Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column , we’ll be examining the celebrity couples that give us hope for our own romantic futures and trying to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds. There is nothing I love more in this world than a gay icon with a quiet, demure , cishet boyfriend, even if the gay icon in question—one Ms.
Charli XCX —happens to be heterosexual herself. (She and Billie Eilish confirmed this on their “Guess” remix with the iconic line: “Charli likes boys but she knows I’d hit it,” although Charli has noted that she’s “happy I’m giving you bi vibes.” ) Charli and her drummer/record producer fiancé, George Daniel—he, best known as a member of The 1975 , though he’s also worked on several of Charli’s tracks, including the ridiculously brilliant “Apple”—have been dating since at least May 2022, announcing their engagement in November of last year.
Lest you worry that their impending nuptials are dissuading the couple from working it out on the dance floor, however, rest assured that they were recently spotted dancing it up to Nelly Furtado’s immortal “Maneater”: I genuinely don’t know what I love most about this video. Is it the little vape that Charli steals from Daniel, balancing it elegantly between her lips while she DJs like a 2024 incarnation of Don Draper puffing on Lucky Strikes? Is it her perfect lingerie outfit? Actually, I think I k.