Just a few months ago, Emma Watson appeared to be very much a single woman. Falling in love, she said, ‘might be quite easy to do in some ways’. ‘The hard part,’ she went on, ‘is finding someone who actually wants to be in a dance with you.’ Judging by her very cosy appearance in a Mexican airport last week, it would seem the 35-year-old Harry Potter star’s dance card is currently full.
Watson, who has taken a step away from Hollywood in recent years, is known for keeping her romantic entanglements strictly out of the limelight. But there was no disguising the frisson between the star – currently studying for a doctorate at Oxford University – and her handsome partner as they embraced in a bustling Mexican airport. Bare-legged and in flip-flops, she shared a tender kiss with her beau.
The duo were also photographed in a restaurant and have reportedly been spotted at Mexico’s exclusive beach resort of Punta Mita, as well as on the slopes of Courchevel, in the French Alps. So just who is the man who has swept Watson – whose last major film appearance was in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, released in December 2019 – off her feet?
Mexican tech entrepreneur Gonzalo Hevia Bailleres is heir to a multi-billion-pound business that has cemented his family as one of the wealthiest in Latin America. Not that his family status is likely to make much difference to Watson, who has had a string of eligible boyfriends, although admittedly none with quite such a wealthy pedigree as Hevia Bailleres. Watson’s most recent long-term partnership was with Brandon Green, son of disgraced retail tycoon Sir Philip Green, but that ended after around 18 months in 2023.
Last year she was dating academic Kieran Brown, who she met while studying for her part-time master’s degree – since extended to become a DPhil – at New College, whose 14th-century buildings she might recall as a film location for Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix.
Then, in October, shortly after making those remarks about love, Watson was spotted sightseeing in Italy with another man – tech tycoon Austin Kevitch, who has previously dated singer Camila Cabello and who is co-founder of the dating app Lox Club.
Whether that was a romantic entanglement or just a trip to share dating tips is unclear but, judging by the events of last week, Watson’s attentions are now firmly focused elsewhere.
