‘SURPRISE … I’M BACK!’: Rita Ora announces new single in PDA-packed clip with husband

Rita Ora is off to a strong start in 2023.

The British singer-songwriter, 32, posted a clip on social media on Tuesday of her and her husband Taika Waititi, 47, on the beach watching a fireworks display.

The clip showed a few seconds of the new song, while the caption read: ‘SURPRISE’. NOW I’M BACK! You only love me XX/01/23 #RO3.’

In the clip, Rita sported wavy locks and a large cross necklace as she kissed her husband while surrounded by others in front of the sea.

The singer has been active on social media in recent days, posting a series of glamorous beach photos from a vacation to St Barts, wearing various two-piece ensembles while lying on the sand at the beach.

Ora and the New Zealand Oscar winner tied the knot last year in a small ceremony in London last August.

said a source Sun at the time: ‘It was a very intimate ceremony and very special for everyone present. Your nearest and dearest can see how madly in love you are.

They initially linked up with each other in April 2021 and walked the first red carpet together at The Suicide Squad’s Los Angeles debut.

In November, Waititi, who has directed films including Thor: Love and Thunder, Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit, revealed that actor Robert Pattinson played matchmaker in their relationship, introducing them at a barbecue where they became friends.

The director said that he knew Rita for three years before their friendship turned into romance and they started dating in 2021.

Speaking on the Louis Theroux interview series, Waititi said his and Rita’s relationship works because they were “best friends” first.

When asked about their first meeting, Waititi told Theroux: ‘Actually, we’ve known each other for years, before we got together.

Everyone thinks we met in Australia last year. Do you know who brought her to my house? Rob Pattinson. She brought. He was having a little barbecue and we started chatting, we hit it off, we became friends. Then for the next three and a half years we were just good partners.

Waititi continued: “We were in different relationships, and every time we went out, we’d catch up where we left off, and it was a good friendship, and we decided to screw it all up.”

“I just like the fact that we work hard, and we both have our own jobs and freelance jobs, but we’re also best friends.

“We come from different parts of the world, she is from Kosovo and I am from New Zealand. They’re a long way off, but our backgrounds were pretty similar.

“We both grew up poor in working-class families, her father owned pubs and she spent a lot of time in pubs as a child and my mum worked in pubs and a lot of my family enjoyed being in pubs so I I was in the pubs.” much as a child

“The background of the Maori communities is quite similar to the Kosovar communities, I think our sensibilities are quite aligned.”