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Rita Ora and Taika Waititi secretly tied the knot!
While on a radio show promoting her new song "You Only Love Me," Rita confirmed that she and her partner did, in fact, get married. "Yes, here we are. They say everything happens for a reason. I am officially off the market, people," she said, The Hollywood Reporter reports. She said the wedding was "perfect" and was "exactly how I wanted it."
"Completely how I wanted it, just to myself sometimes. It was really sweet … Sorry, it's not that interesting! One day I will throw a big party. I will figure out the time to have a big, big party," she continued.
Ora's shocking revelation comes months the couple sparked marriage rumors on social media when the "I Will Never Let You Down" singer was spotted wearing a wedding band. A source told People at the time that Rita married the filmmaker in a "very small" ceremony in August 2022.
She continued to open up more about the new song, which she said was a response to all the wedding rumors circulating — the music video is a wedding, for crying out loud!
"When the rumors came out, is she, isn't she? I wanted to play on it. I wanted to do a wedding that didn't go to plan … that's not to say that is actually what happened ... I've chosen to keep it more private this sort of experience I had, but I did want to play on what could have been. So this is what I'm giving to the public on what could have been," she said.
Waititi and Ora have been linked since 2021.
A release date for Rita Ora's third studio album has yet to be released.