Rihanna has been living in north London for months

The move has been directed by her new role with French fashion house LVMH, with whom she is creating a label
Rihanna's Fenty cosmetics line launched in Boots this week
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London, this is a code red: an angel has been hiding in plain sight. This week, in an interview with The New York Times, pop star/celestial hypebeast Rihanna nonchalantly dropped the bombshell that she has been living in London for months.

The move has been directed by her new role with French fashion house LVMH, with whom she is creating a label. Living here puts her within Eurostar distance of her Paris-based designers, and close enough to Italy, where the line will be manufactured.

Rihanna, pictured, also declares that her favourite downtime is spent “walking around the block”, claiming she goes “incognito” — but any connoisseur of the star knows that “unassuming” is not in her arsenal.

We’ve missed her nipping out to Londis and only have ourselves to blame. Get on the neighbourhood watch: it’s been revealed that Rihanna is living in a £16,000-a-week, seven-bedroom north London mansion, with its own gym and pristine lawn. She’s been shacking up with boyfriend, Saudi heir Hassan Jameel, whose family is worth $2.2 billion.

The mansion, obviously, includes a private chef, but Rihanna is keeping it humble: she mentions a “cute little Jamaican market near where I live”, enjoys visiting the “grocery store” and has a sunshine-yellow Sainsbury’s bag for life, spied in the background of an Instagram post.

Rihanna spotters could also try lurking around the make-up aisle in Boots: this week she excitedly announced that her Fenty cosmetics line would be stocked there (“I love Boots!”).

Enthusiasts will also know she has, once, been on the Tube: her trip on the Jubilee line at crush hour to the O2, where she was performing, is a chapter of Rihanna’s extensive lore.

Bars should be on high alert. Her inclination for wandering out, wine glass in hand, is the masterstroke of her “zero f***s” approach, and has, inevitably, become the subject of a viral Twitter thread. She’s already targeted Soho House — will your local be next?

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