FFS. Just ONCE this week I’d like to return to my laptop after a refreshing holiday nap to find that some celebrity has NOT gotten engaged. The latest in the neverending string of engagement announcements is Reese Witherspoon and her CAA agent boyfriend Jim Toth. According to Us Weekly, who got a confirmation from Reese’s rep, they got engaged at some point, although there is no confirmation as to when it happened. Christmas engagement? Ugh. At least all of these weddings will help the economy?
Reese Witherspoon is ready to walk down the aisle again!
She and Hollywood agent Jim Toth are engaged, her rep confirms exclusively to UsMagazine.com. “They are extremely happy,” the rep tells Us.
The Oscar-winning actress, 34, began dating Toth, 40, around January 2010, shortly after her split from Jake Gyllenhaal. The duo went public with their romance in March during a romantic birthday weekend in Ojai, Calif.
Toth works as an agent at L.A.’s Creative Artists Agency; Witherspoon is a CAA client, but Toth doesn’t represent her.
Witherspoon and actor Ryan Phillippe divorced in 2008 after seven years together; the former spouses share daughter Ava, 11, and Deacon, 7. Insiders told Us Weekly that Toth has “bonded” with Witherspoon’s kids. In fact, while Witherspoon shot This Means War in Vancouver last fall, Toth stayed with her little ones at her home in L.A.’s Brentwood area. “Ava and Deacon are happy with him,” the source adds.
Witherspoon joked about engagement talk to Entertainment Weekly recently. “My mom always texts me, like, ‘Are you getting married?'” Witherspoon said, laughing. “I’m like, ‘Mom, come on! You would know if I was getting married.'”
A pal says of Witherspoon’s romance with Toth: “She is definitely happy, in love and definitely wants to settle down.”
[From Us Weekly]
Maybe it’s just because the onslaught of celebrity engagement announcements has made my eyes glaze over, or maybe it’s just because I’m missing “the bride gene” (true story), but seriously people, enough already.
That being said, congratulations to Reese and Jim. Out of all of the celebrity engagement announcements, I think Reese and Jim probably have one of the best shots for a long and happy marriage. He seems low-key and happy to give her the spotlight, and she seems less anal retentive and uptight now that she’s in a fulfilling relationship. I wish them the best, and I’m kind of hoping Reese gets pregnant again.
Also – did you hear that? That was the sound of Jake Gyllenhaal’s WAIL OF DOOM. He just moaned/sobbed into his coffee and Swifty stopped daydreaming about John Mayer long enough to say “What’s wrong now, bitch?”
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Didn’t she dump Jake because he wanted a commitment? That’s gotta hurt. Maybe Taylor will get a ring for New Year’s….Jeesh..
It’s an EPIDEMIC!!!!!
I LOVE REESE! THAT IS ALL.
He is a cutie tho, good for her. Much better looking than Jake for sure.
Happy for them!
On a (not so) completely unrelated note, are all these engaged chicks getting Christmas gifts along with their rings? Because I got engaged on New Year’s Eve, AFTER I got gifts from my lover for Christmas (and BEFORE I got my Valentine’s Day gifts). Not to snipe, but an engagement ring is NOT to be construed as a Christmas gift – it’s a totally separate deal.
Also – did you hear that? That was the sound of Jake Gyllenhaal’s WAIL OF DOOM. He just moaned/sobbed into his coffee and Swifty stopped daydreaming about John Mayer long enough to say “What’s wrong now, bitch?”
Oh Kaiser. I think I love you.
I wish them happiness and fulfillment.
Being honest, I’m interested to see what sort of one-upsmanship this inspires and also the media cockblocking possibilities. I did briefly consider the possibility this is a reaction to the Gaylor showmance but on the other hand who would care enough to react to that when it’s so obviously staged? So I come down on the side of this being a real engagement that isn’t about PR.
I adore Reese. I wish her the very best.
I doubt Jake is crying in his coffee. I think they had an amicable split, and it was heard to be her that wanted a comittment, Jake did not.
Maybe she announced it now because like the rest of us she too HATES LeAnn Rimes. LOL! So much for that comeback cover!
Another reason to love Reese!
Wow … it was only 2008 when Reese and Ryan split up? It seems like it has been much longer than that!
Best wishes to Reese and her new man!
Jake Gyllenhal straight? *snort*
Congrats, my daughter got engaged too, lol
Congrats! She is so cute.
“FFS.” Too, too funny. I thought the same thing when I saw the title of this post. Yep, I’m definitely missing the ‘bride gene’. All these people finding their soulmates, marrying, kids, divorcing, finding other soulmates, marrying, yada yada yada. Don’t get how some people are ALWAYS finding someone to be in love with.
Re :”Also – did you hear that? That was the sound of Jake Gyllenhaal’s WAIL OF DOOM. He just moaned/sobbed into his coffee and Swifty stopped daydreaming about John Mayer long enough to say “What’s wrong now, bitch?”.
Oh Kaiser, that was classic, thanks for the good laugh!
