I’m not going to go off on some kind of screed about how you should never trust random tabloids. Yes, it seemed like an utterly random (and budget) British tabloid (Now Magazine) got way too much attention when they claimed last week that Leonardo DiCaprio had dumped Blake Lively because his mommy thought Blake was full of herself. From my perspective, Now Mag was just doing what they always do: generally pulling stuff out of their collective asses. It just got blown up to legit celebrity gossip, I think, because so many people are interested in the Leo-Blake pairing, and many are rooting for Blake in particular to botch it. Maybe because she’s so young. Maybe because her hustle is so good. Maybe because she seems more “ambitious” than “talented” and that turns people off. I don’t know. I kind of like Blake and Leo together, although, realistically, I do think she’ll get dumped at some point. But not today! Or any day soon:
Their love knows no distance! Though Blake Lively recently returned to New York City to film scenes for Gossip Girl’s fifth season, the 23-year-old actress met up with new beau Leonardo DiCaprio in Santa Barbara, Calif. Wednesday.
The lovey-dovey twosome were spotted shopping for Carrera X-cede shades at the Solstice Sunglass Boutique. Known for her impeccable style, Lively helped DiCaprio, 35, find the perfect pair of sunglasses.
The coupled talked quietly as they browsed the store, never letting go of one another.
“They seemed very much in love,” a store rep tells Us Weekly. “They were in the store for about 10 minutes before a crowd of fans noticed them and they rushed out.”
Since they began dating in May, the couple has been spotted everywhere from Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. to European hotspots like Monte Carlo, Venice, Italy and Saint-Paul de Vence, France.
[From Us Weekly]
There’s no doubt in my mind that Blake and her team is behind this “sighting” and my takeaway is that Blake’s publicist is as talented and hard-working as Jennifer Aniston’s. I thought these random reports and “sightings” of Blake and Leo were over because he liked things more private, but I guess that all bets are off with this one.
Anyway, they’re still together, huzzah! Blake wins again! Mall Girls Forever! I seriously have my fingers crossed that they make it through the year and beyond. I want Blake to be Leo’s Oscar date. I want Blake and Leo, holding hands, walking the Oscar red carpet… with Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux behind them. Which couple would get more attention?
Photos courtesy of Fame.
Below is my post from the Jul 20 CB thread on Leo “Dumping” Blake because he’s a momma’s boy. (Yes, I actually felt it necessary to copy and paste it for accuracy).
“This might just be what’s known as “gossip sucker”. What’s that you ask (I knew you would). Relationship fades to get people asking questions and then poof, they’re back in full force..”
My modesty prevents me from jumping around the room screaming “Did I call it or what? Take that you suckers!!!!”.
(That didn’t feel as good as I thought it would)
I doubt Blake and ‘her team’ would be briefing the press against Leo for her benefit. My thinking is this is the press making up shit because this pairing is a hit with readers or this is some mutual beneficial shiz. Sorry but I think there is more to it. Leo is a very private and very snobby A list actor. I totally believe if there is something going on, it is benefiting him in some way.
I agree with the previous commentor. People are acting as if she’s holding a gun to his head and forcing him to take part in this pr sham. He’s obviously benefiting from all of this and is gungho about putting their relationship out there. If he really wanted to be private about it he could just act like he did in his other relationships with high profile women.
It really annoys me that no matter what the situation is the woman always gets the bulk of the blame, while the man is seen as some helpless victim of her dastardly schemes.
“I want Blake to be Leo’s Oscar date. I want Blake and Leo, holding hands, walking the Oscar red carpet” ohhhh me too =)
I realy like this couples, but gossip is too mean for them! All i see is rumores and more rumores..
Yep…the woman always takes it up the arse.
And…GO RITA!!!
I dont find her the least bit attractive.
Leo could do better. Not a Blake fan. I got dibs she’s a rebound chic and Leo’s next girlfriend will be Rosie Huntington-Whitley or whatever that vacant eyed girl’s name is.
@ Gossip Owl – Now that might actually be entertaining in a “Watch Leo Get His Arse Kicked by Jason Statham” sort of way! 🙂
they are hot together but i wish she would lay off the tanning a bit, it makes her look cheap
she can do so much better
@Ruby 7
Blake is beautiful girl ,but not an attractive girl
@Gossip Owl
Rosie Huntington-Whitley is so ugly
I still think they are f*!k/PR buddies. I think they BOTH are setting out to make this be the highest profiled of their previous celeb relationships. Him AND her.
I think he needed to switch his PR game because for the most part he is UNTOUCHABLE beyond a few articles here, and a few closed-set interviews there (no Leno or Daily Show, for him). When he’s been Oscar-nom’ed in the past, he had a “steady” girl on his arm, and still lost, so he might be trying to appear “obtainable/relatable” by dating one of the plainest, most common looking and willing-to-play-along actresses out there who has very little acting leverage of her own as to not outshine him.
