Dua Lipa confirms engagement to Callum Turner

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Months after posting photos of what appeared to be an engagement ring, Dua Lipa confirmed her engagement to actor Callum Turner.
'Yeah, we're engaged,' Lipa said in an interview with British Vogue published on June 12. 'It's very exciting.'
Lipa said Turner had the ring made after discussions with her sister and best friends.
'I'm obsessed with it,' Lipa said. 'It's so me. It's nice to know the person that you're going to spend the rest of your life with knows you very well.'
At the end of 2024, Lipa posted photos on Instagram that sparked speculation from fans that the 'Don't Start Now' singer was engaged, as she appeared to be sporting an engagement ring.
Over the past few months, the ring had been displayed in more social media posts, as well as on the Met Gala red carpet, where she and Turner walked together.
The pair were first spotted together at the beginning of 2024, and were Instagram official later in the year. Despite their whirlwind romance, Lipa told British Vogue they haven't started wedding planning yet.
'I want to finish my tour, Callum's shooting, so we're just enjoying this period,' she said. 'I've never been someone who's really thought about a wedding, or dreamt about what kind of bride I would be. All of a sudden I'm like: 'Oh, what would I wear?''
The 29-year-old added that even though she's seen other people get engaged, she 'never really understood the weight of it.'
But now, she said, 'This decision to grow old together, to see a life and just, I don't know, be best friends forever — it's a really special feeling.'
Lipa said she first met Turner, 35, at The River Cafe in London when she was having dinner with her father and he was grabbing a meal with friends. But they could have met several times before, she explained.
In 2014, she was working at a London restaurant, and they later found a photo of Turner outside of the same spot. And in 2020, they went to the same party, pre-COVID, and even had photos with the same guy in the background, she said.
About a year after she was introduced to Turner at The River Cafe, she was having dinner in Los Angeles with a friend, 'and all of a sudden Callum shows up,' she said.
'Oh, it's that really hot guy from The River Cafe,' she recalled thinking at the time.
Lipa said Turner walked over and asked her what she was reading, and she answered 'Trust,' by Hernan Diaz.
'And we both just happened to be reading the same book,' she said.
When asked if all of the events makes her feel like they were destined to be together, she replied, 'One thousand per cent.'