Rita Ora and Taika Waititi have been married for only a few months, but have been together for much longer. Ora and Waititi started their relationship as friends around 2018.
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00:00 Rita Ora and Taika Waititi have been married for only a few months, but have been together
00:05 for much longer.
00:07 Ora and Waititi started their relationship as friends around 2018.
00:13 Waititi wrote via Instagram in 2022, "We've been mates ever since.
00:20 Then a year ago we decided to complicate things but it just got easier.
00:25 Happy Valentine's Day to my bestie."
00:28 The pair made headlines in May 2021 after photographs where they cuddled and kissed
00:33 Tessa Thompson were made public.
00:36 They decided not to talk about the incident until many months later and defended their
00:40 actions as something innocent.
00:43 This was the couple's first PDA.
00:45 However, they did not publicly confirm their relationship until August, when they appeared
00:51 at Suicide Squad premiere in Los Angeles.
00:55 The movie Thor Love and Thunder premiered in June 2022.
01:00 Ora congratulated the crew on Instagram, "Huge congratulations to @TaikaWaititi and the whole
01:05 Thor crew and team."
01:08 It was confirmed by the director that they had been dating since February of that year,
01:12 but they kept very private about it.
01:15 In November 2022, the couple co-hosted the 29th MTV Europe Music Awards in Dusseldorf,
01:21 Germany.
01:23 They opened up about their first date in an interview with Vogue.
01:26 "It was very casual.
01:29 And then we stayed friends for like, four or five years.
01:34 It was just a natural thing.
01:36 We were both in Australia doing two separate jobs and we kind of hung out and that was
01:41 it.
01:43 We went to a friend's birthday party and it all clicked."
01:47 Ora was then invited to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in February 2023 to talk about
01:52 her marriage and newest projects.
01:55 There she showed the public her ring and spoke about how they married in secret.
02:00 Ora's latest album, You & I, was recently released in July.
02:04 Ora talked about how her husband was her inspiration for the album.
02:08 "Meeting Taika, who is my husband, I definitely never felt that before and so I just wrote
02:14 it all down and I thought, 'Okay, I think it's time to make some music again.'"
02:19 And here we are.