Chris Hemsworth & Elsa Pataky at the Oceana Ball: super-cute or try-hard?

Bedhead already covered some of yesterday’s photos of Chris Hemsworth & Elsa Pataky out and about in NYC, but I guess we should cover these pics from last night’s Oceana Ball. This was the reason Elsa and Chris were in New York, as it turns out. They were the biggest stars at this event, which was held at Christie’s. Oh, I found the website:

Over 350 of the world’s top international collectors, philanthropists and celebrities will convene on April 08, 2013 at New York City’s Rockefeller Center for a star-studded evening of entertainment, fine dining and a live fantasy auction by Christie’s featuring a select number of exclusive, truly once-in-a-lifetime experiences, such as coveted VIP celebrity experiences, upscale eco-vacations and luxury items. The event will also include an intimate live musical performance and music spun by a premier DJ.

[From The Oceana Ball]

So, it’s a big environmental event and there probably weren’t that many “celebrities” but there were a lot of people with a lot of money there, and they probably raised a lot of money for…? I’m assuming environmental charities or foundations or something. Sure.

As for the photos… Chris brought along his brother Luke Hemsworth and Luke’s wife Samantha. Elsa wore a Naeem Khan Pre-Fall 2013 dress which is actually pretty cute. Chris’s suit is Calvin Klein. They look nice! I’m just relieved that it’s not another candid photo-op, though. I was getting really tired of seeing Chris in sunglasses. But the bad thing about these photos is that you can’t really see his guns. But I’m sure most of you could draw them from memory anyway.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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  1. Marty says:

    Second-hand embarassment Elsa, just stop girl!

  2. Julia says:

    Does anyone else think its weird/gross that he has a man-updo at the back? Shouldn’t it just be a “long hair-don’t care” ponytail?

    • Anna says:

      I think he just doesn’t know what to do with it. I get a sense that he’d rather chop it off, but Marvel has him by the [pony]tail.

      • Belle says:

        LOL, this^^^

        Oh and I don’t love the man-updo, but I would love a long hair-don’t care ponytail even less. 🙂

    • Me Three says:

      Yeah…hate his hair. Actually like him better than Channing Tatum but to be honest I don’t get the love for either one of them. Neither one can act and if you can’t act you have to be REALLY good eye candy and they do nothing for this girl.

      • Denise says:

        I have to agree! I get the slightest bit of ‘ah that’s a nicey’ from Chris when he’s in full-blown Thor mode, mostly because that much overt masculinity just knocks out my resistance, but he does kind of look like the hot thing from the trailer park most of the time. As for Channing Tatum…he might as well be my dad.

  3. Jenna says:

    She looks good, I’ll give her that. I hope she thanked her plastic surgeon big time.

    • Eve says:

      And I hope she has him on speed dial…because I’ll punch her face beyond recognition if I ever have the chance.

      I will never forget what this woman has done to get where she is now. Never.

      • michkabibbles says:

        i’ve never heard of her, what has she done?

      • Jenna says:

        LOL DAYUM girl! I’d hate to think what you’d do if she were even in the same area as Cumby for any reason. 😛

      • A says:

        Ohh tell us!

      • Marty says:

        @ Eve- I love you! 🙂

      • hayley says:

        what did she do?

      • Eve says:

        @ Michkabibbles and Hayley:

        There are plenty of stories about Pataky here on CB (either posted by Kaiser/Celebitchy or us, regulars).

        She’s a famewhore of the highest (lowest?) level. She’s famous for the men she dates and nothing else — her “career” as an actress isn’t relevant so she milks her relationships with famous men.

        I know, I know: there are many like her. And I wouldn’t be so pissed off hadn’t her famewhoring game destroyed Brody’s reputation/career. The man is a terrific actor, so it pains me to realize his career may NEVER recover from taking pictures in empty bathtubs and fake castles (because of her).

        P.S.: I also read that she had the nerve to ask for the castle after she dumped him (even though they hadn’t been married nor lived together enough time to have a common-law marriage).

