{"id":119264,"date":"2025-02-12T21:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T21:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/12\/dua-lipa-mourns-the-death-of-the-duolingo-owl\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T21:03:12","slug":"dua-lipa-mourns-the-death-of-the-duolingo-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/12\/dua-lipa-mourns-the-death-of-the-duolingo-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa mourns the death of … the Duolingo owl?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stephane Cardinale – Corbis\/Corbis via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dua Lipa<\/strong> is mourning the death of a cartoon owl that served as the symbol for the language learning app Duolingo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Duolingo\u00a0posted a tongue-in-cheek\u00a0announcement<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of the death of the owl, whose name was Duo, and added that “authorities are currently investigating his cause of death.” The message ended with, “We appreciate you respecting Dua Lipa’s privacy at this time.”<\/p>\n

What does Dua have to do with Duo? As a representative for Duolingo explained to <\/strong>Entertainment Weekly<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, “Over the years, we\u2019ve built brand lore around Duo being in love with her (going so far as to\u00a0propose outside her concert at Madison Square Garden<\/strong><\/a>).”<\/p>\n

Which is why Dua reacted to the announcement of the owl’s death by reposting it on social platform X<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and writing, “Til’ death duo part,” along with a broken heart emoji. She wrote the same thing in the comments of the death announcement on Instagram.<\/p>\n

But believe it or not, her reaction isn’t part of some long-term marketing plan by the company \u2014 either that or they’re not admitting to it. The rep tells EW<\/em> that Dua’s comment “isn’t part of a paid brand partnership,” but rather “just the natural evolution of Duo\u2019s long-standing, unrequited love” for her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The rep added, “We\u2019re just as shocked (and honored) as anyone that she\u2019s acknowledged his tragic fate.”<\/p>\n

Dua wasn’t the only pop star responding to Duo’s death, either. Joe Jonas<\/strong> commented “WTF” and Jordin Sparks<\/strong> wrote, “We had such a beautiful journey.”<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephane Cardinale – Corbis\/Corbis via Getty Images Dua Lipa is mourning the death of a cartoon owl that served as the symbol for the language learning app Duolingo.\u00a0 On Tuesday, Duolingo\u00a0posted a tongue-in-cheek\u00a0announcement\u00a0of the death of the owl, whose name was Duo, and added that “authorities are currently investigating hisRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}