Considering that we’ve already covered Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe this morning, it makes sense to add Abbie Cornish in the mix. GQ sent us this lovely photo of Abbie – she did a shoot with the magazine to promote her roles in Limitless and Sucker Punch. Unfortunately, Abbie is just saying some junk about being a vegetarian and shooting some guns – kind of boring. I want to know what she thinks about this Ryan/baby-daddy-drama situation. Ryan allegedly (or not so) screwed around on Abbie too, and that’s why they split up last February. You know she’s got some dirt.

Abbie Cornish didn’t have to do time in the art house to build a Hollywood career. Just look at her. Girls who have got that don’t need to play knocked-up smack addicts (Candy) or button down for tricky little period pieces (Bright Star). So let us celebrate the fact that she has (finally) put away serious things and decided to go a little Hollywood, playing the role of unjustly institutionalized, definitely very dangerous Sweet Pea in Sucker Punch. Nerd-core director Zack Snyder’s latest tells the trippy tale of five tough-as-nails chicks busting out of a psych ward—and forced the 28-year-old Australian actress to hit the armory for the first time in her life.

“I’m a vegetarian—I’m not the type to want to go shoot a gun,” says Cornish. “Then I actually got to the range and totally fell in love with an M4. It was kind of amazing.” Somewhere in heaven, Charlton Heston nods sagely.

[From GQ]

As I said, meh. I think one of my biggest problems with Abbie is that she doesn’t really have a distinctive “look”. Whenever I see photos of her, I’m always like, “Charlize!! No, not Charlize. Maria Bello? Kate Bosworth? Who is that?” I suppose it helps Abbie as an actress to not have one distinctive look, but you never mistake Cate Blanchett for anyone else, now do you?

Oh, and in case you wanted to know who had the cover of this month’s GQ:

Photos courtesy of GQ.

When I first saw these photos of Abbie Cornish in thumbnail-form, I thought that it was Charlize Theron. From a distance, and when the image is really small, Abbie totally passes for Charlize. Weird, isn’t it? I think they just have very similar face-shapes. Anyway, these are photos of Abbie at last night’s LA premiere of Limitless, that odd-looking film starring Bradley Cooper as a dude who can take a pill and suddenly access new and different parts of his brain. Whatevs.

Anyway, Abbie’s outfit is blowing my mind (my mind is blown by really dumb things). Is she doing some kind of homage to Larry King? What’s with the suspenders? AND the tapered pants? And the sleeveless shirt? All together, she just looks so dated and strange. This also looks like something Kim Kardashian would attempt.

Bradley Cooper was at the premiere too, looking squirrelly. His beloved, Renee Zellweger was not there, though. At least, not in any photos I’m seeing.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Doesn’t it seem like Josh Hartnett is the go-to guy to romance a girl who has found herself newly single in Hollywood? That’s become the only thing he’s known for in the past few years, if random gossip about his sex life can be taken as gospel (why not?). At various times, he’s been associated with Sienna Miller, Mary-Kate Olsen, Mischa Barton, and Rumer Willis, amongst others. This week Josh is allegedly romancing Abbie Cornish, straight from her breakup with Ryan Phillippe. I believe it because Abbie and Josh have allegedly been hooking up for the better part of a month, and this latest report is just one of many:

New couple alert?

Josh Hartnett and Abbie Cornish spent Saturday night together at bar in New York, tucked into a corner booth for hours before leaving together around 1 am.

Cornish, who split from longtime boyfriend Ryan Phillippe in February, has been in New York filming ‘The Dark Fields’ with Bradley Cooper.

Hartnett lives in New York and hasn’t made many movies recently.

The pair were together at Warren 77, a bar co-owned by New York Ranger Sean Avery, at 10 pm. Cornish wore her hair in a low ponytail and was dressed in black. Hartnett, still mustached, had on a gray hat and glasses.

After talking for awhile by the bar, Huffington Post watched as the pair retired to a back corner table, where they stayed till 1 am, when they left together.

