The initial astonishment over the allegations that Kristen Stewart had a fling with director Rupert Sanders has been replaced with downright confusion after it emerged that the 'photographic evidence' of the pair together could be fake. The UK's Daily Telegraph report that an image showing the Twilight actress and the British filmmaker in a romantic embrace (posted on US Weekly magazine's website) look suspicious.
Attention is being focused on Stewart's 'shoulder', which looks a little too bony - perhaps more like the shoulder of Sanders' wife, the skinny model Liberty Ross. However, here's where things get a little confusing. According to E! Online, Ross posted a mysterious Twitter message just hours before news of the supposed affair exploded onto the net. She simply wrote, "Wow" - but there's more, as it emerged that the last user she 'followed' on the micro-blogging website was US Weekly magazine, before deleting her account. Ross has two young children with Sanders, and recently blogged for UK Vogue about the family's vacation in Hawaii, following a promotional tour for 'Snow White and the Huntsman', in which she played Stewart's mother. She wrote, "It's so beautiful here - we are staying in an artist's house right out on a point with waves crashing either side of us".
Sanders - who is in talks for a sequel to 'Snow White and the Huntsman' - often spoke fondly of Stewart while working on the first movie, telling the Huffington Post in May, "I think Kristen is incredibly brave.She played such a good version Bella Swan, people think Kristen Stewart is Bella Swan. She's not, you know? If you meet Kristen, she's wildly kind of giggly and vivacious and rebellious and naughty-all things that Bella Swan isn't". So far, neither Stewart nor Sanders has commented on the allegations.