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Reese Witherspoon visited at a New Orleans school for at-risk kids for the upcoming Idol Gives Back special.

Airing April 9, the show features Witherspoon, 32, at a Children's Defense Fund Freedom School where troubled children learn to become community leaders.

It isn't Witherspoon's first do-gooder trip to the Big Easy.

In 2006, the actress (and CDF board member) helped open the city's first Freedom School.

"Once you have children in your life, you can no longer close your eyes to people... who are in a similar situation," Witherspoon told ABC News at the time.

Brad Pitt, Us Power Girl Miley Cyrus, newly single Robin Williams and Mariah Carey will also take part in the Idol Gives Back show.

Last year's special raised more than $75 million to help fight poverty.

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Ryan Phillippe: I Don't Look at Photos of Reese and Jake

Mandi Illuzzi — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:00:20 -0400

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Days after he told Howard Stern that Jake Gyllenhaal is "a good dude", Ryan Phillippe admits he avoids looking at photos of his ex Reese Witherspoon and the hunky actor in magazines.

"It's bizarre," the Stop-Loss star, 33, tells USA Today. "There's plenty of times when I say, 'What a strange situation I've found myself in.' But at a certain point you know it's going to happen, so you are prepared in some fashion."

Phillippe — who dated co-star Abbie Cornish around the time of his 2006 split from Witherspoon — was mum when it came to talking about his own love life.

"It's just something I would really rather not address," he says. "It has to be a 'no comment.' "

But he says he is open to walking down the aisle again one day.

"I can see doing it again, yeah," Phillippe says. "And I can certainly see possibly having children again. I'm pretty young, and there are many beautiful things about that idea of marriage and family. It just doesn't always work out perfect for everybody."

For now, he says he is content hanging with his kids, Ava, 8, and Deacon, 4. He tells USA Today he recently curled up in bed with them and watched Nancy Drew.

Says Phillippe, "I love those moments."

To see photos of Reese and Jake's new lovenest and to find out why Jake's family wants a wedding, pick up the new issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now.

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Henry Seltzer — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:54:41 -0400

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"I love her and I want her to be happy, and it seems like she is," he says of Reese Witherspoon

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Ryan Phillippe wishes ex wife Reese Witherspoon happiness with her new beau Jake Gyllenhaal.

"He's a good dude," Phillippe said on The Howard Stern Show Thursday. "I love her and I want her to be happy, and it seems like she is."

Phillippe described his 2007 divorce from Witherspoon as a "mutual" decision.

"Leading up to it, we had been spending so much time apart," he explained. "That's a huge part of it. There are so many obstacles."

The Stop-Loss star, 33, spent much of the interview denying hook-ups with an array of famous women.

A make-out session with Britney Spears in May 2007? "Not true," the actor said.

Hooking up with Ashlee Simpson in March 2007? "Again, not true," Phillippe responded. "I stood next to her at a place called Les Deux, a club in Los Angeles."

Sex with his I Know What You Did Last Summer costar Jennifer Love Hewitt? "I did not have sex with [her]," he said. "It did occur to me. She was very young and her mother was there all the time... but I was in a hot tub with her when she was 18."

"I know Lindsay Lohan wanted you," Stern pressed.

"Yeah," Phillippe responded.

Phillippe conceded to Stern that Angelina Jolie is "probably" the hottest actress he's filmed a love scene with.

"Is she very sexual?" Stern asked.

"I would think so, yeah," Phillippe responded, though he also denied hooking up with the actress while they filmed 1998's Playing By Heart.

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Ryan Phillippe Wears a Barack Obama Shirt

Henry Seltzer — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:53:09 -0500

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Ryan Phillippe has made up his mind: he's supporting Barack Obama for president.

The 33-year-old actor wore a t-shirt with an image of Obama and the word "progress" on it in L.A. Thursday.

Phillippe's ex-wife Reese Witherspoon has previously spoken about her enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton.

"Hillary Clinton being a frontrunner is a marked step for women in this country, and one which I talk about with my daughter frequently," she has said. "It's an exciting time and an exciting presidential race I think. There's a lot of interesting candidates who could possible change the course of American history."

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Vince Vaughn: “I Definitely Would” Work With Jennifer Aniston Again

Lindsay Powers — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:50:32 -0500

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ALSO: Reese Witherspoon opens up about kissing the actor in Four Christmases

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Vince Vaughn says he’d work with ex Jennifer Aniston again.

“Yeah I would, I definitely would. She’s great!” he said on local Minneapolis station KS95 Greg and Melissa’s Morning Show Friday.

“I think the world of Jen,” he added. “She’s a great actress, so you never know.”

When the hosts pointed out they had “great chemistry,” Vaughn said, “I appreciate it, thank you.”

Seems Vaughn also has good chemistry with Reese Witherspoon: The two get it on in a bathroom stall in their upcoming romantic comedy Four Christmases.

What's it like smooching Vaughn?

When they shoot scenes, “the top of my head hits his armpit, so I drag my apple box around,” Witherspoon admitted over the weekend at a junket for her new movie Penelope.

“I have an apple box and a platform that I drag around with me and stand on it.”

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Ryan Phillippe: I Had Marriage Trouble "Long Before" Abbie Cornish

Henry Seltzer — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:33:12 -0500

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Ryan Phillippe doesn't want Abbie Cornish labeled "the other woman."

"I had difficulties in my relationship, and in my marriage, long before I ever met her," he tells W magazine of the Australian actress reported to have been a factor in his 2006 split from wife Reese Witherspoon.

"She and I are close friends, and as far as if there is any future, that is not where we are at now," the 33-year-old says of Cornish, his costar in the forthcoming Stop-Loss.

"That is what other people like to say or like to assume," he added. "As far as I'm concerned, it's a friendship, and we are getting to know each other in a really difficult situation."

"I've had a lot of upheaval in my personal life," he says in the March issue of the magazine.

Phillippe describes his divorce from Witherspoon – finalized in October after seven years of marriage – as "the darkest, saddest place I had ever been."

The actor was especially concerned about their two children, Ava, 9, and Deacon, 4. "I wanted to take time to make sure that my kids were okay and to build a new life that was going to be suitable to being a single parent," he says.

"It was a struggle," he says. "There were a good four or five months of not being able to get out of bed. It was the worst time in my life."

"You get through it," he added. "It’s a process that’s not easy, but I get less and less sad about it every day."

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Allison Corneau — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:35:48 -0500

Reese Witherspoon Won't Go Nude to Sell Movies

Henry Seltzer — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:40:22 -0500

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The actress says she's "flabbergasted" by "legitimate actresses" who "objectify themselves" to promote movies

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Reese Witherspoon won't pose for sexy photo shoots to promote her films.

"If [actresses] take their clothes off, they objectify themselves," she tells the UK edition of Glamour. "I am flabbergasted by how many legitimate actresses do it."

Witherspoon, 31 – who shares custody of Ava, 8, and Deacon, 4, with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe – adds that she tries to avoid the pitfalls of a Hollywood lifestyle. "I am a role model for my children," she says.

"Hollywood is one of those endless competitions," she says. "It's a race towards nothing. I just want to be the best version of myself that I can be."

Witherspoon credits her 2005 Best Actress Oscar win for Walk the Line with opening up a range of film roles. "I would never have been offered these kind of roles," she says. "There was also a lot of pressure after [winning an Oscar]. People wanted me to do a really big movie and I just wanted to do something more sort of personal and real."

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