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Dua Lipa gets ENGAGED to boyfriend Callum Turner after romantic Christmas proposal following a year of dating
SINGER Dua Lipa is going into 2025 as a bride-to-be after boyfriend Callum Turner proposed.
Pals told The Sun the pair quietly got engaged and are planning to celebrate with their friends and family on New Year’s Eve.
It caps off a great 2024 for Dua, 29, and actor Callum, 34, who have been dating since the start of the year.
A source said: “Dua and Callum are so in love and know this is forever.
“They are engaged and couldn’t be happier.
“Dua has had one of the best years of her career professionally and this is the cherry on the cake.
“Callum is such a solid support for Dua and they make a wonderful couple. Their family and friends are so happy. It’s been an amazing Christmas for them.”
Dua, whose hits include New Rules, Physical and Houdini, posted a snap on Instagram of her wearing a ring on her engagement finger.
She has just finished the first leg of her stadium tour and returned to the UK from Asia to spend Christmas with family and Callum.
Last week The Sun revealed Dua and Callum were planning a big New Year’s Eve bash in London. It will now be a chance for them to celebrate their engagement.
An insider added: “Dua and Callum have gone all out with this party.
“It’s in a top-secret location with all their famous pals invited, along with their families.
“It will be a New Year’s Eve party no one will ever forget, especially for Callum and Dua.”
They were first seen together in January at an after-party for the premiere of his Apple TV miniseries Masters of the Air.
They danced in Beverly Hills before they were photographed together for the first time days later — having dinner with friends in Los Angeles.
Callum joined Dua’s family this summer as she headlined at Glastonbury, and was also at several recent gigs, including one at the Royal Albert Hall.
The 1% Club viewers left baffled as ‘easy’ Christmas quiz question wipes out contestants – would you have got it?
LEE Mack’s The 1% Club has returned for a festive special, with Christmas themed questions already catching out contestants.
The ITV show sees contestants faced with questions designed to test how their brain works, rather than their intelligence level.
They have to use their logic, reasoning and common sense as they are whittled down to one final question that only 1% of the country can answer correctly.
This is all in an effort to try and take home the jackpot prize of up to £100,000.
This year’s Christmas special featured festive themed questions, but it wasn’t long before those trying to win the money were stumped.
With the second question focusing on a Christmas ‘spot the difference’, viewers at home were left stunned to find that 28 contestants had failed to get the answer right.
The question pictured a festive scene where contestants had to spot what was differing between the two, with the answer being a missing pair of Santa’s legs.
Taking to X, one viewer wrote: “28 people getting the second question wrong!”
Another shared: “28 people. Wow”.
“What on earth were those 28 people looking at?” asked another baffled viewer.
This wasn’t the only question that viewers at home were shocked to see the contestants struggling with, as some questioned whether the Christmas special quiz had been made ‘easier’.
One viewer shared on social media: “these questions are exceptionally easy. how anyone’s getting them wrong i’ll never know.”
Another simply put: “Too easy.”
The festive special sees comedian Lee Mack back at the helm of the quiz show, which won Best Quiz Game Show for the third year in a row at the NTA Awards.
The series has also been recommissioned for a fifth series, with ITV bringing back the show for this festive special and also a charity one for Soccer Aid.
A source previously told us: “The show has well and truly proved its popularity with viewers, and so it’s only natural to bring it back for not one, but two more rounds.
“This will also include two Christmas specials, which will air on ITV after the main series have run.”
Previous episodes of The 1% Club are available on ITVX.
Dad arrested after women, 24 and 38, ‘including his partner’ killed as screams heard in Xmas Day ‘stabbing rampage’
A DAD has been arrested on suspicion of murdering two women and stabbing a boy and a man in a Christmas Day “rampage”.
The dead pair were aged 24 and 38 and one is believed to be his partner.
Neighbours said the family had gathered for celebrations — but hours later a teenage boy and a dog were seen dashing from the flat in Milton Keynes soaked in blood.
They also heard desperate screams of “I can’t breathe” during the chaos.
Both female victims died at the scene, while the boy and man in his late 20s were taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Police arrived just after 6.30pm at the home in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, and found the injured dog, which was taken to a vet but later died.
