I keep forgetting that Scarlett Johansson is in Captain America: Civil War. That film is basically just an Avengers movie at this point, and the new Thor film will be for all of the other Avengers who didn’t get included in this one. Anyway, ScarJo is starting her promotional work for Civil War, which is why she covers the new issue of Cosmopolitan. While I hate the way her cleavage looks on this cover, I’m actually loving her hair. I thought her original haircut was a bad idea, but I like the way it’s growing out and I like the shade of blonde she’s doing now. Controversial opinion: I’ve always thought she looked better as a blonde. Anyway, in the early excerpts from Scarlett’s Cosmo interview, she’s talking about Planned Parenthood, equal pay and what it’s like to date an emotional vampire.
On cutting the budget for Planned Parenthood: “There are countries at war, there’s terrorism, global warming, and we’re like, ‘We should definitely cut the budget for Planned Parenthood. Let’s take away the availability of women’s health initiatives!’… It’s nuts. We’re talking about preventing cervical and breast cancers. Growing up, I used [PP’s] services. All my girlfriends did—not just for birth control but for Pap smears and breast exams. You read about the rise of back-alley abortions, women having to mutilate themselves and teenagers having to seek help in unsafe conditions, and for what?! We’re moving backward when we’re supposed to be moving forward.”
On equal pay: “There’s something icky about me having that conversation unless it applies to a greater whole… I am very fortunate, I make a really good living, and I’m proud to be an actress who’s making as much as many of my male peers at this stage… I think every woman has [been underpaid], but unless I’m addressing it as a larger problem, for me to talk about my own personal experience with it feels a little obnoxious. It’s part of a larger conversation about feminism in general.”
On hitting rock bottom: “Long, long ago, I had someone in my life who was forever unavailable…but, like, so attractively unavailable. You have to get to your breaking point… rock bottom is the moment when you’re like, ‘I’ve lost myself. Why am I standing outside this bar at 1:30 in the morning texting while my friends are inside? Or taking a taxi to see him at some ungodly hour? This isn’t me.’ That is the moment you’ve gotta cut it off. Otherwise, it will keep coming back, suck your blood.”
That last part is like a blind item… who is the ex she’s referring to? My first thought was Ryan Reynolds because he always seemed like such a douche when they were married (he’s softened a great deal since then), but I don’t think it’s Ryan. I think she’s talking about Sean Penn. Remember how they dated? And Sean does come across exactly that way. Of course, she also says “long, long ago” and she dated Penn in 2011, just five years ago. So… who else could it be? Josh Hartnett? Jared Leto? Nate Naylor (LOL)?
As for what she says about Planned Parenthood and equal pay… I don’t know, I totally agree with her. But half of the country is like “YEA, women need to be punished just for being women, hurray!”
Photos courtesy of James White/Cosmopolitan.
There’s no way it’s Ryan Reynolds. If Ryan acted like a douche it’s because he was with her and she brought the douche out of him. It’s very clear that the past five years he hasn’t been the same person and don’t tell me it’s because of Blake Lively. And everyone knows that Scarjo isn’t exactly the nicest person so I can see someone becoming douche like just being with her. Anyway the way she describes it doesn’t even seem like a husband…but more like a boyfriend/friends with benefit type thing.
Wasn’t there a rumour she had a fling with Ewan McGregor ? Maybe it’s him.
@Sam You can’t bring the douche out of a person. It was already there. You can’t make somebody behave a certain way.
@Fingerbringer yes you can. It’s all a part of psychology. When you’re with someone who isn’t nice, you’re going to inherit their attitude. Who you’re with has an influence on your personality. He wasn’t douche like when he was with Alanis and he isn’t douche like with Blake Lively.
@Sam – Yep. That’s why ScarJo fit so well with Sean Penn, until he dumped her.
@Sam – Alanis dedicated a whole album to her break up with RR & made it clear how much she missed him, they’re probably cool now, but there was likely a lot of hurt.
I can’t stand Scarjo, but the pretentious Sodastream queen could be referencing anyone here. At least she’s not spouting her usual stupidities like how calling her ScarJo is a ‘violation’. *eye roll*
@Sam I don’t believe that. I don’t know either of them personally and I don’t think you do either. There’s a lot of projection and assuming on your part.
