News : Lana Del Rey responds to rumours about relationship with alligator tour guide

Lana Del Rey has responded to rumours about a relationship between her and an alligator tour guide.

Last week, rumours began circulating after the singer was seen holding hands with a man named Jeremy Dufrene at Reading Festival 2024. Per People, Dufrene is an airboat captain who also serves as a tour guide through swamps and marshes in Louisiana.

Fans looked into Del Rey’s past Instagram posts for any hints of Dufrene, eventually emerging with a post from May where the singer called Dufrene “my guy”.

Instagram account @TheJustNLife shared the news about the rumours yesterday (August 31), to which Del Rey responded in the comments with an emphatic “No.” She also speaks on a Twitter user who published a now-deleted tweet thread claiming to be Dufrene’s daughter: “Also, that’s not his daughter on Twitter”.

It’s unclear if Del Rey is denying that she is dating Dufrene, but her response has likely put a halt to the rumour spreading for the time being.

At Reading Day 2 (August 24), the singer was the penultimate headliner on the main stage and saw her show “accidentally” cut short, for which the festival organisers later “apologised unreservedly”.

She had taken to the stage 15 minutes late, and accordingly her end time was extended, but the festival cut off her sound and visuals sooner than intended.

Her set the following night at Leeds, however, went off without a hitch, and it is now clear what songs Lana was unable to play at Reading. As she returned for her encore at Leeds’ Bramham Park site, she played ‘A&W’ and ‘Young And Beautiful’, two songs that did not make an appearance at Reading.

Earlier this year, Del Rey announced her tenth studio album ‘Lasso’, which will see her venture into country, and is being made alongside both regular collaborator, producer and Bleachers frontman Jack Antonoff and country music maker Luke Laird.

“If you can’t already tell by our award winners and our performers, the music business is going country,” she said of the album. “We’re going country. It’s happening. That’s why Jack has followed me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi, over the last four years.”

In a red carpet interview with NME last May, Lana suggested that the album’s lyrics might be lighter than her more recent output.

“I’ve maybe less to say in terms of any self-revealing things like on ‘Tunnel’ or ‘Blue Bannisters’ or ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’, and just more melodic. Maybe more American Songbook style?”