Chris Hemsworth’s wife, Elsa Pataky, almost had an awkward encounter with her ex-lover, Adrien Brody, at the 2024 Met Gala in New York City on Monday night.
Chris, 40, and Elsa, 47, were almost halfway down the carpet conducting interviews when the American actor, 51, made his grand arrival at the gala.
The exes, whose split was mentioned in the tabloids more than a decade ago, stood just feet apart as they posed for photos and chatted with reporters.
Hollywood heartthrob Chris was dressed to impress in a sleek cream suit that showed off his athletic build, while Elsa shined alongside him in a gold dress and regal floral headpiece.
Meanwhile, Brody wore a sleek black tuxedo with a silver winged brooch as he posed alongside girlfriend Georgina Chapman.
Chris Hemsworth, 40, (left) and his wife Elsa Pataky, 47, (right), almost had an awkward encounter with her ex-lover, Adrien Brody, at the 2024 Met Gala in New York City on Monday night. evening.
Before Elsa became Mrs. Hemsworth, she was involved in a highly publicized romance with the Academy Award winner from 2006 to 2009.
The couple’s love story was sealed when Brody went all out: he bought a huge castle in New York for Elsa and renovated it as a grand gesture of his affection.
He revealed his romantic gesture to Elsa on her 31st birthday, a moment straight out of a fairy tale.
The couple were almost halfway down the carpet conducting interviews when the American actor, 51 (pictured), made his grand arrival at the gala.
The exes stood just a few feet away as they posed for photos and chatted with reporters.
Brody wore a sleek black tuxedo with a silver winged brooch as he posed alongside girlfriend Georgina Chapman (right).
‘I blindfolded him. Right next to the castle is a giant, beautiful church bell. And I said, ‘When you hear the bell ring, you can open your eyes and you will see your surprise.’ And then I rang the doorbell,’ he said HELLO! magazine of the time.
“When I saw the castle I asked Adrien: ‘Is it ours?’ added the Spanish actress. ‘He said: ‘Yes, welcome home.'”
The magazine published a 35-page spread of their new home, complete with a campy photo shoot of the couple posing on a forklift outside the property.
Before Elsa became Mrs. Hemsworth, she was involved in a romance with the Academy Award winner from 2006 to 2009. Photographed on November 24, 2008, in Los Angeles.
Their relationship seemed pretty solid from the beginning; So solid, in fact, that in October 2008 Adrien surprised Elsa by buying and renovating a stone castle in New York for the two of them to live in. In the photo: the castle before renovations.
The former couple was even rumored to have gotten engaged in 2008, but sadly their love story wasn’t meant to be. Photographed on September 3, 2007 in Venice.
The former couple was even rumored to have gotten engaged in 2008, but their love story wasn’t meant to be.
They ended their romance in 2009, but neither party made any official announcement.
Just a year after her romance with Adrien ended, Elsa met Chris through his representatives. They married in December 2010.
The genetically blessed couple, who live in a $30 million mega-mansion in Byron Bay, have three children: daughter India Rose, eight, and twins Sasha and Tristan, six.
Adrien ended up maintaining and renovating the castle himself, and made a documentary about it called Stone Barn Castle in 2015.