Oh please, RR was a douche to Alanis too. Are we going to blame the woman every time a coupled-up man behaves badly?
If there’s anything that’s humbled him and made him a better person in the last five years, it’s probably the resounding failure of his career until Deadpool revived it.
having a kid can change you dramatically, too. your priorities shift considerably.
my sis and I used to fight like nobody’s business (mostly her, she was narcissistic and self entitled and treated me poorly as the little sister) and after she had her first kid, she changed COMPLETELY. much more mellow and realizes what’s important in life.
@doofus – that is true, it’s probably been a major recalibration of priorities in the last few years (career+kid).
Which is a good thing, because I’d heard of him being far from the nice-guy image he has now, as far back as his Van Wilder days. No woman caused that. But it appears fatherhood changed him for the better, for real.
Wrong Spot
Ryan comes off as way too needy. No way it was him.
Needy? Because he does not like to waste his time in meaningless relationships? When a man (or a woman, for that matter) approaching 40 screws around is not because he is a hedonist or, as she put it, “attractively unavailable” but simply puerile or perhaps GAY? Can we agree that when two people split the reason could be that the woman is REALLY a bitch and not necessarily because the man is a douche?
Blind item : Benicio del Toro
I think Scar & Benicio were just a one-night thing, she makes the blind item sound like a relationship!
I actually didn’t think she made it sound like a relationship… I think she means being into someone and not being reciprocated. So maybe after the one-night thing she was trying to see him more and he was like “Eh.. I’m over it”.
But a one-sided relationship, like a booty call she wished would grow.
@Mimz – Good point
It never happened, Kaiser!
I actually read the magazine – it was iirc, Cosmo – with the interview in it where they asked her about the rumour, and in the actual magazine it was pretty apparent she was being sarcastic with the ‘and then we had sex in the elevator and it was very unhygienic’. But when taken out of context and turned into a quote, it becomes an endorsement of the rumour and not what it actually was – basically her saying ‘as if!’
Oh my gosh, she never slept with Benicio! It was a joke!
I like him for this, did they ever get lapped hanging out together with groups of friends or out partying?
Hanging around outside of bars and texting makes this seem super casual and like it got cut off pretty early on.
If it was Reynolds, or a long term partner, the story would be about leaving her to work all the time, not returning calls, absentee husband stuff.
That was my immediate thought too. But was that just a one-time thing? I remember her describing it as “unhygienic”
that was her being sarky, I hate-read the interview wayyyy back when it came out and even to my hating eyes, it was really apparent she was taking the piss.
I thought this never actually happened? Wasn’t it a joke that got out of hand…or something? Like, she was kidding around with a journalist and described their encounter as ‘unsanitary’ and when Del Toro was asked about it, he didn’t exactly confirm or deny. But I think she eventually denied that it happened at all. I could be remembering this all wrong.
I think it’s Jared Leto.
I remember a pic of them kissing, and she had her eyes closed and looked like she was very into it, and he had his eyes open and was looking at his phone. while they kissed.
it just gave me that vibe, that she was smitten and he was “meh”.
I think it’s jared Leto, too.
It’s totally Leto, that picture says it all.
Also she was about 19 or 20 at the time, really plausible that a young girl that age wouldnt yet have the experience to recognise when a relationship is pointless.
I like the way you think, Doofus. Agree.
Yeah, my first thought was Leto. He just seems the type.
Jared Leto all the way.
Yep. Jared Leto loves Jared Leto more than he could ever possibly love anyone else.
Me too. They were always “hanging out” but never “going out”. It was pretty common knowledge they were a casual thing for ages, so maybe she wanted more than just a hook up.
My guess is the tool from Music who is dating Lena Dunham.
Half the country? No. The majority of Americans support PP and abortions. It’s a very vocal and pushy minority.
Wasn’t she dating Sean Penn at one time?
Jared Leto
in this article is a picture of her kissing him while he stares at his cell phone:
http://www.thefrisky.com/2014-04-17/banksys-latest-takes-aim-at-cellphone-addiction/
and ewww for saying “attractively unavailable”.
Ha, just posted the same thing. Great minds… 🙂
Totally Leto. Hes a total douche nut. Is it me or is she morphing into Sharon Stone with this new pixie cut?
+ 1
That was my first guess.
