Zach Braff was spotted flirting with a mystery woman after dinner at Sushi Park in West Hollywood, two years after his split from actress Florence Pugh.
On Tuesday night, the 49-year-old actor looked happily in love as he embraced a beautiful brunette, who looked at least a decade or two younger than him.
As they left the celebrity spot, Braff hugged his new love interest and planted a sweet kiss on her neck.
The PDA made his date smile as she walked a few steps in front of him after dining at the popular sushi spot, hidden on the second floor of a nondescript strip mall.
For her night out, she rocked a sleek black long sleeve and a pair of light wash ripped jeans.
Zach Braff was spotted flirting with a mystery woman after dinner at Sushi Park in West Hollywood, two years after his split from actress Florence Pugh.
Braff’s new wife sported a sleek brunette bob, which floated just above her shoulders, and minimal makeup.
Meanwhile, Braff cut a casual figure in a light gray jacket, plain T-shirt and striped pants.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Braff’s representatives for a comment on the current status of their relationship.
Since his breakup with Pugh after three years of dating, the performer has kept his love life out of the spotlight.
In December 2023, he spoke highly of his ex while appearing on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show.
During the interview, he said that he and Pugh still “love each other” even though they are just “friends” now.
She also confessed that they are still in regular contact and that she had even chatted with him earlier that morning.
“I was on the Today Show this morning and she said she wanted to see pictures of my outfit to give her approval, so we really love each other,” Braff continued.
She also made it clear that there was no bad blood between the two when she gushed about the Oscar nominee’s prodigious talents.
On Tuesday night, the 49-year-old actor looked happily in love as he embraced a beautiful brunette, who looked at least a decade or two younger than him.
Braff and Pugh (pictured above together last year) dated for three years between 2019 and 2022.
As they left the celebrity spot, Braff hugged his new love interest and planted a sweet kiss on her neck.
The PDA made his date smile as she walked a few steps in front of him after dinner at the sushi restaurant, hidden on the second floor of a nondescript shopping center.
“Listen, I think it’s pretty clear around the world that I’m not biased when I say she’s one of the best actresses working today,” he enthused.
“I think anyone who gives A Good Person a chance will see that she is simply extraordinary, and I feel very lucky to have her as my leading lady.”
Before their relationship ran its course, Florence had signed on to play the lead role in A Good Person, which Zach directed but did not star in.
The drama stars Pugh as Allison, an aspiring musician who recently got engaged.
But her future is destroyed after she crashes her car after a party, killing her future brother-in-law and sister-in-law.
A year later, as Allison is on the brink of a painkiller addiction and dealing with severe depression, she attends an AA meeting where she unexpectedly meets her ex-fiancé’s father, Daniel (Morgan Freeman).
Through him, she meets the orphaned daughter of the couple she killed, but her attempts to make amends are threatened by the girl’s fury toward her and Daniel’s own struggle with addiction.
For a night out, she rocked a sleek black long sleeve and a pair of light wash ripped pants.
Since his breakup with Pugh in the summer of 2022, the performer has kept his love life out of the spotlight.
Zach and Florence were first introduced while on the set of a short film he was making, but it wasn’t until April 2019 that they were linked when they were seen holding hands.
However, the couple remained silent and did not confirm the relationship until December of that year.
A Good Person was filmed in 2021, when the couple was still together, and they were apparently together until at least April 2022, when she wished him a happy 47th birthday.
During their relationship, the couple, and particularly Florence, experienced a torrent of abuse on social media due to their 21-year age difference, although the Little Drummer Girl actress defended her right to choose to be with Zach.
“I have the right to hang out, be and go out with whoever I want,” he said during a 2020 interview with Elle United Kingdom. “I’ve always found this part of what people do really strange.
Pugh continued: “I know part of being in the spotlight is that people can invade your privacy and have opinions about it, but it’s strange that normal people are allowed to show such hatred and opinions about a part of my life. I’m not going out there.
Zach and Florence were first introduced while on the set of a short film he was making, but it wasn’t until April 2019 that they were linked when they were seen holding hands; seen in 2023
In September, Pugh, who is now dating Peaky Blinders star Finn Cole, explained that she “had to go public with her relationship in the past” due to relentless harassment over their age difference.
“My and Zach’s relationship was actually quite private until it became ugly, and I could see the toll it was taking on him, us, and our families. And that’s when I spoke up,” she told Vogue.
‘I think I want to protect anyone I’m with. It’s not nice to know that people are saying the worst things I’ve ever read about someone I love.
‘So that was necessary. I needed to talk about it. “I think any relationship in this spotlight is going to be stressed.”
Florence confirmed in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar in August 2022 that the couple had gone their separate ways.
Florence confirmed in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar in August 2022 that the couple had gone their separate ways; seen in July 2024
She told the magazine at the time: “We’ve been trying to do this split without the world knowing, because it’s been a relationship that everyone has an opinion on.”
“We just felt like something like this would really benefit us by not having millions of people telling us how happy they are that we’re not together. So we’ve done it.”