      • j.eyre says:

        “And I hope she has him on speed dial…because I’ll punch her face beyond recognition if I ever have the chance”

        Oh Eve – you just make me so… happy. I love when you come to the table ready to dine!

      • Eve says:

        @ Marty:

        :*

        @ J.Eyre:

        I’m hating hard today, non? Maybe I should just take a step back and stay away from this thread for a couple of hours.

      • Eve says:

        @ Michkabibbles and Hayley:

        Found the thread where we discussed Pataky’s famewhoring ways before:

        http://www.celebitchy.com/249665/chris_hemsworth_at_the_gq_uk_men_of_the_year_event_would_you_hit_it/

        P.S.: The other poster’s name was “Vivienne” (not Violet, like I thought).

      • Anna says:

        Elsa is making my tender, loving heart turn black with rage and envy and I don’t even care.

      • j.eyre says:

        @Eve – Don’t you dare go soft on me now! I think it is time the sharks turned on Remora.

        @Anna – black is your color, darling. I have my blood red lipstick on today – let’s get some mileage out of them, what say you?

      • Crumpets and Crotchshots says:

        Eve, Eve, Eve! 🙂

      • Relli says:

        please see the African safari shoot, beyond horrid.

      • Alana Fajina says:

        Tacky Patacky!
        HAHA, that’s all I can think of when I see this broad. Thanks gals! 😉 I don’t think I will EVER forgive her for what she did to my Brody!!

        Eve- I’ll be your getaway driver girl, Let’s Do This!

      • Eve says:

        @ Alana Fajina:

        LOL! I mean…Yeah! It’s on!

      • Jenna says:

        Go Eve, go!!! *gets the popcorn ready*

      • Jub-Jub says:

        Eve – I can’t believe she asked for that castle after she dumped Brody!!! That is so nasty! That poor man 🙁

  4. oh snap! says:

    *cringe* @ Elsa.

    but oh my what a beef cake Chris is!

    • skyler1 says:

      Beef cake for sure. I thought maybe it was middle age that was keeping me from being into the current crop of young hotties, but Chris is eye candy to me, especially when he’s toting around his baby.

  5. Mia 4S says:

    These two are getting beyond Try Hard! The “candid” photos are almost a parody now. I don’t quite get it, he doesn’t have a movie out for months!

    • Eve says:

      “I don’t quite get it, he doesn’t have a movie out for months!”

      No, he doesn’t. But he has a wife called Elsa Pataky and that explains every single “candid” picture taken from him/her/them.

      • Julia says:

        What did she do in the past? I remember the Adren Brody fake castle..

      • Eve says:

        @ Julia:

        I’ve already posted so many stories about Pataky here on CB — I guess you could click on her tag and follow the comments by me, Paranormalgirl and Violet (I think) on past threads.

        But she pretty much climbed her way to Hemsworth: she dumped a French actor to be with Brody, then Brody to be with Olivier Martinez, then she met Hemsworth. With every single one of them, she made sure to be papp’d as much as she could.

        The worst was with Brody. She straight up used him — and dumped him as soon as his fame, and movie roles, started waning.

        P.S.: There’s also a repulsive blind item I read back in 2008/2009, but since it’s a blind item and I can’t confirm it, I won’t post it here. But I am dead certain the answer was Pataky.

      • marie says:

        ha, like I said in the last thread, I really dislike this chick and he’s being photographed way to much.

      • Eve says:

        Oh, there’s also this info (I think) Violet posted here once: she met Hemsworth through their dialect coach.

        Now, guess how she met Adrien Brody?

      • Mia 4S says:

        “No, he doesn’t. But he has a wife called Elsa Pataky and that explains every single “candid” picture taken from him/her/them.”

        You’ve got it exactly Eve. I can tell already I’m going to be annoyed at the sight of them before too long. I guess the real question is, is he just a fellow famewhore or too much of a meathead to know the game?

