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.”
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.
Reese Witherspoon moved on with the hot and hairy Jake Gyllenhaal long ago. Now, Ryan Phillippe is coming out of the straight closet with his new lady love.
“After months of speculation about their relationship, he proudly accompanied his Stop-Loss costar Abbie Cornish to the 2008 Australian in Film Breakthrough Awards – their first major event as a couple.”
Abbie Cornish was “the other woman” that has been rumored to be at the center of the downfall of power couple Ryan and Reese. Sources saw the two kissing and sharing intimate moments at a Japanese restaurant while Philippe was still married to Witherspoon. Divorce followed and soon after denial and defense was Ryan’s strategy when it came to interviews.
Photos of the two kissing and sharing a cigarette spoke volumes to the contrary. Cornish is already rumored to be pregnant with Ryan’s love child. She failed to show up to several premieres and the only recent photo shows her sitting down in some hideous black jacket. Perhaps this is the reason for their first public outing.
Now Ryan and Abbie have made their debut. Fellow guests described them as “adorable” and stated that he had his arm around her and appeared “cozy” and “comfortable.” He also let her enjoy the bulk of the attention. While she worked the room, Ryan stood back and took his usual position as supporting actor.
Gee, it is not like we didn’t know that he was shoplifting some Cornish this entire time. No matter, I still say that it is completely unfair that Reese has gotten to nail two of the men on my “Celebs I Want to Make Sweet, Sweet Love To” list.
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 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.”
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.
Have you ever looked back on your life and wondered what it would have been like if you had made different decisions? You could have chosen a completely different spouse, home, university, or career. For a fresh out of high school Ryan Phillippe, his life almost took a completely different turn in an army recruitment office.
“Out of high school, I didn’t have a ton of options because my grades weren’t the best and I didn’t come from money,” he tells Entertainment Tonight. “When I graduated, it was around the time of the first Gulf War and I did go and sit in a recruitment office and got the T-shirt and everything.”
However, it just wasn’t meant to be for the now 33-year-old. While the young man who went in with him ended up serving in the Gulf War, Ryan ended up doing something else on the other side of the world. “I went to New York to be an actor instead.”
Fortunately for us, Ryan only walked away with a t-shirt, not a profession. It’s hard to imagine Hollywood without Ryan Phillippe, his ex-wife Reese Witherspoon, and their two little children.
Ryan would almost definitely have children though, he says that fatherhood comes completely naturally to him and it’s his first priority.
“You try to make it (media interest) seem as commonplace as you can,” he says. “That’s sort of the approach you have to take with all of that stuff, with the press, with the paparazzi. You kinda just say, ‘Well, you know, Mommy and Daddy do this certain kind of job and it creates an interest in the public,’ and you minimize all of that stuff as much as you can.”
Paparazzi or not, nothing can take away the joy of fatherhood for the actor.
“Being a father is by far my greatest achievement and the most important thing about me,” Ryan says. “My mother had a day-care center in my house growing up and I come from a big family on the East Coast. We grew up helping take care of and raise kids, so it’s second nature to me.”
Ryan might never have had to explain to his pre-school children what paparazzi are if he had chosen life in the armed forces – but he would have been dodging shots of a completely different kind if he had served in the Gulf War.
And here’s Ryan Phillippe at the Stop Loss premiere yesterday, thanks to PRPhotos. Ryan’s on-off girlfriend, Abbie Cornish, co-stars in the film but was not at the premiere from what I could. Ryan is rumored to have had an affair with Cornish toward the end of his marriage to Reese Witherspoon.
Reese Witherspoon was on the Tonight Show last night and told Jay Leno her TV viewing habits. It sounds like she pretty much watches television all day, because she said she watches a little of The Today Show, a little Good Morning America, then she catches The View, then Regis & Kelly, then soaps, also Martha Stewart’s show. She said she loves crafting and that she watches Martha Stewart for that, but that she flips the channel a lot. She also likes Project Runway and Amazing Race, and said she has a male friend who is going on Amazing Race who is a writer who she does yoga with.
She also talked about how she has trouble as a producer getting money and asking for favors, but when Jay asked her about demanding actors asking for things like bigger trailers and better TVs she said she understood that and doesn’t mind getting small comforts for actors, like their favorite coffee in the morning.
Reese said her worst auditions were when people put her down personally, and said things like “you’re not pretty enough,” or “smart enough,” or “tall enough.” Then Jay told the story of his worst audition, where he had to wait 2 hours for the casting agent to tell him that they were looking for a Woody Allen lookalike and he didn’t fit the bill. That was the most interesting part of this interview, considering that Reese didn’t tell any cute stories other than the fact that she watches TV constantly. As an Internet addict, I can’t relate.
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Reese is promoting Penelope, a fairy-tale type film about a girl born with the face of a pig. It is out in the US on February 29, and Reese plays sidekick to Christina Ricci’s title character.
The header image is an older one of Reese promoting Rendition at the Rome Film Festival on 10/21/07, thanks to PRPhotos.
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.’”
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.
