Baby Love Tile - a 2022 Congras and Salute

It is difficult to let this January 3rd go by without recalling that lunchroom sighting on June 6, 2016.  It's just too great and stupendous of a memory.

Perusing the internet and on that day, ended up in Facebook and scrolling through comments on Austin Nichols' posts.

LOL!  And an email was immediately rushed off to Methodical Muser.

 

 

 

 

HAHAHAHA.   Not melodramatic or hysterical at all, was it?   The infamous congrats? Directly below.

No, seriously because when you see a comment like that?  You know right off the bat, that chances are it's not a planted trap.  For one thing because the comment had been made back on January 3 and I happened upon it five months later. There was some further investigating done and shared in our post from June 7, 2015 entitled 'Belated Congras' - It's a Girl! For Toothy Tile and Grey Goose', but the discovery explained Jake's pattern of physical whereabouts that year and the mini timeline was shown in the Comment section. We also discussed the apparent extension of Chlo Bennett's contract and Management's attempt to explain Margie Nicholson's comment as "mis-placed".

While we don't know the exact birth date of Baby Tile Congras, we know that it was a girl and possibly born anywhere between Dec 22 (the alleged date of Jake's NYC walkabout with Greta Caruso) and Dec 26 (the date of Austin's FB post)?  Or somewhere between late November and December 26, at the most extended range.

Austin's post makes more sense than ever.  In 2015, Jake was still being pushed by his people as living in New York City.  [That's one reason why the photos with Caruso were labeled as December 22 and the "At a Christmas Party in New York City" photos with Big Sis which weren't specifically dated, but were chronologically posted after the Caruso pics, but before December 31 on IHeartJake.]

Austin is wearing a New York City tee in the photo, which made absolutely no sense at all.  On December 21, he was supposed to be with beard Chlo Bennett in Chicago, at his "first Bulls game".

Are they squatting down in the aisle or what??

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jake allegedly in New York City on December 22...Austin allegedly in Chicago on December 21... Austin wearing a tee that says New York City...

Margie Nicholson wishes congratulations on a new baby daughter on January 3...

 

 

 Count 'em off, Patrick!

And what happened several months later on March 12, 2016?  We had the stupendous, incredible Jake and Austin sighting at SXSW film festival after not being seen together since 2012.  That was a four-year time span.  It was historic!

This was how they had to do it. No direct side-by-side.

(Incredibly, there was no Just Jared or Page Six mention of this evidence that Jake and Austin still "kept in touch".  Unbelievable!) 

And finally?   Guess what Austin wore on the carpet at the festival that same day?  The same New York City tee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Put the pieces together and both men were sending their We-love-you to their newest family member.

 

Thank you, Margie Nicholson.

And belated Happy 7th Birthday to Baby Tile Congras. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pic sources:  amazon, tenor, giphy, Facebook

our playlist:  Baby, I Love You - The Ronettes

                     Happy Birthday -  DJ Bobo

                     Little Star - Madonna

                     The Neverending Story - Limahl

                     In the Big Blue World - Finding Nemo soundtrack

 

 

Six Degrees of Jake Gyllenhaal and Remembering Jaustin at SXSW 2016

 

 

This was a recent post and photo from a movie premiere last week on the site Just Jared with a mind-boggling amount of Six Degrees of Jake Gyllenhaal and Narnia thought it was interesting because it really does show what a small world it can be in Tinsel Town, particularly for the closeted crowd.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let's start with the photo.

 

• Jason Segel - on the left is actor Jason Segel.  Jason is a childhood school friend of Jake's.  Both attended Harvard-Westlake High School, with Jake graduating in 1998 and Segel in 1997.   Also, Jason "dated" actress Michelle Williams, who we know has close ties to Jake. And even though Jake is not credited in the tabloids as being responsible for Segel/Williams' contract, I mean relationship, the person who is, also has ties to Jake - Busy Phillips.  And we know all of the history between Jake and Busy.  