[From Huffington Post]

Yes, after taking a two year break from acting, Josh has one film in post-production (Bunraku), and one in production currently (Gunslinger). I had high hopes for Josh, just because I thought he was one of those still-waters-run-deep dudes who just seem sort of hot and vague. He’s made a few good movies (Sin City, Black Hawk Down) and I was hoping that he would end up finding some stellar role that would make him break out from the “hot but vague dude” vibe, like Heath Ledger did in Brokeback Mountain. Would a relationship with Abbie Cornish help him or hurt him? Eh. She’s known as a good actress, so maybe it would help. Hope against hope.

There are so many rumors about Ryan Phillippe’s love life, past and present, that you would think the dude has a jock of gold. But honestly, Ryan has only been in two major relationships in the past decade – his marriage to Reese Witherspoon, and his three/four-year relationship with Abbie Cornish. Now, he could totally have been screwing around on one of both of them – those are the rumors, at least. Persistent rumors about his wandering eye and wandering wang. And Abbie Cornish didn’t really do anything to dismiss those rumors when she announced that she dumped Ryan in February, after months of rumors that he was screwing around on her.

But now Ryan is trying to get “the truth” out in a new interview he did on Howard Stern’s show. Ryan has been on Stern’s show before, which always makes me hate Ryan. Ryan loves to gossip. Ryan loves to dish about his relationships and costars. And this interview was no different. According to Ryan, Abbie didn’t dump him, it was mutual. Oh, and those persistent rumors that Abbie was “the other woman” when he and Reese split? Ryan says: “I’m tired of getting sh-t on. I don’t feel like I deserve it. Things happen! How many people have you broken up with over your life?” Umm…

When a rep for actress Abbie Cornish told UsMagazine.com in February that she had broken up with Ryan Phillippe, at least one person was surprised: Ryan Phillippe.

“I have a new rule: not to date anyone who has a publicist,” Phillippe quipped during a Monday radio interview on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM radio show. The actor explained that he and Cornish had privately ended their four-year romance face-to-face — but no one had warned him of an impending public statement claiming Cornish had dumped him.

“Who announces a breakup? I don’t understand that! There’s no need for that.” Phillippe added, “I’ve been dumped on in the press for relationship stuff since Reese [Witherspoon] and I divorced.” Phillippe and Cornish began dating in 2006, around the same time as his split with Witherspoon after seven years of marriage.

“I’m tired of getting s*** on,” Phillippe, 35, told Stern. “I don’t feel like I deserve it. Things happen! How many people have you broken up with over your life?”

The actor and Witherspoon now share joint custody of their daughter Ava, 10, and son Deacon, 6 — and, he said, “it’s gotten to a place where we’re great friends and great co-parents.” Such great friends, in fact, that they console each other after breakups.

“After I had my breakup, she called, and after she did, I called.” Witherspoon, 34, called it quits with Jake Gyllenhaal in early December after nearly three years together.

Phillippe didn’t have much to say about Witherspoon’s new beau, Jim Toth. “I trust her to make the right decisions around our children,” he said simply “I hope she feels the same way.”

He points out that his kids don’t get too invested in their parents’ dating lives. “If the kids care about mom dad, and if that’s consistent and they feel protected that way, they don’t they don’t really care so much about who the parent is dating. They just don’t.”

To Howard Stern’s chagrin, Phillippe also reveals that he and his ex-wife have not had “ex sex.” “That hasn’t happened,” he told the shock jock.

Since the Cornish split, he said he’s “enjoying the single-ish” life, although he calls himself a “serial monogamist…Either a girl is worth spending all of my time with or none of my time.” He shoots down rumors that he’s hooked up with Victoria’s Secret model Selita Ebanks, Lindsay Lohan or Jessica Simpson. “I’ve never met Jessica Simpson!”