For reasons completely unbeknownst to me, I’ve always sided with Reese Witherspoon in her divorce from Ryan Phillippe. Probably due to that nasty rumor that he was cheating on her, and/or jealous of her career. But whenever he’s interviewed he comes across as genuinely brokenhearted about the whole thing, and admits to a level of sadness few men would. It seems like he was truly broken apart by the whole thing, and is still very much in the process of putting himself back together. Ryan gave a pretty in-depth interview to W magazine recently, where he talked about the divorce and his relationship with Abbie Cornish, who he was long rumored to have had an affair with. Ryan insists that the two are not a couple.
“She and I are close friends, and as far as if there is any future, that is not where we are at now,” he says. “That is what other people like to say or like to assume. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a friendship, and we are getting to know each other in a really difficult situation.”
Cornish was labeled the “other woman” after it was rumored that the two slept together during production on Stop-Loss. Asked about the veracity of the gossip in a rather blunt manner, Phillippe bursts out laughing and says, “First of all, I wouldn’t answer that, but I would say that things are never as simple as it’s made out to be in the tabloid press. It was unfair for her to be called the names that she was, because it wasn’t about that. I don’t think an outside person can ever cause a divorce. I had difficulties in my relationship, and in my marriage, long before I ever met her.”
Ryan also gives a really astute answer when the subject comes up of why his relationship with Reese ended. He says that the public wants answers - and he doesn’t even go off on how people aren’t entitled to answers. He just says that they wouldn’t necessarily be satisfied with them.
Phillippe says these popular diagnoses of his failed union widely miss the mark. “I certainly understand the level of interest that comes along with a public marriage,” he says, “and with being married to someone like Reese, who so many people love with good reason. People want answers. But I think sometimes they wouldn’t be happy with what the answers would be.”
Ryan has mentioned in a previous interview that he was so depressed over the divorce that he was suicidal. He noted to W that he couldn’t get out of bed for months, but that things did eventually get better, little by little.
A little later, Phillippe says his divorce was “the darkest, saddest place I had ever been. It was a struggle—there were a good four or five months of not being able to get out of bed. It was the worst time in my life.” These days, things are better. “You get through it. It’s a process that’s not easy, but I get less and less sad about it every day.”
It’s really heart-wrenching to read what he has to say. Phillippe definitely doesn’t come off as a bad guy, and he doesn’t portray Reese as a bad person either. I am always curious as to why their relationship ended, but he’s right, the average member of the public would probably never be satisfied with the answer, because we weren’t a part of that relationship and don’t understand the intricacies of what went on. Ryan says he and Reese have maintained a cordial relationship because of their kids. It doesn’t seem that they’re warm to each other, and it appears that there’s still sadness and hurt, which is understandable. Hopefully as time goes on everyone will heal and things will thaw out.
Header image is of Ryan at the Edinburgh film festival on 8/23/07, thanks to WENN.
Though a lot of people seem to accuse Reese Witherspoon of being a prude, consider how many times I saw three quarters of Lindsay Lohan’s ass last week, I’m really, really okay with someone who thinks it’s a good idea to keep her shirt on. Contrary to what you may see in Hollywood, I read a report last week that said that 98% of women wear a shirt when they leave the house. The majority of those over the age of 13 even strap on a bra most of the time. Very few of them wear skirts so short that you can actually see their lady bits. Reese Witherspoon has recently announced that she won’t go nude for any role, and has questioned why so many women feel they need to. And considering I can tell you exactly what Britney Spears’ nipples look like, I have to say that I think Reese is onto something.
Reese Witherspoon won’t pose for sexy photo shoots to promote her films. “If [actresses] take their clothes off, they objectify themselves,” she tells the UK edition of Glamour. “I am flabbergasted by how many legitimate actresses do it.”
Witherspoon, 31 – who shares custody of Ava, 8, and Deacon, 4, with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe – adds that she tries to avoid the pitfalls of a Hollywood lifestyle. “I am a role model for my children,” she says. “Hollywood is one of those endless competitions,” she says. “It’s a race towards nothing. I just want to be the best version of myself that I can be.”
Witherspoon credits her 2005 Best Actress Oscar win for Walk the Line with opening up a range of film roles. “I would never have been offered these kind of roles,” she says. “There was also a lot of pressure after [winning an Oscar]. People wanted me to do a really big movie and I just wanted to do something more sort of personal and real.”
I wouldn’t have such a problem with on-screen nudity if there were more parity between women and men. But I swear, the ratio of naked women to naked men is like 10 to .5. That means that for every ten women I see naked, I see half of one naked guy. Do you have any idea how disappointing that is? Sometimes it’s the left half or the right, and I can deal with that. But when it’s just the top half or the bottom, it seems really unfair.
In other Reese Witherspoon news, rumors surfaced yesterday that she was engaged to boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal, which her rep quickly denied. I don’t believe a word that comes from a rep’s mouth anymore, but I also don’t believe that Reese would get engaged to someone before she’d evaluated their college transcripts, 401(k) and medical history, so I’m guessing there’s no ring yet.
