Gemma 'I didn't tongue Jake Gyllenhaal' Arterton - 'It was an accident...'

Noone can have forgotten Feisty Gemma Arterton's recent confession that, when trying to give Jake Gyllenhaal a modest kiss on the PoP set, it all went awry... 'I got so carried away, it kind of slipped out' - the tongue that is. However, the Princess of Persia has now retracted her tongue statement, although when you examine her new statement, her defence has more holes in it than a big chunk of Gouda.


The statement: '"I didn't tongue Jake Gyllenhaal," she laughs... "That was a misquote and a half," she says. "Somebody asked me if I used my tongue and I said, 'Well, I gave him a kiss and perhaps my tongue slipped' and I thought, 'Oh God no, what have I done?' And then they said that I tongued him, which I didn't. Which he's probably very upset about and Reese Witherspoon is also probably a bit upset as well. You know, you snogged my boyfriend. No I didn't, it was an accident."'


The verdict: Feisty Gemma still admits she has no control over her tongue - 'perhaps my tongue slipped'. She says she didn't tongue him (an expression I've not heard for an astonishing number of years) but then we hear 'it was an accident'. Not only that, she's laughing as she says it, hinting at some very pleasant and suspect memories from that scene.

Prior form: It transpires that Ms 'It Just Slipped Out' Arterton has previous, witness James Bond himself. '"Yeah, I think I did the same with Daniel [Craig]," she giggles. "I get so carried away and he is an incredible kisser." More peals of laughter.'


Case open and shut.

The real prize on this piece, though, has to go to the interviewer who, it turns out, wears Gyllenhaalic feathers: 'So how would she rate Frost in the kissing stakes compared to Craig and Gyllenhaal then? (We're not afraid to ask the tough questions.) The actress giggles. You can tell from her expression she's dying to spill the beans but she decides not to kiss and tell. Doesn't matter, we know Gyllenhaal would win hands down.'


And it's good to hear that PoP didn't just provide Gemma with a kiss from the lips of Jake Gyllenhaal, she also got some sound advice from the dastardly vizier: 'To cope with the madness of her new-found celebrity, Arterton turned to Sir Ben Kingsley, her co-star in Prince Of Persia. His advice was simple: "He told me to just be myself, because so many people are trying to change you and trying to make you something you're not. He told me to keep being unique, which I thought was the best advice ever."'


Includes pictures from IHJ.