[From Us Weekly]

Before the inevitable “but he did that in 2006” and “but she said this in 2007” stuff, let me point out that Reese has moved on, visibly, vocally, emotionally, physically and mentally. She’s not out there talking about taking four years to do “spring cleaning” or demanded that everyone form a goddess circle around her yoga mat. She’s never disrespected Abbie, or Ryan for that matter. So Reese has never “sh-t” on Ryan, at least in public. Is Ryan claiming Reese has? I don’t think he is, honestly. I think he’s talking about us, out here, celebrity gossipers, who “sh-t” on him for probably screwing around on Reese. Personally, though, I think he’s a douche because A) He seems to screw around on every girl he’s with, not just Reese and B) I don’t like adult men who go on Howard Stern to complain about their women they’ve had relationships with. It’s pathetic and petty, and it makes him seem like he‘s desperate to have any kind of relevancy. And you know the simple fact that Ryan answered the “ex sex” question is going to piss off Reese.

People Magazine has a semi-snarky brief report on Ryan Phillippe’s antics after his split with girlfriend Abbie Cornish. They make it sound like he’s chasing after anything in a skirt and doesn’t have a type. First he’s all over one girl, then he got distracted by another, then he was with another group of girls. It sounds like a fun night out, but if reports are to be believed, Ryan had plenty of those in the months leading up to his breakup.

Newly single, Ryan Phillippe was definitely in a party mode at Teddy’s inside the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where he mingled with several female clubgoers. Sporting a tight gray T-shirt, the actor hopped on the dancefloor and started getting down with somebody while Samantha Ronson spun tunes from the deejay booth. The actor and his lady friend were flirting, but then Phillippe started focusing his attention on a brunette. The two talked closely, getting pretty hands-on with each other as they danced. At one point Phillippe, who had a vodka drink in his hands all night, made a lap into the hotel’s lobby, where he chatted up a few more girls before returning to the club.

[From People]

The best part of the Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish breakup story was the aftermath, which Kaiser already reported but I’ll recap. Ryan desperately tried to quash Abbie’s claim that she dumped him and moved out with his own PR person’s report that he’s the one who dumped her and kicked her out of his home. (Which is incredible, by the way. I wouldn’t move out of there willingly.)

OK! reported that the break could have happened because Abbie suspected Ryan of secretly reuniting with Reese for some hot sex, but I doubt Reese would be having that. She seems like she’s too strong and took too much of Ryan’s sh*t to hook up with him again. He’s the one who cheated on her with Abbie in the first place. The way I’m seeing it, Abbie just got fed up with Ryan’s womanizing ways. It bears repeating over and over “If he cheats with you…”

Bill Zwecker, the gossip columnist in the Chicago Sun Times, reports that a source tells him Ryan “has a Tiger Woods problem,” aka a wandering dick. No woman can validate those kind of men who have a near-bottomless need for reassurance and attention. So they go around trying to bed anyone who will have them while their partners sit home dealing with the worst of their sh*t. Maybe Abbie learned her lesson and will pick a guy who isn’t attached next time.

Yesterday, CB reported the shocking (not so much) news that Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish had split. The report seemed very reliable – it came from People Magazine, and Abbie’s rep confirmed the split, saying “Abbie ended the relationship with Ryan and she moved out of their home.” What’s a little bit funny is that one sentence has set off a pretty interesting and funny bitchiness from Ryan. Ryan’s rep contacted People and had them rewrite and republish (online) a new version of the breakup article with a new quote. Ryan’s rep told People: “Ryan ended the relationship and asked her to move out of his house.” Hm… I love a little he-said/she-said bullsh-t.

Obviously, the bulk of the Cornish-Phillippe post-breakup fight won’t be done in the pages of People Magazine, because People isn’t going to pick sides… yet. OK! Magazine was game, though. They published a “What Really Happened” account of the split, and included a little dirt that Abbie was concerned that Ryan and Reese might still be hittin’ it! That’s good gossip, right?

As news surfaced this morning that Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish have called it quits, Hollywood has been left asking — who brought about the break-up?

