It’s always funny how we’re so amazed at the way celebs looks so gorgeous in magazines. Even on an average day walking around the grocery store most celebrities manage to look a hell of a lot better than the rest of us. Yet somehow it’s always a little astonishing to see just how amazing they can look when a team of professionals has at them for a few hours. Sort of like going from a 10 to a 12.

Even though she’s gorgeous on an average day, Reese Witherspoon still manages to look extra amazing on the upcoming issue of Vogue. Reese talked about her relationship with longtime boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal - who she’s kept pretty quiet about - for the first time as well.

“He’s very supportive,” the 32-year-old says in the November issue of Vogue. “Suffice it to say, I’m very happy in life, and I’m very lucky to have a lot of really supportive people around me who care very much for me, and, you know, that’s all you can hope for in life,” Witherspoon adds. “I am very blessed in that way.”

(Gyllenhaal, who moved into Witherspoon’s $5 million L.A. home in August, has been “trying out what it means to coexist as a family,” a source recently told Usmagazine.com. They began dating last year.)

The mom also says she loves to travel with her kids, Ava, 9, and Deacon, 4. (They have accompanied her to trips to Europe to visit Gyllenhaal, who’s currently filming Prince of Persia.)

“I’m very lucky I get to bring my children to great places, and they get to see the world with me, and we get to grow and learn and experience things together,” Witherspoon tells Vogue.

[From Us Weekly]

Reese has long admitted that she’s very type A, but she still seems to do a good job of focusing on the things she should be grateful for. She strikes me as someone who works hard at her career, but the relationships in her life always come first. Us also had a quote from Vince Vaughn about what a great mother Reese is, and a few other ass-kissy quotes from Reese about Vince. Considering they supposedly fought like cats and dogs while filming “Four Christmases,” I found that pretty hard to believe from either of them.

Here’s some of the shots from Reese’s spread in Vogue.

Somewhat elusive lovers Jake Gyllenhaal, 27, and Reese Witherspoon, 32, were spotted out getting coffee in their new city. The romantic pair were rumored to be having trouble a couple of weeks ago when Star Magazine ran a questionable piece saying that they were “drifting apart” as Jake worked 19 hour days in London and Morocco filming The Prince of Persia. Everything looks to be fine for these two and they were even said to be house hunting in London earlier this month. They smiled for the paparazzi and even held hands.

Star has another story this week which claims that Jake almost lost an eye on set when he was screwing around throwing a key up in the air. It fell and scratched him right under his eye, causing a lot of blood and filming to be delayed. He’s said to be fine now, though. The wound was treated by the nurse on set and didn’t even require stitches, but Jake called in sick the next day.

Reese and Jake are shown out shopping in London on October 10. They even stopped by a lingerie store.

Credit: Bauergriffinonline.com

Star Magazine is trying to tempt us with gossip that Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are on the rocks. Star claims that the couple has been drifting apart since Jake went to London and Morocco to shoot “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.” Supposedly the two still talk often but he is distant and clearly distracted, and now Reese is worried that’s how their relationship will always be whenever he’s out of town for work.

Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are discovering that absence does not make the heart grow fonder. The couple, who started dating in early 2007, are struggling to maintain their relationship now that Jake is working 19-hour days in Morocco and London on his next potential blockbuster, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

“This is his first epic, and his mind is on his work,” a pal of Reese’s tells Star. “They talk on the phone and e-mail, but he’s not ‘there.’ Reese is wondering if this is how it’s going to be between them every time he’s out of the country filming.” The relationship hit such a rough patch that Reese, 32, flew to London for a quick rendezvous with Jake, 27, at The Dorchester hotel in mid-September.

“They really needed to reconnect and remember why they were in a relationship in the first place,” says another source. “While there, they even went house hunting for a place because Jake will be using London as his home base until December. Reese doesn’t like the formality of a hotel for her and her two kids.”

Hopefully, celebrating the holidays together “will get them back on the same page,” adds the source.

[From Star Magazine]

It sounds less like Reese and Jake are struggling with long distance and more like there hasn’t been any gossip about them in a long time and Star had to fill up its pages. They’re notorious for printing speculation as fact. Obviously long distance is rough on a relationship. Some find it takes such a toll that it’s worth it for the other person to travel along; however that’s obviously not an option for Reese with two young children at home. It sounds to me like they’re making the best of a bad situation, but it’s probably something they both knew to expect and isn’t really a big deal.

Here’s Reese shoping for shoes at Barney’s in Beverly Hills on September 15th. Images thanks to Fame. Header of Reese and Jake in New York on March 3rd. Images thanks to Splash.