Rita: any thoughts on some winning Powerball numbers? 😉
peppermint pattie = blake lively = charlotte gainsbourg …
so yeah, they’ll be over some day.
@rita: yes, I agree.
Oh. And put me down for “they’ll keep trying to sell this thru to at least the filming of ‘The Great Gatsby.'” The headlines: Lively loses leading part, wins leading man!”
It would be hilarious if he starts being “accidentally” pic’ed on set of “Gossip Girl” a lot.
I like this pairing. I think the relationship is far more interesting than his normal ones. I’d love to see them on the red carpet too. lol. That would make the tabloids go crazy. They’d probably make a degree that marriage is coming up the first time they walk together on the carpet.
I like Leo, but his “modelizing” ways, Blake is as close to a non-model model as you can get, are becoming tedious. I’d love to see him with an Emma Stone type. Someone with substance who doesn’t look like a copy of every other woman he’s dated. This man boy thing of his is getting old.
I doubt she will be Leo’s Oscar date. The only girlfriend he went with was Gisele and only after 5 years of relationship. He doesn’t like the red carpet, he does it just as a nominee and he doesn’t like the attention. If he’d bring a girl the attention would be on them and not on the Oscar thing.
too bad he sucked so bad in inception….totally phoned it in.
and that movie was a ridiculous farce anyway…..
oooo special effects and tipping over buildings in your mind….wowwwweeee….
really, if that is the extent of existensial/philosophical/metaphysical exploration a hollywood film can muster up, just doing it for the sake of using fancy technology and not for the sake of the subject matter itself, then pfft…..
i mean, i hated him in that movie SO much and I hated that movie-i couldnt even finish it on dvd…..tedious and inane.
and everyone thinks their film is important enough to be AT LEAST two hours long now adays….
honestly, very little subject matter is worthy of that much time (or that much of my personal time-lol). it kills the movie.
I think Leo has phoned it in for some time in his roles….so we’ll see how the next role does…..
i could care less about these two-but i do agree that Leo played the reclusive only dates models card for too long, as far as PR goes….he does need a new angle, b/c PR is part of the business, like it or not.
Even Johnny Depp figured that out awhilie ago….and ingratiated himself accordingly, despite also being very private.
ps-though i did crack up at Joseph gordon levitt portraying his character in inception like a 90’s miami vice cop show type. lol. it was like each actor in that film was in their own virtual movie….not on the same set or script. hey….wait a minute….virtual, dude….
After split rumors,..She rushs back to Cali, so they can be seen in a mall of places, people can twit about…Also Eonline..give different version saying their was NO PDA, and Leo spent most the time texting on his phones..
She isn’t that pretty, boring…fake in everyway..
I don’t like this pairing…I hope it will end soon enough.
And I want to add in that pic above,..Nobody can’t tell me Leo wasn’t acting for the cameras..when is the last time he looks in the cameras with a smirk…Please man save the acting for films.He even put a nice shirt and combed his hair.
Blake and Leo = the Loch Ness Monster of dating.
Rita – you called it. Take credit cause it’s true.
This relationship stinks, and man/boy Leo, as Original Bee called him, isn’t going to settle down with Blake. She’s a nice enough gal, but he’s a playboy.
Whack! Take that haters! 🙂
@Chris: What should we take? That this relationship is as fake and pathetic as it can be? Leo is seen in NYC with a model and the next day you get a sighting of them in Carmel. There`s a break up rumor after not being seen together for weeks and what do you know? They show up together in Santa Barbara for a highly predicted sighting. Then Leo goes to Vegas for some fun…
What are you so proud of? Being fan of this horse faced woman? That`s rather pathetic and sad. It says a lot about you… LOL!
There`s something fishy about them. Maybe Fake Moley is blackmailing him or he lost a bet! No way he is into her!
love them together!! it tickles me that so many women care…
no one thinks he’s happy and everyone thinks it has to be a sham–lol
he looks like he knows she nds camera time and he is obliging a lil.
I honestly think, she could do better w/a youthful in shape guy.
That last pic of Blake… her dress seems to show a bit too much. : S
No, it doesn`t really occur to anyone that Leo is indeed into this woman. Even the idea gives me the creeps. It`s such a hideous setup that it HAS TO BE just as fake as Blake.
Run Leo, run! People are just laughing at you because of her!
God not one smile from leo! Not enthusiastic to be near her! Oh you guys, you aren’t fooling anyone. Caaaaaaaaan yoooooou saaaaaaaaaay PR?
I think Leo is into Blake just like he is into that Polish Model….basically he isn’t faithful.
Except that Blake’s PR will call the Press,when they are together.
I KNEW after, the Breakup rumors there would be a sightings..so really this just proves the Hater’s right that this “fling” is heavily PR driven.