 

• Jesse Plemons - Standing next to Jason is Jesse Plemons, who is now "married" to Jake's former beard, Kirsten Dunst. LOL!  In a familiar scenario which is used to tell the public how a Hollywood couple found true love, Dunst and Plemons are supposed to have fallen in love on the set of season two of a Fox show called Fargo.   👀

 

• Lily Collins - Besides being a co-star of Jake's in the movie, Okja, Lily is no doubt more well known for providing Jake some wardrobe het cred.  Who hasn't seen the photos?  This one directly below is a double bonus because it also includes 2017 meard and co-star, Paul Dano, who is seen also marveling at the dress train.   👗

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

•  Charlie McDowell - On the far right is Charlie McDowell, who is "married" to Lily Collins.  Charlie McDowell is an "ex" of actress Rooney Mara's.  And in 2016, Jake was seen walking around NYC with Rooney and Charlie, only Charlie was left out of nearly all of the photos, thus intentionally swirling around "dating rumors" for Rooney and Jake, which were immediately squashed!  One of the lamest ideas from Jake's team.

 

Yup! There he is on the left - Charlie McDowell

 

And if that's not enough for you, it was announced in 2019 that Jake and his production company Nine Stories (along with partner Riva Marker), were going to produce a movie called Gilded Rage and Charlie McDowell was slated to write and direct.  And then, Lily Collins was added to the cast! Boy, the coincidences.  Supposedly, Gilded Rage is in that big Gyllenhaal black hole otherwise known as pre-production, even though in this particular article, filming was hoped to start in the fall of 2019.  👀

 

• In the Just Jared article, it is mentioned that Charlie McDowell's mother is, guess who?  This is some additional #sixdegrees of good trivia.  McDowell's mother is Mary Steenbergen, who is married to Ted Danson.   Some of us are quite familiar with Austin appearing at various Oceana galas and summer party events, but the affiliation really started with his spouse, Jake, who attended the 2nd annual Oceana Partners Gala waaaaay back in 2004.

 

Fetus Jake with Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen for Oceana, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Austin w beard Chlo Bennett, Ted Danson, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Austin w another beard, Chumley, and Ted Danson, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And supposedly last fall, 2021, this (below) was supposed to be Austin with Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and Laura Dern.  We all know that Laura Dern was in October Sky with Jake.   The Six Degrees of Jake is jumping off the charts by this point.  But this photo is a bit hinky - Austin looks like he has a sumo wrestler costume on under the suit, I don't knowwwww 😉 ... another reason why we think it's hinky is because this Oceana event was October 26 last year, soon after Baby Tile's birthday.  Not a huge deal, but 👀 you could see where Danson and Steenbergen (and Laura Dern would be understanding for that matter) would be willing to provide GPS cover for Austin.

Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Laura Dern and Austin Nichols, 2021

• Ashley Park - also name-dropped in the article, look who was in attendance at this particular screening.  Ashley Park, whose television workload has really taken off since around 2017, same year she appeared in Sunday in the Park With George as part of Jake and Annaleigh Ashford's theater cast (a reward perhaps).  Isn't that something.  It was Ashley Park and Claybourne Elder's Instagram and twitter accounts in particular which were used during the SITPWG run to help peddle Leo the paper dog and GPS placement during Austin's birthday.  Good times and memories!

And there we have it!  Six Degrees of Jake in one little photo and Just Jared post.  Amazing, isn't it?  In one single photo.  Gotta love it!

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Late Anniversary observance:

It was six (6) years ago this past Saturday, March 12, 2016, that Austin and Jake were spotted hanging out together at SXSW 2016 in Austin, TX.   At 1:01 PM  in the afternoon, I sent a big heads up email to Oh My Godot blogspot's Grand Poobah, Special K, and our own Methodical Muser of an Austin sighting at the film festival.  It seemed too good to be true for we just didn't get these kinds of sightings anymore and hadn't seen the guys together since 2012.   Jakers and Austie ridin' in the Big Black Tahoe. 

And from there, my twitter account @goosestile proceeded to get into a Twitter meleé with another account by the name of Meganharris as she gaslit and flipped photos and turned them black and white, etc. etc.  but the bottom line was, the two men managed to "leak" two photos of themselves within the same frame.  Austin was turned around in one of them and a profile shot in the other, plus there needed to be a third party shoehorned in for Jake to be involved with, but as we look back now five years later, this was as far as they could take it, right?  

