Rita Ora is co-hosting Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2025 in Times Square and fans will likely be wondering if she’ll be kissing anyone at midnight.
The 34-year-old singer and actress is best known for hit songs like “How We Do (Party),” “Black Widow,” and “I Will Never Let You Down.” She has been a judge on several talent shows, including The Masked Singer, The X Factor UK, and multiple international versions of The Voice.
Rita is also an actress who has been seen in the Fifty Shades movies and the Disney Channel film Descendants: The Rise of Red.
Rita does indeed have a special someone in her life and he’s someone that is well known to movie fans and Marvel devotees.
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Rita Ora is married to Oscar-winning filmmaker Taika Waititi!
Rita is married to Filmmaker and actor Taika Waititi!
The couple has been in a relationship since 2021, though they originally met in 2018, and they got married in August 2022.
Rita and Taika‘s relationship went viral in May 2021 when they were spotted flaunting PDA with another very famous actress on a balcony in Australia.
“I was doing nothing wrong,” Taika said about those photos. “I think in the world of the internet, everything goes away pretty quick. And also, ‘is it that big a deal?’ No, not really. I was doing nothing wrong. It’s fine.”
Taika is best known for directing the Marvel movies Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love and Thunder, as well as appearing in the films as Korg. He won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing the movie Jojo Rabbit, a movie he also directed and starred in. He most recently released the movie Next Goal Wins, which is streaming on Hulu.
He also directed a heartwarming holiday short film for Disney!