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- Rita Ora is opening up about the secret to her and Taika Waititi’s successful marriage
- PEOPLE caught up with the “Praising You” singer at The Hill in New York, where she performed in celebration of Wimbledon on Friday, July 11
- Her latest single, “Heat,” was released last month
Marriage looks great on Rita Ora and Taika Waititi.
The couple was friends for six years before tying the knot in 2022, and now Ora is opening up about why their marriage remains so successful three years later.
“I think just respect and supporting each other through our own separate careers, ventures, space and just honoring that and being support systems,” the “Praising You” singer, 34, tells PEOPLE at The Hill in New York at Brooklyn Bridge Park, where she performed in celebration of Wimbledon on Friday, July 11.
Ora adds of her marriage to Waititi, 49, that “being best friends, I think, is really great.”
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Earlier this month, the British pop star recalled during an interview on Live with Kelly & Mark that she actually got down on one knee and proposed to the Jojo Rabbit director.
“I surprised my partner, and honestly I was in my woman power and I asked him to marry me,” said Ora, per Entertainment Weekly. “Believe it or not, guys, it’s a thing!”
She recalled of Waititi’s reaction, “He kind of was like, ‘What are you doing? Absolutely, get up!'”
During PEOPLE’s chat with Ora at The Hill in New York, she also speaks about her latest single “Heat” and how the sexy dance banger teases what’s to come on her upcoming fourth studio album.
“The whole theme of this record is really about being instant [and] really direct with my messaging and stripping everything back behind me, production wise,” she says.
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“This energy with ‘Heat’ was so perfect just to get people ready for the new character,” she continues of the steamy, anthemic track, co-written by Troye Sivan, with whom Ora has “a lot in common.”
“I love his sexuality and the celebration he has with that,” she explains of the “Rush” artist. “I was really inspired for me and my womanhood to really kind of celebrate my sexuality, my sexiness and get back into my body, you know? And this really just embodied that.”
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