Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams – who were named cutest couple ever (by me… very prestigious) have gotten back together! Cue hysterical girlie shrieks! It’s hard to say why these two were so adorable together – somehow they just seemed to fit. And they were pretty low key – you’d never accuse them of courting the paparazzi, but they also didn’t seem the type to get married and then never deny it (something only jerks do, in my still unchanged opinion).

Gosling and McAdam’s friends confirm that the two are dating again after breaking up around March of 2007.

On again! Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams have gotten back together, a source tells Usmagazine.com. “They’ve been talking a lot,” a source tells Us. “Their friends are quite pleased that they’re getting back together and are trying to give them space.”

McAdams recently made an appearance at Gosling’s weekly deejay gig at Green Door lounge in Hollywood. The two began dating shortly after wrapping their 2004 romantic film The Notebook.

“She’s inspired me to do so much,” Gosling told reporters shortly before their 2007 split. “She’s the most discerning person I’ve ever met. She’ll read a script 100 times. She’s relentless.”

After they called it quits, Gosling told GQ that women were “mad” at him. “A girl came up to me on the street and she almost smacked me,” he said. “Like, ‘How could you? How could you let a girl like that go?’” Of their split, Gosling said, “The only thing I remember is we both went down swingin’ and we called it a draw.”

[From Us Magazine]

When they broke things off it was supposedly because Gosling “needed some space.” Apparently a year and a half was enough space. Hopefully they’ll make it this time – the obviously managed to stay on good terms.

Here’s Rachel and Ryan at the Critics’ Choice in January 2007. Images thanks to WENN.

Tom Cruise, a wan-faced Katie Holmes, and their daughter, Suri, and son, Connor, out in Telluride on the Fourth of July. They later picked up the Beckhams from a private jet at the airport.

Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey switch bathing suits for a stroll swarmed by paparazzi on the beach in Malibu on the Fourth of July. Their friend Cheryl Burke of Dancing with the Stars was a guest at their beachside home.

Heidi Klum out with her children getting ice cream in the West Village on Saturday. She has daughter Leni, 4, and sons Henry, who turns 3 in September, and Johan, 19 months. That could be her father, Günter, and it looks like she also three nannies and/or babysitters with her.

Ryan Gosling looking fit in LA on 7/5/08. (Splash News claims to have an exclusive of Gosling out holding hands with a “mystery woman” in NY on Friday. In case you see those photos elsewhere, I’m pretty sure that’s not him.)

Kirsten Dunst is out of rehab and living in a new $3 million apartment in Tribeca. She’s also in NY to film the movie All Good Things with hot Canadian actor Ryan Gosling. Star Magazine likes to make humping mountains out of acquaintance molehills and says that Ryan and Kirsten were “acting like they were on a date and lingering for hours” when they were spotted out at lunch together in Manhattan. Considering that they’re working together presumably in that area and that it was just lunch, it probably wasn’t more than just a friendly colleague outing:

The couple were spotted “acting like they were on a date and lingering for hours” while lunching at Freeman’s restaurant in Manhattan. But if Kirsten - who dated Jake Gyllenhaal for almost three years - has any ideas about starting a long-term relationship with Ryan, who split last year from actress Rachel McAdams, she may want to think twice! Says an insider: “Ryan likes Kirsten as a friend - but that’s as far as it goes.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, April 28, 2008]

Ryan Gosling already lost most of the weight he gained for the role as a middle aged dad in The Lovely Bones that ended up going to Mark Wahlberg. I liked him better with a few extra pounds because he looked old enough for me not to feel pervy fantasizing about him. Now he’s just another hot up and coming actor and not the helpful neighbor guy who fixes the sink when my husband’s away.

Star Magazine last linked Gosling with Michelle Williams before the untimely death of her daughter’s father. Williams and Gosling were seen out at dinner and taking a walk in late December, but her rep said they were just discussing a potential project.

It all sounds like bullshit, but since it allows me to think about Ryan Gosling I’ll report it. It’s better if I don’t believe that Ryan was out on any dates, because then he’s free to fix my sink.

Note - I wrote this story and then realized that this is old news that was reported two weeks ago by another unreliable source, The NY Post. My gossip skills are low today because I’m exhausted from working on the site. I’ll just put it out there anyway.

Ryan Gosling is shown at the Santa Barbara Film Festival on 1/29/08, thanks to WENN. Kirsten Dunst is shown at the Spiderman 3 premiere on 4/30/07, thanks to PRPhotos. Gosling has lost more weight since this photo was taken.

