Who is Louise Verneuil, Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner’s girlfriend?

Arctic Monkeys is due to perform at Glastonbury tonight (Friday 23 June), with frontman Alex Turner recovered enough from his bout of laryngitis to hit the Pyramid Stage.

Fans rejoiced over clues that the band would go ahead with the show, despite the musicians cancelling a show in Dublin earlier this week due to Turner’s condition.

One of the clues came from Louise Verneuil, who is dating Turner. She posted a cryptic Instagram Story showing herself travelling in a car in a white tank top and layered gold necklaces, and wrote: “Go Glasto.”

It is thought that the French songwriter was alluding to her attendance at the festival and her boyfriend’s third show there.

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Verneuil can sometimes be spotted supporting Turner and the rest of the Arctic Monkeys backstage during their concerts.

Here’s everything we know about her:

Who is Louise Verneuil?

The French singer-songwriter’s real name is Pauline Louise Benattar. She was born in Ariège, in southwestern France, and has a sister.

She chose her stage name Louise Verneuil after being inspired by her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, as well as the name of the street singer Serge Gainsbourg once lived (Rue de Verneuil).

When she was 23, in 2012, she appeared in the French version of the singing competition, The Voice. She made it to the quarter finals under the guidance of her The Voice mentor Louis Bertignac, before she was eliminated.

In 2019, she released a self-titled EP and the following year, she released her debut album Lumiere Noire.

How did Louise meet Alex?

Verneuil and Turner were first romantically linked in 2018, when they were spotted together while Arctic Monkeys was touring their Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino album.

They were also seen on a date at the Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood, where they kissed publicly and confirmed their romance.

In 2020, Turner moved back to London from Los Angeles. He lives between London and Paris, where Verneuil lives.

The couple keep their relationship largely private, as they rarely posts photographs of or with one another on social media or discuss their romance in interviews.

In May, Verneuil shared a rare snap of her and Turner at the end of a carousel of images. It showed a black-and-white polaroid of the couple with their arms around one another and smiling for the camera.

Who else has Alex Turner dated?

Turner has been previously linked to a number of other successful women, including British model Alexa Chung, US actor Arielle Vandenberg, and US model Taylor Bagley.

He dated Chung from 2007 to 2011, before moving on to Vandenberg until 2014. Fans believe Arctic Monkeys’ song “Arabella” from their 2013 album AM is about Vandenberg.

Turner then dated Bagley from 2015 to 2018 and even got matching tattoos on their arms of each other’s names.