Has Reese Witherspoon waded back into the dating band?
The Oscar winner, 33, shared dinner allowing for regarding two at Santa Monica's cozy Italian eatery Locanda Portofino last Thursday with Jim Toth, an advocate at Hollywood's powerful Creative Artists Intercession.
After greeting each other with a cuddle and settling into a corner table, the pair «were unusually flirtatious throughout dinner,» said a compeer diner. «They were having a lot of fun, totally getting forward and laughing and talking the whole dinner. Reese seemed very jubilant. She was smiling all dinner. The mood was upbeat and really high-minded.»
Mom to Ava, 10, and Deacon, 6, Witherspoon peacefully split from actor Jake Gyllenhaal, 29, continue December.
After the nearly two-hour meal — suitable which Toth picked up the tab — the couple walked demeanour and parted ways around 11 p.m. «Reese reached all his neck and pulled him close for a hug,» said the witness. «They kissed bye on the cheek — but it was a very kind-hearted goodbye.»
Witherspoon is a CAA client, and a source stingy to the actress maintains the tenebrousness out was just business. But a fellow of Toth's says the evening was «a date,» still «nothing serious.» The handsome legate is known as a ladies' man: «He's enjoying the undivided life,» said his pal.
Which able suits Witherspoon just fine. «Reese is in a good mortify,» a friend told PEOPLE at the many times of her split. «She's doing things through despite her these days. She's married to her kids right sporadically, and they're honestly her first wild.»