It was not an official photo op, no coffee cups in hand, no walking the sidewalks of NYC in front of brick walls even with a former nanny as a chaperone, but they had just had Baby Tile Congras very late in 2015, so this very well was their Baby Tile shoutout as we have pointed out their tradition for every child that they've had in our Day 30 of 30 Days of Toothy Tile, Grey Goose and the Baby Tiles Masterpost .  This is one of the clues that it was a purposely planned "accident":  the compromised twitter account captioning this as "precious".

Jake hugging a friend at SXSW, 2016

That photo (directly above) with the faceless friend was the "Personal Protective Equipment" (aka PPE) which was required for these very public and choreographed photos to be allowed:

Austin with Jake at SXSW Mar 12 2016

 

 

Austin's reflection, with Jake Mar 12 2016 SXSW

Six years ago.

 

Jake and Austin were not allowed (or perhaps intentionally a "no-go"), for an official photo op.  Couldn't even be seen both facing the camera together.  Couldn't be photo'd together in the Tahoe, you know, like we got to see Jake with the Tony's Hottie Guy in the back of the limo "jetting away together" back in 2013 {as discussed in our post "Getting Sunday Sentimental: Jake and the Tony's Hottie, Circa June 9, 2013"].  

But still, this was incredibly impactful because as stated before, they had not been seen together since 2012 and what had online commenters been saying, including Ted Casablanca?  

That they had both moved on (even from a platonic friendship, if one believed that was all that ever existed).  "Done-zo".

And since we're here, let's look at another similar OTP couple that Narnia has kept tabs on, which is Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles.  You know, the ones who have polarized many of their fans into battle sides through public separation, separate career projects and the hugely splashed "prequel-gate", which was designed to drive the biggest wedge through their J2 fandom.  And though meard Misha Collins continues to receive bonus pay after bonus pay, once in awhile, Jared and Jensen will still occasionally slip out one of their own shout-outs.  The argument can be made that those shout-outs are also pandered, which some are because after all, they're still appearing at conventions and they want those fans to continue spending the exorbitant prices, but at least they are still the true OTP.

And similar to Jake and Austin prior to their sighting together at SXSW 2016, Jared and Jensen (in Tumblr-ville anyway), have been often hash-tagged and speculated to be "done-zo".  There's even a term batted around for it - J2divorce or J2fallout.  

So anyway, back to SXSW 2022.  Jensen wore a suede jacket in a spectacular, exquisite shade of sea glass in a big photo shoot for his new show, Amazon's The Boys, at this year's SXSW in Austin, TX.  I thought it was one of the most beautiful colored jackets I've ever seen.

 

Jensen for The Boys photoshoot 2022

 

[There are so many photos from the photoshoot, though with all of the filters used, it's hard to see which is the true color. The one above isn't the best photo, but many of the pics have Getty's watermark on them. ]  

But meard Misha Collins showed once again he can't be left out of anything. He has to either shoehorn himself in or be shoehorned in by TPTB to remind everyone that he's still under meard contract.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And so that was a breadcrumb to heller fans because you know, "blue and green" (which they stole from the larries) and all that.   Embarrassing, really.  But again, it shows that so much is coordinated when it comes to this trio of men.

J2 did allow for Jared to be seen at the after-party of The Boys at SXSW.  And I don't care how you try to spin it or downplay it.  It's comparable to beard Reese Witherspoon never being photo'd inside of the wall at Maggie Gyllenhaal's wedding with Peter Sarsgaard in Italy.

Stephen, Jake at Maggie Peter wedding Italy 05 02 09

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That was at the height of the "Reeke relationship" between Jake and Witherspoon. If you recall, the twosome participated in a bike-riding photo op leading up to the wedding day and a PDA-sprinkled outing later with the matriarch. But Witherspoon did not get behind the wall. 

Well, as someone else phrased it on Tumblr, Jared was Jensen's plus-one at The Boys' after party.  You can see Jared in two separate videos and Jensen as well, but in neither vid, are both men facing the camera together.  And that is an important detail; may seem insignificant, but it's really not because it's a sign of things to come somewhere down the line for Jared and Jensen.  You're shown just enough, but not the whole enchilada. 

The video is shot so that it looks voyeuristic and "natural", but it's not natural. It was planned and it's allowed.  But like Jake and Austin's SXSW photo together, you'll gladly and thankfully take it.  LOL!

