Better half with Stas & Vic
By
January Nelson
In her podcast “Better Half with Stas & Vic,” Victoria Villarroel described an undisclosed British lover who wanted complete privacy, refused to be seen in public with her, and prevented her from posting photos of him on Instagram. Her account of what he told her: “This guy will be like, ‘I’ll never date someone who gets paparazzi, I’ll never date someone famous, I’ll never go to the Met Gala, corny.
The timeline points to Callum Turner, who was rumored to be dating in 2023 just before he went public with Dua Lipa. He had kept a low profile for years, including a long relationship with Vanessa Kirby that remained out of the picture.
Then came Dua Lipa, who has more than 80 million Instagram followers to Villarroel’s nearly 2 million. The two are married in May 2026 and have done the Berlinale, the Vanity Fair Oscar party, and a solid run of red carpets together. Villarroel also revealed that Dua once sat next to him at a dinner in London.
His manager Stassie Karanikolaou put the whip in the headline: “Your British ex-boyfriend, the way he was with you and the things he said he wanted and didn’t want in his life compared to him is now a complete 360. Villarroel’s response: “Who were you, you lied to me?
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