Michelle Williams - the surly actress who used to be with Heath Ledger, not the former member of Destiny’s Child - split with her baby’s father sometime in late summer of this year. In November she was linked with Junebug director Phil Morrison, but that either didn’t work out or she’s playing the field, because she was seen out to dinner with hot Canadian actor Ryan Gosling. They even took a stroll together. His rep insists that they were just discussing a potential project, though:

[Michelle Williams] was spotted enjoying a romantic meal in NYC with Ryan Gosling on November 11! After dining at Italian restaurant Piadina, the two 27-year-olds were seen strolling the city’s famed Bleecker street. Reps for Ryan, who ended his relationship with Rachel McAdams in March and was linked with Hayden Panettiere earlier this month, say the two met to discuss an upcoming film project.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, December 31, 2007]

Gosling had us all gossiping this fall when he gained twenty pounds for a role in Peter Jackson’s film The Lovely Bones, but was dumped from the project and replaced by Mark Wahlberg just a few days before filming was set to begin. Rumor had it that director Jackson thought Gosling had gained too much weight, but Gosling sang Jackson’s praises in a subsequent interview and said that they had creative differences over whether he was too young for the part.

Gosling seems like a great guy considering how mature and thoughtful he comes off in interviews. He has spoken candidly about his breakup with longterm girlfriend and fellow star of The Notebook, Rachel McAdams. He called her “one of the great loves of my life,” and said that they “went down swingin’ and… called it a draw.” If Michelle Williams is getting a piece of that she’s a lucky woman. He’s a major step up from Heath Ledger.

It could be true that Gosling and Williams were just having a romantic intimate dinner to discuss work and all, but since they’re both attractive single people you can’t help but think there’s something going on there.

Ryan Gosling is shown at the premiere of Lars and the Real Girl on 10/2/07. Michelle Williams is shown at the NY film festival on 10/4/07, thanks to PRPhotos.

Ryan Gosling seems to be having a rough month. After his recent break up with Rachel McAdams he was reportedly fired from the set of “Lovely Bones.” Rumors began to fly as to the reason behind Peter Jackson’s replacement of Ryan.Weight issues and Peter’s reported dislike of Gosling began to run through the rumor mill. However, the truth according to Ryan is that he was simply too young for the part.

“The 26-year-old said his young age was behind the decision to replace him in the film, which is based on the book by Alice Sebold. [He told] Parade magazine: “The age of the character versus my real age was always a concern of mine. Peter and I tried to make it work and ultimately it just didn’t. I think the film is much better off with Mark Wahlberg in that role. Peter Jackson is an incredible filmmaker and I’m here to tell you that he has things up his sleeve that are going to blow people’s minds. I’m going to be the first person in line to buy tickets.”

[Digital Spy]

Mark Wahlberg has taken the reigns of the role. The premise is that the character a grieving father, Jack Salmon, who is dealing with the emotional trauma after his daughter is raped and murdered. Ryan insists that he and Peter Jackson are still on good terms.

Ryan was recently seen at West 14^th Street Urban Outfitters buying flannel shirts in bulk.

“He had the biggest shopping bag” and a “huge backpack” that kept setting off the store’s security alarm. When Gosling was finally let loose, a flirty shopper asked, “Trying to steal stuff?” - to which Gosling joked, “Yeah, a necklace.” A fellow shopper recounted.

Oh please say he isn’t running off into the mountains to become a hermit. He would be one sexy hermit though.

26 year-old Ryan Gosling has been replaced by Mark Wahlberg as the grieving father in The Lovely Bones, the screen adaptation of the best seller by Alice Seybold. Lovely Bones is about a 14 year-old girl who is murdered and watches from heaven as her family mourns for her.

While the young Gosling might not have seemed right for the part of the father of a teenager, he gained a reported 20 pounds in a short period of time and grew a beard to more closely resemble a middle-aged middle-class dad. And he looked the part of the majority of dads around the country, who aren’t buff and have let themselves go a little.

When he got on set to work on the film, director Peter Jackson thought he wasn’t hot enough to play the character despite being told ahead of time by Gosling that he would gain weight for the role. Gosling left due to “creative differences” last Friday, before filming was set to start on Monday. On Sunday Mark Wahlberg was announced as his replacement:

Peter Jackson was said to be quite surprised that Gosling had showed up to start work on “The Lovely Bones” looking like he’d donned a fat suit. According to sources, the 26-year-old Gosling had apparently told the director he was going to gain weight to age himself up to play the part of a grieving father, but Jackson was still expecting some movie star allure — not paunch and a beard. By Friday, Gosling had left the high-profile production over those pesky “creative differences,” and, by Sunday, he’d been replaced by 36-year-old Mark Wahlberg, who actually could be old enough to father a teenager.

