We finally have a picture of the elusive couple that have yet to be given a combined nickname. I vote for “Jaylor.” A bystander photographed Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift getting coffee and breakfast together in Nashville on Saturday, just two days after they were allegedly seen ordering Maple lattes in Brooklyn. On Friday I reported a story from US Weekly that Jaylor was holed up at a hotel in London for a no-longer “secret” tryst earlier this month. A lot of you yelled at me for being so naive about a romance that had the whiff of a PR stunt. It probably still smells foul to some of you, but I’m buying it. These two seem like they’re together, they’re doing couple-y stuff, and the press is either eating it up or making it up. If the blurry photo is a PR stunt, it’s a genius move. Here’s People’s report.
It’s been a busy travel weekend for most Americans – and especially for Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Two days after enjoying maple lattes together in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Thanksgiving, Swift and Gyllenhaal popped up in the singer’s hometown of Nashville.
On Saturday afternoon, the couple were spotted getting a late breakfast at Fido, a coffeehouse and café near Vanderbilt University and Music Row.
“They were smiling and laughing. They were talking a lot and enjoying each other’s company,” fellow diner Elaina Mishu tells PEOPLE. “They didn’t look like [just] friends.”
Customer Emma Rice, who snapped a photo of the pair, calls the duo “very cute” and says, “They seemed close.”
The singer, 20, and actor, 29, were first spotted together in late October.
And while Gyllenhaal has avoided commenting on his relationship with Swift, they aren’t hiding their affection.
“They were not trying to be discreet by any means,” another eyewitness says of the pair, who sat at a table near a window. “They were definitely a couple. They looked very happy.”
[From People]
Now, the fact that People was one of the first outlets to get this photo is suspect to me, especially since they breathlessly reported that “maple lattes on Thanksgiving” story. These two have been apple picking, they love fancy coffee, and they’re traveling around the world together. I get why a lot of you suspect that it’s some publicist’s vision of an ideal romance. It’s certainly playing out like one, complete with a strategically leaked photo. Perez ran this photo too, and said a reader sent it to him. He didn’t even draw on it or stick his logo on it. Someone had to be sending this around and it doesn’t seem like they posted it anywhere before notifying the celebrity outlets. Wouldn’t a “real person” put it up on Facebook or Twitter first? The plot thickens.
He is gay. The romance with Reese Witherspoon was concocted also. This is all well-known.
The more they are seen together the more I am conviced they are faking it. Spending Thanksgiving with each others families after dating for 1 month? If they are still in the early stages and trying to keep it private, then why are there constant, weekly updates on their “romantic dates” and “love-ins” and why are there private dates written about with such loving detail? Oh, I know. Because they were written by a publicist who has the inside scoop.
Call me a skeptic, but I think these updates are for the purposes of the weekly tabloids. Taylor has an album to schill, Jake has a rom-com to sell.
really fakey.
As for their portmandeu: I vote for Swillenhaal.
Because it sounds like a Swedish beer hall where Taylor wouldn’t be allowed to drink.
I find her annoying. Maybe it’s just her eyebrows. And her fakely-nice, would-so-stab-your-back face.
Also: I vote Jaylor, ’cause it sounds a lot like Gaylord and it reminds me of the Fockers!
The more I see of Taylor Swift, the more I think she’s a bit of a fake; This whole cotton candy romance makes me think it’s about image rehab for both of them. Jake’s (still-ha!) not gay, and Taylor is a big girl now that dates men who “obviously have sex with her”. Also- I spend a lot of time in Nashville and there are tons of local paps that hand around all the bars and restaurants- country sells too, I guess. I think this was staged.
I’ve lost all respect for Jake Gyllenhaal……..
I hate Swifty, but I wanna know the 411 on that studded dress she’s wearing in the bottom photos…
They are so privat that People and other media know all the details of their dates./sarcasm
The PR people in HW have realized that too open famewhoring is too suspect so pretending to hide all the while info “leaks” and they go to places where they know they will get recognized and then photographed is the newest strategy. Look: these two or Twilight “couple”.
Jaylor=AWESOME!!!
OMG people, he is NOT gay. I think that there are still rumors that he is says a lot for his acting in Brokeback Mountain.
I get why she is with him, but not why he is with her!
Heath Ledger didn’t have gay rumours so that argument is stupid.
Toothy Tiles has a new doll-beard: too cute
I always want her to do different things with her hair but I don’t like it so straight like that. I can’t believe I am going to say this because I really like her but that straight hair makes her look like a biotch in photos.
What makes you all think Jake is Gay?
The girl who took it did have it up on twitter (and tumblr and flickr) first. You can see the ONTD post that was up way before people. Then she sent it (or sold it) to People and took it down from all her personal sites.
