Talking Heads frontman David Byrne revealed he is engaged to his much younger girlfriend Mala Gaonkar.
The 73-year-old musician and Gaonkar, 55, have been dating for nearly a decade, after first meeting in 2016 while working on a production for The Makers series at Stanford Arts Institute.
Byrne confirmed the happy engagement news in an interview with The Times, published on Saturday.
While discussing his upcoming album, Who Is The Sky?, and the origin of its ninth track, ‘Moisturizing Thing,’ he referred to Gaonkar — whose ex-husband, 57, is currently dating Reese Witherspoon, 49 — as his ‘fiancée.’
‘My fiancée will sometimes come at me with greasy hands, ready to smear my face. And at one point I thought, “What if I wake up and really looked younger?”‘ he told the publication.
‘But there’s a message, too. About how people judge us by the way we look. You learn a lesson you didn’t expect at the start.’
Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, 73, revealed he is engaged to his much younger girlfriend Mala Gaonkar, 55, after nearly a decade of dating; They are seen in 2023
While discussing his upcoming album ‘Who Is The Sky?’ with The Times, he referred to Gaonkar as his ‘fiancée’; Byrne is pictured performing in 2002
Byrne and Gaonkar live together in New York.
The glamorous pair have attended several events together over the years, including a special screening for My Mother’s Wedding in August 2025, the Dune: Part Two premiere in 2024, and the 2023 Oscars.
The singer was previously married to Adelle Lutz from 1987 to 2004.
The former couple share daughter Malu.
Meanwhile Gaonkar was previously married to financier Oliver Haarmann, who is now dating Witherspoon.
Gaonkar and Haarmann divorced after welcoming two sons together.
Last month Reese looked totally loved-up with the German financier as the pair passionately kissed during a holiday in Saint-Tropez.
Haarmann is a founding partner of Searchlight Capital Partners, a private equity investment firm.
The Oscar-winner began dating the hunky billionaire last year following her shock split in 2023 from Jim Toth, 55, her husband of 12 years.
Byrne and Gaonkar — who first met in 2016 — live together in New York; The pair seen in 2024 at the Dune 2 premiere
The glamorous pair have attended several events together over the years; Seen in 2022 at The Moth Ball 25th Anniversary Gala
Pictured at My Mother’s Wedding special screening at NeueHouse Cinema on August 5 in New York
Legendary US rock band Talking Heads – consisting of front man Byrne, bassist Tina Weymouth, drummer Chris Fantz and guitarist Jerri Harrison – shot to stardom after forming in 1975.
During a 16-year period together the band achieved commercial and critical success thanks to much-loved tracks such as Once in a Lifetime and Road to Nowhere before they split in 1991.
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