One tearful neighbour told The Sun: “At around 6pm a lady came out on the balcony – she’s screaming, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe’.”
He said the young boy then ran out of the house and sought refuge with a another neighbour.
The witness said the man in the flat was “on a rampage” and the boy had been stabbed in the chest and head.
He went on: “The dog ran out, covered in blood. Within minutes there were about 12 ambulances.”
Another shocked witness said medics treated a bloodied male in the street before taking him to hospital.
He said: “Paramedics were working on him and the other victims were covered in a white tarp.”
The suspect is believed to have attempted to escape the scene in a car before he was caught by police nearby.
A witness said: “We saw him getting in his car. We were on our balcony telling police ‘He’s there and he just sped off.’”
Forensics officers have been seen searching a home with a Christmas wreath and kids’ toys strewn outside.
One neighbour, who asked not to be named, previously told The Sun: “It’s mortifying.
“I heard all the ambulances last night but you don’t expect anything like this to happen around here.
“And on Christmas day of all days.”
Last night, detectives were questioning a 49-year-old man from the city on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.
The two injured males were in a stable condition last night, Thames Valley Police said.
Blood was seen on the door of the home.
A forensics team was seen investigating and numbered yellow evidence markers were on the road outside, including on the boot of a car parked nearby.
Flowers were left outside the block of flats, including a tribute with a grey teddy bear in a Santa outfit.
Shazna Muzammil, a Conservative councillor on Milton Keynes City Council, said in a statement on X: “This is horrible on Christmas Day and we are deeply shocked and saddened by the tragic events in Bletchley.
“Our thoughts are with the families, friends, and neighbours of the two women who have tragically lost their lives.”
Ms Muzammil said those involved in the incident were known to each other.
Det Chief Insp Stuart Brangwin said: “Firstly I would like to extend my deepest condolences to the families of the women who have tragically died in this shocking incident.
“We have launched a double murder investigation, which may be concerning to the wider public; however, we have made an arrest and are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident and the parties are known to each other.”
For 90 minutes on Christmas Day, TV was a glorious, happy, woke-free zone again with Gavin & Stacey
IT’S not Gavin & Stacey’s fault, but I’d started hating the Christmas special long before it came to screen.
A resentment you can probably put down to personal failings and the fact that rolling news, the print media and even the BBC’s main bulletins seemed to be hyping the 90-minute episode’s expectations way beyond a point it could possibly deliver.
Without anything else worth watching on Christmas Day, since the last Gavin & Stacey special in 2019, the longing was as understandable as it was damning, I suppose.
But for the first half, at least, it seemed like all the pre-publicity had been a dreadful miscalculation.
The storyline was going nowhere and everyone, bar James Corden and Ruth Jones, who’ve written themselves the two best parts, seemed to be performing instead of acting, to an annoying degree in the cases of Rob “Bryn” Brydon and Alison “Pam” Steadman.
They clearly knew something we didn’t, though.
Because, as soon as Smithy and Sonia’s abortive wedding scene kicked in, everything made perfect sense.
It was an old-fashioned love story that had momentum, heart, soul, staggeringly good stars, Anna Maxwell Martin and Sheridan Smith, and also the good sense to flag up its own plot holes, on the final chase to Southampton Docks.
As I’m sure the whole audience was screaming “Give her a ring,” long before Joanna Page’s Stacey said “I’ll try her on her mobile” and Jason replied “Why didn’t we just call her in the first place?”
They would have looked daft, of course, if the show hadn’t delivered the ending the audience craved and deserved.
But it gave the people what they wanted, a Smithy and Nessa wedding, and spared them from the one thing that infected other significant parts of the BBC’s Christmas Day TV, preachiness.
For there were no gear-crunching references to diversity, as we got in the King’s Speech and EastEnders, nor was there any bleating about the arms trade, as in Doctor Who.
For 90 minutes on Christmas Day, TV was a glorious, happy, woke-free zone again.
And if you think the BBC will learn from Gavin & Stacey’s triumph and cut the political lectures in 2025?
Well, I’d settle back and watch the Christmas special again and again, if I were you.