Dua Lipa Denies She’s Acting at World Cup Opening Ceremony

Dua Lipa will not be performing on the World Cup in any case … based on Dua Lipa.

The singer shot down rumors Sunday that she’d hit the stage in a pair weeks for the opening ceremony in Qatar, which is often a reasonably large gig that tends to attract worldwide stars. Shakira‘s achieved it earlier than, so has J Lo, Pitbull, Black Eyed Peas and others.

Lots of people thought DL was up subsequent — amongst different artists who’ve been speculated on — however she’s saying it ain’t occurring … all due to human rights, apparently.

Dua says, “There’s lots of hypothesis that I will probably be performing on the opening ceremony of the World Cup in Qatar. I cannot be performing and nor have I ever been concerned in any negotiation to carry out.” She provides … “I look ahead to visiting Qatar when it has fulfilled all of the human rights pledges it made when it gained the proper to host the World Cup.”

If you happen to’re unfamiliar, Qatar is infamous for mistreating its ladies and LGBT folks … typically by way of punishment below the regulation. The nation has made guarantees prior to now to analyze sure issues and to enhance its report, however many really feel its fallen quick again and again.

As for the way this notion of Dua performing even received began … we tracked down the supply. A Twitter account referred to as World Music Awards introduced it lately, including a bunch of different names that they claimed could be performing on the opening ceremony as nicely. Whereas they appeared fairly positive of themselves, no respected mainstream outlet picked up the information.

They asserted Shakira and BEP could be returning, to not point out J Balvin, BTS and Bollywood star Nora Fatehi. Nora is a performer, however not kicking issues off. BTS’s Jung Kook confirmed Friday he’d do the opening ceremony … and to date, he is the one official act.