      • Eve says:

        He can’t be that stupid not to notice that…so my guess is that she’s (somehow) convincing him to do that or that he’s famewhoring, too.

        But the thing is: we’ve never seen him doing that before, have we? He always seemed pretty low-key. After he started dating her…”candid” pictures of them are taken almost daily.

      • marie says:

        @ Eve.. I very rarely ever see photos of him (other than work related) without her. She’s very transparent in her famewhoring, I think he knows what she’s doing but goes along with it anyway so she’ll have something to do?

      • Eve says:

        @ Marie:

        “I think he knows what she’s doing but goes along with it anyway so she’ll have something to do?”

        You could be right about that. I don’t think he’s completely unaware of what she’s doing because it’s simply too obvious!

    • LadyMTL says:

      I was thinking the same thing…what’s with all of the papping? She must be the Queen of the Fame Whores.

      Also, I want to button up his shirt, lol. He doesn’t need the “Simon Cowell unbuttoned to the navel” thing going on. :p

      • Anna says:

        Well he’s said in interviews that his wife ‘has a great sense of style and dresses’ him, so we can blame her for the shirt too!

      • Marty says:

        Don’t forget this is a woman who sold her wedding story to a magazine….without the groom. Tacky Pataky strikes again, and again, and again.

      • j.eyre says:

        Don’t you touch one button on that shirt! (just teasing)

        I am wondering if this recent bout isn’t more for her than him, I mean more than the famewhore thing. She is getting a spot in People Most Beautiful, she has the Furious movie (213 is it?). I think she threw down a “Look, Thor, you got your shot. I had the kid and now it’s MY time in Hollywood so smile pretty and get me a meeting with your agent.” Full disclosure, I am a complete CHemboy apologist because I find him unreasonably hot but there is more than just “I like photos of me” going on here.

        In the same vein, I am kind of tickled by how CHem is helping out his big brother in the same way. They have been shot many times together since Luke moved here. CHemboy has said he and Budget fought a lot but has always spoken highly of Luke, even in regards to his acting and about how “Luke did it first.”

        Seeing as I am a shameless ho on this boy, this is about as deep as I can go today.

      • Anna says:

        @j.eyre Oh I am a total Hemsy apologist myself thus I always blame the Tacky Pataky (love the name), or as my bff dubbed her, Wagon (as in, ‘hitched her wagon to his star’). But she makes it so easy! Whenever Chris is kissing her, or Baby India, Wagon is eye-shagging the cameras, whether paparazzi or red carpet ones, doesnt matter.

        So yes, she and his brother are totally riding Chris’ PR gravy train, and he is either oblivious (but I am starting to think he’s not that dim – tho he does probably think that the paps just show up wherever he is) or doesnt care, just happy to be there, esp after taking so long to become successful.

        However, I disagree on “Look, Thor, you got your shot while I had a kid…” This makes it sound like she’s been waiting in the wings for him to build his career, sacrificing her own rise for the sake of the ‘family’ – while in fact he, and their cute little fam, are the best shot she ever had at a proper US career. She wasn’t exactly going places, other than upstate NY, before him…

      • j.eyre says:

        No, I agree with you there, Anna. I didn’t mean to imply that she had sacrificed anything – or that she was even trying to be in the shadows. I see it more as she expected to be further along as a result of her connection to him and maybe has recently waged an all out assault. He didn’t get papped this much during the Avengers – this is ridiculous. She has her figure back, she is striking while the iron is hot. In a few months, his promotions will overshadow her again.

        I predict that when her efforts don’t amount to worldwide fame, pregnancy #2 will be announced.

    • Lemony says:

      I can’t stand that photo of her with her hand on his chest…soooo cheesy.

  6. Lee says:

    Elsa looks exceptionally famewhorey in these pictures.

    • Jacqueline says:

      She looks exactly like Miley in these pics. Her sister in law looks like she forgot to put her makeup on.