Heath Ledger is receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews for his performance as The Joker in The Dark Knight, but his friends have mixed feelings about seeing the late actor in one of his last roles.

Mary-Kate Olsen, whose role in Heath’s death is reportedly being questioned by the DEA and was rumored to be casually dating Heath at the time of his death, made a low-key visit to see The Dark Knight in New York City on July 24.

Dressed entirely in black, wearing sunglasses and sipping her customary Starbucks drink, Mary-Kate, 22, caught the 7:30 p.m. show at NYC’s Battery Park….”She was keeping to herself,” an onlooker tells OK! “She shut off her phone before entering the theater and seemed somber.”

[From OK! Weekly, print edition, August 11, 2008]

Shutting off her cell phone must be how Mary-Kate shows respect.

Heath’s Brokeback Mountain co-star Jake Gyllenhaal is still coping with his death and can’t bring himself to see The Dark Knight, even though his sister Maggie is also in the film.

“Jake is proud that Heath did such a great job and is getting rave reviews for his performance — even Oscar talk — but he can’t see it right now,” a source tells Star. “He’s still not over it.”

[From Star, print edition, August 11, 2008]

I imagine it would be difficult to see a recently departed friend in a powerful performance, especially in such a dark film. I didn’t know Heath, but I still can’t watch A Knight’s Tale when it’s shown on USA Network.

In lighter news, Jake is basking in his new role as buff stud in his latest film Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and wants to show it off on the big screen. According to Star, he wants all his costumes to have the sleeves removed so his biceps can be seen.

“Jake has a lot of sword fighting scenes and wants to look strong and manly,” says an insider. Disney executives refused, but Jake insisted, so they compromised — 80 percent of the tops will have no sleeves.

[From Star, print edition, August 11, 2008]

Mathematically speaking, I don’t think 80/20 is a compromise, but if it results in gleaming biceps, I’m not going to argue. In fact, if Orlando Bloom, who was rumored to be up for the Prince of Persia lead, had made this demand, Kingdom of Heaven may have done better at the box office.

Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are shown at a press conference at the Toronto Film Festival for Brokeback Mountain on 9/10/05. Credit: Kevin Corkum / WENN

Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal might be taking their relationship to the next level, which I would base on the idea that they’ve been seeing each other for a while now, and they’re adults. Why not move in together, shop at IKEA on Saturdays, or get married?

OK! Magazine has their own reasoning that Jake and Reese are taking their relationship seriously, and it’s that Reese is ‘in’ with the Gyllenhaal clan.

You know there’s something really special about a relationship when you feel ready to draw your family together with you partner’s.

And it sounds like Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon are starting to take that landmark step.

We’re told Reese’s son, Deacon, now has his own collection of The Dark Knight memorabilia, thanks to Maggie Gyllenhaal, the sister of his mom’s beau.

As one of the stars of the record-breaking movie, Maggie, brought Deacon, 4, a collection of action figures from the movie and a copy of the script.

“He’s quite the Batman fan,” a pal of the family tells OK!. “Deacon has been waiting for The Dark Knight to come out, although Reese was worried that it was too dark for him to watch at his age.”

OK! Magazine

My son is five and wants to go and see the Batman film, but there is absolutely no way that he’ll be seeing it – not for about ten years. That is not a children’s film, no matter how cute Maggie Gyllenhaal is in it, and I think Reese, Jake and Maggie all know that. So, if this story is true, I’d have to say that Maggie isn’t being nice to Reese, but trying to annoy her. I have a sister-in-law that does stuff like this to me all the time (‘Every child needs a machete for their birthday!’) and it drives me crazy. Then when I take the machete/violent video game/water pistol that makes crazy noises away from my son, I look like the bad guy.

The National Enquirer has their own sign that Reese and Jake are getting serious - she’s adopted his pet German Shepherd Atticus, and he’ll be serving as a ring bearer at their wedding. I know Reese has a son to serve as ringbearer, but I’m trying to decide who I’d trust more with my expensive, carefully picked out jewelery - the dog or the pre-schooler?

Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are shown in Paris trying not to look like they’re together on 7/11/08. Credit: WENN

Reese Witherspoon, 32, and her boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal, 27, tried to hide their faces as they left a seafood restaurant in London last night at midnight. There was no hiding their happiness, though, and it was easy to tell that they were amused rather than annoyed by the paparazzi. This morning Reese was spotted out shopping in West London. She wore a scarf on her head and sunglasses and smiled for photographers.

