Dua Lipa was glimpsed dashing around New York on Thursday, igniting a burst of rumors she is slated to attend Taylor Swift’s wedding to Travis Kelce.
The bride’s celebrity friends including Selena Gomez, Gigi Hadid and the latter’s boyfriend Bradley Cooper have been seen heading towards the couple’s functions, which are purportedly being held Thursday and Friday at Madison Square Garden.
Although initial reports claimed a more intimate rehearsal dinner would be held the first night ahead of a massive extravaganza on the second, sources have now informed the Daily Mail the actual wedding will take place Thursday.
The Daily Mail has reported that Swift and Kelce made their guests sign nondisclosure agreements and watermarked each digital invitation with the recipient’s name so that if any of them was leaked, the couple could identify the culprit.
Rumored attendees like the bride’s longtime co-writer Jack Antonoff have been awkwardly dodging media questions about whether they will even attend.
Amid the whirlwind of speculation, Lipa, 30 – who lives in London with her own new husband Callum Turner – surfaced across the pond in New York on the big day.
The Daily Mail has contacted Swift and Lipa’s representatives for comment.
Dua Lipa was glimpsed dashing around New York on Thursday, igniting a burst of rumors she is slated to attend Taylor Swift’s wedding to Travis Kelce
Swift and Lipa have been friendly at least as far back as 2018 and are pictured together in 2019 at Amazon’s Prime Day Concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City
Lipa cut a stylish figure in a sleeveless peach top with lace trim, tucked into a set of acid-wash jeans cinched in with a black belt that matched her bulging handbag.
Letting her signature raven locks cascade freely over her shoulders, she warded off the sun with a large set of sunglasses and made sure to carry a glass water bottle as she ventured out into New York’s soaring summer temperatures.
Some locals have been left fuming at the roadblocks installed near Swift’s Midtown wedding venue, inasmuch as travel out of Penn Station has been impacted just as New Yorkers attempt to leave town for Fourth of July weekend.
A castle has reportedly been erected inside Madison Square Garden for the wedding, and the Daily Mail exclusively obtained images of camera equipment being unloaded outside the stadium in the days leading up to the event.
Although the Swift and Lipa’s current equation remains a mystery, the two pop stars apparently enjoyed an amicable bond back in 2018.
Lipa posted an Insta Stories photo that year of a sumptuous bouquet of indigo flowers Swift had sent her, raving: ‘Can’t believe they last all year!’
However a question mark formed over their supposed friendship two years ago, when Lipa made a remark that Swifties regarded as a thinly-veiled swipe at their idol.
‘Some people are just so ruthless with their own private life that they decide to put it all out in a song because they know that it’s going to attract people’s attention,’ Lipa remarked that September in an interview on 60 Minutes.
Amid the whirlwind of speculation, Lipa, 30 – who lives in London with her own new husband Callum Turner – surfaced across the pond in New York on the big day
Lipa cut a stylish figure in a sleeveless peach top with lace trim, tucked into a set of acid-wash jeans cinched in with a black belt that matched her bulging handbag
The New Rules hitmaker made sure to carry a glass water bottle as she ventured out into New York’s soaring summer temperatures
‘For me, it was always important to make music that people really loved, not because I was putting someone on blast or not because I’m doing it for clickbait at someone else’s expense,’ added the New Rules hitmaker.
Given Swift’s well-known propensity to write songs aimed at exes ranging from Jake Gyllenhaal to Joe Alwyn, many of her fans assumed Lipa was referring to her.
Swift was nowhere to be seen at Lipa’s wedding festivities this May, neither at Old Marylebone Town Hall in London nor at the subsequent three-day fete in Palermo.
Shortly after she and Kelce got engaged last August, Swift joked that she hoped to invite ‘anyone I’ve ever talked to’ to her upcoming nuptials.
She made the remark on The Graham Norton Show, whose host was seen arriving at New York’s John F Kennedy Airport this Wednesday with his husband Jono McLeod.
Midtown traffic was plunged into chaos Thursday as stars headed towards Madison Square Garden in SUVs for Swift and Kelce’s wedding.
NYPD officers on patrol outdoors have been threatening to arrest media who refuse to keep away from the venue, while those working inside the stadium have allegedly had their phones confiscated for the duration of the wedding, according to TMZ.
