{"id":27462,"date":"2026-11-03T18:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scandalplanet.com\/?p=312897"},"modified":"2026-11-03T18:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:41:34","slug":"dua-lipas-portofino-bikini-photos-are-viral-again-inside-her-baci-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghanahookup.com\/videos\/dua-lipas-portofino-bikini-photos-are-viral-again-inside-her-baci-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa\u2019s Portofino Bikini Photos Are Viral Again: Inside Her \u201cBaci\u201d Set"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Nico Grey \u00b7 Published

Yes, those viral Dua Lipa bikini photos are real, and they\u2019re hers. She posted the set on Aug. 18, 2026, captioned \u201cBaci \ud83d\udc8b,\u201d from the Splendido hotel in Portofino, on a girls\u2019 trip for her friend\u2019s wedding. On Nov. 1 they went viral all over again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been behind the camera since 2001 and shot more than 2,000 scenes, so trust me on this one: the hardest shot to get is the one that looks like nobody planned it. Dua Lipa just got it twice, on a sunbed, with a deck of cards.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nico Grey \u00b7 Photo: Mirko Tabasevic \/ NicoGrey.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The repost came from Turkish entertainment account Yank\u0131 Magazin<\/a>, captioned \u201cDua Lipa\u2019n\u0131n dikkat \u00e7eken payla\u015f\u0131m\u0131,\u201d or \u201cDua Lipa\u2019s eye-catching post.\u201d Two photos, no context, and by Nov. 3 it had passed 1.18 million views, 23,000 likes and 9,300 bookmarks. That last number tells you everything: people didn\u2019t just look, they saved it for later.<\/p>\n

In the first shot Dua is on all fours on a white sunbed, looking back over her shoulder at the camera in a pinstripe string bikini, with gold bangles stacked on her wrist and playing cards scattered next to her. In the second she\u2019s lying on her stomach on the same towel, chin up, same bikini, same orange umbrella overhead.<\/p>\n

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Dua Lipa\u2019n\u0131n dikkat \u00e7eken payla\u015f\u0131m\u0131<\/p>\n

\u2014 Yank\u0131 Magazin (@yankimagazin) November 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Where the photos really come from: the \u201cBaci\u201d set<\/h2>\n

We matched the two viral shots to Dua\u2019s own post. On Aug. 18, 2026 she shared a photo dump on Instagram and X captioned simply \u201cBaci \ud83d\udc8b\u201d (her X post<\/a>). Hello! described it the next day: the singer \u201cposed up a storm lying under a tangerine-hued umbrella in a multicoloured striped bikini\u201d on a sun lounger at the five-star Splendido, plus \u201ca killer pinstripe bikini\u201d (Hello!<\/a>). The two shots Yank\u0131 Magazin reposted are from that same sunbed session: same umbrella, same terrace with the sea behind it, same bikini, same bangles. The post went up when she was 30; she turned 31 four days later.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more of the set, including the lobster lunch and a mirror selfie in white lace:<\/p>\n

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Dua Lipa in a pinstripe string bikini under the orange umbrella at Splendido, Portofino (August 2026)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dua Lipa posing on a sunbed in a striped bikini, Portofino “Baci” carousel (August 2026)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dua Lipa at a lobster lunch with a friend in Portofino, “Baci” set (August 2026)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dua Lipa mirror selfie in a white lace outfit with a friend in Portofino (August 2026)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Look at that first photo again. Low angle, sun behind the umbrella, her looking back over her shoulder, the cards on the towel so it reads like a lazy afternoon. That isn\u2019t a lucky snap. That\u2019s a pose every photographer I\u2019ve ever worked with would have asked for, and she directed it herself on a hotel sunbed.<\/p>\n

And she\u2019s a married woman doing it, two and a half months after the wedding, on a trip with the girls. No husband in the frame, no apology in the caption. Just \u201cBaci.\u201d A kiss.<\/p>\n

My take, after 2,000+ scenes: the internet thinks it found something new on Nov. 1. It didn\u2019t. It found something it had already saved, and went back for seconds. When a photo dump from August is still pulling 9,000 bookmarks in November, that\u2019s not a thirst trap anymore. That\u2019s a catalog.<\/p>\n

The rest of her catalog is on her hub<\/a> \u2192<\/p>\n

\u2014 Nico<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The trip: Ella Jenkins\u2019 hen do in Portofino<\/h2>\n

Dua was in Portofino with her girlfriends for her close friend Ella Jenkins, who was getting ready to marry filmmaker Jack Gilbert (Hello!<\/a>). The day before \u201cBaci,\u201d on Aug. 17, she posted the first photo dump, captioned \u201cGaaaaaals trip bc Ella\u2019s getting HITCHED \ud83d\udc8d\ud83d\udc8d\ud83d\udc8d\ud83d\udc8d\u201d (X<\/a>). The Daily Mail reported the group was staying at the Splendido, A Belmond Hotel, at about \u00a32,000 a night (Daily Mail<\/a>).<\/p>\n

That first set had its own bikini moment: a sun-lounger selfie in the mismatched With J\u00e9an \u201cJuni\u201d string bikini, red-and-white stripes on one cup and green-and-blue on the other (theFashionSpot<\/a>, SI Swimsuit<\/a>). Reality Tea called it a \u201cteeny tiny stringy bikini\u201d (Reality Tea<\/a>). The next day the paparazzi caught her around the resort in a white vest and denim shorts with a striped Chanel tote (Daily Mail<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Dua Lipa bikini selfie on a sun lounger, Portofino girls’ trip for Ella Jenkins (August 2026)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dua Lipa at lunch by the sea on her Portofino girls’ trip (August 2026)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dua Lipa with her girlfriends at the table in Portofino, ahead of Ella Jenkins’ wedding (August 2026)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dua Lipa in a white satin dress on a night out with the bride-to-be in Portofino (August 2026)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Nico Grey \u00b7 Photo: Mirko Tabasevic \/ NicoGrey.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Her hottest moments on video<\/h2>\n

The photos are the summer. The videos are the career. Three of the clips from her hub:<\/p>\n

Dua Lipa in the Houdini video (2023): the fishnet top. Open the clip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Houdini, 2023. Red hair, wet look and a black fishnet top over a nude bra, dancing alone in an empty rehearsal hall. Ten seconds, almost all close-ups, and the clearest proof that the Radical Optimism era turned Dua into a full-on sex symbol.<\/p>\n

Dua Lipa in the Houdini video (2023): the fishnet top (0:11) \u00b7 more on her hub<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dua Lipa in Blow Your Mind (Mwah) (2016): the sheer knit top. Open the clip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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