 

 

And at Prime's party concert with Jensen and members of The Boys cast:

And intern, I mean chronic Jared-basher tumblr account grumpygills can try to downplay and hyper-focus on his attendance that night (this is some real barrel-scraping reaching), 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

smh.  Sorry to spoil that party, but this was a big night for Jensen because it was a professional appearance for him and the cast at a prominent film festival.   Jared wasn't in any of the promo photos.  But, he was where?  At the social events.  S-O-C-I-A-L.  Like a company holiday party.  Jared was the Plus-1, seen briefly but just enough to let it be known he was there, and that is hardly spotlight shoehorning, as that tumblr account would like folks to think.

End of.  Smh.

 

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In  celebration of St. Patrick's Day, here's a few of our faves wearing their green!

 

Liam in Brazil, June 2019

 

a young Louis Tomlinson

 

 

Jake at the Masters?  😊

Zayn Malik in ribbed green!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Niall Horan in green denim

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eric Hosmer WOW!

 

Harry in Dublin 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

🍀🍀🍀🍀 Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀🍀🍀🍀

 

 

pic sources:  pinterest, Daily Fail, browntown substack, Just Jared Jr, wallpapers.com,

                     favim, walkingtalkinggone, gifs.com, Facebook, IMDb, Just Jared

our playlist:  Unicorn Song - The Irish Rovers

                     Come By the Hills - Celtic Thunder

                     Blarney Pilgrim/Kesh - Emmett Cooke

                     The Isle of Innisfree - Bing Crosby

                     Brown-Eyed Girl - Ryan Kelly and Neil Byrne

                     Don't Go - Ryan Kelly and Neil Byrne

 

 

 

Sunday Musings: Make Up, Face Masks and Living in Your Discomfort Zone

Good morning, everyone!  September morn...as Neil Diamond would say, eh?  lol.  We just had a northerly front blow through and temps dropped about twenty degrees so this is a nice break.  What else is breaking?  Who said anything about breaking?  Nah, we have just a couple of news items to go over.  Let's get going.

Well, this interview appeared on Twitter via You Tube and so it's current and we're told took place during the Toronto International Film Festival last weekend.  While there was the usual shoehorning of the sister and generic word "family", there were some interesting quotes and phrases which seemed to crop up several times.  Again, The Sisters Brothers is based on an historical novel which takes place in Oregon and California, yet for some reason, filming took place in Spain, Romania and a country you don't see mentioned in the press nearly as often - France.  Yes, France.  

Jake says at different points in the interview:

"Oftentimes, people say things to me like 'you don't seem American' and I take that as a compliment"

"searching and searching and going out in the world"

"feeling like a foreigner"

"be a part of the world"

"I love the opportunity that making films in other parts of the world gives you." 

Reminds this long time Jake follower of the time when Jake was a judge at Berlinale and was obsessed with the number 5.  In particular, he was asking for giveaways/items in quantities of five.  As in five Baby Tiles who would all want a souvenir from Papa?  As some may be familiar with this trait of Jaker's, he can be a tad on the obsessive side and reckless.  After all, how do you think we have been able to accumulate so many clues pointing towards the existence of the legendary Baby Tile(s)??

Here's the You Tube video where the interviewer asks him why he had been obsessed with the number 5:

And so now, if you've been paying attention, Jake seems to have been in a grand mood for several years, dropping plenty of bread crumbs along the way that he is not in the United States much anymore.

Notice too that this morning, now comes another French publication where Jake has granted an interview that will busy his timeline today because he mentions "Marvel" and "Tom Holland".  Add this interview to the GQ France issue which gave more chatter and several new pictures of Jake in afghan sweaters which has occupied his social media search for weeks.  The lucky French!  One might think Jake has gotten more comfortable and familiar with this area of the world.

Uh yes, it is very much becoming so, for some of us, buddy.  LOL!

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And who says couples can't groom together?  With some additional testimony that PR teams borrow from the same book, we have Jared Padalecki and his beard enjoying mask-time together. 

 

 

Hmmm, where have we seen this Maybelline Bonding before? Oh, yes...

Austin and his previous beard, Chlo Bennet.  Aaah, the memories, the memories.  More like, the emasculation of it all, huh?

