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Dua Lipa mostly keeps her remarks about her love life relegated to her music.

The "Don't Start Now" singer has been linked to several fellow A-list stars over the years, from her longtime romance with Anwar Hadid to her rumored fling with Jack Harlow. Most recently, Lipa made her red carpet debut with her boyfriend Romain Gavras at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. While she is relatively private about her relationships, save for the occasional public appearance, Lipa has opened up about her past romances in her music.

Her 2017 debut album Dua Lipa featured breakup songs like "IDGAF" and "New Rules," while her Grammy-winning follow-up, Future Nostalgia, was rife with happy tracks about being in love seemingly inspired by her romance with Hadid, whom she dated from 2019 to 2021.

"I had to fight inner demons. I wanted to write songs that were more sad, more about heartbreak, because I thought that writing happy songs would turn into cheesy songs," she told British Vogue of Future Nostalgia. "I had to fight that because I was like, 'I am happy. I deserve to be happy.' I should be able to write about that without the fear of feeling like I'm compromising my authenticity because I'm not crying about something or someone."

From her long-term relationship with Hadid to her new romance with Gavras, here's a look at Dua Lipa's dating history.

Lipa's first public relationship was with British model and chef Isaac Carew. The couple first met and began dating in 2015. They split amicably in February 2017, and later that year, Lipa began dating model and singer Paul Klein. In May 2018, however, she and Carew were spotted leaving Soho House together in London, with Carew's arm around Lipa's shoulder.

Carew then joined Lipa and her parents at the Grammys in February 2019 and at the Met Gala that May. By July, the couple had seemingly split for good, as Lipa was seen kissing Hadid at a music festival in London.

Lipa dated model and musician Paul Klein, the lead singer of LANY, for five months before they split in January 2018, per the Associated Press. Though Lipa hasn't spoken publicly about the relationship or breakup, Klein seemingly addressed their split on Instagram in July 2018, saying that he deleted Instagram and Twitter from his phone that January after his "heart got ripped right out of [his] f---ing chest." He added that he was happy to be able to "make art out of really s--- situations."

Klein opened up more about the split in an interview with Harper's Bazaar in July 2018, recalling that he wrote his band's entire album, Malibu Nights, within 50 days of the breakup.

"I never felt a pain like that. I'm not trying to be dramatic here," he said. "I think that was the first time I've ever been in love, and I never felt anything like that in my life."

In August 2020, when asked if she listened to Malibu Nights, Lipa told SCMP, "I haven't really heard it."

Lipa's longest public relationship so far has been with Anwar Hadid, brother of supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid.

Hadid and Lipa were first spotted getting cozy at Gigi's birthday party in Malibu, California, in June 2019, then at a music festival in London early that July. They made their first public appearance together at the Marc Jacobs show in September during New York Fashion Week. That November, Hadid and Lipa made their official red carpet debut at the American Music Awards.

The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 saw Lipa and Hadid spending more time together while social distancing. That April, Lipa told PEOPLE that self-isolating brought her and Hadid closer than ever, literally and figuratively.

"It's been really great easy and fun and chill," the singer said of the experience. "We've been making the most of this because we got all this extra time that we weren't expecting to just hang out. It's been an absolute blast, and we're learning so much more about each other."

The pair marked their first anniversary in June 2020 and adopted a puppy named Dexter together the following month. In January 2021, Lipa told Rolling Stone that she felt "very comfortable" in her relationship with Hadid. However, by the end of that year, they had split after two and a half years together.

"Dua and Anwar are currently taking a break from their relationship and are spending time apart," a source told PEOPLE in December 2021. "They're figuring things out right now."

Lipa later shared in a June 2022 cover story for Vogue that she was spending time being single and focusing on herself: "The next chapter of my life is about truly being good with being alone."

Trevor Noah and Lipa were rumored to be dating after the Daily Mail published photos of the former Daily Show host kissing her on the cheek in September 2022. However, a source told PEOPLE that Lipa and Noah were just friends.

That October, Noah appeared on Lipa's Dua Lipa: At Your Service podcast and had nothing but praise for the "New Rules" singer, whom he said he first saw perform at the UEFA Champions League soccer final in May 2018.

"I said to my friend one day, 'Every time I see Dua Lipa, it's at an award show. So, now that means if I see her, my life is going well. Now I just hope to see her more so that it means my life is going exceptionally well,' " he recalled on the show. "You've always been really wonderful and gracious. You've always been a really wonderful light, just in the spaces that everybody's in."

When asked about dating Lipa in a November 2022 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Noah reportedly leaned back and laughed.

