Radar: Ryan Seacrest caught smooching Julianne Hough
CREDIT: AP photos
Go to Radaronline to see a photo the site procured of Ryan Seacrest kissing country singer and “Dancing With the Stars” ballroom dancer Julianne Hough on July 7.
The pair were out on a yacht in Italy. Clearly, the paparazzi worked hard for this shot.
There’s been buzz about the couple for several weeks. Neither has confirmed anything, which naturally raises the bar when it comes to speculation.
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Harriett
July 9th, 2010
12:57 pm
I saw this on ET last night. They seem determined to make this out to be a huge romance. Showed them walking hand in hand, sightseeing, etc, then this photo taken on his yacht. The following photo had both of them looking at the camera and smiling, giving an impression that they knew they were being photographed.
Deirdre
July 9th, 2010
1:04 pm
The fact that they have been dating has pretty much been out there since Idol ended. I think they’re just ready to stop hiding. They look like they’re having fun.
But here come all the “He’s gay” people! Yeah? So what!
wreckedpizza
July 9th, 2010
1:10 pm
My opinion: even a gay man wouldn’t mind kissing Julianne Hough!
Not a fan of her singing, but she does look pretty. Just sayin’.
JTesla
July 9th, 2010
1:11 pm
He’s doing more than smooching! Oh and who says “smooching” these days?
Deirdre called it: here come the it’s fake, she’s just a beard crowd.
Deirdre
July 9th, 2010
1:17 pm
Rodney is 40 now, ya know. People over 40 say “smooching”
Deirdre
July 9th, 2010
1:20 pm
ajc has to get it on the front page. Then we’ll be overwhelmed by the anti-Ryan sentiment.
wreckedpizza
July 9th, 2010
1:23 pm
Does this mean we’ll get to see the term “gaydar” posted a bunch of times? LOL!
Harriett
July 9th, 2010
1:28 pm
That is what I was thinking. People just can’t help themselves.
They were definitely having fun. They were walking all over, holding hands, with Ryan pointing out various spots to her.
Rich
July 9th, 2010
1:41 pm
Bringing the word “smooching” back is a nifty idea.
JTesla
July 9th, 2010
1:45 pm
Umm Harriett… “with Ryan pointing out various spots to her” I think you need to be more or perhaps less specific. Of course, she probably needs to be the one to point out spots, but that’s probably just a waste of time.
Gentleman GagGag
July 9th, 2010
1:48 pm
What a douchebag! Now will you idiots please go get a life? I have spoken. Nothing else to be said.
Blake in Atlanta
July 9th, 2010
1:52 pm
Sister…please! ‘Nuf said!? I love when Kathy Griffin refers to Ryan Seacrest as “she”!
Priceless. Is he a scientologist also? Smile!
JTesla
July 9th, 2010
2:06 pm
It’s popcorn time.
Jake's mom
July 9th, 2010
2:21 pm
If it weren’t 100 degrees outside I’d say you all need to get out more and get a life!!
Allie
July 9th, 2010
2:24 pm
Truelove! Ain’t it grand no matter what your sexual choice happens to be? He is UGA all the way!
Bruce
July 9th, 2010
2:25 pm
Yikes! Gay boy Ryan – are you cheating on me?
kelly&carriefan
July 9th, 2010
2:30 pm
Amen, JT, Butter?
NANA
July 9th, 2010
2:32 pm
Can’t we just leave them alone? I never believed he was gay anyway, so there! I think they make a darling couple.
James
July 9th, 2010
2:32 pm
That kiss somewhat reminds me of the Michael Jackson/Lisa Marie Presley kiss. Just offputting.
Chris
July 9th, 2010
2:37 pm
He’s doing more than “”"smooching”"”, he’s tapping dat a?@, and if he’s not, he better be……….gay or not.
Kevein Winslow
July 9th, 2010
2:38 pm
Enter your comments here
Martin
July 9th, 2010
2:38 pm
Most humans are 2-5 on the Kinsey scale, meaning that bisexuality is the most “normal” state. if they’re both happy, responsible and having fun, who cares?
Norm
July 9th, 2010
2:43 pm
this goes into the “who cares” column…
JTesla
July 9th, 2010
2:47 pm
K&Cfan, yes. Lots.
