Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift’s romantic London getaway

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We haven’t heard news of Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift in a couple of weeks, but they’re still going strong. This week’s US Weekly has a story about their romantic semi-secret rendezvous at a London hotel for three days earlier this month. Right after the Country Music Awards, Taylor headed to London to meet up at a suite in a five star hotel with Jake. Taylor, 20, and Jake, 29, didn’t leave their room for two days, and ordered Chinese food delivered. Those kids.

In the middle of her busy Speak Now press tour, Taylor Swift jetted from Nashville to London on November 11 – and promptly holed up at the Dorchester. Already checked into the five star hotel? Her new beau, Jake Gyllenhaal, who had a suite on the same floor. “Taylor came early to be with Jake,” says a Swift source. “It was a love-in!” The tryst also marks the fourth weekend in a row [Taylor and Gyllenhaal] have spent together… Not that they want anyone to know. Swift’s arrival in London was so stealth even members of her own camp hadn’t heard about the last-minute itinerary change. “It was a secret” says a Swift source. Neither ventured outside the luxe hotel, and on November 12, Swift ordered in Chinese food. “It was enough for two or three people!” says a hotel source. Not even staffers caught a glimpse of them together before Gyllenhaal left for NYC November 13 (Swift flew to Japan the next day). But the romance is definitely heating up. “He’s crushing on her,” says a Gyllenhaal source. And Swift, says an insider, is “excited. She wants it to be official.”

[From US Weekly, print edition, December 6, 2010]

Swift still seems too young to me for Gyllenhaal, but this is romantic! This story reminds me of when I was young and in love and just wanted to shut out the world with whatever new boyfriend meant the world to me at the time. Nothing is quite like new love when you’re young. And this story is cinematic in a way – young singer meets movie star for a weekend getaway at a hotel in London. They almost manage to avoid the press, but they can’t keep their love a secret. I’m sure I’ll feel differently once these two hit their first red carpet together and Taylor pens a bunch of sappy love songs about Jake. If they’re smart they’ll keep it quiet, though, and try to preserve this time as long as they can. It usually doesn’t last for celebrities and commoners alike.

Jake is shown on 11/17/10. Taylor is shown on 11/27/10. Credit: WENN.com. Here’s the suite where these two supposedly stayed. US Weekly reports that it costs $7,945 a night. This is from The Dorchester’s website.

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  1. Tracy says:

    Call me a cynic but this smells of a PR stunt. Whoever wrote this romantic getaway story needs a raise though.

  2. Stronzilla says:

    “It was enough for two or three people!”

    Did anyone actually see the Chinese delivery person leave? Or was he ‘holed up at the Dorchester’ in Jake’s suite for 2 days as well?

  3. Louise says:

    This relationship seems off. I don’t know why but I don’t see it working out. Also unless there was a second London trip, I remember seeing photos of Taylor performing at an awards show and doing press in London. Which would mean the whole story was madeup.

  4. kiko says:

    yeah right….

  5. Joni says:

    It’s PR showmance just like that Twilight-duo pretending to be as their characters and with both “couples” it’s matter of bearding and promting themselves.

  6. Istanem says:

    From Reese to Taylor ?? I don’t get it…at all.

  7. Cari says:

    Straight hair looks really good on her!

  8. Nicky says:

    I love how Celebitchy is now jumping on the bandwagon; seriously you really believe they’re dating? Gullible much? Or maybe you’re getting a kickback from their PR people?
    Basically, US Weekly have printed some photos of rooms at the Dorchester and created a story around it. Ooh, that proves everything then!
    Apparently they spent Thanksgiving together in Brooklyn. According to JustJared they hit up a coffee shop to buy beans and lattes. Their source? Some random girl tweeted that she served them. I could have gone onto Twitter and done that! Anyone can use social networking to say they served/hung out/spotted a celeb. So long as it sounds feasible, all it takes is one gossip mag/website to pick up on it and you have a story.
    This entire relationship is based purely on conjecture – unsubstantiated tweets and Facebook “sightings”, nothing else. There is no proof other than some grainy photos of the two of them hanging out once in a group back in October but since then, the tabloids, gossip sits and their PR teams have gone balls out to try and convince people that this is ~real~. LOL, keep trying!