Anyway, thats great news for Reese congrats! Jake simply wasn’t the right man for her. And with this showmance with Swifty I say Reese did good.
@ gamblea – Congrats to you & your daughter!
I guess she didn’t want to marry another actor. I guess she wasn’t feeling Jake that much. I would never marry an actor either. She wanted something different. Maybe she didn’t want a guy that was looking for a guy that wouldn’t be getting naked with other women…lol.
Everything about this guy seems to scream “gay”. The pointy-toed shoes with the shiny grey suit must set hearts aflutter in gay communities around the world. Nothin’ wrong with it, but I’m thinking he’s in the “yeah..right” columnn along with Gyllenhaal, Travolta, Seacrest, etc.
@ T – With real love, you don’t “find” someone to be in love with; it happens when you least expect it. A long time ago, I had a conversation with God; I let Him know I was totally fine with raising my kids by myself, and MAYBE (if I was lucky) sharing my life with someone when my children were grown and on their own. No less than 2 weeks later, I met my husband. We’ve been together for 10 and a half years, and we are total soulmates (an over-used term if ever there was one).
I’m happy for them, I agree they have the best shot of going the distance.
I guess Jake is the male Jessica Simpson (but with more secrets).
I agree 4Real. You know Leann is pissed that her big moment was stolen by so many other engagements.
Congrats to Reese.
Love her red shoes in that first pic!
@lia, I thought he looks so handsome/hot in that suit pic. Best out of all of them! And I like my men rugged and usually with a beard.
That’s a fun little bulge in his trousers. In my own defense, I noticed his lack of hair first. Very sexy. .. on both counts.
Flourpot – That’s why I chose that photo for the header! His bulge is NICE. As is his fashion sense. He’s quite a tall, gangly, dandy piece of man-meat, IMO.
Edit: Now, his bulge is nice, but I’m not saying it’s some kind of HAMM BULGE or anything. Reese should be so lucky.
Reese seems like a very level headed woman. Always has been. She has 2 children and I highly doubt she would rush into anything. She seems quite happy with this man and considering she is a Mother she must have given this a lot of thought and this man is the right one. Good for her.
Nice to see a woman moving on and doing her thing. Jake was a nice diversion after her divorce. I never saw him as father/husband material at that time. And with his relationship with Taylor well I think Reese was right to move on. They could be engaged for a while. She has a couple of other movies coming out next year. Lots of promotion. so I doubt she is going to squeeze a wedding in there so soon..
He looks like a cross between Ben Affleck and Billy Zane.. NOT BAD.. NOT BAD AT ALL.
Well lots of marriages in the future.
@4real
hahahaha
Really, Reese bores me, but great legs and cute fiance. Congrats on both.
Yayyyy….love her and I wish her the best!!
Love, love, love her shoes.
I should never read posts like this after a few glasses of wine; All mean Marjalane could think of was, “Oh please let Reese have a big, fancy, over the top, wedding that makes Leann Rimes cry into her low rent malt beverage”.
I’m not a fan but I wish her happiness. It’s nice that she didn’t marry Jake. That would be just going from one diva man to another diva man. Who needs that. (I don’t think Jake is gay, by the way.)
I seem to remember an interview just recently where Reese mentioned that she would like more children. Maybe she already had the ring then. Anyway, congrats to her and Jim Toth (who is quite handsome, IMO!)
P.S.: What does FFS mean?
Well rumour has it she was dating Jim behind the scenes as she bearded for Jake. So they’ve been togather longer than just one year. If Jake is hurt at all it’s because she dumped him right at the time he needed her most to be front and center with him as he promoted “The Prince of Persia”.
So good for Reese and Jim. And good for anyone famous who becomes engaged who might take any attention away from LeAnn and her creepy engagement.
He is very nice looking…..bald head and all! Now, those feet are huge! Yes!!
Okay, this has really been bugging me. I guess I am a cynic, but why are all these people just jumping at taking a second (or third, etc) trip to the altar? So many people thought that Angelina Jolie was a freak for saying she would not get married a third time (and I predict that THE KIDS will put them up to it sooner or later anyway), but why do all these people rush to get married (and, as an aside, in such ho hum ways?-“We got engaged over the holidays”)?
Celebrity marriages MUST have a higher rate of divorce than the norm. I’m not picking on Reese in particular, but maybe some of these celebs should just skip it and consider being “long time companions”. They break up and experience the pain of loss, too, but leaving the legal system out of it for the most part seems more humane.
Note that most states have provisions for child support and visitation, regardless of the marital status of the couple, although my thought is more along the line of couples who do not plan to have children.
Hmmmm, I guess all those celebs want spawn of themselves.
So much for a philosophical argument. If nothing else, for the sake of the future of all (except perhaps divorce attorneys) GET A PRENUP!
Well FFS (for fuks sake) Kaiser, sugar, were you lurking waiting for someone to comment on his oh-so-friendly trouser-doodah? 20 or so posts in, too. We’re slacking, folks 🙂 Priorities!!