Rapper Jack Harlow released a song called "Dua Lipa," in which he says he wants more than "a feature" from the "Boys Will Be Boys" singer, on his second album, Come Home The Kids Miss You.

Discussing the track in a May 2022 appearance on The Breakfast Club, Harlow explained that he FaceTimed Lipa to get her approval for the song before its release so she wouldn't "be blindsided by that or feel like creeped out or anything."

"If she had said, 'Yo, I hate it. I don't want it to come out,' it wouldn't have come out," he said. "She was like, 'Oh, I mean it's not my song. I suppose it's OK.' She was just kinda thrown off and she just kinda let it go."

He said their conversations became "less awkward" after the song came out, and when asked if he had a crush on Lipa, he replied, "I admire her."

That December, a source told PEOPLE that Lipa and Harlow were "hanging out" after they were spotted at the Variety Hitmakers Brunch. Things had seemingly cooled off by early 2023, however, as Lipa was spotted with Gavras in February.

In February 2023, Lipa was seen leaving a BAFTAs afterparty in London with a mystery man in photos obtained by the Daily Mail. He was later identified as French filmmaker Romain Gavras.

Gavras was previously in a relationship with singer Rita Ora for six months. A rep for Gavras confirmed to the Daily Mail that they'd split in March 2021 due to conflicting schedules and work commitments.

Gavras and Lipa went public with their romance at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2023. The couple walked the red carpet together and posed for pictures; the singer wore a black one-shoulder dress with cutouts, while Gavras sported a black suit and tie.

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As the No. 12 overall seed in the field,Kentucky Baseballwill host a four-team NCAA Regional site this coming weekend when NCAA Tournament play begins across the country. The Wildcats are one of eight SEC programs to earn one of the sixteen home-field advantages, meaning half of the nationally-seeded hosts are from the Southeastern Conference. Kentucky had a winning record in that league.

In postseason play, the Cats will welcome West Virginia, Indiana, and Ball State to the Bluegrass for the Lexington Regional, where Kentucky Proud Park will host its first-ever NCAA Tournament action. Only twice before has Kentucky played host to an NCAA Regional, and both came before Kentuckys new $49 million facility opened in 2019. The tournament made previous stops in Lexington in 2006 and 2017 but never a third until 2023.

Lets look back at 06 and 17 with memories of the past. One went better than the other.

CLIFF HAGAN STADIUM

Participants: Kentucky, Coll. of Charleston, Notre Dame, Ball State

In 2006, the University of Kentucky was awarded one of the sixteen host spots following the schools first and only SEC Championship regular season. John Coens Wildcats shocked college baseball by winning the league from a last-place finish the year before, only to drop the ball in the NCAA Regional on their home field.

Of all teams, Ball State spoiled the excitement with a Game 1 upset of the Wildcats in Lexington. Lets hope that doesnt happen again this Friday.

Then on Sunday of that 06 weekend, College of Charleston stole Kentuckys place in the Atlanta Super with a win over the Wildcats, Charlestons third straight win in Lexington to advance.

Game Scores:

Ball State 3, Kentucky 1 Coll. of Charleston 5, Notre Dame 4 Kentucky 10, Notre Dame 4 Coll. of Charlestown 11, Ball State 0 Kentucky 12, Ball State 9 Coll. of Charleston 7, Kentucky 4

CLIFF HAGAN STADIUM

Participants: Kentucky, Indiana, NC State, Ohio

The Cliff got another shot at an NCAA Tournament in 2017, and this time, the Wildcats took advantage of the opportunity under first-year head coach Nick Mingione. After Mingiones Wildcats finished third in the SECs regular season, UK returned home to a rowdy Lexington Regional to win four of five, including back-to-back victories over NC State on Sunday and Monday.

With the wins,KENTUCKY advanced to the Super Regional for the only time in school history(where the Wildcats lost to Louisville, but we dont need to dwell on that chapter of the book).

Game Scores:

Kentucky 6, Ohio 4 NC State 7, Indiana 6 Indiana 11, Ohio 2 NC State 5, Kentucky 4 Kentucky 14, Indiana 9 Kentucky 8, NC State 6 Kentucky 10, NC State 5

Relive some of that 17 Lexington magic as we count down to Friday:

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Scholarly interest in nuns and sisters has flourished in recent years as historians increasingly acknowledge that history cannot be written without an understanding of religion, specifically, of the history of Catholic women religious.

New networks of researchers are promoting inquiry into women religious from medieval times to the 21st century. One of these is the International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association, or ISHWRA, which was established in 2021 by Cormac Begadon, Sarah Barthlemy and Gemma Betros. The network aims to be transnational and multidisciplinary, welcoming scholars and non-scholars alike.