  9. lin234 says:

    She looks like a barbie doll with straight hair. Very pretty curly or straight.

    Time will tell if it’s true or not. The rumors seem sweet though.

  10. Luci says:

    come on?! apple picking?! seriously?!
    http://www.celebitchy.com/123484/taylor_swift_thinks_jake_gyllenhaal_is_good_husband_material/
    this is a reeks of PR stunt
    i wont believe it until I see a swift-gyllenhal sex tape 😛

  11. katy says:

    Stories with such details are always product of PR teams, there’s no way these tabloids can know such things unless they were with present at the dates. It means it is “leaked” to them.

  12. Marjalane says:

    I’m not buying this “romance”. Unless Jake Gylenhaal has the personality of soggy white bread, they can’t have much in common. I’ve seen Taylor interviewed several times in the last few weeks and she is BORING.

  13. mln says:

    The main reason I don’t think it is a P.R. stunt I have never even seen a picture of them together. If they were faking it we would see them holding hands all over town. Take Ryan Seacrest for example who has so many awkward photos with his “girlfriend”.

  14. normades says:

    This really makes me think he’s gay now.

  15. Ferguson. says:

    I agree with all of you, it sounds like a madeup story, a sweet madeup story.

    Only time will tell.
    EDIT: She looks beautiful with straight hair !

  16. Nicky says:

    @mln, you don’t need to do a Seacrest to stage a PR campaign. Hough and Seacrest are massive famewhores who love the attention, so it’s natural that they would jump at photo ops. Jake and Taylor went out once on a Sunday for a stroll around Brooklyn, someone took photos and that’s the basis of this whole relationship.
    When Jake and Reese first started dating, they were very discreet about it however; there were confirmed sightings and photos to prove it was more than a tabloid PR stunt. They were papped regularly going from one another’s houses, sitting in their cars together and eventually going on dates. They couldn’t go anywhere without being photographed. As for Jake and Taylor, they’ve been dating since October, taking minibreaks together and going out in public how many times now? Yet where’s the proof? On their “ice cream date” according to “sources” they even allowed people to take photos, even though Jake is notorious for saying no to photos, so where in the hell are these pics?
    Jake and Reese went out of their way to hide their relationship for months yet they were still photographed. Jake and Taylor are apparently strolling around together happy as Larry for the entire world to see, yet funnily enough apart from a handful of unsubstantiated tweets no one has actually seen anything.

  17. nycmom10024 says:

    Isn’t Swift’s new hairstyle very similar to Reese Witherspoons only longer? Hmmm

  18. caramia says:

    um are they both sexless or is it just me?

  19. Malin says:

    @caramia – haha, “sexless” is EXACTLY the word I would use. Even when Taylor is like 30 she’ll probably still come off like a 13 year old. And Jake……I’m just don’t see anything there.

  20. Wilz says:

    So nobody saw her arrive, nobody saw her leave, and yet we’re supposed to believe this story? Okay…

  21. Celebitchy says:

    You guys you can make fun of me for buying this but no one believed Reese and Jake at first either and they were together two and a half years. Also, Kaiser wrote the Ryan Gaycrest and Julianne Hough story, I didn’t. I am much more gullible than she is. I’m not really buying Ryan and Julianne but this one, I believe. Plus the fact that there’s only one blurry faraway photo makes me think they’re for real and are trying to hide.

    -edit- I get the “pr relationship” argument now that People has a story up about their maple lattes at starbucks. GMAB!

  22. Marjalane says:

    I can just see them in bed together: Jake squeezing his eyes shut so tight he can pretend she’s Hayden Christensen, and Taylor making that irritating heart thing with her hands instead of saying it out loud. Obviously, I don’t buy this hook up AT ALL.

