Emma Watson has never been too fond of having the spotlight on her love life. In fact, she prefers to keep much of her personal life private, unless she ever feels the need to address rumors head-on.
In May 2021, the Harry Potter star shut down speculation that she was engaged to her current boyfriend Leo Robinton in a tweet that reads, “Dear Fans, rumours about whether I’m engaged or not, or whether my career is ‘dormant or not’ are ways to create clicks each time they are revealed to be true or untrue.” In another, she added, “If I have news – I promise I’ll share it with you.”
Watson’s first public relationship was with rugby player Tom Ducker in 2006. The pair dated for a year before they called it quits, with her rep confirming in a statement to The Sun, per The Irish Examiner, that the former pair “just drifted apart as teenagers do.”
Since then, Watson has tried her best to not discuss her relationships in interviews, though she previously told Glamour it’s tough to avoid dating speculation as a celebrity. “[Being famous is] difficult on my dating life, because anyone I get photographed with is automatically my boyfriend,” she told the outlet in September 2012. “So, it just makes it look as if I’ve had, like, 6,000 boyfriends.”
In a February 2017 interview with Vanity Fair, Watson further explained why she’s so adamant about not discussing past or current boyfriends. “I want to be consistent: I can’t talk about my boyfriend in an interview and then expect people not to take paparazzi pictures of me walking around outside my home. You can’t have it both ways,” she said. “I’ve noticed, in Hollywood, who you’re dating gets tied up into your film promotion and becomes part of the performance and the circus. I would hate anyone that I were with to feel like they were in any way part of a show or an act.”
Over the years, Watson has been connected to fellow actors, Oxford University students, and even a tech CEO. She even faced dating rumors with her Harry Potter costar Tom Felton, though their relationship is strictly platonic. So who is she dating now? Read ahead to get a full breakdown of her dating history and current relationship status.
– Additional reporting by Njera Perkins
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Angus Willoughby
According to The Telegraph, Watson dated the Australian drama student in 2007 after meeting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. It’s unclear when their romance fizzled out.
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Francis Boulle
Watson was briefly linked to the “Made in Chelsea” star and diamond heir in 2008 after they were spotted flirting at a Cartier polo party that summer. In an interview with Heat Magazine in 2011, per The Sun, Boulle opened up about their fling and said, “We had a bit of a thing a while back.”
Boulle also explained why he decided to break things off with the actor. “I have always been an ambitious person, and I want to achieve my own notoriety for what I’ve done. That’s why I chose not to pursue it any longer, because I didn’t want to be the boyfriend of some child actress,” he said. “I actually really like Emma. She’s a really cool person. She’s a very different person to who she is in the media. That’s what I liked about her – she’s very interesting.”
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Jay Barrymore
Watson carried on a romance with the British financier from 2008 to 2009. While Barrymore is seven years older than the actor, their age difference wasn’t the reason for their breakup; it was the long distance, the Daily Mail reported. Watson had been studying at Brown University in Rhode Island at the time, and according to a source, “The transatlantic gap proved too much for their relationship to survive.”
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Rafael Cebrián
Rumors of a romance between Watson and the Spanish musician and fellow Brown University student first began swirling in November 2009 after they were spotted getting cozy at a hockey game in New York City. The two reportedly dated for six months, per Us Weekly, before eventually going their separate ways.
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George Craig
Watson met the male model while shooting an ad campaign for Burberry in 2010. The two attended the Glastonbury Festival in England that June, and the actor even starred in Craig’s band’s music video for a song called “Say You Don’t Want It.” They eventually broke up after a few months, and Craig moved on with singer Diana Vickers the Daily Mail reported.
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Johnny Simmons
After meeting on the set of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” Watson and Simmons struck up a romance in the summer of 2011, though Us Weekly reported that they ultimately called it quits in November of that year. According to Zimbio, the split reportedly occurred because Simmons would not move to England, where Watson studied at Oxford University.
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Will Adamowicz
Watson and Adamowicz met while studying at Oxford University in 2011. While it’s unclear when they began dating, we first saw their romance when they were caught making out at Coachella in April 2012, People reported. Two years later, the actor’s rep confirmed their split to E! News, saying that “Emma and Will separated last summer and are no longer in touch.”
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William "Mack" Knight
Watson quietly dated the Silicon Valley manager for nearly two years, starting in 2015. She was extremely protective of their relationship and refused to talk about him in interviews – most notably in Watson’s 2017 Vanity Fair cover story, where the outlet noted she “refuses to expound on him.” “I can’t talk about my boyfriend in an interview,” she told Vanity Fair. “I’ve noticed, in Hollywood, who you’re dating gets tied up into your film promotion and becomes part of the performance and the circus. I would hate anyone that I were with to feel like they were in any way part of a show or an act.”
In November 2017, Us Weekly confirmed the former couple’s split per sources that said they went their separate ways earlier that year and were last seen together on May 25. Watson’s rep declined to “comment on [her] personal life.”
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Chord Overstreet
Watson dated the former “Glee” star for four months in 2018. The two were first linked at the top of that year when they were photographed on a date, before seemingly confirming their romance in March after they were spotted on a sweet stroll in Los Angeles. Us Weekly later confirmed their split, per a source, in May 2018, in which the insider said Watson and Overstreet “are done” and noted their relationship “was never that serious.”
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Leo Robinton
Although Watson said she was “self-partnered” in the December 2019 issue of British Vogue, the interview was conducted earlier that summer. Watson and Robinton were first seen kissing in London in October 2019, per photos published by the Daily Mail. Since then, they’ve kept a low profile, with the Los Angeles businessman deleting all of his social media accounts after pics of the pair first surfaced, per People. However, the outlet reported that they stepped out together for a rare outing in London in November 2020, and again in Los Angeles in May 2021.
