Elon Musk has been revealed as an oddball first dater – here, writers reveal their own stories of offbeat romantic encounters
When Elon Musk asked actress Talulah Riley (later his wife) if she wanted to see some rockets it was not a euphemism. He took her to his hotel room to watch videos of launches.
Meanwhile, his first date with the singer Grimes was at his Tesla factory. “We just walked the floor all night and I watched him try to fix things,” Grimes (with whom he has two children) has told Musk’s biographer Walter Isaacson.
He kept her interested by playing her Lord of the Rings podcasts a few dates on. While not everyone is as nerdy as Musk, our writers reveal their tales of memorable first dates…
It was the 1990s and I was living it up as a young journalist in west London – no need for a boyfriend when I was out most nights with friends or at an industry do. But then a pal of my flatmate started to drop by for coffee or a chat. He was an almost entirely nocturnal, penniless, chain-smoking DJ, we had nothing in common – but I tolerated him.