Shakira finds love in Lewis Hamilton a year after breaking up with Gerard Pique
Shakira and Lewis Hamilton spotted having dinner and drinks together in Barcelona. Photo: Instagram/Shakira & Lewis Hamilton
Colombian singer Shakira, 46, watched British race car driver Lewis Hamilton, 38, compete in the F1 Spanish Grand Prix and was spotted grabbing dinner with him afterwards, adding fuel to their dating rumours.
Hamilton drove for Mercedes in the F1 Spanish Grand Prix in Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on Sunday, June 4, and secured the second place.
After the competition, Shakira, Hamilton and a group of their friends including Mustafa the Poet, Daniel Caesar, Fai Khadra (Kendal Jenner's friend) were seen celebrating Hamilton's second place finish at the Grand Prix on Sunday night.
According to Page Six, the duo was first spotted together on a boat in Miami in May. Hamilton was competing in the Miami Grand Prix that took place on May 8.
When the rumoured couple was out for dinner and drinks with their friends, the seven-time world drivers' champion was seen wrapping his arm around the Hips Don't Lie singer while they were taking a group picture which was posted as an Instagram story by their friend Mustafa.
Lewis with Shakira and friends at a restaurant tonight#SpanishGP pic.twitter.com/p4me8mjjgB
— Sir Lewis Updates (@LH44updates) June 4, 2023
Shakira was dressed in a blue dress with a plunging neckline, while Hamilton chose a more casual look with a white graphic t-shirt, beige pants and black trucker cap.
During the F1 weekend, a video making rounds on social media showed Hamilton talking to his Mercedes teammate George Russell and saying: "I need to find myself a Latina." (fans have been going in a frenzy and have been quick to pick up and reference Shakira in response to the video going viral on twitter)
Lewis : "I need to find myself a Latina," 😆 then George proceeds to find him a girlfriend in the audience 🤣🤣#SpanishGP pic.twitter.com/Lvhc2JULBF
— Sir Lewis Updates (@LH44updates) June 3, 2023
Shakira and Gerard Pique: A break-up timeline
After 11 years of being together, Shakira and her ex-partner, former Spanish footballer, Gerard Pique, 36, split up. They have two kids together, Milan, 10 and Sasha, 8. The ex-duo met at the set of Shakira's music video for "Waka Waka".
- June 2022: The ex-pair announced their break-up in a joint statement on Instagram.
- September 2022: In an interview with Elle magazine, the singer spoke about her heartbreak, the difficult phase that she was going through after her split from the Gerard Piqué and that she's focusing on kids amid all this.
- October 2022: Shakira releases her first diss track. After the breakup, the singer released the her first track "Monotonía", and fans speculate that the lyrics referred to Gerard.
- November 2022: The couple reached a custody agreement for their two sons. In April 2023, Shakira flew from Barcelona to Miami with her sons.
- January 2023: Shakira discovered that the former footballer was cheating on her because of jam. According to Page Six, when Shakira was back from a trip she came home and found that some jam in her fridge had been eaten which was quite shady as neither Gerard nor her sons were fond of jam.
- January 2023: Gerard Piqué starts dating Clara Chia Marti. Piqué makes his new relationship Instagram official. Piqué and Clara Marti were first spotted together in August 2022, all cozied up at the Summerfest Cerdanya music festival in Catalonia.
Fans are going in a frenzy over this budding romance between the singer and the F1 racer. Are you excited to see what's next for the rumoured love birds?