The British actor, 31, played Shakira’s love interest in her video for Punteria
Friends are fearful he is dating her to increase his fame as she is high profile

Shakira has been ‘desperate to fall in love’ ever since her split from footballer Gerard Piqué – but friends are worried about her decision to get close to British actor Lucien Laviscount because of his dating history, MailOnline can reveal today.

The 47-year-old Colombian singer fell for the British actor, 31, when they met on the set of the video for her song Punteria and were spotted out for dinner in New York a week ago.

Lucien has been romantically linked to Jesy Nelson, Kelly Osbourne, Brooke Vincent, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Chelsee Healey over the years. His first high profile relationship was with Kerry Katona in 2011, when he was 19 and she was 31, after they met on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK.

Insiders have confirmed they are together, but are not ‘heavily involved,’ much to the relief of 47-year-old Shakira’s friends, who reportedly fear he will break her heart and is only in it for the fame of dating one of the world’s most famous women.

Lucien, who is most famous for his part in Emily in Paris after a string of roles in UK soaps, is a ‘rebound’ for Shakira who is not over of her acrimonious split with Gerard, with whom she has two children, her friends insist.

‘Shakira is desperate to fall in love – but her friends are concerned because Lucien has slowly crept his way up the celebrity ladder while dating women who were all less famous than Shakira,’ a source told DailyMail.com exclusively.

‘The women he has been with are all very different. Now he is seeing Shakira – and she wants love. But her friends fear he just wants people to know his name and she provides that. They are seeing each other but are not heavily involved yet.’

They claimed that she is ‘not over her ex’ Gerard Piqué and that everyone around her ‘knows that Lucien is a rebound.’ ‘She is dating someone who they fear is a player and she is going to get burned,’ the friend said.

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Shakira and Lucien Laviscount struck up a romance after meeting on the set of her music video for Punteria in February  (pictured)

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But friends fear the Emily in Paris actor is only in it for fame

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The pair are casually dating (pictured in New York on March 26), sources tell DailyMail.com, but they are not ‘heavily involved’. Lucien was also at her gig in New York (right)

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Lucien previously dated British singer Kerry Katona after they met on Celebrity Big Brother in 2011 (pictured)

Lucien was seen holding hands with Kelly Osbourne in 2019 (pictured)

Shakira, who shares sons Milan, 11, and Sasha, nine, with Gerard, met the British-born star on the set of her video, in which he plays her love interest, back in February.

The Hips Don’t Lie singer is seen wrapped in his arms, while another scene shows a topless Lucien sprawled across her lap with nothing but a loin cloth covering his modesty as she dabs blood from his chest after shooting him with an arrow.

Days after the video dropped, the pair were pictured enjoying dinner at Italian restaurant Carbone in New York City.

Shakira was dressed in a black corset and a leather jacket while Lucien complemented her in all black.

Prior to the Columbian beauty, Lucien was linked to former Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katona.

Lucien met Kerry in 2011 when he was 19 and she was 31 on Celebrity Big Brother. They were filmed kissing and cuddling on the show and were linked after leaving the house.

Kerry recently addressed reports she dated Lucien, telling OK! magazine: ‘Lucien was very charming when I met him in the Celebrity Big Brother house and we had a good time, but he was never officially my boyfriend…’

He was also linked to Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson in November 2021 when they were pictured kissing in the back of a rickshaw in London.

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Shakira, who shares sons Milan, 11, and Sasha, nine, with Gerard , met the British-born star on the set of her video, in which he plays her love interest, back in February.

The pair got intimate on the set of Shakira’s video in which Lucien played her love interest, with scenes showing him topless after she shot him with an arrow

Shakira, who struck a last-minute deal with Spanish prosecutors to avoid jail for tax fraud last year, was with her ex Gerard for 11 years until their split in the summer of 2022 following rumors he was unfaithful.

He has since begun a relationship with 26-year-old Clara Chia Marti.

Shakira recently discussed ‘rebuilding’ her life following her split from the Spanish footballer, and revealed she channeled her pain into her 12th studio album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran.

‘There were so many pieces of my life that crumbled in front of my eyes and I had to rebuild myself in a way, picking up the bones from the floor and putting them all together,’ she told the Times. ‘And the glue that kept it all together was music.’

‘For a long time I put my career on hold, to be next to Gerard, so he could play football. There was a lot of sacrifice for love.’

 Shakira’s romance comes as she stoked controversy on revealing her sons Sasha and Milan (pictured) ‘hated’ the ’emasculating’ Barbie movie

The singer came under fire yesterday after she revealed her sons ‘hated’ the Barbie movie as it was ’emasculating.’

‘They felt that it was emasculating,’ she told Allure. ‘And I agree, to a certain extent. I’m raising two boys. I want ’em to feel powerful too [while] respecting women.

‘I like pop culture when it attempts to empower women without robbing men of their possibility to be men, to also protect and provide.

‘I believe in giving women all the tools and the trust that we can do it all without losing our essence, without losing our femininity.’

Produced by and starring Margot Robbie, Barbie grossed $1.4 billion worldwide and saw Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell take home Best Song at this year’s Academy Awards for their hit song What Was I Made For.