@25: lol at your tone. 🙂
And I see you’re not posting as Hilarious this week.
I write “Whack!” Take that haters!” and that says a lot about me? Wow, aren’t you the perceptive one. No wonder you know so much about Blake even though you’ve never met the woman.
I’m not actually a huge fan of Blake as I’ve only ever seen her in The Town. But I like to question and confront people who mindlessly jump on negative band wagons for no good reason.
But don’t think I’m singling out negative people. Those who mindlessly jump on positive band wagons are just as likely to feel the cut of me jib as well. So good luck with that. 🙂
It’s real.
But that sunglasses place is in Solvang, which is like thirty miles north of Santa Barbara.
They were all over town for like tow days. Saw them myself, not to mention the facebook feed was blowing up about it.
@Chris: Yeah, it says a lot about you. 🙂 Of course you are not a Blake fan… I take your word for it! LOL! Singling out negative people? You`re gonna have a lot of work to do!
@grace: Sure, they made sure we`ll get a sighting during those two days. Facebook, twitter…etc. I don`t buy this romance, this is all PR. All time low for Leo to even start with this low class and talentless woman. What a joke!
@funny: That’s alright. I have the time and the energy. 🙂
Knock yourself out! LOL!
I finally found that interview were Blake Lively was so obnoxious. I thought it was with Joy Behar but it’s with Elizabeth Hasslebeck and Meredith Viera when she was still on the “View.”
In it Blake is interviewing with the other actresses from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (I was a fan of Amber and Alexis from previous work and getting to know America Ferrara because she had been in the indie hit “Real Women Have Curves” Blake came out of nowhere but seemed harmless enough)
Anyhow, they finally get to Blake and she starts talking at the 4:40 mark:
http://youtu.be/wdds8zhnuEI
I’m pretty sure she is told to get to the point!
Can someone tell me how many plastic surgeries this 23 year-old chick has had already?
Wow, so impressive! Well between their “sighting” of shopping together on an afternoon, DiCaprio was seen the previous week dancing like hell with different girls at a wedding in Italy (even necking one)…. and was seen in Las Vegas wih buddies having fun, and at a Stevie Wonder concert WITHOUT THE HORSE FACE…. So in love, right.
Right, he looked so in love with Fakey while flirting with that model in NYC! Interestingly that little episode is so forgotten by Us Weekly and all the other Lively sources! As soon as the predicted little outing was over he went to Vegas with his boys. Typical Leo!
Many people asks why would Leo be in this only for PR he doesn`t need to. That`s true and that`s what makes it so believable! That you don`t think he would do it but he does! I don`t know why but the whole thing smells like a setup from the very beginning.
Sorry to burst your bubble but she was there with him in Hollywood at that concert I saw photos. Unfortunately Leo still doesn`t have taste and he is still not in his right mind so he continues seeing horse face Lively. And I just keep laughing at him for being pathetic!
They are spotted together last nigt in that concert of stevie wonder! i saw photos too!!
They like each other, over it, and stop with all this haters thing.
Unfortunately this hideous romance is still on. I hope Leo dumps her before he goes to Australia. This is just painful to look at him with this ugly and talentless woman next to him.
I saw the pics..he looked Drunk, and she was wearing a silly big hat.
Iam sure he still likes his Polish Model too, I guess long as we see new pics of Bar with her Boyfriend……Leo won’t be outdone..
I really like them together which is odd for me to say the least – I hope even if they are just bed buddies that it ends in a good way and nothing crazy
What does it have to do with Bar? Nothing I think. Last year ( or two years ago? ) Leo and Bar broke up but Leo didn`t date anyone. He was just fooling around for months. I knew very well that they weren`t over and after 6 months they were back on. This time he started a new relationship almost immediately. Leo is done with Bar and it`s mutual. Leo was the same when he moved on from Gisele so I doubt it has anything to do with Bar and her boyfriend. Leo was showcasing his romance with Fake Blake before Bar stepped out with her new boyfriend.
So after dating Bar for so long, you don’t think he could be trying to make her jealous, by rubbing this Fake Lively fling in her face, who was he showboating for in Europe,certainly not to help his career, All quiet between him and Fake until …Bar started appearing with her Boyfriend. I know People don’t like Bar but he did date her along time.
I never liked Bar but I still think she is somewhat better than Fake Blake. I almost wish you were right and Leo just wants to make her jealous. Not that I want Leo back with Bar but that would give a reason why he is doing this ridiculous thing with Fake Blake. But I don`t think that`s the reason. Maybe small part of it. Leo is out and around with Fake under the radar. They are not always pictured or spotted together. So what does that have to do with Bar? I admit there is definitely intentional PR in this `romance` from both sides. Yes, from Leo as well but I hate to admit but it seems like they are indeed on.
“They seemed very much in love”
so they’re saying the ‘I loves you’ to one another already? ok then…
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