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Who is Keira Knightley’s rock star husband, James Righton? The former Klaxons keyboardist made a rare appearance at a Chanel fashion show with his wife in Paris, and works with Abba and Tiffany & Co.
STORYSarah Keenlyside
- Keira Knightley and her husband were spotted at Chanel’s haute couture show in Paris earlier this week – a rare sighting of the pair, who live a low-key life in London with their 2 daughters
- Righton is a talented musician whose band Klaxons beat Amy Winehouse to a Mercury Prize and performed with Rihanna; more recently, he’s worked on Abba’s Voyage show and created music for Erdem
For a Hollywood actress and a former rock star, Keira Knightley and James Righton sure do keep a low profile. So low, in fact, that when they do appear in public as they did this week at Chanel’s show during Paris Haute Couture Week, it makes headlines.
So just why have the pair shunned the spotlight of late, and what do we know about the Pirates of the Caribbean star’s husband of 11 years?
Who is Keira Knightley’s husband, James Righton?
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Righton, 40, is most famous for being one third of the Klaxons, an indie rock outfit from southeast London whose songs “Gravity’s Rainbow” and “Golden Skans” were among those spearheading the country’s “nu rave” movement in 2006.
Not only did the psychedelic post-punk band beat Amy Winehouse to the coveted Mercury Prize in 2007, per NME, but it performed with Rihanna a year later and toured the world until its split in 2015.
How did Keira Knightley meet James Righton?
According to interviews that Knightley, 39, gave, the pair met at an Oscars screening party in London’s SoHo hosted by a mutual friend in 2011. “We were very drunk”, the actress admitted to The Guardian in 2014 – a fact echoed by Righton. “I was really, really drunk,” he confirmed to The Independent. “So I was fearless. I don’t know what I did or said that connected. Maybe she took pity on me.”
Even funnier is that Knightley didn’t even know who the Klaxons were at the time, Righton told the New York Post, because she’d been working in the US when the band were having their moment in the UK.
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Sarah Keenlyside is a contributing online editor for Style by SCMP, where she covers luxury, travel, pop culture, celebrity, entertainment and trending news. A China/UK based journalist with more than 20 years experience in the travel, fashion and lifestyle industry, she has interviewed everyone from pop star Kylie Minogue to movie star Yao Chen and Burberry's Christopher Bailey. Her work has been featured in publications ranging from The Telegraph to Time Out, LUXE Guides to WWD and the Sunday Times.
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