Who is Akala, Angelina Jolie’s (alleged) new boyfriend

For months now, gossip has been claiming that Angelina Jolie49 years old, has found love again with rapper, poet and activist Akala40 years old. The two have been paparazzi together in public several times, but never in compromising attitudes. Now, however, a source has revealed to Us Weekly that Angelina and Akala have «spent two nights together at the Corinthia Hotel in London, without ever leaving the hotel room». Akala, added the insider, «was smuggled out in one of her cars a couple of hours before the premiere at British Film Institute of the new film Maria (on the history of the diva Maria Callased.). They used separate cars and secret entrances to keep their relationship hidden.” It would therefore be no coincidence that the rapper was also present at the London film festival. The two did not appear as a couple on the red carpet of Mariabut after the screening they would have treated themselves to a romantic dinner at Soho House.

Born in West Sussex to a Scottish mother and Jamaican father, thoughtwhose real name is Kingslee James McLean Daley, grew up in London’s Camden neighborhood and has faced tough challenges since childhood. Activist, poet, journalist, author, songwriter and rapperis known for his fights against racism and social injustices but also for his commitment to animals (he has been vegan for several years now). In 2006 he was elected Best Hip Hop Artist at the Mobo Awards, in 2021 he was included in the annual Powerlist of 100 Most Influential Black British People in the UK. With two honorary degrees for his educational commitment, Akala has also written a semi-autobiographical book entitled Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire.

Akala and Angelina Jolie – who would have met in May 2023 at the Calabash Literary Festival in Jamaica – share many ideals. And perhaps it was precisely their common passions, in particular social and humanitarian causes, that brought them together. Furthermore, it seems that the artist gets along very well – unlike his father Brad Pitt – with all of Jolie’s children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and the twins Knox and Vivienne. After the stormy divorce from Pitt, they were attributed to Angelina very few flirts, including the musician The Weeknd and the young actor Paul Mescal. However, the flirtations were never confirmed. Over the last eight years, the diva has always declared herself single, making it clear that her priority is her six children: “I don’t have a social life, my children are my best friends”, for example, she declared last year, in an interview with Wall Street Journal. But perhaps now, thanks to Akala, he has finally found love again.