  23. Tammy says:

    Go to toothytile.com

  24. Nicky says:

    “They’re for real and are trying to hide”.

    Jake & Reese were trying to hide, sneaking from his place to hers because her divorce wasn’t finalised but and there are plenty of photos of them hooking up. Jake and Taylor are apparently doing the opposite, walking around openly, letting fans take photos whilst buying ice cream, chatting with locals long enough for someone to whip out a camera or a phone to take a pic but guess what? Nothing. If the paps can get photos of Jake and Reese sneaking around, then why on earth has no one managed to snap these two apart from that one time?
    Also, if you’re trying to hide a relationship from the media, the last place you go to for a bit of nookie is The Dorchester because it’s a mecca for the paparazzi.

  25. Hautie says:

    I also think they are dating.

    I would suspect Taylor has learned to keep it out of sight.

    Since she has been embarrassed about previous public hookups.

  26. whattt says:

    So shes dated joe jonas, taylor lautner AND now him??
    Damn, she’s got game! (Sidenote: I hate joe jonas, but like the other 2 who i love-he IS hot!)

  27. Libchen says:

    Jake and Taylor are so dating!! Am buying it, they might look odd but they do have a lot in common; both are Sagittarius and odd individually.

  28. gabs says:

    I believe that they are together I just think its not a good match. Taylor needs to date someone her own age. What kind of 30 yr old man dates a 20 year old? its just shady to me. I thought she learned her lesson with mayer

  29. candy says:

    Marriage and babies for their future….Jake is ready, he’s been ready, just hasn’t found a woman who is, until now.

  30. caramia says:

    @Malin…you are right on!
    No matter what she wears she looks like
    she’s wearing mommy’s clothes and make up and he is just a nebbish..maybe they do belong together

  31. OtherChris says:

    I love her hair and I totally think he’s gay now. She’ll “break up” with him and not write a song and it will be good PR for her.

  32. Athena says:

    I agree with Kaisers take on this when she wrote about it a few days ago. There’s just something off about Taylor Swift.

  33. nanster says:

    I have never liked Taylor Swift, but she sure looks beautiful with her new straight ‘do’. Glad she has decided to join the adult world.

  34. dahlia47 says:

    Please don’t let this be true! He needs to be with ME!

  35. Syko says:

    I have to be the only person on earth who doesn’t find either of them attractive. Especially her.

  36. mollination says:

    I love this story and I love the idea of them as a couple. I miss being in love 🙁

    Also, I don’t think Taylor has ever looked better than in that header picture. She looks absolutely gorgeous.

  37. Nicky says:

    At last, someone actually remembered that most cell phones come with an inbuilt camera and that someone took a photo of Swiftenhaal in Nashville grabbing coffee and lunch at a place called Fido. They probably headed over there because no one in Brooklyn could give a hoot about Swifty long enough to take a pic.
    Maybe I’m wrong, but I still think this is PR and I’m freaked out by how much they look like brother and sister here. Whatever, I’m waiting for the inevitable self-pitying song following their breakup in Jan/Feb next year.

  38. voodoobetty says:

    Crushing on her? Who says stuff like that outside of middle school, circa 1955?

  39. Mizz Tickles says:

    I could see her getting pregnant fast. And this will give her new experiences to write about, Detriotgirl please write a taylor swift song about pregnancy, the jessica simpson one was excellent.

  40. huhhh says:

    Normally I don’t question others’ taste in relationships, because we’re all attracted by different qualities obviously, but, this is just odd. He trades in Reese Witherspoon for a much younger blonde who is just coming out of teenhood and clearly, if you listen to her music, is still a child in many ways, as are people in their early twenties, still trying to discover who they are. I guess that’s all I have to say before turning too judgmental.

  41. crazydaisy says:

    I saw Love and Other Drugs last night. Why isn’t Jake with Anne Hathaway?! They were great together.

    I know: movies aren’t real. Sigh.