Jake Gyllenhaal & Austin Nichols: Bicycle Buds
("Just Jared" Headline)
And in our second set of cycling photos, here is the outdoor loving duo again, on April 13, 2009 in Santa Monica. Hmm, didn't these two just take a bike ride on March 5? However, unlike the earlier Brentwood photos, these pap pics come from Flynet online instead of INF Daily. [See Day 11 in this series.]
How romantic. Coordinated silver helmets and matchy matchy black/white; white/black spandex. Could these guys look any more like a couple? Curiously though, Just Jared indicates that he has 10 photos of the pair, but if you look closely there is actually only a single frame of the two in one shot (above). The other pic of Austin Nichols is simply a close-up of the original photograph.
Another peculiarity of this photo op is that neither man is ever seen actually riding their bikes. In fact, neither one is seen sitting on their seats. Instead, we get multiple photos of Jake similar to these two frames.
Or Jake on the phone with a little tongue action as a bonus.
In other words, what ostensibly looked like an actual public sighting only six weeks apart, upon closer inspection, is a carefully crafted photo op to make it seem like these two were allowed to be seen together. The intentional deceit was probably because a certain bearding contract prevented the two from an actual public outing. The question then becomes, why would Jake and Austin go through the trouble of hiring paps to take a whole bunch of photos six weeks apart, only to suggest they were being seen in public together, when in actuality there was no evidence of anyone else in sight to observe them?
On second thought, maybe these photos were not for the general public at all, but for a very select set of eyes. Maybe too young to know or appreciate what these two were doing at the time, but as they grew up would be told about the GyllenNichols tradition of always being seen together right before or after the birth of one of their children. In retrospect, these two series of photos, first in March and then again in April, point to a Family Tile, rather than a sudden urge to be viewed as cycling buddies again.
These Jake and Austin 2009 "Proud Papa" inaugural messages may not have been as loud and clear as they later became throughout the years, particularly for those paying attention and focusing on patterns of behavior to explain events. But, the establishment of an unorthodox "baby announcement" tradition, sounds just like something two closeted actors might embrace, especially if the two felt compelled to live a non-comformist life together and rely on clever workarounds to communicate something that the general public might perceive as subversive. A life that demanded new paradigms to achieve the same mainstream ends other couples took for granted.
If that's the case, then by April 13, 2009 there were now TWO GyllenNichols
children, not just ONE. The possibility/probability also coincides with how, by the
summer of 2008, Ted Casablanca had begun to write about Toothy's
"expanding" family and the "multiple" references he continued to make through March 2012 before he was suspiciously "fired" by E! and Jake's team began to bury the Toothy and Goose Blind Items. Coincidentally, just over a year later, of all the words Anne Hathaway
could have chosen to describe Jake, she selected to use the word "nurturing" during the promo season for Love
and Other Drugs in October 2010. Nurturing, huh? Interesting choice of words there, Anne. Someone who cares for and encourages the growth of another.
Yes, the patterns are indeed falling neatly into place, don't you think?
Yes, the patterns are indeed falling neatly into place, don't you think?
pic sources: Just Jared, Flynet
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