When Sir Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall walked into the same London event with their daughter and a room full of cameras, the scene landed online with a very specific reaction: fans said it felt like watching divorced parents come back together at your wedding reception.
The reality was slightly different, but no less striking. The emotional reunion played out at the inaugural British Museum Ball on 18 October 2025, where the Rolling Stones frontman arrived with his fiancée, choreographer and former ballerina Melanie Hamrick, while Hall attended with their eldest daughter, model and actress Elizabeth Jagger.
The exes who defined an era
Jagger, now 82, and Hall, 69, were one of rock’s most recognisable couples from the late 1970s through the 1990s. They began dating in 1977, raised four children together and even held a Hindu wedding ceremony in Bali in 1990, a union later ruled legally invalid when their relationship ended in 1999.
Their split was messy and very public. For years, sightings of the pair together were rare, making any shared red carpet instantly loaded with history. That is part of why this latest moment landed so hard with fans.
At the British Museum Ball, Jagger and Hall were photographed greeting each other warmly, trading smiles and kisses on the cheek before posing for photos alongside Elizabeth. The images show a relaxed, almost domestic ease: the rock legend, his former partner and their daughter standing shoulder to shoulder as if the last few decades had been compressed into one frame.
A blended-history tableau
The guest list made the scene even more layered. Jagger moved through the event with Hamrick, his partner since 2014 and the mother of his youngest son, Deveraux. Also present was Bianca Jagger, his ex-wife from the 1970s, who arrived in a sharp white zoot suit that quickly did the rounds on fashion pages. Reports from the night note that Mick and Bianca did not interact on camera, while Mick and Jerry’s reunion was the moment that drew the headlines.
For longtime followers of the Stones, it was a snapshot of Jagger’s complicated personal history in one room: past and present partners, adult children and a fiancé, all navigating the same black-tie evening without visible friction.
Online, the Jerry–Mick photos were quickly reframed with a more intimate lens. Facebook and fan pages described it as “a family reunion like no other” and likened the mood to divorced parents setting aside everything for their child’s big day, even though the event was a gala, not a wedding.
Why this moment hit fans so hard
Part of the reaction comes from what Jagger and Hall represented in their prime: the collision of rock-and-roll excess and supermodel glamour. They were the couple who turned backstage chaos and runway gloss into a shared brand, raising a family under that spotlight. Seeing them, decades later, smiling easily next to their daughter offers a different narrative: two people who weathered affairs, annulments, new marriages and new partners, and can now stand together without visible bitterness.
It also speaks to a broader truth that fans project onto legacy rock stars: the desire to believe that, after all the turbulence, the family story lands somewhere soft. The images from the British Museum Ball deliver exactly that fantasy, at least for one carefully lit moment on the carpet.
For Jagger, who is still touring, recording and stepping out regularly with Hamrick, the night was one more example of how his personal life and public mythology are permanently intertwined. For Hall, fresh from the end of her marriage to Rupert Murdoch in 2022, it was a reminder that she remains an integral part of the Rolling Stones orbit, not just a former partner filed away in rock history.
And for fans scrolling through those photographs, it looked like something even simpler: two once-iconic lovers, now older and calmer, coming together around the one thing they’ll always share – their family.