I’m not in love with Reese anymore. Don’t get me wrong, she’s made some great films but her celeb chemistry is gone. Congrats to her, I suppose. You know half of these new celebrity engagements are gonna end up in divorce. Let’s hope this one lasts.
Oh, and I still can’t tell if her new man is hot or not. He looks rather bland, but I’ve yet to see good pics of this guys full head/face and body.
On a (not so) completely unrelated note, are all these engaged chicks getting Christmas gifts along with their rings?
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20 years ago, my husband proposed to me on Christmas Eve. I got the ring and other presents too. Funny, I’d have been fine with just the ring, more than fine actually, but he felt I needed other presents too. I’m so not a present person, so it cracked me up that he thought I ‘needed’ presents. I still drive him nuts every year when he asks what I want and I say nothing. But its true. If I want it, I’ll go buy it. Don’t need him or anyone else to do it for me.
Anyway, congrats to the happy couple.
So should we cut to Swifty preening / performing on stage New Year’s Eve somewhere – singing about unicorns, fairytales and that when anything goes wrong it’s the other person’s fault not her’s – with Jakey front and centre at the concert singing along whilst gazing adoringly at her? And the paps just happen to get a clear shot of the two of them, which then gets distributed to every media outlet available?
Congrats Reece – at least you are in a relationship with an adult.
tango – I was going to say the same thing! I think Reese and Jim have been dating longer than they publicly acknowledged, which is why I’m *not* shocked they are engaged. It’s not like they just met a few months ago!
I did find a way to be cynical about this: Reese’s movie just bombed so this is arguably a convenient time to change the conversation about her.
But I’ve also talked myself out of that cynicism because A) I think a PR stunt engagement would’ve happened when she was promoting the film, and B) neither Us Weekly nor People is teasing that they’ve got details in their new issues coming out this week (which have already gone to press) which says to me they weren’t fed a story about it.
Those red shoes are lust-worthy.
I like her, and agree that she seems level headed and not likely to rush into anything. Congrats to them!
Aw poor Leann, having her thunder stolen. Again.
“That being said, congratulations to Reese and Jim. Out of all of the celebrity engagement announcements, I think Reese and Jim probably have one of the best shots for a long and happy marriage. He seems low-key and happy to give her the spotlight, and she seems less anal retentive and uptight now that she’s in a fulfilling relationship. I wish them the best, and I’m kind of hoping Reese gets pregnant again.”
This. I wish her nothing but the best. Especially after being married to that total douche-nozzle Ryan Phillipe.
Congratulations Reese 🙂 .
Weird – in that third pic he looks like the love child of Ben Affleck and Adam Sandler.
LOL at Original Bellaluna! I quite agree.
mslewis, FFS – means for f*ck’s sake
That pointy toe thing with the suit is the ‘LA Agent’ look. If you go to the shopping mall in Century City at lunch or dinner, you see all the CAA agents and agents assistant’s swanning around in the same kind of get up. It’s the agent’s equivalent of the LA actress tan, blond hair and party tits look. When a gaggle of them cross the street it’s like metrosexual Reservoir Dogs. They don’t carry guns, they carry cell phones and they’ve all got Speilberg on speed dial. They also like to majorly name drop in restaurants – it’s a sickness of sorts.
Her dresses always fit her perfectly. She is so petite and yet her dresses never seem to make her look shorter than she really is. If anything they seem to make her look taller.
Or am I wrong?
Anyway, congratulations to them!
There’s something in the water it seems. At least it’s not BABIES! Just kidding.
Congrats to them both. Love Reese, she’s a class act.
Good for them, congrats
I hear ya, T (@post 14)…
Congrats to the happy couples! What’s with the Jake hating? He seems like such a great guy. Give the broken hearted a break.
I think she just wants to settle down and provide some stability for her kids. It will be interesting if these two people from different work worlds can make a relationship last longterm though. I think after a while stability can look boring … if the mix isn’t right.
@Isa, it seems everyone I know is doing the baby thing instead of the marriage thing right now. I don’t have any so I don’t get it, lol. Maybe since it was the start of winter then and they all wanted to stay inside and needed entertainment? That I could understand. 🙂
Go REESE!! I’m so happy for her.
Love her! She’s great and after that douche of an ex husband, she deserves a good man. She’s a cool chic.
Oh I adore her, I wish them a long and happy marriage ♥.
For some reason I do think this will last. I hope so at least.
hahahaha kaiser….not the HAMM bulge…hahaha
always felt bad for reese that ryan made those awful comments at the oscars…he is so self absorbed – yet where is he now? no where!
I do like Southern women (though I am myself staunchly midwestern)….and I believe that Miss Reece does have a healthy respect for marriage. So I offer my congrats to the couple. (Her kids are really cute, too)
Just saw Reese’s ring on People site…it is beautiful! It said 4 carats but it looks ten times better than Leann’s, imo.
Reese=1, LeeAnn=0
Natalie=1, LeeAnn=0
Kate M=1, LeeAnn=0..
So moral of the story is: no matter how much famewh*ring you do, someone will STILL outdone you. Please give it up.