Dua Lipa confirms engagement to Callum Turner: 'A really special feeling'
Dua Lipa confirms engagement to Callum Turner: 'A really special feeling'
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Dua Lipa has confirmed she is engaged to boyfriend Callum Turner. The "New Rules" singer, 29, shared the news in an interview with British Vogue published Thursday, June 12.
"Yeah, we're engaged," she said. "It's very exciting."
Lipa revealed that Turner had the ring made for her after consulting with her friends and sister, with the singer telling the outlet, "I'm obsessed with it. 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."
Lipa also reflected that she "never really understood the weight of" getting engaged until now.
"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," she told British Vogue.
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