I think it’s him, too, after being reminded here about that cell phone picture. It’s just that I always forget they were ever a thing. I think she’s got spectacularly bad taste in men. The options for this one are all pretty awful.
Yep. This. Jared
also just posted this. I remember that pic because it just seemed so harsh.
That pic immediately flashed in my mind, too…
I’m pretty sure it refers to Jared Leto. He just seems like an insufferable douche.
Does anyone remember that picture of her and Jared Leto where she’s kissing him and he’s looking at his phone? First thing that came to my mind.
Justin Timberlake?
Y’know it could be Sean Penn. (I know yuck!)
But US Weekly (who broke the story of the relationship, even though it was denied) said Penn ended it, ScarJo became clingy and was still trying to get in with him.
It’s totally Jared Leto. Everybody remembers the picture of Jared, Scarlett and the phone.
What pic? Do you have a link?
This pic: http://41.media.tumblr.com/306c83608214939d9e0beaad8ac57eb7/tumblr_inline_nxl236f2jI1qz9244_400.jpg
First of all, I love her look here. She is gorgeous. And I really like what she said about the equal pay. She and most actors successful in Hollywood have no right to complain. The debate needs to shift from actors to normal people. They are not saving anyone’s life and make a lot of money. Even if actresses get payed less, the likes of JLaw should admit that they still are very privileged. Regarding the blind item, my money is on Jared Leto. He seems like an emotionally unavailable douche who thinks his ART is above all including respect and human decency. He seems like someone who gets off of someone else’s admiration of him, luring in, flirting only to make the other person invested in the relationship. That’s the vibe I get from him anyway
I agree. Scarlet looks so beautiful in this set of photos. I agree its’s about Jared. He might be a talented actor but any guy who thinks he’s God’s gift to women is so unattractive.
here’s the thing, JLaw DID admit she was very privileged compared to most women, right there in that essay.
And Laineygossip’s post brought up an interesting point, which is that Scarjo is one of the few women who (now by her own admission) makes as much as her male peers, and has been for a while now – while JLaw was still making less than even Renner, as recently as American Hustle. I can see how she’s reluctant to come across as complaining about the wage gap when it’s known the amount she pulled down for the last two Avengers films was more than what any of her male costars got, barring RDJ of course.
And yeah, she looks stunning with that haircut. She’s one of those women who doesn’t need long hair to look good, this cut really makes the most of her bone structure and features.
“She and most actors successful in Hollywood have no right to complain.” Everyone has the right to complain about unfair and unequal treatment. Where do you stop this line of thinking? Maybe none of the “normal people” of Western society should be complaining either since they’re not starving in a war-torn country.
Thank you! Some people will always have it better than other people. Clearly a lot of problems some people face (including myself) are first world problems. That doesn’t mean they should just sit, be quiet and not complain if they’re being treated unfairly. That line of thinking makes me SMH as well.
And, truly, who is in a better position to call out injustice than somebody who is on the higher end of that power conflict?
I also used PP services for exams!! I have a very non open weird relationship with my mother(who still has never mentioned what a period is, or where babies come from and I’m 30!!). I heard from friends that after you start, you get exams. I finally, being terrified, worked up the nerve to go at 17 years old! I’m so thankful for that resource when I was younger!
I don’t like her at all, but I agree with what she said about Planned Parenthood. We are moving backward. There is a segment of our society that’s uncomfortable with women being free to make their own choices, and their voice is very loud right now. I’m getting fed up with it.
There is a segment of the population who honestly believe abortion is ending a life (I’m included in that). In a perfect world, there would be no abortion, but it’s an imperfect world. I think it should be up to the states to decide the legality of abortion, outside of cases of rape and incest.
Count me in on the ending of life. I absolutely hate that the woman is the one who ultimately has to make and bear the most of the results of the decision to end a life, but that’s biology.
I also hate that most (not all) birth control – even the birth control pill, make the uterus an inhospitable place for an embryo, also then ending a life. Women need to be informed about how these birth controls work, so they can make their own decisions. I know it wasn’t until I read the fine print on my birth control pills that I realized that IF I did ovulate, and the ovum became fertilized, it still would not implant.
I don’t want women not to have access to the medical care that Planned Parenthood provides. And I don’t want us to be slaves to the reproductive cycle that women were in past times. But I abhor the ending of a life the way most birth controls work. Can you tell I am conflicted?