 

Oh, and how about a two-fer?  There has also recently been this Padackles/Jaustin beams crossing moment.  Here's a flashback - Jake and his closet enabling make up man:  Donald Mowat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mowat has been beneficial to Jake helping to place him in a "state of filming" or "filming completion".  He also helps to geographically place him in Los Angeles, London, etc. in addition to (and this is the important one), owning an Instagram account where he can post all of this Jake whereabout information.

The Padackles foursome seem to have found their own make-up artist enabler by the name of Billy Mercer.  Mr. Mercer is the lead artist and co-owner of Austin, TX's "Lip Service Beauty Concierge".   Seems he is supposed to have turned the big 4-0 recently and a big party ensued. Of course, everyone there was visible, except for Jared.  That's right. Jared was supposed to be preoccupied attending a college football game.  I think we all know how that one goes....

https://positivexcellence.tumblr.com/post/178148004932/danneel-ig-story

Trying to explain where Jared was...

http://acklesforlife.tumblr.com/post/178169374056

Of course, a popular narrative has been that Jared cannot tolerate his hired beard whatsoever, causing him to actually stay away from this big 4-0 wing ding.  Fans should be careful where they are very obviously being led though, because when it comes to the tricky Hollywood closet, the divining rod rarely leads to the water hole so easily.   

All remains still to be seen, but with this crew, the words Proceed With CAUTION don't even seem strong enough, lol.


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For the Outlook Calendar or anyone in a traveling mode:  Austin Nichols is scheduled to be at the Walker Stalker convention in Atlanta GA the weekend of October 26, 27 and 28th.  Nice, accessible east coast location, isn't it?

Jake's movie "The Sisters Brothers" has been added to the line-up at the London Film Festival which runs from October 10 through the 21st.   And Big Sis Maggie has been added as a speaker to the same festival.  Hey, look at that....October 10 through the 21st over in London; why, seems that means the festival window is going to overlap Baby Tile Number One Son's birthday.   Should be an interesting time period with a lot of deflection and distraction, don't you think?  

And to wrap this short post up, let's send everyone off with one of the brightest smiles which exists - that which belongs to King Louis Tomlinson!  Here he is from an X Factor moment.  What a smile!

pic sources:  Daily Express, Keysmash, Steven Universe wiki,
                     The Weather Continues, The Hollywood Reporter
our playlist:  The Creationist - Kerli
                     I Love Your Smile - Shanice

The Essential Amenities of a Social Media Fauxmance

As we know in an OTP world, when a holiday is on the way [and it doesn't matter which one it is], we can count on Management Teams being out in force to geographically "separate" their closeted clients.  Sometimes spoon feeding is proactively started before the holiday to set the stage for what is to come. In other words, the holiday itself may be quiet, but the teams will have "established" that the two men are nowhere near each other, or are involved in their own individual family situation, apart from the other half.

With an impeccable sense of timing, we here at Narnia were slowly sipping our favorite beverage of choice when suddenly Austin Nichols appeared in our view. Now, we pretty much haven't seen Austin since another National Day of Observance, Father's Day, which also coincidentally was a day after his & Jake's tenth wedding anniversary. But, with the Fourth of July just around the corner, the next vaudeville show has already begun, via its customary enabling twitter account, which is primarily used to peddle concocted Instagram Stories.  Because otherwise, what self-respecting pap would ever seek them out.  *wink*

With the stage set, let's take a look at Austin displaying the fruits of his socializing labor, so to speak.

🎥 | Hassie Harrison via instagram story [06.28.2018] pic.twitter.com/jdDLhZCUjO

— Austin Nichols daily (@AustinNsource) June 29, 2018

Making sure to get the beard, Hassle Harrison, into the video shot is naturally a must:

🎥 | Austin Nichols on Hassie Harrison instagram story [06.30.2018] pic.twitter.com/TcOlgUiTfr

— Austin Nichols daily (@AustinNsource) July 1, 2018

The most important factor to remember with Instagram Stories is that they are based on uploaded photos or videos, meaning that the "creator" has free rein to select from a Gallery of options, aka file.  To be clear, this means that the posted media that generously appears on a Sunday morning is not necessarily a real time occurrence.  And, with closeted celebrities very much wanting to be seen to project a certain image and story line, yet simultaneously hiding their real whereabouts, the likelihood of a real time moment being captured is a rare event. Another point to remember, although not in this case, but utilized ad nauseam with former beard Chlo Bennet, voice overs can be synced with the video.  Just because you hear a voice (a la Genevieve Cortese Padalecki) talking over a video doesn't mean that person is physically there.  A voice-over technique can be utilized, meaning the lead "actor" or "actors" can be anywhere.

