Met Gala 2024: The awkward moment Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky almost cross paths with her ex Adrien Brody – who famously bought the Spanish actress a castle
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 doing interviews when the American actor, 51, made his grand arrival at the gala.
The exes, whose split was splashed in the tabloids more than a decade ago, were 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 accentuated his athletic build, while Elsa dazzled next to him in a gold dress and royal floral headpiece.
Brody, meanwhile, wore a sharp 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
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 famously sealed when Brody went all out, buying Elsa a huge castle in New York and renovating 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 fairytale.
The couple were almost halfway down the carpet doing interviews when the American actor, 51, (pictured) made his grand arrival at the gala
The exes were just feet apart as they posed for photos and chatted with reporters
Brody wore a sharp black tuxedo with a silver winged brooch as he posed next to girlfriend Georgina Chapman (right)
‘I blindfolded her. Directly at the castle is a gigantic, beautiful church bell. And I said, ‘When you hear the sound of the bell, you can open your eyes and you will see your surprise.’ And then I rang the bell,” he told HELLO! magazine at the time.
“When I saw the castle, I asked Adrien: ‘Is this ours?’” the Spanish actress added. ‘He said, ‘Yes, welcome home.’
The magazine published a 35-page spread of their brand new home, complete with a low-budget photoshoot of the couple posing in a forklift outside the property.
Before Elsa became Mrs. Hemsworth, she dated the Academy Award winner from 2006 to 2009. Pictured on November 24, 2008, in LA
Their relationship seemed pretty solid from the start — so solid, in fact, that in October 2008, Adrien surprised Elsa by buying and renovating a stone castle in New York for the couple to live in. In the photo: the castle before the renovation.
There were even rumors that the former couple would get engaged in 2008, but unfortunately, their love story wasn’t meant to be. Pictured on September 3, 2007 in Venice
There were even rumors that the former couple would get engaged in 2008, but their love story was not to be.
They mentioned their romance in 2009, but no official announcement was made by either party.
Just a year after her romance with Adrien ended, Elsa met Chris through their 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 twin sons Sasha and Tristan, six.
Adrien eventually kept and renovated the castle himself and made a documentary about it in 2015 called Stone Barn Castle.