Mike
July 9th, 2010
2:47 pm
The teaser on the home page says “Ryan Seacrest Caught Smooching Dancer.”
Apparently somebody thinks the story would generate more interest if we weren’t sure of the smoochee’s gender until clicking through.
Personally, I’m still marginally interested in finding out what happened to Cheryl Burke and Chad Ochocinco.
TrafficHeadache
July 9th, 2010
2:47 pm
And this news affects me how?
Georgiaboy
July 9th, 2010
2:48 pm
Poor Simon Cowell what will he do now. First Simon leaving AI, now Ryan running around. Love all this drama on a Friday afternoon. Time to hit Happy Hour earlier. Have a great weekend everyone.
CaliGirl
July 9th, 2010
2:53 pm
I wonder how much Seacrest is paying Julianne Hough to be his ‘beard’/'cover’.
Come out, come out.. wherever you are!
Ok...
July 9th, 2010
2:56 pm
Congrats Ryan…looks like you’ve found yourself a nice woman to date.
I’m not sure why the ajc bothered to write it up as lots of people like to be with an attractive woman.
Harriett
July 9th, 2010
2:59 pm
Went away for an hour or so…geeez. Talk to y’all on Monday.
AtlantaGuy
July 9th, 2010
2:59 pm
You know who Ryan should date? Jake! I think they would make a hot couple!
Chronos
July 9th, 2010
2:59 pm
Why does he have a wig on?
Mitzymy
July 9th, 2010
3:13 pm
It was Jay Leno who started the gay rumors. I think he was just joking with Ryan, but some people picked it up and ran with it. It is not true and I think Leno is sorry that he started it. But who cares. We just found out about Ricky, and he is now rich enough that he doesn’t need anyone anymore, except his twin baby boys.
NANA
July 9th, 2010
3:26 pm
I will tell you what happened to Cheryl and Chad…..she wasn’t interested and told him to COOL IT even before the show was over! That was obvious to me. How are Erin & Maks doing…what a beautiful, hot couple!
John
July 9th, 2010
3:33 pm
Its good to know that he is not gay,
The Negster
July 9th, 2010
3:34 pm
Bang her, Ryan!
lkjlkj
July 9th, 2010
3:38 pm
Allie, the only interest he has in UGA is the tight ends.
JTesla
July 9th, 2010
3:39 pm
“It was Jay Leno who started the gay rumors” LOL… umm no. Every metrosexual guy, Ryan being their king, is considered “gay” by someone else. It’s not right, but at the same time it doesn’t take Jay Leno to make that connection.
Adam Lambert
July 9th, 2010
3:41 pm
Ryan you’re cheating on me with that?!
Beelzebubba - Demon of the South
July 9th, 2010
3:43 pm
A yacht in Italy? Maybe a yacht off the coast of Italy would have sounded better. Was the paparazzi on a pool float next to the boat to get a pic like that? Nice try Ho Ho. But next time take a closer look at the markings on the boat a little closer. I saw the Lanier Islands Rentals on the boat right away.
Tyler Perry
July 9th, 2010
3:43 pm
You don’t need her Ryan baby, Aunt Madea’s all the woman you need, sugar.
Deirdre
July 9th, 2010
4:00 pm
Just got back from the hairdresser: Did I call it or what?????
It’s so predictable!!!!!!
Deirdre
July 9th, 2010
4:00 pm
JT….any popcorn left?
Jesse
July 9th, 2010
4:00 pm
The kiss looks forced. It’s a fake, Ryan come on man….
CKM
July 9th, 2010
4:07 pm
I LOVE the name “Gentleman GAG GAG”. Awesome!
sj
July 9th, 2010
4:45 pm
Still wishing that Julianne would wake up and go back to Chuck Wicks, nothing against Ryan, just watch Chuck Wicks, new video “Hold That Thought”, great song and video.
JTesla
July 9th, 2010
4:45 pm
Deirdre: I’m getting another bag ready.
Jesse: “The kiss looks forced” yes, forced which is why she wrapped both arms and at least one leg around him. Because that is what women do when they are “forced” to kiss someone.
