2026)
