Nov. 14, 2007

After months of covert coupledom, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal no longer feel the need to hide their schmoopiness away. Following their lovey-dovey, piggyback ride-filled tour of Rome and handsy Halloween trick-or-treating, the formerly furtive flames took an amorous trip to wine country over the weekend.

According to People, they checked into the deluxe Carneros Inn in Napa Valley, Calif., on Sunday, holing up in one of the resort's private residences, which came complete with vineyard views and a rooftop Jacuzzi. Prices range from $1,900 to $2,600 a night.

"They were very affectionate with one another," an eyewitness tells the mag. "They were cuddling, and he kept giving her little kisses."

Adds an enthusiastic spy to Us Weekly, "They looked like they didn't have a care in the world," surmising that when Jake puckered up, "Reese looked like she was in heaven!"

While Witherspoon, 31, and Gyllenhaal, 26, were snapped strolling with their arms around each other in the afternoon, they supposedly made themselves scarce in the evening, even nixing a planned massage a deux.

"It was clear they wanted to be left alone," the insider concludes to People.

On Monday, the suddenly joined-at-the-hip honeys hit San Francisco, where snitches say they were "quite affectionate" (per Perez Hilton) and "making out" (per Pop Sugar) over lunch.

One of the lip-locks was captured -- albeit blurrily -- on camera, and it appears to show the dreamy-eyed actor gently cupping the side of the pert-nosed Oscar winner's face as he goes in for a wet one.

Two days earlier, they were caught laughing it up as they drove around Los Angeles in matching aviator shades, but their smiles quickly faded once they spotted the paparazzi.

Reese and Jake also did their best to stay out of the shutterbugs' line of fire while dining Friday night at Los Angeles eatery Madeo, even moving to a more private table.

Still, that didn't stop photo agency X17 from capturing their noshing on video, or from a spy recounting how Jake was "rubbing Reese's knee as they spoke quietly with one another."

The couple's recent inseparability could have something to do with a sighting Monday night at LAX, where Witherspoon's ex-hubby Ryan Phillippe was photographed returning from a trip with their doppelganger tykes Ava, 8, and Deacon, 4.

Speaking of the once-comely actor, he's apparently decided to bare his soul about the bust-up, which came amid allegations of his wandering eye, a charge he's denied.

"After the divorce, I was a physical wreck. I wanted to die," he's quoted as telling a British magazine called Man About Town (via E! Online). "I was ready to kill myself. I was not taking care of myself at all. I would wake up and cry and vomit."

On the plus side, all that angst and nausea has boosted his acting chops, especially when it comes to turning on the waterworks when he hears "action."

"Now, it's [bleeping] easy," he tells the mag. "When I was younger, I didn't have enough to cry about. But since I've had kids, I feel my work has become better, because my life is fuller and more complicated, and I've experienced so many highs and lows."

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