Reese Witherspoon has a clearly-defined role as America's Sweetheart; and Ryan Phillippe has his own, equally well-defined, role too – That Guy Who Plods Around Anonymously A Couple Of Feet Behind America's Sweetheart.
Or at least he did. Now Ryan Phillippe is going to be best known for being That Guy Who Used To Plod Around Anonymously A Couple Of Feet Behind America's Sweetheart – it's been announced that Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe are splitting up after seven years of marriage. You know, just like Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe said they were absolutely not going to do six months ago. But, hey, maybe it's not all bad; if Reese Witherspoon was lying about not splitting up with her husband, maybe she was lying when she said she'd never make a sequel to Just Like Heaven. Even though she didn't say that in the first place. Dammit, we just want to see more films about humans having sex with peppy ghosts. Is that too much to ask?
Personally, it's Chad Lowe we feel sorry for. For a few glorious months after he and Hilary Swank split up, Chad Lowe was riding high as Hollywood's most famous ex-husband of a far more successful Oscar-winning wife. But – thanks to Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe's split, he doesn't even have that any more. A statement from Reese Witherspoon and Reese Phillippe's slave Nanci Ryder yesterday confirmed that America's Golden Couple (Famous Woman/ Unfamous Man Division) have finally done what we all expected and split the hell up:
“We are saddened to announce that Reese and Ryan have decided to formally separate. They remain committed to their family and we ask that you please respect their privacy and the safety of their children at this time.”
But let's not pretend that we didn't see the Reese Witherspoon/ Ryan Phillippe split coming a mile off. All the signs of marital tension were there; the declarations that their marriage was fine, the suing magazines that thought Reese was pregnant, the "we see marriage counselling as a way to reaffirm out love for one another" shtick – it was always going to be a 'when' rather than an 'if' when discussing Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe splitting up.
To be fair, though, it's been a rollercoaster of a year for Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe; a year that involved a kiddie-punching photographer who turned up dead, possibly the worst Oscars speech in the history of the awards and – shame of shame – wearing one of Kirsten Dunst's second-hand dresses to an awards show. Really it's a wonder that Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe stayed together for so long. Kirsten Dunst. That's some heavy shit.
But now that the Reese Witherspoon/ Ryan Phillippe split has become public, at least the couple can move on and get over the heartache. Reese Witherspoon can do this by maximising her white-hot post-Oscar reputation, imposing herself as one of Hollywood's greatest ever actresses and hook up with a guy who's at least as famous as she is, and Ryan Phillippe can… he can… well, we've got a fence that needs painting if he's free on Thursday.
Read more:
Witherspoon, Phillippe Announce Separation – MSNBC
Reese Witherspoon & Ryan Phillippe Set To Divorce – Star Trip
PhillippeFan says
Sorry, but Ryan Phillippe is an excellent actor and hottie, equal to Reese in every respect. If this marriage didn’t work then it’s probably because Reese’s head grew too big. When Ryan wins the Oscar next spring for “flags of Our Fathers” I wonder what Reeese will feeli like sitting in the audience all alone.
SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY! says
Theres always has to be some dumb a$$ to say ‘ oh we don’t know what really happened- we don’t need to believe what the press says because we don’t know what happened’ Dim wits put it all together, its not that hard. Ryan denies cheating on Reese yeah we get that but he hasn’t denied kissing Abbie Cornish in that damn Sushi bar. When Reese saw the pictures she was obviously furious and approached Ryan thinking he cheated and of course I would have thought the same thing.
The reason he did it I believe it was becuase he said on Howard Sterns show’ they were spaending so much time apart from each other caught up in their careers, which was leading up to the divorce'( Now everyone note this carefully) He felt lonely and probably ignored by Reese so he said ‘what the hell might as well and didn’t think hell get caught’, but he did. Kind of makes since doesn’t it. And we all know it was guilt on his part beacuse he called her telling her ‘ hes never loved anyone as much as hes loved her and he was crying and vomiting. He also said at he was going to try and win Reese back, but thats not going to happen. { Think about this, theres not a damn dint in this story.} I just happen to think like a detective}
So to answer your questions.Was he cheating on Reese? NO but the press had every reason to believe so
Is he dating Abbie Cornish? HELL YES( their f*%$ing alright) otherwise the skanky bitch would have appeared to the promotion of the ‘Stop Loss’ film.