We finally have a picture of the elusive couple that have yet to be given a combined nickname. I vote for “Jaylor.” A bystander photographed Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift getting coffee and breakfast together in Nashville on Saturday, just two days after they were allegedly seen ordering Maple lattes in Brooklyn. On Friday I reported a story from US Weekly that Jaylor was holed up at a hotel in London for a no-longer “secret” tryst earlier this month. A lot of you yelled at me for being so naive about a romance that had the whiff of a PR stunt. It probably still smells foul to some of you, but I’m buying it. These two seem like they’re together, they’re doing couple-y stuff, and the press is either eating it up or making it up. If the blurry photo is a PR stunt, it’s a genius move. Here’s People’s report.
It’s been a busy travel weekend for most Americans – and especially for Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Two days after enjoying maple lattes together in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Thanksgiving, Swift and Gyllenhaal popped up in the singer’s hometown of Nashville.
On Saturday afternoon, the couple were spotted getting a late breakfast at Fido, a coffeehouse and café near Vanderbilt University and Music Row.
“They were smiling and laughing. They were talking a lot and enjoying each other’s company,” fellow diner Elaina Mishu tells PEOPLE. “They didn’t look like [just] friends.”
Customer Emma Rice, who snapped a photo of the pair, calls the duo “very cute” and says, “They seemed close.”
The singer, 20, and actor, 29, were first spotted together in late October.
And while Gyllenhaal has avoided commenting on his relationship with Swift, they aren’t hiding their affection.
“They were not trying to be discreet by any means,” another eyewitness says of the pair, who sat at a table near a window. “They were definitely a couple. They looked very happy.”
[From People]
Now, the fact that People was one of the first outlets to get this photo is suspect to me, especially since they breathlessly reported that “maple lattes on Thanksgiving” story. These two have been apple picking, they love fancy coffee, and they’re traveling around the world together. I get why a lot of you suspect that it’s some publicist’s vision of an ideal romance. It’s certainly playing out like one, complete with a strategically leaked photo. Perez ran this photo too, and said a reader sent it to him. He didn’t even draw on it or stick his logo on it. Someone had to be sending this around and it doesn’t seem like they posted it anywhere before notifying the celebrity outlets. Wouldn’t a “real person” put it up on Facebook or Twitter first? The plot thickens.
