Representatives for Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal have been quick to deny a People report that the couple had broken up.
At 2.45pm on Sunday the magazine’s website cited an unnamed source “close to” Witherspoon, claiming the pair was no longer an item. By 5pm the same day, People reported that Witherspoon and Gyllenhaal’s representatives were denying the break-up.
“It is not true,” Nanci Ryder and Carrie Byalick, who represent Witherspoon and Gyllenhaal respectively, told People. “They are still together.”
The actress, 33, who is five years older than Jake, spoke about the pair spending weekends away together at her farmhouse in Ojai as recently as last month.
“We spend the weekends outside LA, in Ojai, where I have a farmhouse,” Witherspoon told InStyle magazine. “We have chickens and we grow cucumbers and tomatoes. I love it. It reminds me of where I grew up in Tennessee.”
Word of the pair becoming an item spread after they were cast alongside each other in the 2007 movie Rendition.
The Legally Blonde actress had separated from her husband of seven years, Ryan Philippe, a year earlier.
Although she denied it at first, Reese finally confirmed her relationship with Jake, once her divorce from Ryan was final, in an interview with Vogue magazine.
She revealed to the magazine that Jake was “very supportive”.
“I’m very happy in life, and I’m very lucky to have a lot of really supportive people around me who care very much for me, and, you know, that’s all you can hope for in life. I am very blessed in that way,” Witherspoon said.
Since then there have been numerous shots of the pair together and with Reese’s two children Ava Elizabeth and Deacon Reese.
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