While I personally have never had an abortion, I also don’t drink or do drugs of any kind. However I don’t think for a moment that everyone HAS to make my life choices. When drinking became illegal, people drank furniture polish; when abortions are unavailable, they happen “back alley” ANYWAY.
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It’s HIGHLY unlikely that I could ever go through having an abortion myself. That said, the only person I have the right to make that choice for is me. And as another poster pointed out, criminalizing abortion won’t stop it from happening. It will just make the procedure more dangerous for women.
Part of me truly believes that, if men could carry children, this whole pro-life vs pro-choice debate wouldn’t even exist…
How about you guys make the decision for yourselves, and not other women?
You have 2 choices. You can be anti abortion or anti birth control, but it’s one or the other.
Bodily autonomy is an inalienable right. Your right to punch ends at my face. Your right to believe in what constitutes life ends at my uterus.
How much of this segment of the population is fighting for universal free prenatal care, guaranteed family leave for both parents, protection of women in the workplace from discrimination for being a parent, reduced cost or free child care, better early education, sex education, and better public schools?
Life may begin at implantation of an egg for some people, but it continues for decades and people and communities are affected. Who’s fighting for these people? I was raised in a devout Catholic family but I could never let it lay on my conscience that I had forced a women to endure pregnancy against her will.
In Texas, women are now forced to bear pregnancies that are terminal because the fetus must die a natural death. I could link a article here of the horrors that some of these women have endured. They matter; these women with lives and desires and feelings matter and it sickens me that under this law they are disregarded as incubators.
Not my uterus, not my decision.
SilkyMalice, you sound about as conflicted as the Pope on the subject of contraception. You also sound like someone who thinks women should be forced to have and view ultrasounds prior to terminating a pregnancy because you assume that no woman would go through with it if she truly understood what she was doing. And you sound about as sincere as an infomercial saying you had no idea how the Pill worked until you read the fine print.
You are, of course, entitled to your beliefs about an unimplanted embryo being a tragic loss of life, but most women (certainly in the US) do not agree with you and no amount of concern trolling on your part will change our minds.
I can’t even respond to SilkyMalice in a civil manner. You belong in the 18th century. Please do not presume to inflict your backwards views on the rest of us. You are dangerous in your hatred for your fellow woman and your fear of sex.
@Kristen820, my (Catholic) mother used to say “if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.”
@Natalie – AMEN SISTER! most of these people are pro BIRTH, not pro life. they stop giving a f*ck what you do with the kid after it’s born. just another way for them to “punish” a woman for having sex.
@SilkyMalice…. you’re 100% mistaken about birth control pills… because my mother got pregnant with my sister while on birth control pills, my friend Amy got pregnant with her son while on birth controls………so birth control pills do not make the uterus an inhospitable place for fetuses… where are you getting this bull$shit from?
@BitsandPizzas- Regardless of the belief, the government should not be telling individuals how they should run their life or what someone can or cannot do with their body. I am always amused by the argument of conservatives about smaller government except when they want to tell segments of the population they are not allowed to make decisions regarding their body or they are not allowed to marry someone of the same sex because it is against their religion. Do we forget why the United States was created… religious freedom. A part of that religious freedom is to be tolerant of others that believe in something different. Some of us believe that life does not begin at contraception, some do. Some of us believe regardless of when life begins, the decision to terminate a pregnancy is between a woman and her doctor. While Roe v Wade made abortion legal throughout the 50 states, states were given permission to decide the parameters of it. And some have chipped away at that right that in some states (I’m think Kansas), it’s illegal for most segments of the population. There are so many laws denying abortions to girls under 18 or 16 without parental consent, no abortions after the third trimester, some after the first or second trimester, some don’t allow state tax dollars to fund abortion, some states only have one PP in the state, etc.
I just want to say I agree with silkymalace and Bob you may not agree but your reply is offensive. How about allowing someone to express an opinion different than yours without berating them?
@Zwella
Some opinions deserve to be berated. This woman (I assume) not only wants to choose whether or not a woman can terminate her own pregnancy, she wants to dictate whether or not another woman is can use birth control. Because there could have possibly been a conception, but it was prevented. I guess I commit murder every day because I had a hysterectomy. How ridiculous does someone have to get before you feel they can be called on it? That kind of garbage doesn’t deserve respect any more than I respect countries that don’t allow women to go to school or drive.