We reported last month that Reese has temporarily moved to London to be with beau Jake while he films there. She is said to be taking a four month break from working and it looks like she’s enjoying it. PopSugar says she’s traveling back and forth from LA to London, and that she will soon join Jake in Morocco when his film, Prince of Persia, moves production there.

Yesterday Lainey at Lainey’s Gossip had a fan photo of Reese and Jake cuddling at a concert backstage. It was a faraway photo taken by someone at the show and it really looked like they were enjoying what they thought was a private moment. Lainey reports that Reese’s children are said to be with her and Jake in London.

Photo Credits: Photos of Reese and Jake last night by Will Alexander for WENN. Photos of Reese shopping today thanks to WENN.

Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillipe finalized their divorce just 12 days ago, so now it’s time for the gossip magazine charted race for the new celebrity couples to hit the altar.

Ryan debut his girlfriend Abbie Cornish, the actress who was supposedly the ‘other woman’ in their marriage, at an Australian film award show earlier this month. Now Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are moving in together.

Meawhile, the blonde beauty Reese Witherspoon and her two children have just moved into a £1.9 million house in the cosmopolitan district of “Notting Hill” to be closer to her love Jake Gyllenhaal.

The romantic 32-year-old star, which was considered as the Hollywood’s highest paid actress, took a four-month break from work so she can be closer to Brokeback Mountain actor Jake, who is currently filming in London.

The actress revealed, “Reese loves England and has been really looking forward to spending this time living with Jake.”

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I don’t know if a temporary move for work can be called officially moving in together, but I guess traveling across the Atlantic ocean to be together has to count for something. Us Weekly is covering this also but I can’t get my hands on the content so I have to assume this is the same story.

Hollywood Reporter today says that Reese is still the highest paid actress at $15-20 million a film. Others in the top ten include Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts, Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger. I can’t believe Julia Roberts is still on this list following her break to have children, she’s made so few films over the last three years.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Here’s Reese Witherspoon at the airport on 6/21/08. The main thing that struck me about these pictures is that her glasses look really dirty.

OK! Magazine is claiming that Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are about to get engaged “any day now.” The pair have been dating for what seems like forever in Hollywood, and impending marriage rumors have been dogging them since day one. Well that, and “they’re not really a couple” rumors. And “he’s gay,” rumors. And “they’re just doing it for publicity” rumors. But the last three of those have faded away over the last six months or so, as the couple seemingly has no reason to stay together except that they’re in love.

Sitting in a cozy booth at the Hominy Grill in Charleston, S.C., on May 3, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal were the picture of happiness. Though the cheery couple, who arrived holding hands, brought their appetites, their minds weren’t on food. “They couldn’t keep their eyes off each other,” Hominy Grill manager Brandy Mangum tells OK!. “The entire time, he was so attentive. It was really sweet. They really do make the perfect couple.”

Friends of the pair say it won’t be long now before Jake pops the question to his lady love. “They’ve been talking marriage for a while,” a source close to Reese reveals to OK!. “They’ll be formally engaged any day now. They want to spend the rest of their lives together.”

But don’t expect these two to go down the route of so many Hollywood couples who move in together and start families before getting hitched. “This is a very serious relationship,” the Oscar-winner’s pal explains. “But Reese is very conservative and traditional. I’m sure she doesn’t want her kids to see her ‘living in sin.’”

[From OK!]

From what most people say about Jake Gyllenhaal, he’s pretty conservative and traditional too. I never really understood why people thought Reese and Jake weren’t really a couple. Their timing was pretty coincidental, given the release of their movie Rendition. But they seem to make a lot of sense together, in many ways that Reese and ex-husband Ryan Phillippe didn’t.

Jake’s rep told OK! that there were no “immediate plans for a wedding.” Which is at least better than a no comment. And to me, that just says they’re not eloping next week. There has also been a lot of “Is Reese pregnant” gossip lately. I bet they’ll be getting engaged any day now.

It is REALLY hard to get a picture of Reese and Jake together. I’m not sure if they’re one of those couple that go out of their way not to be photographed together or what, but the best I could find are pictures of them 8 feet apart. Maybe that’s what led to some of those other rumors. Here they are out for dinner with friends on the Lower East Side in New York City on March 3rd. Images thanks to Splash.

Global Avon ambassador Reese Witherspoon was at the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Washington this weekend. The walk raised over $8 million for the cause. Witherspoon spoke to USA Today about her role and how she tries to show her children the importance of charity:

“I’ve always been very focused on creating positive images and doing things to give back to women,” Witherspoon says.

And she says the spirit of helping is rubbing off on Ava, who traveled to New Orleans with her for this year’s Idol Gives Back special.