One challenge the trio of young scholars has identified is that the history of women religious has tended to exist in national, regional and chronological silos.

"We found that people often weren't looking beyond these regional silos," said Begadon, a history fellow at the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University in Durham, England. "When you're working on such specialized things, much of your time is spent on localized topics. We wanted to break down these barriers and facilitate inquiry and learning from each other."

Betros, an honorary lecturer in the School of History at Australian National University, said that the association's main aim "was to establish a global network that could act as a point of contact for scholars working on the history of women religious in any period and in any part of the world."

The association is not the only network of scholars focused on the history of women religious, Sarah Barthlemy, its third co-founder, explained. But other associations usually have a more focused research object.

"We have strong links with Project Sorores, supported by the cole Franaise de Rome and the Casa de Velzquez of Madrid, on European non-cloistered female religious life," said Barthlemy, who is Catherine de Francheville Fellow in the history of Catholicism at Durham University and a visiting professor at Universit Saint-Louis in Brussels. "One of their coordinators, Sergi Sancho Fibla, is part of our advisory panel. We hope to open a space for collaboration on a global scale."

Researching women religious in revolutionary and Napoleonic France, Betros was aware of other scholars working in similar areas, but "we rarely crossed paths. As a result, I had long felt I was missing out on collaborative opportunities that are central to academia in the 21st century."

By making research accessible and opening up the network, Begadon said the association hoped to bring together scholars working in Western Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia. "We wanted those working on the 20th century to learn from people working on medieval history and people working on the 17th and 18th centuries to look at the 19th century and so on."

"If you were to look at the number of scholars looking at female religious as opposed to male religious right now, especially in the Anglophone world, it is weighted heavily on the female side," Begadon said. One reason for the growing interest, he said, is the archival legacy many congregations have left. "It has given us a snapshot into the lives of females, which is not always there for uncloistered non-religious women."

There is also agreement that this is an area that has been overlooked for too long. Even as the impetus to recover women's history gained momentum in the last decades of the 20th century, "nuns were considered of little interest due to their perceived lack of agency," Betros explained.

Also at play was a "long and somewhat prurient interest in nuns, which perhaps reached its height in 18th-century France. The association hopes to direct attention away from nuns "as figures of fascination or amusement or disdain to a group of women, like any other, whose stories and experiences deserve and need to be made known and understood within their broader historical contexts," Betros said, adding that he believes religious congregations' "extraordinary records" have the potential "to illuminate the history of our societies in ways we are only just beginning to understand."

This more nuanced approach is welcomed by many religious. Sr. Helen Jacobson, a member of the Sisters of St Francis of Philadelphia for more than 53 years, has been the archivist for her congregation for the past 20 years.

"Women in general and sisters in particular are unsung heroes whose stories have been hidden and disregarded for far too long," she told GSR. Through the International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association, she has learned about several topics from different perspectives on matters of interest to women religious, especially in the United States.

"It is interesting to learn about other religious congregations; to compare and contrast similar or unique circumstances regarding how decisions were made regarding a wide range of topics in the past as well as those being made today," she said.

In recent years, many religious congregations have been more open toward researchers accessing their archives. Betros recalls visiting the archives of several orders in Paris in the mid-1920s and finding "some reticence in allowing an outsider to examine documents." She is acutely aware of how easily archives could be lost or destroyed.

"As more communities come to the end of their journeys the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of New York, for example, recently issued a press release about their 'path to completion' I suspect the future of their archives are a source of concern for many," Betros said.

The growing interest among researchers stems from the accessibility of religious congregations' archives, Begadon said.

"I think one of the reasons we have had this explosion in research is that the archives of a growing number of religious congregations are now open for business," he said. "Many congregations now employ professional archivists, and they are doing their utmost to facilitate researchers, but more could be done."

He also believes there is "a growing thirst to get a fuller picture of the history of female religious and their activities" among a younger generation of scholars who have a different experience and perspective of women religious. But he stresses the research that the association is facilitating is not about providing a platform simply for "good news" stories.

He also believes there is "a growing thirst to get a fuller picture of the history of female religious and their activities" among a younger generation of scholars who have a different experience and perspective of women religious. But he stresses the research that the association is facilitating is not about providing a platform simply for "good news" stories.

In a piece on the association for the Centre for Catholic Studies in Durham's newsletter, GSR sister liaison, Sr. Joyce Meyer, highlighted that women religious have lived through extraordinary experiences of mission, war, oppression, revolution, all the while serving and working with others to make the world a better place. She said the stories revealed through the association's research "has brought me sadness, joy, amazement, disappointment and even at times, anger; but no matter the feelings they evoke, the stories open consciousness of how God's Spirit has led and continues to lead women through their particular historical contexts, even though at times misguided, in their desire to spread God's realm."

