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Elon Musk and Grimes had their first date in a Tesla factory

Elon Musk and Grimes had their first date in a Tesla factory
Elon Musk and Grimes arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala (Met Gala) to celebrate the opening of “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” in the Manhattan borough of New York, US, May 7, 2018.
PHOTO: Reuters file

Elon Musk and Grimes had their first date in a Tesla factory.

The 52-year-old business mogul met the singer in 2018 and the 35-year-old star — who has son X Æ A-12, three, and daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, 19 months, with the billionaire — revealed his attempts to woo her began with showing off his skills at one of his businesses.

According to The Times newspaper, she told author Walter Isaacson, who is writing a biography of Musk: "We just walked the floor all night and I watched him try to fix things."

The pair went out again the following evening, and this time, the X boss covered his eyes while accelerating as he drove Grimes to a restaurant in order to impress her with the vehicle's autopilot function.

She recalled: "I was like... this guy is crazy."

The pair, whose current relationship status is unknown, also bonded over The Lord of the Rings and history podcasts.

Grimes said: "The only way I could be in a serious relationship is if the person I'm dating can also listen to an hour of war history before bed."

Musk's ex-wife Talulah Riley previously revealed one of their dates saw her invited back to the SpaceX chief's hotel room to watch rocket videos.

She told a BBC documentary about her former spouse: "I thought, 'Okay yeah, I'll come back' — and he did just show me rocket videos."

Grimes — whose real name is Claire Boucher — recently revealed her children, who are known as X and Y respectively, share their father's interests in space and engineering.

Speaking to Wired before the ongoing Sag-Aftra strike, she said: "X knows a lot about rockets. It's crazy. He knows more about rockets than me.

"We had to stop giving him toys, because if they're not anatomically correct, he gets upset.

"He's a little engineer, for sure. But his obsession with space is bordering on, 'Is this healthy?'

"[Y is] a little engineer too. She likes industrial shipping. She's very strange."

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