Some of you need a refresher course on reading comprehension. Nowhere did silky malice state she supports taking away women’s right to choose birth control or abortion. She just regrets the reality of how some of it works and that women bear the heaviness of the decision regardless. Feel free to revert to your normal roles of tone control godesses after freaking the f()€|< out and telling me to take 10,000 seats.
I applaud what Scarjo says. My views on abortion have gradually changed as I got older and while I understand that others view it differently, I think it has to be available and accessible. As a non – American, what I don’t understand is that at every election, it is still one of the major issues, all these years after Roe versus Wade, particularly since, I believe, a considerable majority of the population are pro choice. It’s just bizarre. I think even people who regretted the end of slavery stopped trying to bring it back eventually. Is this “I’m more pro life than you are ” contest, and pledges to ban abortion, still going to be going on among the Republican Party candidates in another 50 years?
Tara and Zwelda thank you. I think that people did not read my post carefully enough. Of course I want women to be able to choose birth control!! I explicitly stated that I didn’t want us back to being slaves of our reproductive systems.
– used to be Crumpet –
Social hot button issues are a distraction from the insane economic policies that seek to disenfranchise the people. If everyone is busy fighting over women’s bodily autonomy, the folks in charge can bend the economy to their will and leave the rest of us broke.
I do think anti-choice laws have replaced the anti-gay campaigning of the early ’00s as a way to ensure social conservatives vote. but it is important for people to stand against this and push back. We can care about more than one thing at a time.
Oh Natalie I completely agree. I think the people up top don’t care but they rally the people on the ground who do. How many “pro-life” politicians have pressured mistresses and daughters to get abortions, I wonder.
You nailed it. Every four years this gets brought up as an election tool and way to get people to the polls to vote on this one issue. Meanwhile our economy and our national security get a pass and the politicians laugh themselves to the bank.
I’m hoping it will motivate younger women to understand just how new and precarious our freedoms are. Just how many obstacles are still in our path simply because we are women.
the icky thing is that she is one of the most overrated and hence overpaid actresses in Hollywood.
So true.
Yup. The ultimate monotonous mouthbreather
But her hair is SO slamming right now! I love that cut on her — sorry….
In your opinion.
I have a feeling its Jared Leto. I remember Lindsay Lohan (credible source i know) talking about what it was like to date Jared. It was in late 2005, early 2006 when Lindsay and Jared dated. She said in a later interview that Jared would text her late at night asking her to come over, but to make sure no paparazzi were following her. It’s like Jared would text the girl he was “dating” late at night because he failed to score with some hot swimsuit model (a la Dicaprio) and wanted to just hook up with an easy target.
This sounds like what I envision she’s referencing. Not a single event, or trying to chase someone. I think she’s talking about a person who was controlling the relationship with little regard for her schedule or feelings.
OMG, I totally forgot that Lindsay Lohan dated Jared Leto. Hollywood is just one big petri dish of shared bodily fluids, isn’t it? Eww, eww, eww.
I think the detective of Celebitchy have done excellent work! I vote Jared Leto as well. What an odd duck he is.
Jared Leto. there an old pic of them kissing and he’s staring at his phone while she looks super into it.
She looks gorgeous and I agree, she looks better as a blonde (but I don’t mind her Black Widow’s hair). By the way I forgot she dated Penn and Leto…what a gross combo.
The new civil war movie isn’t really another avengers movie nor is thor even following the same storyline as avengers
It’s a captain America not the avengers or Thor.
I. LOVE her hair, LOVE it, I Love her face it’s a haircut to showcases that.. which is what so offended me about Miley’s hair LOLOL like the conceit to bring more attention to that nose and veneers?!?!
I love her cut too and think she looks best with short hair. She has the face and attitude to pull it off….like you QQ ( if that avatar is you… I love your posts.)
Thank you ma’am! *kisses* I think for me is habit I think since I was 8-9 my hair has been a variety of short, maybe grew it out once but I just can’t fuss with long hair, that said hers and when Michelle Williams did hers (and her growing out process!! are super goals of mine!
@QQ- wait a second, that pic is YOU?! I always assumed it was an anime character or something (thanks to purple hair and cool swoopy shapes/lines in the haircut)
I wish I had the face to pull off that kind of short hair, but mine is a face without angles.
