Ewan’s new squeeze... star couple at Tattoo
Hand in hand, Fargo lovebirds enjoy a date at castle spectacle
SINCE his daughter scathingly branded his girlfriend a ‘piece of trash’, Ewan McGregor and his Fargo co-star Mary Elizabeth Winstead have been keeping a low profile.
So the Scots actor must have thought hard before choosing the annual Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo as the place at which to parade his new love in his homeland for the first time.
Trainspotting star McGregor, 47, appeared relaxed as he held hands with 33-year-old Miss Winstead at the military spectacular at Edinburgh Castle on Friday night.
The pair had been expected to appear together last week’s London premiere of his latest movie, Christopher Robin, but instead he was joined on the red carpet by his parents Carol and John, along with his actor uncle Denis Lawson.
McGregor’s 22-year marriage to French production designer Eve Mavrakis, 52, broke down in May of last year after pictures emerged of him kissing Miss Winstead in a London café.
The Scot, from Crieff, Perthshire, filed for divorce in January, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’, while his American girlfriend divorced her husband of seven years, writer and director Riley Stearns.
McGregor and Miss Mavrakis were seen in public together in May for the graduation in New York of their eldest daughter, Clara, 22 – who in July branded Miss Winstead ‘a piece of trash’ in a social media post.
Commenting on a picture posted on an Instagram fan page devoted to the actress, which described her as beautiful, model Clara wrote: ‘Most beautiful and talented woman on earth? Oh man y’all are delusional. The girl is a piece of trash x.’
But father-of-four McGregor and Miss Winstead put on a united front in Edinburgh on Friday, with a public display of affection as they sat holding hands in the VIP Royal Gallery for the Tattoo.
The Star Wars actor wore Highland dress paired with a pastelat blue shirt and bow tie, set off by a pair of navy-rimmed spectacles.
Miss Winstead looked chic in a mint-green coat and matching scarf, her hair in bouncy curls.
The smiling pair watched as McGregor’s brother Colin, 49, a former RAF pilot, opened the proceedings by reading the war poem High Flight. He then joined the couple in the audience.
The McGregor brothers also showed their appreciation for the RAF earlier this year when they co-presented the BBC One documentary RAF at 100, as part of the air force’s centenary celebrations.
Despite his daughter’s criticism of his girlfriend, McGregor told ITV’s Good Morning Britain last week that, since completing filming for Christopher Robin, he had taken nine months off work to spend more time with his children – Clara, Jamyan 17, Esther, 16, and Anouk, seven.
After chatting about the Disney movie – in which McGregor plays the title role of Winnie-thePooh’s faithful companion, who is now a grown man with a family of his own – he said: ‘I haven’t worked since making this film last November. I just took this time off. I needed to and I wanted to. I’m about to start something in September and I look back now and think, “What have I done?”
‘And I’ve done nothing really! But I’ve been really busy doing nothing!
‘That’s a bit of a Pooh-ism really, that nothing leads to the best something.
‘In actual fact it’s been brilliant having this time off.
‘I have spent a lot of time with my kids, I have spent a lot of time doing things that I like to do, like riding my old bike and tinkering with old cars.
‘I was thinking, “What am I working for?” I was just working to work – and I want to work to live.’
‘I haven’t worked since November’