  7. Celine says:

    I think Elsa looks great but she definitely has got something (ahem, fillers, at least…) done besides just a new haircut…

  8. AmandaPanda says:

    I must admit I don’t follow these people, but how old are they meant to be? I would have guessed late 30s. The woman looks like an alien.

    I like his suit though.

  9. Talie says:

    Chris looks so much older than 28 or 29…he really comes off sophisticated for being so big.

  10. MonicaQ says:

    Elsa who? What? All I see is Thor awesome-ness.

  11. nell says:

    i’ve never seen her in a movie except a bad french movie called Iznogoud she was dating a french actor before she Adrian brody stole her lol

  12. mademoiselle says:

    He looks like an uglier albeit slightly slimmer version of my man. So he’s kinda cute ;). I don’t blame her at all, so what if she trades up? Men do it ALL the time. Double standards IMO

    • Anna says:

      Dating someone hotter/better because you like them better is one thing. Trading up because of that person’s higher social profile as a way to advance your own career is a whole different [much more sinister] ball game.

  13. Malificent says:

    The look on Samantha’s face is priceless!

    • jamie says:

      I know! I was thinking it was a good representation of how I feel about Elsa Pataky. She’s the definition of try-hard. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to look at her without thinking of faux castles….

  14. Original A says:

    I always forget that Chris is a few years younger than Andrew Garfield and Eddie Redmayne and only a year or so older than RPattz. Anyway, he looks good but the open shirt is ridiculous.

  15. Lipsy says:

    I know about her stories but I honestly think she looks REALLY GOOD here! Also, there are plenty of pretty girls in hollywood… but I want to know what SHE HAS to be sucha man-eater! What’s her secret?!????

    • Anna says:

      And can she bottle it and sell it? And then she’ll become a self-made billionaire and will leave Chris alone 🙂

  16. Reece says:

    It is too damn early for her face in that 3rd pic.

  17. Lindsey says:

    Does it make me a perv if i want to be a fly on the wall of Chris and Elsa going at it???

  18. ShakenNotStirred says:

    I like his hair pulled back like that. Now as for Elsa… Fast 6 is coming out, she’s in it but she’s not being marketed. Hmm..

  19. MisJes says:

    I seem to be alone here but I think she looks all kinds of hell.

    The dress is awful. Not only is the length off, but it is an ill cut and cut. The shoes look cheap. To cap it all off, her make-up is too shiny.

  20. Sassenach says:

    She is such a famewhore. I don’t see why because she will never be more than she is now. Closing in on forty and still posing hard…….sad.

  21. bsh says:

    Bad haircut. She is a beautiful woman (as much as it pains me to admit it), but short hair ages her and makes her look older than Chris (which she is, but it didn’t show much before).

  22. phlyfiremama says:

    Very enlightening thread. I had no idea who this woman was before this, other than she was married to Thor. He sure is handsome!!

  23. Relli says:

    omg I was so taken by these photos of Tacky and her beauty that i forgot about my lunch.

  24. ViktoryGin says:

    Omg. I detest this woman with a passion. I saw her for the first time in an Italian film several years ago, and I disliked her on sight. And this was well before I knew of her involvement with Brody, who used to he one of my favorite actors. I tend to have good instincts about people, and couldn’t figure why I hated her so. I felt vindicated when I quickly discovered that is universally reviled by Brody fans. I was elated when they broke up. Then lo and behold, she surfaces just a short two yeas later married to one of Hollywood young hot up-and-coming actors. Hmmm….it was very apparent that bitch traded up. Brody is a brilliant actor, but perfers to fly underneath the radar…not a very conspicuous position for an aspiring famewhore such as our dear Tacky Pataky. My theory is that she was hustling from the sidelines. Here you had the hot beefcake blonde actor who was about to hit it big with Thor and she jumped on that first class train to relevance.

  25. Esmom says:

    Wow, I wasn’t aware of her history, I feel enlightened after reading all the comments. But she must have some redeeming qualities or I can’t believe CH’d marry and start a family with her. Or is he under some spell? Must be exhausting for her.