LMAO yeah teacakes, i dyed that ish purple 2 years ago and I CANNOT go back to plain black LOL !!
teacakes, I wear my hair short, too (shout out to QQ, just can’t fuss with long hair either…also, mine is so curly it would “grow OUT” – in the words of my hairdresser – not DOWN) and I have a very round face.
you don’t need angles to do it…if you want short hair, go for it…there are all kinds of styles that look good on round-faced people.
teacakes, doofus has the rights of it, you need to find the right stylist and also check cuts for your specific hair/ face, for example my hair is kinda very curly and coarse and I cut it myself BUT I never ever ever cut my hair wet cause I need to do it in a way that lays just so? is that kind of thing ( i spend a HUGE amount of time examining short hair accounts/angles etc
Still in her mind, uhu…
Odd. She either sounds wistful about her 1st marriage in interviews or referencing her former relationship, Her French dude must be wondering what’s up.
What the hell’s wrong with how her cleavage looks? I think it looks natural and gorgeous compared to the usual fakes we get shoved in our faces.
Agree, her boobs look great — full and round. If there is any kind of overhang some people think it looks bad which I don’t get.
it’s like people don’t know what a naturally full chest looks like any more.
She does look gorgeous. Agree we have gotten so used to seeing “bolt on” boobs attached to skeletal bodies that seeing naturally full bust seems odd
Eh, it’s not the most flattering cut to the bust. It’s kind of squishing her down in a way that looks uncomfortable, I think. Nothing to do with natural/ unnatural.
Leto or Penn, leaning toward Leto, but I wish it were Bill Murray
Good interview! I like her hair, too. I’d love for her to dye it pink some day, for whatever reason.
I’m dealing with a perpetually unavailable man right now, and it’s painful. It does give me some comfort to know that even ScarJo has suffered this indignity. *sigh*
I’ve dealt with two of them in a row, the first of which ended up dating one of my closest friends (now ex-friend). Best advice I give you is to move on and cut your losses. Stay strong girl.
@NIKKISIXX, thanks girl. It is over romantically and we live in different cities, which helps. He keeps calling and texting, though. That’s what I don’t get about these guys. It’s like they want to keep you in their back pocket, just in case. Adds insult to injury.
I keep this as a reference book on emotionally unavailable guys: http://www.amazon.com/Unavailable-Fallback-Girl-Understanding-Emotionally-ebook/dp/B005WJGPZI
@TARA, I’m reading that book right now, LOL!
@Joanie Same experience. Different state, kept calling and texting for two years until he found someone he actually wanted to date. These guys are immature, selfish assholes so best to treat them with the same level of disrespect they bestow on us.
Yeah Nikki, that’s my instinct. He just hasn’t found anyone else yet.
@Joanie: Stay strong! 🙂
Thanks ladies. I’m in recovery 😉
On the cover, does she look like Elsa Pataky, or am I imagening things?
I see it too. I wish I didn’t.
I think the emotionally unavailable guy she’s referring to is Leto. Though I don’t have any recollection of their dating timeline, I do know it was a long time ago and he just seems like the fly by the night, breezes in and out of your life kind of dude.
As to the suggestion it was Reynolds, it couldn’t have been him. He ended up proposing and they got married so obviously he wasn’t all THAT unavailable to her!
She said what I would say if I was a movie star asked about equal pay. If it just works for millionaire women, there’s no point discussing it.
Funny, her interviews are always very good, she gave the best one about motherhood, still I can’t stand her. She’s so icy and morose, and a very monotone actress.
This is so cringeworthy to talk about when you are over 30. “I onced like a guy and texted him .not sure if felt the same” o and i did outside when my friends where inside” yada, yada…like who hasnt done that
Jared Leto. He is the only guy from her list that I would stand outside texting
I had no idea she made the same salary as her male co-stars. Does she have better agents and lawyers? I guess I’m surprised because I don’t think of her as the kind of mega-watt star that J-Law is or Julia Roberts was in the ’90s.
Her answer to the wage gap question was pretty good.
She looks pretty on the cover.
She was totally talking about Josh Hartnett
I don’t think is Josh… they were together for awhile and went on holidays together.. there are pictures of them kissing by the beach and they seemed committed… Rumour has it she broke up with him.