I think we can assume that this story was blessed by Sandra Bullock’s publicist, since it was in US Weekly. US ran a whole “Sandra’s tropical vacation” story about a year ago that was an obvious PR piece meant to show that she’s doing fine post-divorce. Well someone thinks we need an explanation why Sandra is currently single. This even took a sidebar on the cover this week. They claim that her friends are tying to get her to date, but that she’s not read. She’s supposedly not boning Keanu (boo!) and is in the best shape of her life as some sort of revenge diet and exercise plan.

Can anyone blame Sandra Bullock for being gun-shy? After her five year marriage to Jesse James became a nightmare with revelations last year of his multiple infidelities, “she’s still not ready to date,” says an insider. “Her friends are always trying to get her to go out and meet guys, but she just wants to stay in and watch movies. She says dating is the last thing on her mind.” (So, in other words, those rumors this fall of a real life Speed hookup with Keanu Reeves, 47, were just that. “Sandy thinks it’s funny because they’re, like, best friends,” says the source.) Instead, the actress, 47, has kept her focus on son Louis, 23 months, as well as a grueling new get-git regimen. “She’s perfectly tight and toned!” a friend marvels of her killer bod, adding “She wanted to do this for herself – and as a kind of f–k you’ to her ex.” (She has plenty of anger to burn: James, 42, recently dissed her as “some Hollywood actress” on his Discovery show, American Chopper.) Bullock will be showing off the results “in a big reveal” in Gravity, the fall 2012 drama she recently shot in London with George Clooney. Says the pal, “It’s hard to believe her age.”

[From US Weekly, print edition, December 26, 2011]

Notice how Ryan wasn’t mentioned at all. (So the title of this story was misleading, my bad.) I do think she dated him briefly and that it didn’t end well. It’s cool, Bullock doesn’t need a boyfriend. I still want her life. I just feel like she’s slipping a little with these dumb planted stories. She’s not J.Lo or Aniston, she don’t need to keep reminding us how hot and fit she is. It’s like these publicists have a formula and they have no idea how to deviate from it. She should go back to staging cute photo ops with Louis.

Speaking of Louis, Sandra has a new interview with Access Hollywood in which she says that she’s going to go all-out for his Christmas this year. She joked that she’ll use the Christmas photos to show teenage Louis that she was a good mom when he was little. “I want the photo ops to be really great because he’s not going to remember it, but he’ll remember it by the photos and when he’s 16 and says, ‘I hate you — you’re a horrible mother,’ I’ll go, ‘Do you see this Christmas? Do you see that I got you that life-size lion? Shut up! Get in your room and do your homework. I was a good mother then.’” She must have some experience with teenagers. Sandra also shared her personal experience as a witness to the September 11 terrorist attacks. She’s been asked about it as she’s promoting Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a story about a young boy who loses his father on that day. It’s out on Christmas day. The trailers got me all choked up so I doubt I’ll see it.

Sandra is shown outside the gym in NY on 12/13 and 12/14. Credit: Fame and PacificCoastNews.com