Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis was spotted kissing his girlfriend Eileen Kelly during a Friday night dinner date in Beverly Hills.
The 63-year-old musician and Kelly, a 31-year-old sex educator and author, shared a quick lip-lock outside the eatery before riding away together on his motorcycle.
They were seen walking hand-in-hand as they left E. Baldi, a celebrity-frequented restaurant in the upscale Los Angeles County city of Beverly Hills, following their evening meal.
The couple put on their jackets and helmets outside the establishment before Kiedis drove off into the night with Kelly on the back of the bike.
For the date night, Kiedis dressed in a dark denim jacket over a white graphic T-shirt, black jeans and sneakers. Kelly wore a black graphic tank top with fitted jeans and kitten heels, later layering a pale green hoodie over her outfit for the motorcycle ride home.
The pair share a 33-year age gap. The Daily Mail reached out to a representative for Kiedis for comment regarding the outing.
Public scrutiny over age-gap romance
Their public outing comes just over a week after Irish media personality Vogue Williams publicly criticized Kiedis over his history of age-gap relationships.
On Thursday, August 13, Williams called out the rock star during an episode of her podcast, My Therapist Ghosted Me, which she hosts alongside co-host Joanne McNally.
Williams highlighted Kiedis's past relationship with Australian model Helena Vestergaard, whom he dated in 2013 when she was 19 years old and he was in his early 50s.
Speaking on the podcast, Williams expressed her disappointment regarding the musician's dating history and remarked that "just because you can doesn't mean you should."
Williams told McNally: "Do you know who else I find really disappointing and hasn't broken the law, but really disappointing because I really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis, and he is like 54 or something and he is going out with a 19-year-old. And it is like, 'Dude, what are you talking about?'"
Williams questioned the nature of conversations between partners with a significant age gap during the broadcast.
However, she acknowledged that "rockstars like him can get away with it" because some women "want to be going out with a millionaire rockstar who is going to treat them like a princess and they're going to have a gorgeous life."
Red Hot Chili Peppers, formed in Los Angeles in 1983, became one of the most successful alternative rock bands in history. Frontman Kiedis has led the group through decades of chart-topping albums and worldwide tours.
Personal essay in Vogue magazine
Kelly previously addressed her romance with the singer and defended their relationship in a personal essay published in Vogue magazine in late April.
In the piece, she opened up about dating a man "more than twice" her age, noting that it marked her "first time dating someone significantly older."
She added humorously that she had been "missing out my whole life" before detailing the public reactions the couple encounters.
Kelly revealed she receives "unsolicited commentary in public," including instances where strangers mistake Kiedis for her father, calling those moments "incredibly awkward every time."
Although Kelly did not explicitly name Kiedis in the Vogue essay, the two have been repeatedly spotted together since earlier this year.
Rumors surrounding their romance first began in February when they were seen together at singer Charli XCX's post-Grammys party. They were later photographed together in March.
Fatherhood and family life
When he is not performing or touring with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kiedis focuses on being a devoted father to his 18-year-old son, Everly Bear Kiedis.
He shares Everly Bear with his former partner, 40-year-old model Heather Christie. Kiedis has previously spoken about how much he values his role as a parent.
During a 2012 interview with music channel Fuse, the singer gushed about his life as a parent, saying: "I love the [daddy] club. Good God, it's a beautiful club. Who knew? You can't know until you go. It's wild."
Kiedis also dismissed concerns that raising a child restricts a person's lifestyle or slows them down.
"I think people that have fear that, 'Oh, if I have a kid, I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite," he said at the time. "It really gives you energy. It makes people better."
Kiedis continues to tour globally with Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Grammy Award-winning rock band he co-founded in Southern California in the early 1980s.