  26. I Choose Me says:

    I hate what Elsa did to Adrien Brody and I understand she’s sketchy as hell but she looks really pretty here. That hair cut suits her. Or maybe it’s more the new nose job?

    Anybody else think her nose has been recently…refined?

    • j.eyre says:

      Well, if you are going to insist on being nice, yes, the cut is very cute on her.

      I am not sure how her old nose looked so I cannot help you on that one.

      How are things in the world of the Red Paintbrush?

      • I Choose Me says:

        Sorry for the late reply. I hate it when works interrupts my celebitchy time.

        Well, if you are going to insist on being nice

        I like to ration my bitchyness. I’m saving some for the next T-Swift post. She brings it out in me like no other celeb.

        How are things in the world of Red Paintbrush?

        What the what now? Did I miss a thread? ‘splain please.

        ETA: D’oh you were referencing my gravatar. Excuse the brain fart. Things are good. 🙂

      • Anna says:

        The current nose was obtained some time between 2006 and 2009 judging by the photos. Dont think she’s tinkered with it since but she IS aging remarkably well, even with professional help.

  27. Mich says:

    Oh my! I’ve never clicked through on a Hemsworth/Pataky story before and see I’ve missed out BIG time!

    Had no idea that SHE was the woman in that stomach turning castle story with Brody. I remember reading it when it came out and losing all respect for him.

  28. mkyarwood says:

    GLAM!

  29. Grant says:

    He is just so damn fine I can’t stand it. I even like his man-pony.

  30. blaize says:

    Chris is definitely the hottest of the Hemsworth brothers. And I love Elsa’s dress.

  31. Hoya_chick says:

    I love these posts because Eve always comes out guns blazing! Hahaha get her Eve! I love that photo of her with her foot in the air like that. Lol. She’s all like,’ who me? I didn’t even see you there!’

  32. Suzeque says:

    I agree with other posters – I had no idea about CH’s wife. And here I thought his parents must be so proud that he married well and thinking what they must be thinking about Liam’s choice. lol

  33. Me Three says:

    Try hard totally–on the part of both of them. Don’t get the love for this couple.

  34. t says:

    Why does she have the same hairdo as Miley?! Maybe that cheating rumor on another site was true…

  35. OhDear says:

    In the last picture it looks like she’s turning her ankle – ow!

  36. AustinMJ says:

    There gorgeous. I dont know anything about his wife, but dang! She sure sounds like people hate her for doing what people do all the time. Date, break up, move on to another, but because she’s an actress its all public knowledge.

    Those hemsworth boys look like men who value love, marriage, etc. Nice to see coming from Hollywierd.

    • paranormalgirl says:

      I don’t think it’s that as much as the way in which she goes about it. Not everyone uses other people to get what they want, despite common thinking.

  37. Lexi says:

    Try hard for sure, they are a good looking couple tho

  38. SydneySpy says:

    Hmmm… I hope she has the plastic surgeon on speed-dial, too, cuz it appears there is something seriously amiss with the left mammary. Until I read these posts I had no idea who she was. She sounds ghastly.

  39. Eryn says:

    In this video you can see Elsa’s transformation thoughout the years. In Spain she’s well-known for her plastic ‘beauty’. The curious thing is that she denies having had any surgery. Well, see it with your own eyes.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt_IebDiH4g

    • Anna says:

      I don’t even know how to properly thank you for this link. I snark on her ALL the time and still I had NO idea she had SUCH drastic work done! This makes me feel a lot less envious of how beautifully she is aging. She still has an amazing body though, not something I can hate on while eating a second helping of cake…

      • Z says:

        As quiet as its kept I read before the first Thor movie Chris was after Natalie Portman. Natalie was not interested and then soon after this Elsa stepped in the picture. Natalie would have been more his speed I think. I do agree with another poster that Chris and his brothers seem to value love and marriage. It seem like the Hemsworth men pick the trashiest women for a wife.

      • Eryn says:

        You’re welcome 😉