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As 2024 winds to a close, it looks as though we’ve stumbled upon the biggest of the year, as and have over the Christmas break. Fans were quick to notice a large ring on Lipa’s finger in a photo the 29-year-singer posted to Instagram on Christmas Day. Sources close to the singer told The Sun that Lipa “couldn’t be happier” to end the year on such a high.
It’s believed the pair have been dating since at least January 2023, after first being spotted together at a private party for the Steven Spielberg series Masters Of The Air in Los Angeles. In footage obtained by US news outlet TMZ, the 27-year-old 'Dance The Night Away' singer was seen (aptly) slow-dancing with someone who appeared to be Turner. Next, the pair were spied out in public for the first time, leaving a Q&A event for Turner’s series in Santa Monica.
It was thought the actor might join Lipa at the Grammys, but when asked by Entertainment Tonight, the Fantastic Beasts actor responded: “No, I’m not a musician.” When the reporter asked about whether he'd be “dancing the night away with a certain Grammy award winner", Turner responded with a smile: “I don’t know about that.” Over the course of 2024, the , with Lipa making the pair Instagram official with a post in May, followed by appearances together at Glastonbury and in South-East Asia during the singer’s Radical Optimism Tour.
While Turner is trending on account of his connection to Lipa, and may have been known in connection to his ex-girlfriend and The Crown star Vanessa Kirby, he has a whole host of acting and modelling gigs under his belt that you may recognise him from. He also has plenty of exciting 2024 projects coming up. If he's flown under your radar, here's everything you need to know about the model-turned-actor-turned-Lipa-love-interest to bring you up to speed.
Born in 1990, Turner, came from a modest background. He grew up with his mother on a council estate in Chelsea near some of the wealthiest streets in London. Turner told the Independent: “I felt like an outsider growing up.
I don’t any more because I’ve done a lot of work on that, but as a child for sure". Turner was exposed to all sorts of big names during his youth. He that he went on holiday to Mexico at the age of eight with garrulous club connoisseur Wayne Shires, and that he enjoyed nightlife from a young age.
He DJed with leading capital names such as Princess Julia. "It wasn’t about navigating two worlds," he said. Turner got his first modelling break at the age of 17 — after the realisation that his dreams of being a footballer may not happen — and almost immediately had the chance to front a Burberry campaign.
By the age of 19, he had spent time modelling in America, Italy and Japan, and it gave him a solid understanding of the industry. Turner said: "I got to watch the clothes being constructed as a fitting model, then Kanye West would buy a lot of them and you’d watch it all travelling into the mainstream. It’s funny how it works.
" Though he became an overnight success with a growing profile, modelling did not pay the bills. But it didn't take Turner too long to secure the career in acting, which he had set his sights on in 2011. It was Turner's acting that really awakened international audiences to his charm.
He went for auditions while working in the basement of iconic London retail outpost, Dover Street Market.By 2012, Turner was cast for his first starring role, as Aaron in the TV drama Leaving" His TV debut paved the way for other acting roles. To date, he has managed to gain some of the most recognition in his roles for Emma and as Eddie Redmayne's brother in the Fantastic Beast series of the Harry Potter film franchise.
Turner, who has been toasting Apple TV series — which he has starred in alongside prominent names such as , Barry Keoghan and Anthony Boyle — is about to be all over your social feed if he's not already for his role. The WWII brotherhood drama, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, is one of the most anticipated series of the year. Also catch him in rowing drama , out now.
Eyes peeled for more news on the engaged pair..
