EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Dua Lipa: the pop star turned tycoon on immigration, books — and men

Music is just her ‘day job’ as the actor, publisher and podcaster launches a book club to wean young people off social media

Dua Lipa has turned her generation’s love for multi-hyphenated careers into an empire
Dua Lipa has turned her generation’s love for multi-hyphenated careers into an empire
PHOTOGRAPH BY LAUREN LEEKLEY. HAIR BY RIO SREEDHARAN, MAKE-UP BY SAMANTHA LAU
The Sunday Times

Dua Lipa is, in case we forget, a pop star. “My day job,” she says with a grin. It is a post that has grabbed her six Brits and three Grammys. But she is restless and so, to fill time, runs a passion project website that commissions pieces with headlines such as “How the West enabled Putin and his oligarchs to safeguard billions”. Which is a world away from her sassy, snappy mega-hits that bring festival crowds to their feet.

Is there anything Lipa doesn’t do? Singer, publisher, interviewer: last month she launched a range of clothes with Donatella Versace. Next she makes her acting debut as a mermaid in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. She has even started a book club and, at just 27,