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Dua Lipa denies firing agent over pro-Israel views

2025-09-24 17:00:11
Dua Lipa said she "did not condone" the actions of her former agent, but stressed they had not worked together for many years

Pop star Dua Lipa has denied media reports that she fired one of her agents, after he tried to stop the Irish band Kneecap performing at Glastonbury.

The Mail Online claimed that Lipa had parted ways with David Levy for signing a letter urging festival organiser Emily Eavis to drop the rap group over their pro-Palestinian views.

Both Lipa and her talent agency WME have called the story "categorically false", saying that Levy stopped working with the star in 2019.

In a statement, Lipa criticised Levy's attempt to silence Kneecap, but said the Mail's "deliberately inflammatory" story had been "crafted... to fuel online division".

Dua Lipa posted her statement to Instagram on Tuesday night
Kneecap led the crowd in chants of "Free Palestine" during their performance at Glastonbury

Dua Lipa has also made her views on the conflict in Gaza public, and had repeatedly called for a "humanitarian cease-fire".

In May this year, she condemned Israeli air-strikes on displacement camps in Southern Gaza.

"Burning children alive can never be justified," she wrote on Instagram. "The whole world is mobilising to stop the Israeli genocide. Please show your solidarity with Gaza."

Later that month, she joined stars such as Benedict Cumberbatch, Gary Lineker, Amelia Dimoldenberg and Riz Ahmed in demanding that the UK stop selling arms to Israel.

"We urge you to take immediate action to end the UK's complicity in the horrors in Gaza," they said via an open letter, organised by the refugee charity Choose Love.

"You can't call it 'intolerable', yet do nothing. The world is watching and history will not forget. The children of Gaza cannot wait another minute. Prime minister, what will you choose? Complicity in war crimes, or the courage to act?"

More than 65,000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza in the nearly two-year war, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

Israel denies all allegations that its conduct in Gaza has broken the treaties and conventions that make up the laws of war and international humanitarian law.

It justifies its actions as self-defence, in protection of its citizens and to force the release of the hostages taken by Hamas and Islamic Jihad on 7 October 2023, around 20 of whom are believed still to be alive.

However, last week a UN commission of inquiry said that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza.

Meanwhile, the UK, France, Canada and Australia formally recognised a Palestinian state at a meeting of the United Nations earlier this week.