Rita Ora is Down Under. The singer has been photographed arriving in Australia, where she is filming the country's version of The Voice. Rules in the country dictate that she will have to spend a prolonged period of time in quarantine - two weeks, to be exact - and has chosen to do so in a $500 per night hotel. It doesn't sound hugely fun, but she might be glad to be out of the country for a while after recent scandals.
For her 30th birthday party in November, the pop star decided to set fire to the rulebook and host a meal for over 30 of her nearest and dearest at a fancy restaurant in Notting Hill. In pictures obtained by The Sun{
This week, it emerged that Casa Cruz actively assisted in keeping the event secret. Mail Online has unearthed publicly available documents filed by the venue in December.
'The security for the entourage wanted no recordings of the attendees - Rita Ora etc, to be made, hence the DPS decided to turn off the CCTV in the premises at between 1800 & 1830', it reads.
'He also stated that CCTV was faulty prior and scheduled for repair.' Police then checked the CCTV and discovered that 'no stored footage available before that time, or the preceding 31 days.'
As we all know, the government imposed a month-long second lockdown to try and halt the spread of the virus. It meant thousands of people have missed social occasions, such as birthdays and weddings. And while that's no fun for anyone, most people just got on without - because they recognise it's more important to keep other people safe than selfishly break the rules.
And having 30 people over for dinner really does seem excessive, especially when you take into consideration that only half of that - 15 people - were allowed at people's weddings at that time, on probably the most important day of the couple's lives. (With reports of over 30 people attending Rita's dinner, that's also even more than the funeral limit of 30 that was in place at this point.)
This isn't just some small breach of seeing one or two people because she was lonely. There can have been no mistake or misunderstanding about a stray member of a bubble or two. She may have even foreseen a backlash, as it appeared on Instagram that she was celebrating all on her own. Uploading some glamorous photos where she's eating cake, she wrote: 'Thank you for all the love, it felt weird not doing anything for my bday so being me I dressed up and ate cake.'
Just like Kendall Jenner throwing her massive 25th birthday party a month previous, some celebrities probably need a reminder that hosting a huge party in the middle of a pandemic probably isn't the best idea. The virus still exists - you're not automatically immune just because you have more money than the rest of us. And, as they say, sometimes it's not the crime that gets you: it's the cover up.
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