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Ryan Phillippe Reclaims Manhood, Poses For Revenge Photo With Reese Witherspoon's Arch Enemy
Posted by Molly Friedman at 9:40 AM on June 7, 2008
Poor Ryan Phillippe. First, he earned a reputation as a shameful cheating husband who hurt the precious piece of Oscar-winning apple pie that is Reese Witherspoon, then gay-basher-turned-gay-lover Jay Leno urged Ryan to look "gay" on national television, and then his role in Stop Loss failed to live up to expectations. Rubbing salt into an already open wound, he admitted to USA Today last week that he avoids looking at pictures of Reese and Jake Gyllenhaal, calling the images "bizarre." But last night, Phillippe finally battled this ongoing string of bad luck and publicly appeared at an Australian awards gala with "other woman" Abbie Cornish on his arm. We took a look back at all the hiding these two have done over the years, and what may have inspired Ryan to show the media he's no longer in need of a pity party.
In late 2006, the pair were snapped hundreds of times on the set of Stop Loss, but the pictures hardly compared to those paparazzi shots of Ryan and Abbie literally "necking" in December last year. And despite the optimism behind Stop Loss failing to move money at the B.O., those who did buy a ticket would have noticed the obvious chemistry between the couple on-screen. Considering the fact that Jake and Reese were very publicly photographed in their itty bitty beach clothes just weeks ago, Ryan's decision to finally flash his mug next to Abbie's Down Under hints at an interesting case of one-upmanship by way of the paparazzi. Anything Reese can do, Ryan can do better!
[Photo credits: NYDN, Yuddy Hush, Getty]
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CluelessElaineLui
Posted 11:34 AM 7/6/08
I just about snoozed looking at those pictures. He is so interested in necking her in those Decemeber pictures that both his hands remain firmly in his pockets, at least his right hand is in his pocket. Sorry, "DownUnderWhateverYourNameIs" but I doubt Star will be rushing to post your mug on their cover. It would have helped if anyone actually saw that movie you made together. "DownUnder...." looks very into it but I think RP is just bidding his time. I keep thinking he has his mind on a gym somewhere.
CluelessElaineLui
inkydinkydo
Posted 4:31 PM 7/6/08
Mister P and I are distant cousins. We are Portuguese, maybe me more than him, but still, we're related.
We talk with our hands, and so, when our hands can't say anything nice, we stick them in our pockets.
Having said that we're DISTANT cousins, I'd still take him under my wing...I have a chin too, you know!
inkydinkydo
tonilost
Posted 1:09 AM 8/6/08
I never heard he was a zeke, Phillipe is a French name. I too am Portuguese, can I say he's my cousin also? I see my popularity skyrocketing if this is true. obigadinha.
tonilost
inkydinkydo
Posted 3:54 AM 8/6/08
Todo Porguesas sao primas, prima. Go right ahead!
Actually, "Phillipe" is not the correct spelling of my forebears -- it's Filippe, which is very Azorean Portuguese.
The story goes that of my grandfather's 4 brothers, 2 of them decided to "frenchify" their surname to cut down on confusion in the little gold mining town where they lived and worked a claim together.
inkydinkydo
squeakel
Posted 12:52 PM 8/6/08
It must be so painful for Reese to send her kids off to spend time with the woman who helped break up her family. Bleh.
squeakel
Benny
Posted 9:42 PM 8/6/08
Of course international failure will almost guarantee she spends the rest of her career working on films in my native Australia, where they never quite know when to let it go (Seriously, Bryan F'ing Brown is still in, like, everything) so... I suppose I should just get used to her and hope she cuts the shit. * Shudder *
Benny
Benny
Posted 9:36 PM 8/6/08
This may seem needlessly harsh, but Abbie Cornish is one of my least favourite people to watch both in movies and interviews. She bugs the shit out of me. I can't decide in which context she comes off as more self conscious or pretentious, but suffice to say it's pretty close to a tie. One of those people who masks the dullness of their observations behind the affected mannerisms of the genuinely intelligent. A real nouveaux bourgeois fuckface. If this ill advised home wrecking publicity error of hers sabotages her international career before it's started, I feel we audiences of the world my have been spared many years of cringing at her expense.
Thanks Abbie. Oh... Nothing personal.
Benny
squeakel
Posted 1:51 AM 9/6/08
@Benny:
I have that reaction when I hear Brad Pitt speak. He chooses his words so carefully. The difference being that he's likable anyway.
squeakel
TheQuestion
Posted 4:32 AM 10/6/08
@squeakel: Unless, of course, your last name happens to be Aniston.
TheQuestion
majikthise
Posted 4:14 AM 10/6/08
she looks taller than him and she smokes. that's it, just making observations.
majikthise
jacksfriend
Posted 5:56 PM 8/6/08
Wow what a coincidence. I too am Portuguese. I am also of Azorean descent. Moms was from Terceira, Pops from Santa Maria.
I have never known a fellow Azorean to be named Filippe. Not one.
I'm pretty sure he's from French lineage.
BTW, I don't think there is a rivalry at all between him and Reese.
jacksfriend