Currently, the association's principal output is a series of monthly seminars as well as biennial workshops, which focus on very specific themes. Some seminars are hosted in hybrid form in order to facilitate global participation. According to Begadon, more than 600 people from more than 50 countries have registered for events. "We have quite a geographical spread and we're not restricted to scholars," he said. " Recently, we have had quite a few religious join us from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda."

The seminar series is deliberately broad, covering subjects such as institutional racism within the orders themselves, the emergence of East African congregations, and women religious in American secular institutions of higher education.

Papers presented at the association's first workshop in 2021 are set to be published by Boydell & Brewer as an edited collection, Female Religious and Narratives of the French Revolution: Identity, Memory, and History. It is Begadon's hope that in time International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association will have a published series looking at specific research themes. Another long-term goal is to secure funding from donors to enable the association to staff the network and fund research projects.

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Pat Mann Phillips is the first woman elected to serve as chair of the board of directors for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

Women have taken on a greater role during performances at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, which in 2022 added breakaway roping to its slate of events. Professional cowgirls previously had only one opportunity to compete in the United States' largest rodeo, in barrel racing, while the other six events are for men.

Pat Mann Phillips, a longtime rodeo volunteer who has served on its board of directors since 2012, said she pushed for the addition of breakaway roping because it would make the rodeo more diverse and inclusive and also because she is a "big fan." She had once aspired to be a competing cowgirl while growing up on her family's ranch in North Texas, where she showed livestock such as pigs and cattle at rodeos around the region.

"I attempted to be a roper back when I was growing up, and I wasn't near as good as these ladies today," Mann Phillips said. "I'm very inspired by them. It's very admirable what they're accomplishing."

Young girls and women in the rodeo world and beyond might now be inspired by Mann Phillips, who is fresh off a significant accomplishment of her own. Last week she became the first woman elected as chair of the board of the directors for the Houston Rodeo, which has been held for nearly a century.

Mann Phillips, who in 2019 became the first woman elected to the board's 15-member executive committee, was picked to serve in the chairperson role by her peers. Rodeo CEO Chris Boleman said the historic appointment had more to do with Mann Phillips' leadership skills, expertise and track record of involvement with the rodeo as opposed to her gender, but he still considers it to be a noteworthy moment in the rodeo's history.

More than half of the rodeo's 35,000-plus volunteers are women, according to Mann Phillips, who said the volunteer corps was mostly men when she joined the ranks in 2002 a year after she and her husband attended the rodeo's barbecue cookoff for the first time.

"It demonstrates the growth and the diversity of our show," Boleman said. "To see Pat move into this role says a lot about our organization and the future of it."

Mann Phillips, 63, who works as a consultant in the energy industry, was elected to serve a three-year term as chair of the board, which is a volunteer role like all of the other 300-plus positions on the rodeo's board of directors. She said she wants to help continue the success of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, which drew more than 2.5 million visitors this year in a return to pre-pandemic attendance levels, but also wants to see the annual event "up our game" by becoming more of a destination for international rodeo-goers.

Boleman said Mann Phillips was elected to lead at a "pivotal" time for the rodeo, which is working on extending its lease at NRG Park and also wants to maximize its outreach and involvement in the community. The rodeo committed more than $22.5 million this year to youth in the Houston area and across Texas through grants, scholarships and other educational programs, which Mann Phillips jokingly referring to the scholarship recipients as "my kids."

"I'm just really grateful for the opportunity to serve in any position in this organization," she said. "I just love it. It's a labor of love."

Serving as chair of the board for the Houston rodeo which Mann Phillips called the "Super Bowl" of rodeos is not something she imagined when she first started volunteering more than two decades ago. Mann Phillips she said gradually worked her way up the organizational ladder, becoming a committee chair and later a vice president who oversaw all 110 of the rodeo's volunteer committees.

Mann Phillips said other female volunteers who have taken on leadership roles, such as Carolyn Faulk, Dr. Kelly Larkin, Pam Springer and Sharleen Walkoviak, provided inspiration for her and deserve credit for helping her make history with the Houston rodeo. In turn, Mann Phillips hopes to be an example for other women and perhaps young girls who dream of competing or leading at the rodeo.

"This is truly an honor I share with all the other women I work with that have been before me that are role models to me," she said. "It's kind of exciting to see all the ladies who are stepping into leadership roles right now with the show. As more women got involved in the show, you're starting to see them bubble up to the top."

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