Emma Watson Spotted Kissing New BF, Oxford Classmate Kieran Brown

Emma Watson was spotted looking smitten with her new beau and classmate as they shared a kiss during their outing.

Who else would be more fitting to find love while studying at a prestigious university than Hermione herself?

The actress was spotted kissing a fellow classmate in the U.K. on July 1 and is now going on a date with the same man. The actress has been generally more private about her love life, but it seems the two might be making more progress towards something more than a fling.

Emma Watson , 34, has been working on a part-time Master’s degree at Oxford while the young man Kieran Brown is said to be working towards a PhD in 19th-century literature and economics. A source told The Sun , “Emma is studying creative writing, and [Brown’s] thesis is all about literary theory—so they have a lot to talk about. She looks so loved up with Kieran.”

Before Brown, the Beauty and the Beast star was dating Brandon Green , son of controversial business tycoon and fashion entrepreneur Sir Philip Green , from August 2022 till May 2023. Then, in an interview with British Vogue in December, Watson shared her plans for taking a break from what she knows to try for a different pace and lifestyle at least for a little while.

“Because I’m in a career that moves very quickly, the decision to take time to do these things felt like a very big decision,” she said. “[Choosing] to go back and write and study and get behind the camera was terrifying for me because I’d never done it before. I had always been in front of the camera; I’d always been an actor.”

She continued, “I’m just so glad that I did because I have this feeling of having my own voice and creative space and sovereignty in some way that I don’t think I did before—more autonomy.”

Back in 2011, Watson announced that she was temporarily leaving Brown University to focus on her busy career.

In a message to fans, she wrote, “As you know, I love Brown and I love studying pretty much more than anything but recently I’ve had so much to juggle that being a student AND fulfilling my other commitments has become a little impossible.”

It must feel pretty good for her to now take a break from her career instead which she had mentioned could be “really hard[…] to go out and sell something that [she] didn’t have very much control over.”