Emma Watson enjoyed a cosy picnic and painting date with a new male love interest in an Oxford park on Tuesday.
The Harry Potter star, 35, was seen sitting on the bank of a lake, with onlookers saying it looked like the pair were enjoying a 'cute date'.
Emma, who is studying for a part-time Master's degree at Oxford, opted for a stylish green and white printed dress as she relaxed with her new companion.
Last year, Emma was spotted enjoying a romantic date with fellow Oxford student Kieran Brown, with the pair pictured at a pastry shop close to the University, over a year after she split from boyfriend Brandon Green.
A passerby who saw Emma with her new date, said the actress was painting with the male companion at Port Meadow country park.
Judie Kitchen, 18, spotted the pair as he walked by and said they were laughing and joking between painting each other and eating, seemingly unrecognised by the nearby wild swimmers.
Emma Watson enjoyed a cosy picnic and painting date with a new male love interest in an Oxford park on Tuesday
The Harry Potter star was seen sitting on the bank of a lake, with onlookers saying it looked like the pair were enjoying a 'cute date'
Last year, Emma was spotted enjoying a romantic date at a pastry shop with fellow Oxford student Kieran Brown (pictured)
Student Judie, from Headington, Oxford, said: 'I saw them for like 40 minutes. They were having a general chat and making each other laugh, which was cute.
'We arrived just after 3.30pm and one of my friends went for a dip in the lake. Once he got out there, they were there.
'My friend is a massive Harry Potter fan, so when he saw her, it was really funny to see his reaction.
'They were painting each other and eating together. It was just a really cute date.
'It looked successful as they were laughing a lot, which was nice to see.'
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In July 2024, Emma was pictured locking eyes with fellow student Kieran while at a bakery in Oxford.
Emma, who is doing a part-time Master's degree at Oxford, split from her ex boyfriend Brandon Green, son of controversial business tycoon Sir Philip, in 2023.
Emma, who is studying for a part-time Master's degree at Oxford, opted for a stylish green and white printed dress as she relaxed with her new companion
A passerby who saw Emma with her new date, said the actress was painting with the male companion at Port Meadow country park
An onlooker in the pastry shop said the pair had a 'nice vibe' together and that customers didn't appear to recognise her in the shop.
They said: 'They were chatting together in the queue, they seemed to have quite a nice vibe.
'I couldn't hear what they were saying, apart from when she ordered - she got an espresso, a cake and a juice, or something similar.
'She didn't seem to try to be hiding herself, she was just queuing with him normally.
'Nobody really reacted to her, but I could see people in the shop recognised her.'
Just days earlier, Emma and the man were seen leaning in for a kiss out in the street as she went away for a few days.
A source told The Sun: 'She looked incredibly happy - like she didn't have a care in the world.
'Her suitcases were put in the back of a blue Range Rover by her security and she was saying goodbye.
'They were incredibly close - they didn't seem to care who was looking.
'They only had eyes for one another.
'Emma loves Oxford and is here regularly because of her family - but it appears she now has another reason to love the city.'
Emma is currently splitting her time between the US and Oxford after signing up for her part-time Masters degree.
She only attends a handful of lectures on site - with security in tow - and completes the rest online.
Judging by the adoring look she's giving him while leaning on the pastry case, she's decided he's the dish of the day.
It comes after Emma split from ex Brandon last year, some time after Christmas - following a 'serious' romance which lasted around 18 months.
Both of them met each other's parents and there were holidays including a romantic break in Venice.
Brandon had a reputation as a party-lover and previously dated a number of models. He was once caught patting Kate Moss' bottom on holiday in St Barths.
It was rumoured that the catalyst for their split was that Emma had some kind of an epiphany connected to her 'Saturn return' and decided that she wanted out of the relationship.
In an Instagram post on April 15th to mark her birthday she wrote: 'This is 33. Holy moly. Before 29 I hadn't even heard of a Saturn Return as a concept. Let's just say that now I am well acquainted.'
Emma, who is doing a part-time Master's degree at Oxford , split from her ex boyfriend Brandon Green, son of controversial business tycoon Sir Philip, in 2023
Earlier this week, Emma and the man were seen leaning in for a kiss out in the street as she went away for a few days (pictured in February 2024)
She went on to write about how she had re-evaluated her life and what she did with it, had learned to surf 'badly', ridden horses, done 'a lot of therapy' and 'said goodbye to my Grandma and Grandpa'.
She added: 'I cut my thumb nail off on both hands trying to cook for myself and then was only able to do things one-handed for months.
'I felt really sad and really p*ssed off about a lot of things. I learnt more about love and being a woman... It took me three years but I have finally figured out a daily practice and can actually keep it for more than a few days in a row.'
On the topic of 'love and being a woman' she didn't confide about the break-up with Brandon, which she kept private, but the news has now leaked out.
Watson famously remarked during a period when she was single that she was 'self-partnered' but by more conventional standards she has been a serial monogamist – and serially unlucky in love.
An early boyfriend was rugby player Tom Ducker. He was followed by a more serious romance with fellow Oxford University students Will Adamowicz and Matt Janney.
She has dated three young tech millionaires, most significantly the entrepreneur William 'Mack' Knight. They split in late 2017 after a two year romance. On the rebound she had a six month love affair with handsome Glee actor Chord Overstreet. They broke up during the summer of 2018.
She was then spotted sharing cocktails with tech CEO Brendan Wallace, the is co-founder of a venture capital fund who she may – or may not – be dating again now.
By the summer of 2019, she had moved on to another tech millionaire, Brendan Iribe, CEO of Oculus. He was followed by businessman Leo Robinton, with whom she spent two years.
In an interview she said: 'The boyfriends or partners I've had have generally made me feel really cherished. They've built me up.'
Many may consider Watson very fortunate – thanks to being cast as a child in the Potter films she has more money than she could need and a thriving acting career. But actually she has quite mixed feelings about the fame it brought her and has more than once stepped away from acting.
She was cast in the Harry Potter films at nine years old, having been found via the theatre club she attended. She only completed filming the last Potter when she was 20 years old, in June 2010.
Sources who remember her from the Potter days say that her lawyer father Chris's influence was paramount, even though she lived with her mother in Oxfordshire.
The experience of growing up on Potter was so constricting and so stressful that she was was in two minds about carrying on acting. She felt physically sick when she discovered how much money she had earned from the Potter films. She also seriously considered not renewing her contract to complete the films.
When the cast and crew held a wrap party at Harry's Bar after shooting the final set of reshoots around Christmas 2010, she didn't come.
She said in 2017: 'It's something I've really wrestled with. I've gone back and I've quizzed my parents. When I was younger, I just did it. I just acted, it was just there.
'I was finding this fame thing was getting to a point of no return. I sensed if this was something I was ever going to step away from it was now or never.'
Post-Potter, films have been generally low key, like The Circle, The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Bling Ring. It's said that she turned down the La La Land role which brought Emma Stone an Oscar.
Her last film was Little Women, released in 2019 and as her recently founded film companies show, her ambitions now lie on the other side of the camera. As she recently said: 'I've often thought, I'm so wrong for this job because I'm too serious.'
You can see how Brandon Green, who was raised in Monte Carlo and enjoyed a carefree life of private jets, penthouses and bikini models, perhaps just wasn't quite deep enough for this introspective star.
But then, when one person who has everything meets another person who also has everything, maybe they just have nothing to offer each other.