Beelzebubba: They were also walked around an Italian port town, hence at that time it was a “yacht in Italy”. Although, you could argue that unless it were buried it would not really be “in” Italy but it would instead be “on” Italy. However, people have generally come to accept that being within the national boundaries of the nation of Italy as being “in Italy”
Deirdre
July 9th, 2010
4:54 pm
Who cares if the yacht is “in Italy”, “on Italy”, “under Italy” or close enough to BE Italy….it’s A YACHT! And it’s ITALY! What more does anyone need?
Neimann
July 9th, 2010
5:07 pm
Ok, just saw on TMZ that he dropped 41k on dinner with a 10k tip. It was business dinner. When they were spotted in LA the first time, it was a business dinner. They met friends on this trip, they were with friends on the beach. When is she going to get tired of having his ‘friends’ and business dinners?
Not a fan of Ryan’s. She has said she likes manly men and manly and Ryan does not spring to my mind when I heard the term ‘manly’.
Highlander
July 9th, 2010
5:16 pm
Gee, he’s rich and he’s in the entertainment industry — he MUST be gay!!!
Is it comparable then to assume that most trolls are envious creatures of extremely limited intelligence who probably live in Mom and Dad’s basement with their latest set of “get rich now’-type DVD’s?
Just sayin’.
Highlander
July 9th, 2010
5:21 pm
And JT, how can you say that kiss wasn’t forced? She’s shorter than Ryan (there’s a first) so he’s obviously grabbed her up in those massive arms and she’s just barely hanging on for her life!
Boy, do we need a sarcasm emoticon or what?!!
Deirdre
July 9th, 2010
5:25 pm
I’ve been asking for a sarcasm emoticon for years! So much for being the Queen!
Mercedes S.
July 9th, 2010
8:11 pm
What a difference in threads… the interesting one this morning on books and movies, which I missed, because I broke my right arm, almost, in a dressing room (don’t ask), and had to spend a big chunk of the day waiting for doctors, getting x-rays, etc and then sleeping off pain pills, and then waking up and checking blog and finding this BORING stuff on an MC.
Rosita
July 9th, 2010
8:22 pm
Merceds, hope you are doing ok! Not askin, just sayin!
Mercedes S.
July 9th, 2010
8:23 pm
As for Roger Ebert’s review of “The Girl Who Played With Fire”, how seriously can you take it when he confuses two important characters and can’t even get their genders right?
“Fire” is every bit as tense and exciting as “Dragon”. This time the plot is about Lisbeth Salander’s past and how it ties in with a triple murder in the present. Murders Lisbet is falsely accused of having committed. She approaches the murders from one end, her good buddy (and one/time lover) Michael from another.
Do see it!
Mercedes S.
July 9th, 2010
8:38 pm
I also liked “Micmacs”, a male version of “Amelie” in a way. Directed by the same guy, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and with another helpless innocent finding a way to function in a harsh world.
Convoluted storyline, but still fun to follow the adventures of orphan Bazil (unknown Dany Boon) as he finds a new family and involves them in an ambitious project to avenge his father’s death.
In French, with subtitles.
Mercedes S.
July 9th, 2010
8:46 pm
And guess what, I TOTALLY ENJOYED “Predators”! It’s been 23 years since first “Predator”, the one with Arnold, and this version is way better than any of the previous sequels. Adrian Brody heads a terrific cast playing professional killers who have been picked off from “work” and taken to an unknown planet where they are being hunted by two sets of predators. Alice Braga, niece of Sonia, is macho love interest for Brody.
kelly&carriefan
July 9th, 2010
9:50 pm
Thanks for the tips, Mercedes. I’m reading “Fire” right now, and Hornet’s Nest to follow. Once I’m done with the books, I’ll think about watching the movies.
Also, Rodney!!! Kudos on breaking the Carrie wedding scoop. I saw it reported on ET tonight. Hopefully this doesn’t hurt your chances of getting an interview some day. I still have my fingers crossed for you on that one, Kelly and Daughtry.
Mattie
July 10th, 2010
12:17 am
Even if he is gay – I think they understand each other. Her parents were in the midst of their own upheaval (divorce) when she and Derek went to study dance in the UK (and I don’t give a sh*t what anyone says, a 10 year old feels that) – there was no stability for the girl. And Ryan – well, he was a fat kid with braces who everyone teased. They both had it hard and I think they are a perfect combo. He wants to be powerful – she wants to be protected. Match made in heaven – I wish them the best.
