UK pop star Rita Ora reveals the surprising gift she took home from her time Down Under: 'It's your fault, Australia'

Daily Mail​

14 hours ago

UK pop star has revealed a very surprising gift that she took home during her recent stint Down Under.
The Lonely Together hitmaker, 34, was a coach on Channel Seven series The Voice from 2021 to 2023.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph about her latest sultry single Heat, Rita revealed that Australia was to thank for her stunning beach bod.
The clip for Rita's new single features the bikini clad popstar sunning herself on Miami beach.
While she may also often flaunt her svelte bikini-clad frame on social media, the popstar revealed it hasn't always been the case.
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Asked by the publication if she was 'born in a bikini', Rita admitted she only started to feel comfortable in swimwear after her Australian jaunt.
'Everyone's been asking me that,' Rita exclaimed.
'When I first got there to do The Voice, my health life changed drastically so I feel like I found my bikini bod in Australia, genuinely.'
She added that she was inspired to take a more active approach to her fitness after catching a glimpse of the Australian lifestyle.
'I started exercising, sitting in the sun, seeing how fit everyone else is in Australia when they're walking down the beach,' she said.
'So it's your fault, Australia, you've made me just wear a bikini.'
It comes after Rita set pulses racing with a very cheeky display to promote the single earlier this week.
She made sure all eyes were on her as she posed up a storm in the tiny This Belongs To shorts that she paired with a hot pink bikini.
Rita layered a white strappy body suit over her diamante swimwear all from the same brand and added inches to her physique with a pair of strappy heeled sandals.
To accessorise, the songstress wore a pair of large white Pucci sunglasses and colourful hoop earrings.
Heat is expected to feature on her upcoming, still untitled, fourth album, which will be her first album release since her 2023 You & I.
Rita has recently been supporting Kylie Minogue for the first leg of her tour after she previously revealed that Kylie's 2023 mega-hit from Tension, Padam Padam, was nearly given to her.
The synth-pop banger - penned by Norwegian singer-songwriter Ina Wroldsen and producer Lostboy - was a viral hit for Kylie.
But several artists were asked if they wanted to record it, including the Anywhere singer, because they didn't feel it was a Kylie song.
Lostboy told The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column: 'We wrote Padam in February 2022 and there were maybe four or five months of us sitting on it, then I sent it to their label, and someone suggested to me, "Kylie would kill this."'
He added: 'They were unsure and there was a moment when Rita was going to cut it and it was worming around a few artists on that label.
'They were trying to make it work but they didn't think it was for Kylie.'
Rita is well-known to Australian audiences for her role as a judge on The Voice from 2021 to 2023.
She appeared as a panellist on the UK version of the show since it launched its first episode in 2020, before she was replaced by Maya Jama this year.
Elsewhere, 2023 was Rita's first appearance on the US version of the show as she replaced Nicole Scherzinger, who left to star in the West End hit Sunset Boulevard.
She also tied the knot with New Zealand director Taika Waititi in a low-key ceremony back in 2022.
While the couple live between London, Los Angeles and New Zealand, they have been spending more time Down Under as they both work on creative projects.