Rita Ora is a worldwide, multi number one selling recording artist, singer, songwriter, actress and a household name in the UK since her stint as a judge on BBC\u2019s The Voice.\u00a0At just 32-years-old Rita has acquired a net worth of \u00a325 million, a \u00a34 million home,\u00a0five cars, including a Mercedes ML Class and a Cadillac XTS. Money aside, as Rita claims to not be into material possessions…. Rita has finally found her happy ever after. In August 2022 she walked down the aisle to her \u201csoul mate\u201d \u2018Thor : Love and Thunder\u2019 director Taika Waititi, aged 47.<\/p>\n
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HUMBLE BEGINNINGS<\/p>\n
Rita was born Miss Rita Sahatciu on November 26th<\/sup> 1990 in Pristina, Yugoslavia to parents Vera Bajraktari, a psychiatrist and Besnik Sahatciu an economist and pub owner. Moving to London aged one, Rita began performing from a young age and graduated from the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School, which produced numerous British pop stars such as Emma Bunton. Rising to fame debuting on DJ fresh number one single \u2018Hot Right Now\u2019 in 2012, Rita then released her own debut album entitled \u2018Ora\u2019 which also made it to the top of the charts, not only with the album but with two number one singles \u2018RIP\u2019 and \u2018How We Do\u2019.\u00a0She also achieved a chart record for the \u201cMost Top Ten Singles by a Female Artist\u201d with 13 in the top ten, overtaking musical icons Shirley Bassey and Petula Clark, who each lay claim to 12 top ten hits each.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CHEQUERED LOVE LIFE<\/p>\n Prior to meeting her husband New Zealand-born Waititi in 2021, Rita Ora was linked to a whole host of celebs including reality TV star Rob Kardashian, \u2018Spiderman\u2019 actor Andrew Garfield, producer Andrew Watt and \u2018One Direction\u2019 heartthrob Liam Payne. Rita also dated Scottish superstar DJ Calvin Harris and they released the smash hit \u201cI Will Never Let You Down\u201d together in 2013. Rita proclaimed at the time that this was the very first time she had ever been in love, but her world was quickly turned upside down when Harris publicly embarrassed Rita by announcing their split on social media before telling her – after tabloid pics of Rita partying with other men surfaced.<\/p>\n Broken-hearted Rita then had her world further torn apart as Harris placed a music ban on her from performing any songs they had made together. He finally lifted the music ban in 2018 and Rita was set to be full steam ahead on the final production and release of her long awaited second album \u2018Phoenix\u2019 when tragedy hit. Rita\u2019s good friend, inspiration and musical collaborator, Swedish superstar DJ Avicci, devastatingly took his own life that year. Rita had worked with Avicci on his last track, \u201cLet\u2019s Be Lonely Together\u201d and she has always been torn on whether she could have done more to save one of her best friends lives.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n OVERCOMING ADVERSITY<\/p>\n Despite her hardships Rita still managed to release two multi-platinum albums, breaking into the tough world of acting with her performance as Mia in the \u2018Fifty Shades of Grey\u2019 franchise and touring worldwide.<\/p>\n It has not been all plain sailing as the star has made headlines for all the wrong reasons too. In 2018 with her controversial song \u2018Girls\u2019, where she proclaims that \u201csometimes, she just wants to kiss girls\u201d. \u2018Girls\u2019 has been used by many women as a song about empowerment but the LGBT community found the track to be insensitive to bisexuality and Rita was pulled apart. She apologised to anyone who had been offended and explained that: “I am not one-sided, I’m open-minded… I am never going to hide it.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2020 she suffered another major backlash for flouting lockdown rules by having a 30th<\/sup> birthday party at a restaurant in West London. It was discovered by the UK media and despite her public apology, Rita has had to endure a lot of hatred over the bash attended by 10 pals including model Cara Delevingne. \u201cI still feel embarrassed,\u201d she revealed. \u201cIt\u2019s really hard for me to talk about it. I just wish I had made a different choice.\u201d<\/p>\n After years of heartbreak and grief, Rita is finally with the husband that she has always wanted \u2013 she finally met up with Waititi again in Australia in 2021 at a friend\u2019s party and they both knew they had definitely found \u201cthe one,\u201d after a friendship lasting 10 years. And further good news in Ora and Waititi\u2019s lives is they are trying for a baby. Unfortunately, the couple cannot conceive naturally and are going through rounds of IVF but they hope to bring good news \u2018babywise\u2019 soon. And there is the much anticipated third album on the cards this year. Rita hints at it being November 2023, her birth month. Wife, pop star, actress, soon-to-be mother… is there anything else for Rita to cross off her list?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rita Ora is a worldwide, multi number one selling recording artist, singer, songwriter, actress and a household name in the UK since her stint as a judge on BBC\u2019s The Voice.\u00a0At just 32-years-old Rita has acquired a net worth of \u00a325 million, a \u00a34 million home,\u00a0five cars, including a Mercedes ML Class and a Cadillac […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"yoast_head":"\n