So here we are in 2018, and just like with Chlo Bennet, Austin is once again employing a beard to geographically place himself far away from his real family, especially for high profile occasions like birthdays, anniversaries and holidays. What's even more hilarious is the ramping up of this new fauxmance is beginning in July, nearly a year to the day of his announced "breakup" with his third official beard, Faux Chlo on July 4 of last year. While Austin understandably needed a vacation to coincide with Jake's hardly working status, Bennet moved on immediately with that PR nightmare of a hook-up, Logan Paul, whom we learned was her new "boyfriend." In fact, the big reveal happened...wait for it...on Instagram!!! To quote EXTRA:

On July 4, Bennet posted a pic of herself with a shirtless Logan, writing, "Understated festivities going on over here. @soniamichelle @loganpaul.”


Bwahaha! Who writes this stuff?


While Chlo has been getting the maximum benefit out of being paired with a viral You Tuber who thinks posting a video on his social media channel of a suicide victim is "newsworthy" click bait, Austin seems to be stuck in neutral right now with a beard who has no publicity benefits for him at all since she is not a sought after actress, not even medium profile.  She apparently has the right qualifications, however, because of her previous bearding resume.  Narnia came across the following article, which was quite amusing indeed.  From April 2017:
 

American actor Wilson Bethel has been at the center of the gay rumors for a very long time. It is normal for celebrities as they are bound to get hit with the rumors with regards to their personal life. But is he really a gay? Does he have a girlfriend? Is he married? Let us find out.

Is Wilson A Gay And Is He Dating Or Seeing Anyone?

Wilson has been able to cement a firm place in the acting industry with all that he has accomplished thus far. But along with success, he has also earned some rumors and mostly those rumors are directed towards his sexuality. People often call him a gay but is he really a gay?

Well, he might not be a gay as back in 2013, he gave an interview in which he opened up about him having a girlfriend.

When the interviewer asked him who would his dream celeb date be, he answered,

"I would score big points saying my girlfriend."

That means that he indeed had a girlfriend then and hinted that she was in the same industry but did not reveal who she was. - Wilson Bethel's Answer In An Interview Proves He Has A Girlfriend And Is Not A Gay Man; Still Dating Her?

Well, now.   Because Mr. Bethel made such an affirmative statement in an interview, then it must be so!

And because "Hassle" tweeted this directly below, then she obviously was affirming confirmation.

DJ lessons from the boyfriend. Yes, please! #sexyinstructor

— Hassie Harrison (@HassieHarrison) January 5, 2012

***UPDATED** - Uh oh!!  Looks like someone has deleted this tweet now from Chumley's account.  Hmmm....wonder why???


The article picks up from there:

Although she did not name call anyone but we all know that she tweeted this when she was with Wilson back in 2014.

Surely, all of these answers from him shall be enough to smack those gay rumors as a gay would not talk about having a female partner.

 

So it sounds like Wilson Bethel and Hassie were kind of serious? Rumors even circulated as late as 2014 that the happy couple might be heading down the aisle. Three years together. Hmm, was Hassie six when she started "dating" Mr. Bethel?

Wilson Bethel has been dating Hassie Harrison who is an actor too. She also appeared in three episodes of “Hart of Dixie.” The couple was spotted together many times.They were recently also seen together enjoying a beach in Sydney. The couple was also seen together in jewelry stores closely looking at pricey finger rings. That gave a hint to their engagement.  However, none of the two have flashed about the engagement or marriage. The relationship is, however, heating up and many of his fans speculated them to be living together as a partner.  Source: The Celebscloset.com - August 3, 2017

And, let's not ignore that one line of how they met. "She also appeared in three episodes of 'Hart of Dixie.' How curious that we didn't hear about Hassie and Austin until she was "auditioned" in more ways than one to co-star in Iron Orchard with Austin last year - at a time when stories were being published about her and Wilson getting serious. Oh, well. I guess Austin and Jake gave her an offer she couldn't refuse. Sorry, Wilson!

