Abbie Cornish Wears A Christmas Wreath On Head As Peace Offering To Witherspoon-Phillippe Children

Our Abbie Cornish has been at the centre of many people’s “Why did my favourite seemingly-perfect celebrity couple break up?” moans for some time now, after rumours emerged that an on-set fling between herself and Ryan Phillippe was the catalyst for Reese Witherspoon’s seeking a divorce from the former actor.

“Those in the know” have been suggesting for ages that Phillippe and Cornish continued their dalliance off-set and post-divorce, but it only now seems that these “friends” and “close sources” may actually be correct.

(Incidentally, points to News Ltd for their choice of title here: “Ryan Phillippe out of monastery, into Abbie Cornish”. EH, EH!?)

The Crash star was seen Christmas shopping with Abbie Cornish – the woman he was accused of cheating on ex-wife Reese Witherspoon with – and his two kids with Reese, Ava, eight, and four-year-old Deacon.

An onlooker told Us Weekly magazine: “Ava seemed very comfortable with Abbie. Ava picked a wreath and Abbie put it around her head as a joke. They were both laughing.”

Sources claim Ryan and Abbie – who have previously denied claims of an affair – are smitten with each other.

One said: “They have a ton of chemistry. Abbie is a free spirit. She indulges a side of Ryan that he’s kept under wraps for years.”

Using our powers as professional tabloid whisperers, we can “exclusively reveal” that calling someone “free-spirited” means one of two things: either that they are a crazy yet lovable hippie, or that they’re a home-wrecking slut who doesn’t believe in the sanctity of marriage and will get what’s coming to them soon in the form of a devastating accident with an electrolysis pen and a glass of water that “just happened” to tumble onto their valuable face.

In the case of this piece, we are of course assuming News Ltd and Us Weekly mean the former.