Hottest driver in town! Robert Pattinson took the driver’s seat as he whisked his new girlfriend FKA Twigs around Hollywood on Monday, Sept. 22.
The new couple smiled happily as Pattinson — who interestingly enough plays a limo driver in David Cronenberg’s upcoming movie, Maps to the Stars — drove her around town. At one point, FKA Twigs, 26, whose real name is Tahliah Debrett Barnett, rested her head upon the Twilight heartthrob’s shoulder with a grin. Click here to see more pics.
Us Weekly exclusively revealed earlier this month that Pattinson, 28, and Barnett have been dating since August. “Tahliah thinks he’s unbelievably handsome,” a source told Us of the London-based musician.
An insider close to Pattinson, meanwhile, told Us: “It’s early [on] but they’re having fun.”
Barnett’s tour of L.A. comes one day after she and Pattinson visited Venice Beach, where they were snapped holding hands. While the “Water Me” singer has made no indication of her relationship with Pattinson, she’s actively been recruiting dancers via Twitter.
URGENT calling male or female ADVANCED vogue dancers (pref fem or new way) must be in or close to LA 24-25th of sept.
— FKA twigs (@FKAtwigs) September 20, 2014
Next… URGENTLY looking for girls who look like me who are ADVANCED gymnasts, RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS, RIBBONS ESPECIALLY…
— FKA twigs (@FKAtwigs) September 20, 2014
Pattinson addressed his talked-about love life and ex-girlfriend Kristen Stewart in the September 2014 issue of Esquire UK. “S— happens, you know?” Pattinson said of Stewart’s 2012 cheating scandal. “It’s just young people… it’s normal! And honestly, who gives a s—?”
Like Pattinson, FKA Twigs has described herself as a loner. “I was always by myself,” she told Fader magazine this past April of her childhood. The buzzed-about singer, whose new album LP1 is garnering rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic, revealed that she was bullied as a child for her biracial background (her mom is Spanish and father is Jamaican). Her lack of popularity led her to immerse herself in music and dance.
As for her love life prior to Pattinson? “I think I’ve had very interesting relationships with men, both romantic and not romantic,” she told Fader. “I’m always quite curious about male energy, even within females as well. Like how I react to a male energy within a female. I always find that quite interesting to think about.”