Sources close to the couple say both sides are claiming they are responsible for the split. “Ryan ended the relationship recently while she was in Australia and asked her to come and remove her items from his residence,” a pal of Ryan’s tells OK!.

“She was gone for seven months in production and they basically grew apart,” the source adds. “They’d broken up a few times prior. There was no cheating or roving eyes.”

Over on Abbie’s side, a friend tells OK! the starlet was concerned over Ryan’s fidelity — especially since his ex-wife Reese Witherspoon recently ended her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal.

“Abbie has always questioned Ryan’s loyalty. How could she not? When she began dating him he was married, she’s a smart girl,” dishes the insider. “She knows men don’t change, she hoped he would but she always knew deep down this wasn’t forever.”

However Ryan’s pal insists that there was no other woman involved — including Ryan’s ex.

“He will always care about Reese, she is the mother of his kids and his first big love,” claims the source.

During the course of Abbie and Ryan’s romance, Abbie became close to his kids with Reese, Ava and Deacon.

“She is very sad about not seeing the kids regularly,” Abbie’s pal tells OK!. ” She loves them, adores them and will miss them terribly.”

Now that Abbie has moved out of Ryan’s home, where will she go next? Looks like the native Aussie might be heading back to her roots!

“She is seriously considering moving back to Australia before the summer. She moved here for Ryan, and now doesn’t really think she could stay in L.A. without him,” Abbie’s friend dishes to OK!. “She still hasn’t grown comfortable with living here and is just much more comfortable with family back in Australia. Her mother really wants her to come home.”

[From OK! Magazine]

So, they don’t come right out and say “Abbie was concerned that Ryan might still be slipping Reese a little something-something” but it’s all in the subtext. However, even though I love a great piece of juicy, dirty gossip, I don’t think it’s true. And if it’s true that Abbie had those particular concerns, I think girlfriend needs to wake up. Ryan and Reese are no longer bangin’. He’s been bangin’ other women, but not his ex-wife.

Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish have broken up after four years together. Ryan and Abbie’s relationship is thought to have hastened the end of his marriage to Reese Witherspoon. They met on the set of Stop Loss in 2006, when Ryan was still married. Perhaps proving the old adage “if he cheats with you…,” it was rumored back in December that Ryan was cheating on Abbie and macking on random women in clubs. It’s possible they were broken up back then, or that they were having problems and that Ryan was dealing with it the only way he knows how. Abbie’s spokesperson confirmed the breakup to People:

It’s over between actress Abbie Cornish and boyfriend Ryan Phillippe, her spokesperson confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.

“Abbie ended the relationship with Ryan and she moved out of their home,” the rep tells PEOPLE. On Sunday, the actress was spotted removing her belongings from the house she shared with Phillippe while he visited a friend with children Ava and Deacon.

The split follows months of tabloid speculation that Phillippe has been unfaithful to Cornish – regularly hitting the nightclubs and being linked to other women. When asked about the cause of the break-up and whether Phillippe cheated on Cornish, her rep replied, “No comment.”

Cornish, 27, and Phillippe, 35, met in 2006 on the set of the film, Stop-Loss, and survived intense media scrutiny following Phillippe’s divorce from Reese Witherspoon. Cornish has been in Vancouver for the last seven months shooting the film, Sucker Punch.

Reps for Phillippe could not be reached for comment.

[From People]

This story makes it sound like Abbie had to go out of town for work and just naively expected Ryan to be faithful to her while she was away. These two are very private, so maybe they called it quits a while ago and Abbie’s PR people convinced her she needed to let the public know about it. Ryan and Abbie were photographed at an event together at the end of January, though, so I would assume the breakup was recent. I’m thinking Abbie got fed up with Phillippe’s passive aggressive behavior and cheating. Sounds just like what Reese had to deal with.