“She has a very giving spirit, so it’s great to encourage that,” Witherspoon says. “There’s a great responsibility to educate your children and show them what’s important in life, which includes giving back.”

[From USA Today]

There have been a lot of stories that Reese and co-star Vince Vaughn are fighting on the set of their upcoming film, Four Christmases, supposedly because Vaughn wants to ad lib and Reese prefers to follow the script. She tried to squash some of those rumors by saying that Vaughn is “great,” and “so funny.” Reese said that they “had a great time riffing off each other” on set and added: “Sometimes I would just cry from laughing so hard.”

As for her under-the-radar romance with Jake Gyllenhaal, she of course won’t discuss that, but some of his friends will. Producer Ryan Kavanaugh directed Jake in the upcoming film Brothers, and says “seeing what we saw on the set, he was certainly completely devoted to her and really loves her.”

Reese had a tiny little tummy in her top and there’s some speculation that she’s pregnant. She looks fabulous, and just seems to be wearing an unflattering outfit.

Reese Witherspoon is a marketing genius. She knows exactly how much to say in an interview without giving much away. Reese says “Yeah, my divorce was devastating, but I’m not going to talk about it” and you’ve got your headline, baby. “Reese says divorce was devastating’. Ta da. And the conversation goes back to whatever project the actress is currently promoting.

Reese is currently out promoting Penelope, her latest flick from her production company Type A, in which Christina Ricci plays a woman with a pig’s nose. I’m not giving away any more of the plot, because I am dying to see this (I love Reese) and don’t want to spoil it.

Reese spoke to E! News telling them she wants to shoot someone. That’s headline-worthy right there.

Here’s what she said about shoot-’em-up movies wherein the leading man gets to take down the bad guy. “Why does the guy get to shoot him? I want the girl to shoot him!” she said, laughing intermittently. “I love watching Angelina Jolie kick ass in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and I can’t wait to see her in Wanted. I would love to shoot someone. In the knee cap or something, just to stop them!”

I would really like to see Elle Woods (Reese’s character from Legally Blonde) go crazy and shoot people. Elle, in a movie with Jason Bourne, where they go around shooting all her ex-boyfriends and members of her sorority. That is an instant movie classic.

Then, Reese told Good Morning America that she wants her kids to get bullied so they’ll have the experience:

“I’ve had movies that were stinkeroos! And then, you know, I think everybody has experience of a being awkward. I was always really short and really underdeveloped and had big coke-bottle glasses … I think, that’s where I got a personality from, though, man. I wouldn’t give any of it back — not for a day.”

Penelope has grown up not only dealing with the shame of her parents, but also with the ridicule of her classmates. Witherspoon sees this taunting as “formative” and says her own experience with failure has helped define who she is.

“I wouldn’t want my children to miss out on any of that teasing and bullying and don’t you think it kind of makes you who you are?” Witherspoon asked Connelly.

“This drives me crazy about today. Everyone wins the award and then, you know, everybody’s an MVP? No! They’re not! Okay? I distinctly recall the two weeks of crying because I didn’t make the softball team. It made me interesting, you know?”

Gee, why don’t you just put a couple of ‘kick me’ signs on their backs as you drop them off to school Reese? You don’t think they’re going to get picked on? All kids get picked on, and famous kids probably more so. Reese was actually talking about this in the context of her new movie, where the title character has a pig’s nose and I suspect would get some teasing. And when I say ’some teasing’ I mean ‘relentless teasing’.

Then, she talks about paparazzi and her fear of a butt shot.

The mother-of-two admits the prospect of her bikini-clad bottom gracing the pages of tabloid magazines and internet sites around the world terrifies her.

Witherspoon says, “I hate that the paparazzi takes my picture when I’m on vacation: `Oh my god, did they see my butt? I hope they did not see my butt.’”

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Which I totally sympathize with, because even the most bootylicious are afraid to see a photograph of their asses on the cover of a weekly rag.

Now this is all very cute and entertaining of Reese, and makes for good press, but what was the pink elephant in the room she was avoiding talking about? One was the death of Heath Ledger and her (unconfirmed) boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal’s reaction to it. The other was her husband’s latest interview about the divorce and the other woman Abbie Cornish.

Way to go Reese. Penelope is in cinemas February 28th.

Note by Celebitchy: Here’s the trailer for Penelope, it looks so cute!

And here are some stills from the film, thanks to AllMoviePhoto. Also shown are Christina Ricci, James McAvoy and Peter Dinklage. The last three pictures were taken in May, 2006 during filming. Spoiler Alert: The final picture below shows Ricci with her full face for the film, so don’t look at that image if you would rather not spoil it before you see the film.