Obviously the picture wasn’t faked or some stunt, she was just there when they were and whipped out her cell phone. But the relationship as a whole is FAKE FAKE FAKE.
Gyfty.
UGH! The whole thing makes me ill. I don’t see how it could be anything other than PR. There are too many coincidences. Unless JG has the mentality of a 20 yo girl, I don’t know what he sees in her. I bet they have a lot of pillow fights and paint each others toes. I vote for Swillenhall. Swill is a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs, or any disgusting or distasteful liquid. Yup that sums it up for me.
I refuse to drink the “het” kool aid.
I am beginning to think they are a couple, too. But, please can we stop with the weekly updates from their PR people already! I used to be a Jake fan, but this whole relationship is so off-putting. Seriously, I’ve lost respect for him as well.
Is she wearing a wig in the straight hair photos. The crown and part look very fake!
I used to live in Nashville and I know that coffee shop, it’s not the kinda place you would go if you didn’t want to be seen. They def knew what they were doing.
whats the coffee shop called?..
@malin – I found that story on ONTD,
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/53765648.html
however the woman who tweeted the photo that ONTD ran is named Suzanne Butler, she’s not the woman who allegedly took it that People names. What’s more is that Perez ran this story before ONTD did, judging based on the timestamps and controlling for EST vs. PST.
They look awfully shagged out in this photo to be faking it.
Whatever they are, they are boring together. Jake could do so much better!
If you took this picture would you post it on your twitter/ facebook and look like a stalker or would you sell it to one of those websites. They would pay loads for a pic like this.
he’s so hot.. love him… she’s like Snow White (loving, kind and etc) but I always liked the witch better!! =)
Is Jake Gay?
Arguments Against: He was raised in NYC, his parents are liberal artists, if he was gay he would have come out a long time ago, he dated Kirsten Dunst, Reese Witherspoon.
Arguments For: He’s dating Taylor Swift.
I love how people say the Reese Whitherspoon relationship was fake. Reese is a smart girl and has kids. She went through a bad divorce. She would never spend years with a guy, with her children around, and it be a fake relationship. She wouldn’t waste her time.
Reese didn’t want to be the dumped wife like Jennifer Aniston, Jake needed a beard and she needed quickly a man. They both got something out of it. Just because you saw them drinking coffee together doesn’t mean Jake was ever a big part of her life. To her children he was just a friend.
This is HW, such methods are norm.
These two make the most boring, vanilla couple.
I agree Halo.
I think Jake is Toothy Tile. He’s trying too hard. Prince of Persia was a flop for many reasons, but on the top of the list was that he’s not believable as a macho leading man.
Neither is Justin Long, but Justin lacks the quality that Jake has which sets off gaydar. IDK…
Ooh Swillenhall, I like it I was thinking Swifthall? but that has a nicer ring to it!
I can see why people think both ways about Jake. I can see why the rumours are there, and yet he doesn’t set off my fairly spot on gaydar (just sayin’, I could be wrong) I still don’t get why a young girl keeps being a beard though, although maybe her experiences with straight men (she does seem to like douches), have put her off for a while. I find it weird a 30ish year old man would bring home a girl so quickly/vice versa if he were straight.
What is with that girl’s hair. It should be great but argh!!! The “curly” always looked so done, I could just picture her in the moring with her wavy crimper. But the straight hair just makes her look really plastic. Maybe because it’s perfectly straight.
I also think this is fake. Why would she do it? Because her picture gets taken. Hollywood has been doing this for years.
I don’t think Jake is gay. I think Ted C is a creepy jerk who is only right 1/2 the time (usually with stuff everyone knows) Toothy Tile could be anyone. I find that there are other site whose blind items seem more real to me (all blind items have to be taken with several grains of truth).
My own take Jake got his heart broken by Kristen and was humiliated by Reese and is looking for someone younger eventhough its unhealthy ALOT of men do this. And again this isn’t a posed pap walk these are two people in some of the least pretentious neighborhoods hanging out they aren’t even being affectionate.
the whole jake-reese-jim toth thing is totally transparent. jake and reese were a PR stunt and the proof (to me) was how quickly she fell into the ‘public’ relationship with jim toth after she ‘split’ with jake. i believe she was with toth the entire time and that jake was just a friend.
taylor was totally bearding for taylor lautner. and to me, this just screams of a PR stunt wiht her new album out and his new movie out right now.
idk – if this isn’t a PR stunt, i would be really surprised.
This relationship doesn’t bother me. I think it’s both real and for the convenient PR. Is there some rule it can only be one or the other? If so, the Brange broke that a long time ago.
