This week’s In Touch has a story painting Renee Zellweger as this desperate needy girlfriend driving Bradly Cooper away with her demands. Because aren’t all unmarried women over 40 pathetic creatures clinging to their men hoping they’ll propose and rescue them from a life of loneliness? It doesn’t matter if they’re richer than whole countries combined and fitter than some world class athletes, they’re still sad empty people looking for men to fulfill them. I could go on, but I’ll spare you. This sounds like total B.S. from In Touch, but here it is. Kaiser tells me it’s B.S. because Cooper isn’t that interested in the ladies, but she often thinks guys are gay that don’t seem like it to me. (I’ve dated plenty of metrosexuals, and maybe some of those guys will come out someday, but they were straight when I was with them.) Renee seems to love those maybe in the closet/maybe just sensitive types, doesn’t she? Bradley doesn’t mind the rumors that he’s gay and once called it “fantastic” that he was linked with Victor Garber.

Renee Zellweger doesn’t have a part in her boyfriend Bradley Cooper’s new movie. Yet she’s clocked so much time on the set, the cast and crew have a running joke that she should be listed in the credits. “She can be a bit smothering,” reveals her friend, who says that when Renee is not visiting Bradley on the set of The Dark Fields, she’s calling or texting him – and she’s also spent a lot of time bonding with his mother. “Renee’s trying to prove she’ll be the perfect wife. She’s 100 percent ready to marry Bradley and she’s been more than vocal about it.”

Renee, 41, and Bradley, 35, have been dating since last July, and things got serious very quickly. “They were talking marriage before their third date,” says the friend, adding that Bradley was initially starstruck by Renee. “He was hardly a household name and couldn’t believe his luck that he was dating Renee.”

But now, less than a year into their relationship, Bradley feels suffocated by Renees clinginess. “They are still together, but he’s pulling back a lot,” says his friend, who adds the actor’s failed marriage to Jennifer Esposito has made him hesitant about taking the plunge again. “They were talking marriage and kids, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he broke things off sooner rather than later.”

[From In Touch, print edition, May 31, 2010]

Maybe Renee and Bradley are just in love, and maybe he really wants to be with her. Imagine that. If you believe In Touch Renee dazzled Bradley with her superstardom and then dragged him down with her smothering and whininess. Renee is a weird one, but these two seem like the real deal to me. It’s kind of like how we all came to accept Reese and Jake after we were all convinced for the first few months that it was a publicity stunt. Reese and Jake eventually broke up, though, and I forsee a similar fate for this couple. I don’t think there’s marriage or an extended partnership in their future, but I could be wrong. We don’t really know Cooper apart from the parts he plays and Renee is really guarded about her privacy. Maybe they’re both crazy about each other. Or maybe they’ll break up next week.

Renee is shown out in Beverly Hills that one outfit she always wears on 5/18/10. She’s also shown at an event on 5/1/10. Renee and Bradley are shown together at the movies on 12/21/09. Credit: Fame Pictures