It has been rumored this month that music artist Shakira has been seeing Method One driver Lewis Hamilton, and a supply instructed Folks that issues are early, however they’re rising nearer.
“They’re spending time together and in the ‘getting to know you’ stage,” mentioned the insider. “It’s fun and flirty.”
Here is every part we learn about Hamilton and his reference to Shakira to this point.
Who’s Lewis Hamilton?
Hamilton is a British race-car driver, and a really profitable one. He is been driving since he was solely eight-years-old, and his expertise was famous and cultivated early after he received the British Kart Championship when he was 10-years-old. At 15, Hamilton was the youngest-ever driver to be ranked primary in karting.
The 38-year-old now owns the Method One report for profession race victories and he grew to become the primary Black driver to win the F1 world drivers’ championship in 2008.
How lengthy have Shakira and Hamilton been seeing one another?
In Could, Shakira was seen with Hamilton and a few of his associates close to Miami on a ship simply after she attended the 2023 Grand Prix, the place he was competing.
She went to the race with actor Tom Cruise, briefly spurring rumors the 2 is likely to be courting. However a supply instructed Us Weekly that Shakira discovered these rumors “hilarious.”
“Shakira had a great time hanging out with Tom at F1 but she has no interest in dating him,” they mentioned. “He was really nice and she enjoyed his company, but she isn’t focused on dating him or anybody else at the moment.”
The insider added, “She has a lot on her plate and is focused on her kids and career for now.”
Nevertheless, this month, Shakira was on the F1 Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona, Spain. Hamilton was driving for Mercedes and got here in second place. They had been seen out for dinner afterwards with associates Daniel Caesar, Fai Khadra and Mustafa, the latter of whom posted an Instagram Story during which the rumored couple are sitting subsequent to at least one one other and he has his hand round her waist.
Who else have they been romantically linked to?
Shakira broke up together with her longtime companion, soccer participant Gerard Pique, in June 2022. They share two kids, Milan and Sasha, and first received collectively in 2011.
In a press release, reported by Web page Six, they mentioned, “We regret to confirm that we are separating. For the well-being of our children, who are our highest priority, we ask that you respect our privacy. Thank you for your understanding.”
The privateness was not lengthy lasting and the break up was extremely publicized, particularly because it was revealed Pique had cheated on the singer. Final month, Shakira appeared to touch upon the massive change whereas accepting Billboard‘s first Lady of the 12 months award on the inaugural Latin Girls in Music gala.
“This has been a year of seismic change in my life where I’ve felt more than ever — and very personally — what it is to be a woman,” she mentioned. “It’s been a year where I’ve realized we women are stronger than we think, braver than we believed, more independent than we were taught to be.”
Shakira continued, “Because what woman hasn’t at some time in her life forgotten herself because she’s seeking the attention and love of someone else? It happened to me, more than once.”
Hamilton break up up with longtime girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger in 2015, and has been linked up to now to Rita Ora and Nicki Minaj.
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and extra. Her first e book, The Lonely Hunter, might be launched by Dial Press in February 2022.
