Could Dua Lipa and Anwar Hadid be the next A list power couple?

The pair have sparked romance rumours this summer with a string of dates
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Feel that tremor? It’s the tectonic plates of power coupledom shifting.

It appears that Dua Lipa — the 23-year-old Grammy-winning First Lady of millennial pop — is dating Anwar Hadid, the 20-year-old brother of Gigi and Bella, a model (obviously), born in 1999 (sob). The pair were seen in a “clinch” at a Lionel Richie gig in Hyde Park last week, and reportedly serenaded each other with the Ritchie x Diana Ross hit, Endless Love.

It’s the type of boundless passion Love Island can only dream of; here is the 411 on Dua and Anwar (Ana? Danwar?).

Love connection

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The pair have been dating since June and met in LA — where Lipa has been working on a new album with Pharrell Williams — after being introduced by Gigi. Lipa was spied on the edge of an Instagram video from Hadid’s 20th birthday party, giggling . As well as the Hyde Park PDA they’ve been seen at a London awards show.

Passion projects

Musical: Anwar Hadid has swapped the catwalk for the recording studio
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Hadid and Lipa fell in lust over their love of music; Hadid — whose album Bleach was released, quietly, in April — asked Lipa for advice on songwriting and the rest is history. Spotify says he gets 44, 500 monthly listeners, some way off Lipa’s 30.5 million; no wonder he wanted her advice.

The ex factor

Hadid reportedly pounced after Lipa broke up with chef Isaac Carew. The pair had been dating on and off for five years but split up in May, blaming “scheduling conflicts” (euphemism: just not bovved any more). Meanwhile, last summer, Hadid broke up with actress Nicola Peltz (us neither), and was doing a lot of snogging with Kardashian Kendall Jenner. One session, after the CFDAs, apparently lasted two hours (imagine the dehydration). Sadly for those invested in the union of two dynasties, Kendall-Hadid was just a fling, and ended with Hadid sharing cryptic posts on Instagram (sample: “A WOMAN IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN A LOADED PISTOL.”). Will Lipa teach him to love again?

Dua Lipa - In pictures

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Carew and Lipa unfollowed each other on social media when they broke up but luckily she has Anwar’s #hot #content to keep her busy. Lipa regularly likes his selfies (him, in a bucket hat, captioned, “I love you all”); him, topless on a Parisian balcony (“its [sic] big weesh now u know the prospects”). She pops up in his Insta stories; the tiger emoji seems to be his ultra-modern designation for her.

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