The actress finalized her second divorce from Musk in 2016 and tied the knot with Thomas Brodie-Sangster in June 2024
Talulah Riley is opening up about her love life, past and present.
In a new interview with the U.K. newspaper The Times published Thursday, August 15, the 38-year-old actress was asked which of her three weddings was best.
She tied the knot with Elon Musk twice and is currently married to Thomas Brodie-Sangster, but she chose not to compare them..
“Um, I don’t know how fair it is to rank weddings. All my weddings have been very lovely,” Riley told The Times, adding that they were all “different, but equally lovable.”
The Pride and Prejudice actress — who married Brodie-Sangster, 34, earlier this summer — is still good friends with Musk, 53, who was also at the June 22 nuptials in England.
And, despite their two divorces — they first married in 2010 and divorced in 2012, then married again the following year before finalizing their second divroce in 2016 — Riley only had complimentary things to say about the tech mogul, the interviewer noted.
“Well, you know more than anyone how what we read in the mainstream media is not necessarily an absolute truth,” Riley told The Times, before using a wrestling analogy to explain that Musk as a public figure is very different from the man she knows.
“It’s ‘kayfabe’ — everyone’s telling a story to a certain extent and will frame things to a certain extent,” she said. “I loved/love the guy, so I’m incredibly subjective in my opinion, cannot be unbiased and shouldn’t be expected to be either. I’m sure, well… You know what being in love is, right?”
Riley and Brodie-Sangster first met in 2021 while working on FX show Pistol, and the actor shared the news of the couple’s engagement on Instagram in July 2023 writing, “Happy to announce that Talulah and I are engaged,” as well as adding a nod to the movie he starred in at 13 years old, Love Actually.
“Love is all around X,” he continued, including a line said by the British prime minister in the movie, played by Hugh Grant. The post included a sweet snap of the couple on a boat together.
His then-fiancée also posted the news on social media at the time, sharing a post on X (formerly Twitter) that said, “Very happy to share that after two years of dating, Thomas Brodie Sangster and I are engaged!”
In The Times interview, Riley recalled her recent nuptials with Brodie-Sangster. The pair lives together in Hertfordshire — where they tied the knot in the village of Anstey — in a smallholding full of animals.
From sheep and ponies to ducks and chickens, the couple has lots of company, as well as a beehive that they recently added — which came close to ruining their wedding day.
The day before the ceremony, Riley recalled, “The caterer came to me somewhat flustered and said, ‘There’s a huge swarm of bees right where we want to have the champagne reception. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. Please come quickly.’ ”
“So I went to the back garden and there was a huge black cloud,” she told The Times. “Biblical plague proportions.”
With some help from her beekeeper’s mentor, Riley said, the cloud of bees was wrangled back into the hive — and the actress now views the moment as a good omen of sorts.
“Historically in a family, people go and speak to the bees and tell them about births, marriages and deaths. Apparently when Queen Elizabeth II died they went to tell the royal bees,” she told the outlet. “And so the night before the wedding, we went to the bees to say, ‘Welcome. We’re getting married tomorrow, just for your information.’ ”
“Anyway, they’re still with us,” she added.
But she will not be beekeeping much in the coming months, as she has plans to accompany her actor husband on his next shoot in Australia, she told The Times, adding, “I think his career is the notable and exciting one.”
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Source: The Wall Street Journal