Call me crazy, but I think the National Enquirer may be on to something with this report – they’re claiming that Ryan Phillippe is “back to his horndog ways” and screwing around big time on live-in girlfriend Abbie Cornish. First, let me say this: Abbie and Ryan don’t talk about their relationship very often, so when the tabloids do report anything about them, it’s usually either extreme: either they’re getting married and planning on a million babies, or Ryan is cheating on Abbie and she’s heartbroken. Either could be true. But there’s something about Ryan that I don’t trust, so I usually believe the “Ryan is a womanizer” rumors, like the ones from a few months ago that had Ryan being a douchey tool while Abbie was promoting a film in Cannes.

Anyway, this week’s version has Ryan cheating with an assortment of no-name girls, except for one: Hayden Panettiere. Oh, yes. This is why I think there’s a whiff of truth to it – can’t you see Ryan making a move on Hayden? I can.

Ryan Phillippe seems to be chasing after every girl in Hollywood – and it has all but wrecked his romance with girlfriend Abbie Cornish, say close pals.

“Ryan and Abbie are on the rocks because he’s back to his horndog ways,” an insider told The Enquirer. “He’s been hitting the clubs regularly and desperately trying to hook up with almost every young woman he meets. His womanizing has gotten so out of hand it’s like Abbie never existed.”

While Ryan and Abbie’s relationship seemed stable as recently as late October when he visited her on the set of her film “Sucker Punch” in Vancouver, the couple hasn’t been seen in public together since.

Over the past month, Ryan has been hitting Hollywood’s trendiest hotspots alone. He was particularly flirtatious with a blonde who was having dinner with her mother at the Hollywood restaurant Dan Tana’s recently.

“He kept interrupting their meal, practically begging the girl to hang with him and his friends when she was done eating,” revealed the insider. When she turned him down, he grabbed her cell phone and saved his number on it.

Ryan was also “all over” a stunning brunette at Crown Bar, according to eyewitnesses. And he was spotted getting cozy with 20-year-old “Heroes” actress Hayden Panettiere at the Los Angeles clubs Wonderland and Voyeur.

Although Abbie knew Ryan’s cheating reputation when they started dating, she thought he’d change for her, added the insider.

“Now she’s feeling the pain of his philandering firsthand.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, January 4, 2010]

The last thing I heard about their relationship was Abbie’s cryptic interview in W Magazine back in August. She made it clear that they were together, but things could have conceivably changed in the past few months. I think the most interesting note is that they haven’t been out in public together for months – and Abbie’s had several red carpet appearances the past few months where she’s flown solo. Could it be that Ryan and Abbie are no more? If it’s true, then I say good riddance to Ryan.

Aussie actress Abbie Cornish is profiled in September’s W Magazine, and it is a terrifically boring interview. Most of it is about her new film, Bright Star, directed by Jane Campion (The Piano, one of my faves). It’s a period film about the true romance of poet John Keats and his friend/neighbor Fanny Brawne. Sounds like a tear-jerker, but reading about it is dryer than dirt. For the complete W interview, go here.

The most interesting parts are when Abbie talks about being the girlfriend of Ryan Phillippe. They live together in Los Angeles, where Abbie says, “it was love that brought me here, not work… I think the city feels and looks a little bit different because of that.” Abbie and Ryan met in 2006, when they were cast together in Stop-Loss. There has always been some debate about whether Abbie is a homewrecker, whether Ryan is a cheating douche, or whether Reese played the victimized young wife to great effect. My opinion was always that Ryan and Abbie probably did have something going on, but that Ryan and Reese’s marriage had been on life support for a couple of years before that. I don’t think Abbie was a homewrecker – and I don’t really think either Reese or Ryan is a bad person, they just didn’t want to be married to each other. This is the first time that I can remember Abbie ever speaking this directly about what happened back then:

Why she broaches the subject of romance is inexplicable, since Cornish stiffens when asked directly about her boyfriend. As any celebrity junkie knows, the couple met two years ago on the set of Stop-Loss, the first movie Cornish shot in America after having worked abroad alongside Heath Ledger in Candy, in 2006, and with Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott’s A Good Year. At the time, Phillippe was married to Reese Witherspoon, and when word of the golden couple’s separation leaked to the front pages, Cornish was cast as the culprit, an alluring other woman who tempted Phillippe away from the best-paid and possibly best-loved actress of her generation.