Wake up and smell the coffee
July 10th, 2010
12:58 am
Deirdre – I assume you think Anderson Cooper is a rugged hunk of he-man waiting to throw you down and make sweet, sweet love to you.
Deirdre
July 10th, 2010
7:40 am
Wake Up An Smell……no, I think Anderson Cooper is a reporter for CNN.
My tastes in men run more toward the Sean Connery/Daniel Craig James Bond than the Roger Moore/Pierce Brosnan James Bond. I hope that helps.
Rosita
July 10th, 2010
9:14 am
Anderson Cooper — AC — Alternating Current
Deirdre
July 10th, 2010
10:22 am
Do I like Ryan Seacrest? Yes! Am I sexually attracted to him? No! Why do some people believe that if you like someone it means you want to have sex with him/her?
My feeling is that 2 consenting adults can do whatever they want with and to each other in private. It makes no difference to me. It’s their business.
If they involve animals…I’m going to object. An animal cannot consent. If they involve children, I’m going to call the police!
Other than that, I don’t care!
Mercedes S.
July 10th, 2010
10:31 am
Well spoken at 10:22, D!
BUT, if you don’t mind my backtracking a bit, to “intellectual” thread yesterday… I think it was you who called “The Passage” by Justin Cronin a good read…I have snailed through the first 213 pages and been ready to give up several times. When does the good part start?
All your book recommendations have been excellent – until this one!
wreckedpizza
July 10th, 2010
11:25 am
Well, today is the apparent dread day; Carrie goes from Underwood to Fisher (no Star Wars jokes, please). Let’s hope the marriage is a good one and they don’t soon want to “Undo It”…
BTW, I think both of them (Carrie & Mike) are heterosexual in case anyone is wondering!
JTesla
July 10th, 2010
11:31 am
wreckedpizza: he obviously is just a beard.
Deirdre
July 10th, 2010
11:36 am
Mercedes. I loved The Passage. Sorry you aren’t enjoying it. Have you gotten to 100 years in the future yet?
wreckedpizza
July 10th, 2010
11:42 am
Well, JT, a beard is easily shaved. Then, what do you have?
Mercedes S.
July 10th, 2010
12:46 pm
D – just started at the Year of Zero. That the future yet?
As for Ryan’s “is she or isn’t she” a real girl-friend, there are all kinds of marriages. Read a great book many years ago, “Portrait of a Marriage”, by Nigel Nicolson. He wrote about his parents, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, creators of the fabulous gardens (open to the public) at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, England. Both parents were homosexual, yet they manage two produce two sons and have an enduring marriage… even though Vita’s lifelong companion was Violet Keppel Trefusis, daughter of Alice Keppel, Edward VII’s mistress. And Alice Keppel was the great grandmother of Prince Charles’s current wife Camilla!
Harm
July 10th, 2010
1:35 pm
Linny. I am so sorry for your loss! I hope you get unfrazzled soon!
Mercedes, I’m certainly ecstatic that you didn’t break your arm, that is NO fun at all!
It’s Carrie’s money, she can spend it however she pleases!
Ryan, gay or straight? I do not care! He can date whoever he wants!
Deirdre
July 10th, 2010
1:42 pm
Yes Mercedes. You have come to the future and how the humans must deal, in a variety of ways, with the virals.
Mercedes S.
July 10th, 2010
1:58 pm
So sorry to read about your loss, linny.
Thanks for concerns, Harm and others (but especially HARM, for obvious reasons), about arm.
D, will have a go at the future of Passage, then.
And, half a mill for a celeb wedding sounds modest. Didn’t Joan Rivers spend MILLIONS on her daughter’s wedding? (Daughter’s marriage barely lasted a year.)
Harm
July 10th, 2010
2:10 pm
Before I leave I want to wish Maggie happy healing too!
Rodney Ho
July 10th, 2010
2:57 pm
More about Carrie in the new blog entry. I’m glad I’m not toiling about in Greenboro, fruitlessly chasing nothing in particular. Apparently, even the airport there is private and you can’t just hang out…