The age difference also doesn’t bother me because Taylor Swift is not the average twenty year old, I don’t think even for Hollywood. I think she’s sweet and friendly, and I also think she has a control freak demanding side. She doesn’t just write the songs, she writes them, sings them, plays music on some of them, then helps produce them, all on the most successful album in years. Everyone has said she’s very VERY involved in her image and everything related to her PR. That’s not your average sweet innocent 20 year old running their own life. As sweet as she may be, I think she’s probably older than she is in most aspects of her life.
Oh Jake. 🙁 LOL I don’t think they will last to long and I always wish people the best but seriously, I don’t see this going anywhere and son Jake will be back on the market.
They think he is gay because he played a gay part in Brokebank Mountain.. duh…I know, not the sharpest knives in the drawer posting on here. LOL
They’re going at it like rabbits. They spent considerable time holed up together in a hotel room….a no brainer.
Really Tazina? Since you’re so much smarter than all of us, I assume you read the comments before posting and saw that someone else said that and someone had a counter argument stating there were never any rumours about Heath Ledger. Tom Hanks and Antonio Banderas played gay characters, I don’t remember rumours about them.
According to various people who saw them at Fido, they sat right near the door facing the window and more than one person mentioned how incredibly tactile Taylor was towards Jake. Both people said she was REALLY touchy feely (hands all over type of thing) but he wasn’t like that with her at all. If you were trying to be discreet with your relationship, why go to a coffee shop next to Vanderbilt Uni where it’s full of late teens, early 20-somethings who would have recognised them instantly and partake in some serious PDA when you’re seated right near the window? Sounds to me like they wanted people to notice them. Oh, and someone else mentioned that they were also in Whole Foods together and Jake wore his sunglasses inside the store the whole time. How lame.
I still maintain that this is PR (although they probably are sleeping together) which will fizzle out once the publicity tour ends for both of them. We’re all noticing and talking about them as a couple so it maintains interest in the both of them and their respective projects. Come Jan/Feb it will all end as quickly as it started.
Jake Gyllenhaal’s showmance with phony Reese Witherspoon was bad.
Jake’s showmance with new professional beard Taylor Swift is beyond pathetic.
Brokeback Mountain is irrelevant. People think Jake is gay because he makes their gaydars explode. Also there have been 10 years of rumors about Toothy Tile, who is JG. Also, his relationship with Reese was pretty obviously fake. There are blind gossip items about JG cruising for gay sex that are pretty bold and pretty clearly aimed at him. I agree with previous poster – why would a 30 year old man want to hang with a 20 year old? This way she has the cover of a “boyfriend” and can do whatever she wants behind the scenes. Not an innocent little doe.
Regrdless whether this is a real or fake relationship, this is one I wont be following.
They are both annoying and boring.
Taylor Swift faked relationships with gays Joe Jonas and Taylor Lautner, too.
I think it’s funny when people apply normal, regular, everyday standards to celebrities! Even from the limited exposure I’ve had to celebs in charity/benefit events, I can see that they totally live in their own worlds with their own rules. Most of them don’t go to the bathroom without an assistant holding their hand. To assume that because Reese Witherspoon “seems” like she’d never work a beard relationship, and that she’s a “good” mother, (how do you know that?) doesn’t make it true. Celebs make sure we see what they want us to see.
Oh meh. I like Jake enough to want to leave him alone. I find all the gay speculation extremely creepy.
she sure is a skinny bird!! i want to believe it’s for real…….sigh..
Its so cute! Why can’t people stand near perfection and have to attempt to tear them down to their level? 🙁
many of you are very strange,….the info you have on the sex lives of these people, and your stupid gaydars is pathetic. Oh this is gay, no he is gay, yep, she is his beard…wtf is wrong with you people? Stop trying to bully people into coming out, and no one cares about your malfunctioning gaydars.. Keep sitting behind your desks, speculating if it makes your life seem better.
She comes across as a vindictive bore. He better not piss her off otherwise her next cd will be all about him.
I don’t care if she’s isn’t the “average 20 yo”. The point is there are a lot of average 16 – 20 year olds who look up to her. The message T&J are sending is that it’s totally ok and normal. I disagree there are a lot of weirdo’s out there who perv on younger girls. They must be loving the publicity showing that it’s ok for them to pray on young girls.
@hollowdoll I get what you are saying but she is over the legal age of consent. If she was 16 there would be a problem but 20 is a legal adult. And I do think Jake is a nice guy.
I don’t think he is gay. I saw him once at the father’s office in Santa Monica during the time where he broke up with Reese, and he was checking me out and other girls in a way that only straight men do. He wasn’t looking at me like, oh, bitch your dress is cute! but more like, mmm, I’m heartbroken, rich and horny for new chuuucha.
“Swifenhaal” has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?
It’s not just about the age of legal consent. It’s about the mind frame of someone so young. They are easily manipulated by someone so much older.
