RYAN Phillippe has gone Down Under for Christmas and New Year’s. He landed in Australia on Sunday with his love, Abbie Cornish, whom he met on the set of “Stop-Loss” while he was still married to Reese Witherspoon. They’ll be on Cockatoo Island for a … party today before heading to Lochinvar to meet Cornish’s extended family. It’s the first time Phillippe, who spent Thanksgiving with Cornish and his children, Deacon and Ava, in the US, has been to Australia. His kids will be with Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal in LA and Tennessee.

HMMM … sounds like things are getting pret-ty serious for these two. It’s a big step to meet the extended family … it’s an even bigger step to meet them over the holidays. Rabbie is showing no signs of slowing down … to me, it looks like the couple are on the path to marriagehood. Irregardless of what you think about how the couple got together, I suppose it’s a good thing that they are so committed to one another and they look like they’re gonna be together for a long time. Tho, that’s what I thought about the Witherppe marriage and, well … yeah. In any event, here’s hoping the happy couple enjoys their time down in Australia and that Ryan won’t have to face any awkward questions about how he and Abbie ended up together. Ah, don’tcha just love the holidays?

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Is Eva Mendes the sexiest woman in Hollywood? Network censors may have pondered that very question earlier this year, when they ruled that 30 seconds of grainy, home-movie-ish footage of the actress wearing little more than a smudge of black eyeliner in a commercial for Calvin Klein’s new eau, Secret Obsession, was too hot for TV. (Not to worry. Mendes—albeit slightly less of her—will still be steaming up your flat screen this fall.) The original “isn’t shocking at all,” says Mendes, whose Sophia Loren contours will also, around the same time, be featured in ads for a new Calvin Klein Underwear line for curvier women called Seductive Comfort. “But it does have a really intimate quality that makes people nervous.” In other words, it’s typical Calvin Klein … The Mendes episode may be relatively minor as CK kerfuffles go (so far, at least), but it serves to remind us of what the company’s marketers happily call “the halo effect” of controversy. The phenomenon dates back to Brooke Shields declaring her indivisibility from her Calvins, then continued with the early-’90s Obsession ads of Kate Moss draped naked across a couch or staring soulfully into the camera, one barely postpubescent breast covered and the other entirely revealed, and Mark Wahlberg’s firm grasp on his Calvin-clad crotch, stretched high above Times Square.

Okay, so I’ve seen this controversial Secret Obsession television commercial and I can understand why it was banned … had it not been for the exposed nipple shot, I think the commercial would’ve been fine for the airwaves. This country is still not ready to expose women’s breasts on TV. After the jump, check out the Calvin Klein Secret Obsession commercial starring Eva Mendes in all her NSFW glory …