Rita Ora’s husband Taika Waititi had a rather tone-deaf choice of apparel for Chris Hemsworth’s star-studded birthday bash.
As the New Zealand director, 49, rubbed elbows with various A-listers, he sported a ‘Working Class Hero’ T-shirt – a rather unusual statement considering the luxurious setting.
Taika, who Celebrity Net Worth reports has a net worth of $13 million, basked in the Ibiza sun alongside the likes of Matt Damon and Chris’ brother Liam Hemsworth as they celebrated the Australian actor’s 42nd birthday on board a boat.
The filmmaker was joined by his wife, Rita Ora, 34, who Celebrity Net Worth also estimates has a net worth of $30 million.
Taika’s friendship with Chris began even before they worked together on the 2017 film Thor: Ragnarok – a connection they concealed from Marvel executives before the What We Do In The Shadows star was hired on to direct the film.
‘We’d decided not to tell these guys that we knew each other because I didn’t want to get a job because of my friend. And he would feel awkward,’ he revealed in Tara Bennett and Paul Terry’s book The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, according to Insider.
Rita Ora’s husband had a rather tone-deaf choice of apparel for Chris Hemsworth’s star-studded birthday boating trip
‘But we would often just chat about things we wanted to do to make it more fun and irreverent. I think the main focus was making the character more like Chris, because he’s so funny, to bring out in the character his sense of humor and his comic ability as an actor.’
The creative duo joined forces again for the 2022 sequel, Thor: Love and Thunder.
While Taika is now an Oscar-winning director mingling with the rich and famous, he endured poverty as a child.
The son of an artist and school teacher, the filmmaker recalled being ‘very poor’ while being raised by his single mother, he told Stuff in 2019.
Taika lived primarily with his mother – ‘a solo mum who was holding down like three jobs at the time’ – after she split from his father, who the filmmaker said was an artist and founding member of a bike gang.
His father passed four years prior to the interview.
‘Our big dream was to have a microwave,’ Taika told the outlet.
Things have certainly changed since then for Taika, as he is now a critically-acclaimed filmmaker with an Oscar under his belt for Best Adapted Screenplay for Jojo Rabbit.
And he’s also married to the glamorous Rita Ora.
Taika wore a ‘Working Class Hero’ shirt as he and his wife Rita Ora celebrated Chris’ 42nd birthday in Ibiza
Chris Hemsworth, pictured, has known Taika even before they started working together on the Thor films
Taika rubbed elbows with Hollywood icon Matt Damon
Considering the A-list guest list and luxurious surrounding, the ‘Working Class Hero’ shirt was an interesting choice
The couple wed in 2022, and the songstress previously credited their strong friendship as they key component to their romantic relationship.
She told Hunger Magazine earlier this year: ‘Taika and I are basically just best friends and we wanted to just live in that element for ever, I guess.’
The couple wed in a secret ceremony in August 2022, after Rita bucked tradition and popped the question.
Their low-key Los Angeles ceremony wasn’t confirmed by the couple until a year later, which Rita told Grazia they ‘winged with zero planning’.
Taika and his wife Rita piled onto a small boat alongside the other party goers
Rita looked fabulous in a purple bikini with matching head scarf
The festivities continued on a boat
The group were basking in the Ibiza sun for the star’s birthday
Liam kicked back with a beer
Taika relaxed as they sailed off into the sea
After years of not being in the right relationship during her ‘messy twenties’, Rita said that when she got together with Taika it felt ‘right and safe’.
Reflecting on her past, she told the publication last year: ‘My love life has been colourful, to say the least. But how wicked is it that we can make those choices for ourselves?.
She added: I was groggy all the time [during her twenties]. I wanted to feel awake and that my brain was switched on.
Rita continued: ‘What makes me go ‘urgh’ is when people pour so much responsibility into somebody else to make themselves feel how they want to feel.
‘That’s a disaster, a car crash. You’ll always be unsatisfied, I was that person.’
Rita and Taika started dating in March 2021, before going public with their romance that August. Prior to their romantic relationship, Rita and Taika were close friends for five years.
