Strolling along a palm treelined avenue, casually carrying a surfboard under each arm, Hollywood action man Chris Hemsworth looks every inch a poster boy for healthy living.
His Spanish wife Elsa Pataky and their children, nine-year-old twin sons Sasha and Tristan and daughter India, 11, completed the picture as the family made their way back from a surfing session in Byron Bay, Australia.
Wearing their swimmers and walking barefoot, the film-star parents were spotted chatting and smiling with their boys as they headed home to their £10m compound in Broken Head.
The couple, who have been married for 13 years, relocated from Los Angeles to the balmy sun-kissed seaside town in New South Wales nine years ago in search of a more low-key life. “When you’re suffocated by the work, every conversation that you’re having and every billboard you’re seeing is to do with a movie or whatever around the industry, you lose perspective,” Australianborn Chris, 40, later explained.
Of their life Down Under, he said: “There’s not a single person that I interact with, or close friends of mine, that are in the industry and so that’s hugely refreshing. It’s great for my kids and my wife.”
GOING SOLO
Recently, the fact that Chris and The Fast and the Furious actress Elsa, 47, had spent time away from each other fuelled speculation that they were drifting apart. In Octob
