The pop star Charli xcx and her partner, George Daniel, a drummer in the band The 1975, have married at a ceremony at Hackney town hall in east London.
The smiling couple were pictured and filmed walking down the art deco building’s steps through a blizzard of confetti on Saturday.
It was a low-key event given Charli’s level of fame. The couple were reportedly spotted and filmed by a passerby, with the pop star later confirming the news on TikTok.
According to the Sun, the 32-year-old singer wore a £3,300 Vivienne Westwood minidress, a veil and her signature black sunglasses at the ceremony. Daniel wore a dark double-breasted suit.
The couple have been together for about three years and worked together on Charli’s massively successful and well-regarded 2024 album Brat.
Both were at Glastonbury this year with the Guardian reviewer Shaad D’Souza giving Charli xcx’s performance five stars, suggesting she is a successor to Kanye West.
D’Souza wrote: “Despite being a prodigiously talented mainstream songwriter, she has dedicated her career to exploring the most caustic, hallucinatory sounds of the underground, and working out how best to synthesise them with the pleasures of pure pop music.”
Charli xcx in a wedding dress in her TikTok video. Photograph: charlixcx/TikTok
The 1975 performance, a headlining slot, was not far behind, with the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis calling it “bold, experimental, occasionally confounding, but ultimately hugely impressive”.
Charli frequently refers to Daniel, 35, on stage and in song. “I wanna dance with George,” she sings on Club Classics, a song co-produced by Daniel. He also co-wrote the song Apple.
Charli’s TikTok post features her strutting into a room wearing the dress, jokingly turning round and leaving. The text says: “when george isn’t crying when he sees me walking down the aisle.”
She adds in a caption: “luckily he did xx.” The soundtrack is Charli xcx’s Girl, So Confusing.
There are thousands of mostly congratulatory messages including: “Congrats Mrs and Mr XCX,” “ConBRATulations,” and “this is the single most important thing since we discovered fire”.
