Emma Watson's mystery date with new man

MADRID, SPAIN - AUGUST 27: Actress Emma Watson attends the 'Regression' photocall at Villamagna Hotel on August 27, 2015 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Juan Naharro Gimenez/Getty Images)

Actress Emma Watson has sparked rumours she's enjoying a new romance after she was spotted on a date with a mystery man in New York.

Watson, of Harry Potter fame, was seen enjoying dinner with a male companion at Italian restaurant Supper in Manhattan, according to New York Post gossip column Page Six.

"They were laughing and super flirty," a source told the publication.

Watson was last linked to actor Roberto Aguire, but she has remained largely single since splitting from her longterm boyfriend, rugby player Matthew Janney, last year.

The actress recently revealed she jetted off to a special retreat in Canada to deal with the breakdown of the relationship.
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She headed to a centre in the Rocky Mountains, where visitors are expected to take a vow of week-long silence, to gather her thoughts.

"I felt really uncomfortable ... even before my relationship ended," she told British Vogue magazine.

"I went on a silent retreat because I really wanted to figure out how to be at home with myself.

"The boyfriends or partners I've had have generally made me feel really cherished. They've built me up ... I certainly haven't found that with doing all that I do or being all that I am, that I've struggled in my love life. I just think it's very patronising towards men. It undermines them," Watson said.

Since the split, the star has been busy with acting projects and she has been focusing on her high-profile pro-feminism campaign for the United Nations.

She launched the #HeForShe gender equality drive at the UN headquarters in New York in September, 2014, and has since become a star campaigner for women's rights.

- AAP