Was That Really Dua Lipa’s First Hot Dog?

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We think of Dua Lipa as a culturati. A world-traveler. A person living màs at unprecedented levels, while also maintaining a really good book club. And yet according to social media, she’d never had a hot dog until this week. Laurence Leavy, a.k.a. Marlins Man broke the news on Twitter. Leavy was seated next to Lipa and husband Callum Turner at the Yankees-Rays game October 7. “I got to tell you. She is super nice. Just married,” he wrote. “Abd i wished her 50 years of happiness. Plus was her 1st baseball game and 1st hotdog ever. Special night.”

Your first hot dog is a special night indeed. But was it, really? Surely in Dua Lipa’s 31 years, she’s had at least one pig in one blanket. True, Dua Lipa has mostly lived in places where the de facto street food is a kebab, but work obligations put her in the land of hot dogs plenty. And a devotée of the social life such as her should be familiar with all the booze-absorbing foods of the night. You’re telling us that Dua Lipa, partying’s number 1 polyglot, hasn’t dabbled with a danger dog coming back from the Hollywood Bowl? It’s inconceivable. Vulture scrolled back through six years of the archives, in search of a stray dog.

October 7, 2026: According to Marlins_Man, Dua Lipa says she eats her first hot dog.
Dog or No Dog: 100 confirmed hot dog moment

June 5-7, 2026: Dua Lipa and Callum Turner celebrate their wedding with a big Italian to-do covered extensively by Vogue. The previous month, the couple legally wed in a London town hall wedding.
Dog or No Dog: No dog, no way.

December 9, 2025: Dua Lipa attends the Atropia premiere and after-party (co-sponsored by New York). Food at the event included “Yemeni- and Iraqi-inspired dishes like kebab, shawarma, and falafel,” as well as giant plates “overflowing with dates and nuts.”
Dog or No Dog: Absolutely no dogs

October 2025: Dua Lipa performs two shows in Dallas, collaborating with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and featuring vaqueros doing rope tricks. Neat!
Dog or No Dog: 50/50 chance of dogs. Any stadium has dogs in the vicinity, but Texas is known for inventing stadium nachos. If Lipa were to sample a local delicacy, it would be plastic cheese.

May 4, 2024: Dua Lipa hosts Saturday Night Live, and is also the musical guest.
Dog or No Dog: We’re torn. On the one hand, it’s New York! It’s staying up until 3 a.m. on writing night! How could she not have dogged at least once that week? On the other hand, SNL famously has food brought in for table reads and throughout production. If catering isn’t ordering hot dogs, is Dua really going to venture onto the street to grab one?

January 2024: Vulture compiles all the places Lipa has vacationed in 2023, which may or may not have prevented her from headlining Coachella in 2024.
Dog or No Dog: We’ll do it place by place. Madrid (no dog), Paris (no dog), Barcelona (no dog), New York (dog likely), Jamaica (prob patties), Ibiza (post-rave dog possible), Cannes (aucun chien), Kosovo (no dog, other sausages likely), Greece (no dog), Albania (no dog, yes sujuk), Denmark (dog likely), and India (prob no dog).

December 2023: Dua Lipa goes day-drinking with Seth Meyers and falls asleep in the bathroom halfway through.
Dog or No Dog: No dog, but it probably would have been a good idea.

July 9, 2023: Dua Lipa attends the world premiere of Barbie in Los Angeles.
Dog or No Dog: This is perhaps the most likely place Dua Lipa would have encountered a hot dog before 2026. The premiere afterparty was catered by Wolfgang Puck, who has several gourmet dogs in his repertoire. And Barbie is all about midcentury Americana. Hot dogs are one of the only things Barbie can hold in her lobster claw-posed hands! At the very least, pigs in a blanket would have been a good passed app.

May 2, 2023: Dua Lipa co-chairs the Met Gala, a tribute to Karl Lagerfeld.
Dog or No Dog: No dog. Per Vogue, the menu was based on the 1978 wedding reception Lagerfeld held for Palmoa Picasso. Weirdly, hot dogs weren’t on the menu then, nor were they in 2023. Instead, guests dined on “chilled spring pea soup with baby vegetables, lemon crème fraîche, and truffle snow, followed by Ōra King salmon with vegetable nage, asparagus, pickled strawberries, and radish—all served on vintage china.”

November 20, 2022: Dua Lipa introduces Elton John at Dodgers Stadium
Dog or No Dog: We’re thinkin’ dog! Dodger dogs are a local delicacy, and one that is brought to all the Bank of America suites at the stadium.

March 14, 2021: Dua Lipa performs at the Grammy Awards
Dog or No Dog: Normally we’d assume at least one Grammys afterparty would have a hot dog cart as part of the catering, but this was the COVID Grammys, and we’re guessing food wasn’t a big component of the evening.

August 11, 2020: Dua Lipa guest hosts Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Dog or No Dog: In any other year, it’d be a Dog Likely situation, as JKL! films on Hollywood Boulevard, where hot dog vendors are about as plentiful as Spider-Men. But because of lockdown, Lipa hosted from home. No Dog.