[From LATimes.com via ONTD]

I find Ryan Gosling hotter as a bearded guy with a few extra pounds. Maybe that’s because he no longer seems like a kid to me and actually looks the part of a 30-something dad. Mark Wahlberg is always nice eye candy, though, and the guy can act. He’s also a bigger box office draw, because he’s well known.

It bothers me that when an actor strives to be authentically normal-looking, he’s replaced with a Hollywood ideal. It’s not like he was just passed up for a role because he looked the part, he was ousted because of it. Gosling would have played the role of a dad whose teenage daughter was killed. Statistically speaking, that character is likely to have a few extra pounds.

Medium star Patricia Arquette was told to lose her baby weight to play her tv role as a psychic mom of three. She dug in her heels, insisting that her character would be an average-sized person and that it didn’t make sense for her to be thin for the part.

This isn’t the first time that Jackson has dumped an actor right before filming was set to begin. Stuart Townsend, Charlize Theron’s boyfriend, was supposed to play Aragon in Lord of the Rings, but Jackson fired him just days before they started filming. He was replaced by Viggo Mortensen, with Jackson saying that Townsend wasn’t right for the role.

Jackson has had his own issues with weight, having lost 70 pounds in late 2004 and early 2005. He told the Daily Telegraph that he “changed [his] diet from hamburgers to yoghurt and muesli and it seems to work.” Maybe he thinks that if he could do it, middle aged dads must be able to too.

Peter Jackson is shown on 5/12/05 at the NY premiere of King Kong. Ryan Gosling is shown at the LA premiere of Lars and The Real Girl with his sister, Mandi, on 10/2/07. Thanks to PRPhotos.

Canadian actor Ryan Gosling has spoken out about his split from his longterm girlfriend and costar in The Notebook, Rachel McAdams. He told GQ Magazine that he’s been confronted by accusatory women on the street who wonder why it didn’t work out with McAdams. He said he feels like he should be giving strangers hugs to comfort them over their misplaced heartbreak that he’s no longer with McAdams. Gosling also comes across like a gentleman in the way he describes both his courtship with McAdams and how they broke up. He said that their romance was better than The Notebook, and to compare it to that movie does it a disservice.

I really like how he explains their breakup, because it sounds like something your grandpa would say with a wise look and you’d say “I never thought of it like that, but that’s a really good way to describe it.” He said they “Went down swinging and called it a draw.” Who talks like that except cool old grandfathers? It’s also a very gracious way of saying they fought a lot and that it was mutual:

“I mean, God bless The Notebook,” Gosling says. “It introduced me to one of the great loves of my life. But people do Rachel and me a disservice by assuming we were anything like the people in that movie. Rachel and my love story is a hell of a lot more romantic than that.”

They broke up, is the thing. It’s been a few months. Gosling says it wasn’t the attention that did it, but other than that he doesn’t really know what to say. “The only thing I remember is we both went down swingin’ and we called it a draw,” he says.

The Notebook people have taken it harder. “Women are mad at me,” Gosling says with a rueful smile. “A girl came up to me on the street and she almost smacked me. Like, ‘How could you? How could you let a girl like that go?’ I feel like I want to give people hugs, they seem so sad. Rachel and I should be the ones getting hugs! Instead, we’re consoling everybody else.”

[From Men.Style.Com]

It seems like Gosling and McAdams had a a tumultuous relationship, at least at the end. They were rumored to have broken up and to have reunited several times before it was official. They may have been engaged at one point as McAdams was seen out wearing a diamond ring on her left ring finger. No announcement or anything official came of that, and like many couples who started out with a lot of passion it sounds like it ended that way too. It’s nice to know that Gosling has fond memories of their time together and it’s refreshing how he manages to tell the truth about how it ended without trashing McAdams or placing blame. It kind of makes me sad and want a hug, and if Gosling was around I’d be sure to hit him up for one.

For his part Gosling is a lot more huggable lately. He has gained a considerable amount of weight in a short period of time for two roles, for Lars and The Real Girl in which he romances one of those silicone Real Dolls, and for an upcoming role as the father of a murdered teenager in The Lovely Bones.

Maybe it’s because I’m old, but Gosling looks hotter to me with a few extra pounds, like he would give me the time of day and rub my feet afterwards.

Thanks to WENN for the picture below of Gosling at the premiere of Lars and The Real Girl in NY on 10/3/07. He is also shown with his sister, Mandi, at the LA premiere on 10/2. Thanks to PRPhotos.