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CelebNews@Usmagazine.com! - Mystery Solved: Who's the Pretty Young Thing Riding Shotgun With Ryan?

Ryan Phillippe was caught by photogs giving 18-year-old actress, Nikki Reed, a lift while leaving L.A. hot spot Winston’s on Monday night.

And since riding 'gun is the equivalent of dating in the blogosphere, web sites are now claiming that Phillippe, 32, has dipped his toe into the kiddie pool (he split from wife Reese Witherspoon, 30, last October).

However, sources tell Usmagazine.com that Reed is not involved with the actor, but is actually dating one of Phillippe’s friends.

If Reed looks familiar, it’s because she played Benjamin Mackenzie’s love interest, Sadie, on The O.C., and costarred with Evan Rachel Wood in Thirteen.

And on a related but fictional note, did anyone else think Sadie was just a little too chill about the fact that Marissa took up with her ex-boyfriend and then basically killed her cousin? (R.I.P. Surfer Johnny).

In true O.C. fashion, shouldn’t she have Oliver’d out on us, showed up on Coop’s doorstep saying she wanted to “talk,” and then tried to strangle Marissa with her own hair (which somehow grew 10 inches over two episodes)?

Enter Ryan Atwood pounding on the door yelling, “Mariiiiiisssaaaa!!!”

Then he’d burst in, punch Sadie in the face and sweep Mischa Barton off her limited edition platinum-plated Keds with sapphire laces. They kiss. Fade out. Credits. “Californiiiiaaaaa, Californiiiiaaaaa...”

We should’ve gone into television writing.

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