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Reese and Jake go public (sort of)
Are they making it official? Dressed in matching black T-shirts and jeans, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal strolled hand-in-hand and smooched at LA International Airport on October 22, new photos of the rumored couple reveal. The pair had been returning from Rome, where they were promoting their new film Rendition. On October 19, Witherspoon was spotted resting her head on Gyllenhaal’s shoulder while walking through the streets as they enjoyed some downtime.
Reese and Ryan officially single
Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe are legally free to marry others, court documents reveal. As of October 5, their status as a married couple was terminated. To finalize the divorce, however, they still must settle their finances and custody arrangements over daughter Ava, 8, and son Deacon, 3. Both parents are seeking a shared custody arrangement. After seven years of marriage, Witherspoon filed for divorce last November, citing irreconcilable differences. The former couple met when a mutual friend brought Phillippe to Witherspoon’s 21st-birthday party. Two years later, after they had co-starred in 1999′s Cruel Intentions, he proposed. They married in June 1999 and had Ava three months later.
Reese opens up about split
Reese Witherspoon finally speaks publicly about her split from Ryan Phillippe in Elle mag’s October issue. “Right around Christmastime I was sitting in a parking lot and I felt like I just couldn’t get out of the car,” she says about a moment of panic she experienced a month after the couple’s breakup in October 2006. “It was like, I can’t get out of the car.” Witherspoon, however, says she found strength in realizing that so many others have made it through the pain of divorce. “I thought, okay, half of the parking lot has dealt with this. More than half of the parking lot has dealt with this,” she tells the mag. “Okay, let’s make it a little bigger. Half of this city has dealt with this. Okay, let’s make it a little bigger – half of this country, until I finally got out of the car.” The actress likens the memory to a scene from her Oscar-winning role in the Johnny Cash biopic: “There’s this moment in Walk the Line where June Carter says, ‘I was never aware of how much I was seen.’ I was very aware of how much I was seen. It was this moment of self-discovery and loss of identity and who was stepping out of the car, you know? Who is that person?” And those close to her say both the triumph and losses in her life recently have changed Witherspoon. “She’s a bit more liberated professionally and personally,” says Andy Tennant, who directed her in Sweet Home Alabama. “If you’re going through stuff in your life, you hope for the best and struggle to keep it together, and when it collapses – after the initial shock – you look around and find out who you are.” Despite Witherspoon’s image of being a woman in control, the mother of two scoffs at the notion. “Oh, come on, man!” she says. “I wouldn’t be able to do what I do if I were [always in control]. I wouldn’t be able to have the empathy or the capacity to understand different lives.” The 31-year-old prides herself on her Southern values – and not being like some of the other young stars making headlines in Hollywood. “Everybody is hung out to dry now,” she says of the coverage of young stars. “It’s one thing if you’re up for it and you want it, and you go out without your panties on. But if you’re wearing your panties – gosh darn it, leave me alone!”
Big stars to light up Toronto
The Toronto International Film Fest has announced the complete lineup of films and programs for its 32nd edition running September 6 – 15. Organizers unfurled a long list of celebs who will be traipsing their way through Yorkville next month. Expected to attend are: Brad Pitt, in support of his long-overdue “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” George Clooney, Charlize Theron, Clive Owen, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Garner, Jodie Foster, Reese Witherspoon, and Woody Allen. I’ll be keeping my eye out!!
Is Ryan upset about Jake?
Ryan Phillippe hasn’t exactly offered a warm welcome to ex Reese Witherspoon‘s off-again, on-again guy, Jake Gyllenhaal, according to Us mag. “Ryan is pissed about Jake,” a Phillippe insider says, adding that Phillippe told Witherspoon, “he didn’t want ‘that guy’ around their kids and then made some crude Brokeback Mountain remark.” However, a Gyllenhaal source told the mag that “Reese doesn’t have Jake spend the night when the kids are around.” Phillippe is rumored to be dating Aussie actress Abbie Cornish again. “They have been hanging out since June,” says a source. The pair were spotted in LA’s Franklin Canyon Park on August 5.
Jake and Reese: still on?
Maybe the romance between Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon isn’t over after all. A photographer snapped this shot of the supercute couple outside Gyllenhaal’s Hollywood Hills home this week.
Reese and Vince to co-star
Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn are hooking up – at least on screen. The pair are signed on to play a couple struggling to visit all four of their divorced parents’ homes over the holidays. Vaughn and Witherspoon will also co-produce the flick.
Reese and Jake call it quits
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