Jake Gyllenhaal out and about in London! Gemma's lego issues and Jake's abs need your vote!

Jake Gyllenhaal is in London! We know this for various tweets, but also because of a fabulous picture of Jake and Matty taken in the Smoke. Many thanks to Matty for the permission to post his pic. Nice jackets!

Tweets have put Jake in Claridges - in shorts (not a dress code one normally associates with this fine Mayfair establishment). At a bar (an environment I understand better). And having brunch in Chelsea. I'd like to point out that in Chelsea one has brunch, here we have brekkie.

Unfortunately for Jake, he arrived here during the May Day Public Holiday which means rain is absolutely guaranteed - if only to convince our visitors that it does nothing but chuck it down in Blighty. That is not true - however, it is true that it always rains the first weekend in May. I realise I'm rambling on about the weather. This is another thing about Britain that is not true. We don't talk about the weather all the time. But we do for quite a lot of the time - particularly when we feel bad because Jake Gyllenhaal is getting a soaking on our shores. Jake's also here during our General Election and I want to apologise to him for that too. This is another thing about Britain that's not true - we don't feel the need to apologise all the time. But we do quite a lot of the time.


Gemma Arterton has been chatting away to the Guardian while being dressed in a bunch of feathers and she's talked about how odd it feels to be in two out of every three blockbusters on our screens this summer. That means lego. 'There's a Lego figurine of me for Prince of Persia, but it looks like Anne Widdecombe – I love it! I can't really think beyond that, I can't think about the size of a film or the merchandise or the budget. I just have to be me in that situation.' I'm not aware that there is Anne Widdicombe (famous and not a little scary UK politician) lego but, if there is, they might put a top on her. Has anyone else noticed how big Jake's swords are in that lego above?

Gemma has no need to think about PoP merchandise. There's none left - I've bought it all.


Obviously Jake is a fine, multi-faceted actor. However, never one to ignore a poll, EW is asking us to decide which abs we are looking forward to most this summer. Clearly I abhor this blatant disregard for Jake's talent and dedication to his craft, but, more to the point, have you voted yet? To be honest, I wasn't even aware that some of these people on the list have abs - Predator, for instance. He's not even a person. Jake is being beaten by the abs of Vampirish people. So please pay the poll a visit.


Yesterday we enjoyed the Spike TV interview with Jake at WonderCon. You can see the whole programme here with Jordan Mechner and Jerry Bruckheimer. However, it's a big file and very slow to upload.

A reminder of the little WDW competition in order to win one of the 3D poster/sticker PoP books. Just email me with the names of the characters of Dastan's father and two brothers in PoP by 9 May.


Includes pictures with thanks from Mattypop39 and Disney, via IHJ.