The whole set-up sounded a lot like how other OTPs "met" their beards. Jared Padalecki in particular comes to mind, since he supposedly met the ball and chain on the Supernatural set.  Gee, if only Jake had thought ahead like Wilson Bethel and Jared, he would not have had about five different explanations over 48 days of how he and Taylor Swift "met" back in October 2010. First, Big Sis Maggie introduced them. Then Mommie Dearest. By December, when the contract was already running on fumes, about to be severed in early January, Jake's team finally settled on his good friend Gwyneth Paltrow as having been the matchmaker. Whew! Now, that wasn't so hard, was it, Jake? If only you had done that New Year's Eve film with her, which your team "cleverly" added to your IMDb page to provide a subliminal explanation for your odd pairing, you might have made a more plausible "couple."

Indeed, the bearding and merkin pool in Hollywood is incestuous in a sense, with recycling, reconditioning, reincarnating, re-using and much re-purposing going on.  Despite her abbreviated bearding dance card, Hassie Harrison didn't come to Jake and Austin's interview without references.

In this Just Jared post from September 2015, we see Hassle was hanging with some former enablers of Austin's - Chris Hardwick, Jaime King and Kyle Newman.

[and proposing twice???]

This was 2016, Hardwick again lending his social media to help out Austin and Chlo.  Oh, and there's ol' Kyle Newman in the fun shot!

And it turns out that the first picture in the post of Hassie with Wilson Bethel was taken at a recruiting, I mean social event which was hosted by Jaime King .  Below is Hassie and Wilson, with Jaime King on the left.

Just an interesting aside; Jaime King's bestie?  Tay Swift.  You can also find social pics with Selena Gomez, Nina Dobrev, and Gigi Hadid.  So it would seem that Hassie has been learning "the ropes" under strongly experienced tutelage and has "mystery blonde" qualifications. In a Daily Fail post from November 3, 2015, here is an actor by the name of Jason Dundas frolicking around on a beach with a "mystery blonde".  Hmm, looks familiar....

Well, still kind of hard to tell. Let's try this one.  Oh! - Yup, looks like Hassle!

Huh, well now wait a minute.  This beach romp near Sydney, Australia was from November 3, 2015.  But....she was supposed to be with Wilson Bethel, wasn't she? 

Here was Hassie with "her man" in an Instagram post dated July 4, 2015, so just a few months before the Jason Dundas "sand session".  On the beach (again) in Australia:

At least, that is what this article states, that they were still together as of April 2017.   

**UPDATE**  Well now lookee here. Yet another dead link directly up above "that is what this article states".  Looks like someone wasn't too happy!  
 

Hmmm well, sometimes social media and the internet can be a bit tricky in that way - a sense of timeline management is essential!
*wink*

Nonetheless, for the man who needs an abundance of free time to co-manage a full household, one that includes a partner who needs filming work time, the social media fauxmance is the perfect fit.  Find a beard who doesn't require high profile rag time (a la Reese Witherspoon), who isn't a controversial twitter mess (a la Chloe Bennet), and can't immortalize the phony relationship with an entire song album (a la Taylor Swift).  

Hassie "Hassle" Harrison provides the holiday "pre-occupation and distraction", the essential social media provision, a Jared Eng connection, and a friend network which translates to birthdays which translate to birthday parties to Instagram Story about.  With Austin's real life hubby seemingly about to embark on a higher profile role with the lovely Sony studio, we will no doubt be seeing more of the token blonde adorning Austin's fabricated "private life".   

What a road trip. What a birthday. What a life. Thanks to this smoke show.

A post shared by Austin Nichols (@austinnichols) on Apr 24, 2018 at 11:56am PDT

 

Hopefully, Austin & Jake's team will not screw up the fauxmance timeline and beard-block any possible Jason Dundas-like beach romp. One thing is for sure, we can look forward to a torrent of embarrassing Instagram stories in the future. Some things never change.


pic sources:  Daily Fail, LiveRampUp, Just Jared
our playlist:  Beach Baby - First Class
                     Only in America - Brooks and Dunn
                     Yankee Doodle Dandy - The Fireside Singers
                     Thunder and Blazes - Ray Waters and his Orchestra