Jake Gyllenhaal & Alyssa Miller broke up after six months together: surprising?

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Well, this is just shocking! What is the world coming to when Jake Gyllenhaal can’t make it work with a swimsuit model? Jake, 33, began dating model Alyssa Miller, 24, last summer. Their first big coupled-up debut was in NYC, through some candid photos also featuring Jake’s mother (coughMotherBoycough). Their romance also featured a handful of glowing tabloid stories about how Alyssa was “the one” and Jake was ready to “settle down.” So… of course it’s over now.

Ladies, he’s single again! Jake Gyllenhaal and Sports Illustrated model Alyssa Miller have split after nearly six months of dating, multiple sources confirm to Us Weekly.

“They fizzled out. It happened a while ago — before the holidays,” one insider tells Us. “He’s back on the scene.” (Lainey Gossip posted a story speculating Gyllenhaal’s now-confirmed single status on Tuesday afternoon.)

“Things were really good between Jake and Alyssa right up until he had to leave for L.A. to go shoot a movie [Nightcrawler] in the fall,” adds another source. “Then the distance just really got to them.”

Indeed, the handsome actor, 33, has been busy filming upcoming thriller, Nightcrawler, in which he plays a struggling, freelance crime reporter who comes across the underground world of L.A.

Another source tells Us that Gyllenhaal “was very taken with [Miller], but I think their work definitely drew them apart.”

The big chill occurred before the holiday season. “They were apart for the holidays, and things weren’t good with them even before that,” a source says. “She’s very much a long-term relationship girl. He’s not as much of that mindset.”

24-year-old Miller opened up to Us in late October about her relationship with the hunk. “Things are good,” she said then. (As Us Weekly exclusively revealed, the couple started dating in June after they first met at their gym.)

Gyllenhaal has a long history of dating gorgeous stars: His exes include Taylor Swift, whom he briefly dated in late 2010, Kirsten Dunst, his girlfriend from 2002 to 2004, and Reese Witherspoon, his last longterm relationship, which ended in 2009. “I know people are bummed, because many thought he had a chance this time,” an insider tells Us of the actor’s latest split.

[From Us Weekly]

Over the holidays, I did a marathon of Will & Grace. I miss that show so much and I was reminded (again) of how groundbreaking it was for network television to have a prime time TV show with a lead character like Will Truman. Why am I bringing this up in a Jake Gyllenhaal post? I don’t know. Something about the situation just reminded me of it. LaineyGossip says that her sources think Jake and Alyssa aren’t totally over, that they might get back together. Eh, who knows? I think he may be done with her. It’s time for him to start up with a new model that he rarely spends time with, and when he does, it’s only in the company of his mother.

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Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and PCN.

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