“It was a really difficult time for me,” admits Cornish, who is polite and guarded in demeanor but nonetheless exudes a kind of earthy, unkempt sensuality. “It was just this world of tabloid magazines that I’d never been exposed to. In a normal successful career, someone usually learns these things bit by bit. For me, it was like night and day. I woke up one day and there was this whole new thing I had to process and deal with.”

Cornish seems aware that she’ll have to “deal with” at least some additional measure of personal scrutiny during this interview, and her body language shows that she doesn’t enjoy the prospect. She untucks her legs from beneath her to place her feet more firmly on the ground and raises a hand to cover a pale mole on her left cheek as if it were a secret part of her.

“Have you spent time with Ryan and Reese’s two kids?”

“Of course, yeah.”

Cornish glances to the wicker table beside her, perhaps hoping to find distraction in the plate of berries, glass of rosé and packet of cigarettes there.

“Are you and Ryan engaged?”

“No.”

“Do you have plans in that direction?”

“I don’t know,” she says, adding with a tense laugh, “I think I’m nearly ready to go on to another part of the conversation.”

[From W Magazine]

Is anyone else surprised that she and Ryan are still together? And that we’re not being constantly bombarded with reports of his wandering eye? I am, on both counts. Maybe Ryan has really settled down. As for those engagement rumors, they pop up every now and then. I’m kind of hoping they don’t get married. Just live together, be happy, see how it all works out.

Here are Ryan and Abbie practically pretending not to know each other as they hide from the cameras at LAX on August 7th. Images thanks to BauerGriffinOnline. Header of Abbie at Cannes thanks to PR Photos.com.

Ryan Phillippe may be planning to propose to Abbie Cornish, according to In Touch Weekly, which also had the story about Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhall’s impending nuptials. It seemed like some In Touch editor was like, “Hey, let’s have a story about how Reese’s ex is getting married too!” If they really wanted to make it hilarious, In Touch should have had Reese and Ryan Phillippe having a double wedding – to other people! Shocking.

So In Touch is claiming that Ryan “plans to propose soon” and that “they basically are already married since they live together.” Which I think means I’m married to my dog, since we also live together. My dog and I even sleep in the same room! Oh my God, we are married! Anyhoodle, these engagement stories come out every once in a while, and I don’t put much stock in them. Especially since the last gossip about Ryan and Abbie was about Ryan’s wandering eye in Cannes.

Ryan Phillippe has called his divorce from Reese Witherspoon “the worst time of my life,” but these days, the 34-year-old seems to be in a much happier place. According to an insider, the actor and his longtime girlfriend Abbie Cornish, 26, are already to take the next step.

“Ryan has said several times that he wants to marry Abbie,” the insider tells In Touch. “He plans to propose soon!”

The insider adds that it won’t be much of a change because “they basically are already married since they live together.”

They also won’t be planning a splashy affair.

“Abbie wants a low-key wedding, nothing too huge, and so does Ryan,” says the insider. The couple has even talked about having children of their own.

“Ryan thinks Abbie will be a great step mom to Ava and Deacon, and they want to have a baby together one day.”

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition, June 22 2009]

The step-mom thing … will people get worked up over that? I hope not. Whether or not you think that Ryan’s a cheater, I feel pretty good saying that he’s a great dad, and he wouldn’t bring the wrong woman into his kids’ lives. And people don’t get worked up about Jake Gyllenhaal being in the kids’ lives – or maybe that’s because we think Jake’s so dreamy? I don’t think Ryan’s a bad guy, but I still think Reese deserved an upgrade. So does Abbie, for that matter.

Here are Abbie and Ryan with Ava watching Deacon’s baseball game on June 6th. Images thanks to WENN.com .