I would feel the same way if it was an older woman / young man. And yes she may be mature for her age. (I don’t see her that way, based on interviews etc.) But having a relationship with that douche Meyers, kinda proves my point. Doesn’t seem very smart. The thought of having Meyers sloppy seconds makes me want to hurl. There are a lot impressionable girls out there who look up to Taylor Swift.
@slymm27: “Stop trying to bully people into coming out”
Exactly! I thought we were past bullying people about their sexuality, but clearly people are still WAY too interested in the sex lives of others.
i never thought Jake’s romance with Reese was a showmance, but maybe I was missing something ?
for this “romance” with Taylor, there is something oddly off about it. it just doesn’t add up. and there are a lot of details out on it… does make me think this is likely a showmance.
and now wondering about his other involvement with Reese, if that was one too. esp since Reese seemed to rebound so quickly from it. easier to rebound if there was nothing to rebound from, no ?! 😉
I don’t care if Gaylor are a real couple or not. I just want to know what self-respecting adult listens to her horrific Lisa Frank tunes? She plays 3 chords, can’t see, to sing in tune, and is a perpetual victim. Really? That’s an awesome role model for your daughter?
Having spent many a morning at this coffee shop I know that it is ALWAYS packed on weekend mornings. So it is not surprising that they had a photo taken of them by a nonprofessional and also took the first availiable table be it at a window or tucked away in cozy corner. However if they are trying to keep their relationship on the DL then this was the WRONG place to go. But I am sure that Taylor was doing bfast suggestions (since they were in her hometown) and I get the feeling that she LOVES people knowing she is with Jake.
Also, in regards to the comment that this is an unpretentious part of town, um, no.
TayJay is a fake.
she looks really pretty and doll-like in some of those pictures… very delicate pictures… in either case, my old roommate used to be really into JG and when he started dating Dunst, she was all disillusioned cuz she thought he was all indie and emo and different or whatever… this must be even a bigger shocker to her…. :-/
@di butler, thank you! What makes me laugh are her fans who always say what a brilliant songwriter she is. Seriously? She parades around as a sweet, perfect little princess but her lyrics are infantile, bitter and really spiteful. Anyone, and I do mean ANYONE can write those songs. They look up to her as though she’s some sort of musical messiah but she’s an empty pop star, singing “pity me” bubblegum crap, to a demographic not intelligent enough to figure out how trite her music is.
“But all you are is mean
All you are is mean
And a liar, and pathetic, and alone in life
And mean, and mean, and mean, and mean”
Wow, you can really sense the strong feminist empowerment in her lyrics right there. Great songwriting – if you’re 5 years old.
I’ll buy that they’re real. But she annoys me, when someone doesn’t want to date her, or breaks up with her or whatever then she b*tches about them. That and her whole I’m so innocent and sweet and I love puppies and dot my i’s with hearts act is coming across as nothing more then that. An ACT.
taylor swift has packaged herself as the sweet, bubble gum girl, and it has worked for her, why should your kids look up to her as a role model????? Why don’t you sing your own songs and package your self a a mum so your kids can look up to you as a role model?? If you dont like her music, doesn’t mean those that like it are unintelligent, go write your, and sing yours so we benefit from your genuis iq.
I personally don’t care, but Jake (although really hot these days) seems gay.
And Taylor’s hair looks a billion times better straight — wig or not.
@slymm27, for what it’s worth I don’t have kids – why would you assume I have? But if I did, I would hope they’d find something far more interesting and meaningful to listen to than some country-pop singer who’s childish, spiteful slut shaming and constant victim mentality shows her to be no better than those being “mean, and mean, and mean, and mean” to her.
I can safely assume judging from your reaction that you’re a huge fan of hers? Not wanting to be too snarky but when you try to respond defending the intelligence of Swift fans with a comment full of bad punctuation and poor grammar, then you’ve kind of proved my point.
Yeah she does seem to have a”I’ll stab u in the back” look and I don’t like it. Just like I don’t like them being together! He needs to be mine!
@slymm27: thank you for saying what I have been thinking all along!
People should focus on their own relationships and stop hating on others. If they wanna date they don’t need your approval, so get a life!
@dahlia47, you are welcome, @nicky, you sound so angry, and who is the one being mean, you can attack my punctuation and grammar all you want, does not make me any less intelligent, it just goes to show how silly you are. Sit behind your computer screen and attack a 20 year old who is living her life, i bet that makes you feel less miserable about yours, and i couldn’t care less if you have kids or not, i am nott your mother in law, you were the one who started with the kids talk, please go get a life and leave the young rich couple to have cofee in peace…
Don’t know if he is gay or not. But I think this is definitely a PR relationship. She was turning 21 and didn’t have a boyfriend–he had been dumped so this works out. Also, he is from a very wealthy and privileged family so I would bet her parents heartily approve. See-they have lots in common.