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2024 Emmys: Rita Ora Shares Rare Insight Into Marriage With Taika Waititi

After the 2024 Emmys, Rita Ora opened up about her marriage with Taika Waititi and what makes their relationship work so well.

By Brahmjot Kaur Sep 16, 2024 6:39 PM
| Updated Sep 16, 2024 6:42 PM
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There's so much love and no thunder in Rita Ora and Taika Waititi's marriage.

"We inspire each other," Rita exclusively told Justin Sylvester, Ariana Madix and NeNe Leakes during E!'s After-Party at the 2024 Emmys Sept. 15. "With me coming from music and him being a writer, a director and a filmmaker, it's a house full of ideas. We're both fire signs, too. So it's just fire, fire, fire."

Well, that and some laughs.

"I am the funny one, I just want to let you all know that," the actress, who wore a baby pink Tamara Ralph gown to the award show at Los Angeles' Peacock Theater,  joked. "But actually, we help each other out, always."

And she was there to be her husband's biggest cheerleader since he was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series for Reseveartion Dogs and What We Do in the Shadows as an executive producer on each show. (ICYMI, Hacks took home the trophy.)

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"It was an unbelievable show," Rita, who wed Taikia in August 2022, gushed. "It was a fun night. We celebrated, it was cool!" 

And inspiring.

"I was walking to this party and I said to Taika, 'This has just made me want to go home and write everything I can think of down right now,'" she explained. "I was so inspired, the acceptance speeches were so inspiring."

"It only takes me five seconds to want to get dressed up, honey," she added. "So, I was ready to go support my man."

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And the support goes both ways. After all, Taika has helped her through a discouraging time in her career.

"I spent such a long time fighting to be heard over the course of my experience being in the industry, I lost a lot of confidence and a lot of hope, fell really low," she told Billboard last April. "I guess when you're at your lowest point, you can make a choice. You either kind of get back up and keep going, or you just let it consume you."

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"I did that," she continued. "I got up. I flew to Australia to do The Voice over there, and I met somebody who changed me forever. Meeting Taika, who is my husband, I definitely never felt that before, and so I just wrote it all down and I thought, 'Okay, I think it's time to make some music again.' And here we are."  

Keep reading to see all the adorable celebrity couples who attended the 2024 Emmys.

Paul Rudd & Julie Rudd 

Stephen Colbert & Evelyn McGee-Colbert

Carrie Coon & Tracy Letts 

Kaitlin Olson & Rob McElhenney 

Connie Britton & David Windsor 

Bo Welch & Catherine O'Hara

Rita Ora & Taika Waititi

Holland Taylor & Sarah Paulson

Robert Downey Jr. & Susan Downey

Jimmy Kimmel & Molly McNearney

Niecy Nash-Betts & Jessica Betts 

Idris Elba & Sabrina Elba 

Naomi Watts & Billy Crudup

Jodie Foster & Alexandra Hedison 

Liza Colón-Zayas & David Zayas 

Mike Birbiglia & J. Hope Stein

Saoirse Ronan & Jack Lowden

Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Justin Mikita

Millicent Shelton & Donald Samuel

Katie Aselton & Mark Duplass 

Robbie Rogers & Greg Berlanti 

Princess Daazhraii Johnson & James Johnson

Finn Bennett & Anna Lambe 

Adam Feil & Brittney Feil

Will Smith & Anne Smith

Emile Sherman & Caroline Sherman 

Louise Stevens & Julian Stevens

Anna Berzins & Benjamin Forkner

Kyle Hawley & Noah Hawley 

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