Romance You Didn’t Actually Know Was Happening Confirmed As Not Happening At All

We haven’t felt so surprised at the alleged teaming up of a couple of love birds since Bruce Willis was rumoured to be doing unfatherly things to Lindsay Lohan – did you know Paul McCartney and Renee Zellweger were possibly dating? Did you?

Well, if you didn’t – there was word (somewhere, muttered by someone) that the pair were dating. Except now it turns out that they’re not.

Actress Renee Zellweger has played down reports she is romantically involved with music legend Sir Paul McCartney. The Beatle, 65, was spotted partying with the Bridget Jones’s Diary star, 38, at a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers gig in New York on Saturday (25Aug07). But friends of the actress insist the pair are “just good friends”. A source tells the New York Daily News, “I don’t believe there’s anything between them.

We’ll be sure to keep you up to the minute with further reports of celebrities you had no idea had even met and their non-existent romantic status.