I’m having a really hard time with all of my Forever Dongs lately. Michael Fassbender is off boning a 22-year-old chick who thinks she’s a fashion icon and an actress (and she’s neither). David Gandy is off boning some girl-bander who looks and acts like a trashier Sienna Miller. And now my constant bachelor, my beloved dirty Scotsman Gerard Butler, has succumbed to Jessica Biel’s charms. Biel was trying to make this junk happen just as soon as Justin Timberlake dumped her. She went to work in Louisiana on Playing the Field, a rom-com with Butler. She pushed stories in the tabloids about how Gerard was so into her and how he was just all over her. And now this. Photos – which you can see here – of Butler taking Biel for a ride on his motorcycle.

They said earlier this year that they were just friends. But it seems Jessica Biel and Gerard Butler’s friendship may have blossomed into something of a romance, judging by photographs of the pair out together last week.

Biel and Butler, who can soon be seen starring in romantic comedy Playing The Field, cuddled up on the back of a Harley Davidson motorbike as they sped down the Pacific Coast Highway.

Biel, who embraced her inner biker chick in a black leather jacket, dark jeans and brown boots, seemed to have no qualms holding tight to Butler as they enjoyed the hair-raising ride. And Butler also didn’t appear to mind the fact he had a beautiful Hollywood actress clinging to his back, smiling as he put his foot down as sped off.

Biel and Butler were first romantically linked back in March when they filmed scenes for their new movie in Louisiana.

However, an insider on the set was quick to deny the reports, insisting: ‘They have never had dinner alone. They are always in a crew of people on the film. There is no romance or relationship.’

But, judging by the photographs of the pair last week, their relationship has moved on from just friends to more than that.

[From The Mail]

By the way, I want to point something out: bitches, I was right. When I began pointing out Biel’s machinations – all of it the groundwork for this particular endgame – many of you yelled at me and said I was being unfair to Biel. Bullsh-t. She’s been trying to get in Gerard’s pants this whole time, and from the looks of it, he’s into it for now, however begrudgingly. I’m getting a feeling from this that this is another PR fauxmance designed to promote the film, much like whatever Butler and Jennifer Aniston had for The Bounty Hunter. Do I think Butler can keep it in his pants and be a one-woman man? Er… for Biel? Not so much. But she’s got him for now. And that’s so depressing.

UPDATE: People Magazine has a half-hearted confirmation of the relationship, and they got quotes from a true-blue Southerner for their story. A source down in Shreveport says: “He knows he looks good,. If I were her, I’d hook up with him. She looks good, too, and she knew she looked good, swinging her hips around. They looked like a couple. They were having a good time.” Only a Southerner would note “swinging her hips around” – I swear to God. We say stuff like that, only I would have said “swishing her hips around.” In any case, it sounds like Biel was advertising, and Gerry was buying.

Photos courtesy of Fame & Pacific Coast News.