Josh in blue over Amber

Sydney Confidential
November 23, 2006 12:00

HOLLYWOOD hunk Josh Hartnett has gone into damage control after returning to the Auckland set of his new movie from his cosy weekend away in Sydney with a co-star.
Confidential can reveal his companion in Sydney was New Zealand actress Amber Sainsbury, who has a small role in the thriller film Hartnett is currently shooting, 30 Days Of Night.

With the low-key weekend trek to Sydney fuelling speculation his relationship with screen siren Scarlett Johansson is on the rocks, Hartnett is understood to have shot down talk of a romantic link with his 26-year-old co-star to fellow cast and crew.

According to an insider on the set, the 28-year-old star of Pearl Harbour and Black Hawk Down is denying he and Sainsbury are anything more than friends, insisting he actually knows the Kiwi actress's boyfriend.

But Hartnett and Sainsbury certainly looked more than friendly during their stay on the weekend at Woolloomooloo hotel Blue.

The US actor was spotted with his arm around his companion as they left Darlinghurst cafe Forbes and Burton on Sunday morning after a late breakfast there for the second day in a row.

"Josh got jumped on by a few different people to get photos taken so she went outside the cafe,'' an onlooker said.

"But when he eventually went out he put his arm around her as they walked across the street. There was a level of intimacy there.''

The pair ducked for cover when Confidential caught up with them as they were leaving Sydney on Sunday night - Sainsbury bolting into the airport terminal covering her face with a jacket and bag and Hartnett telling photographers to `"get f*****''.

While Hartnett was denying any romantic attachment on set, his girlfriend Johansson's publicist Marcel Parisbeau would not confirm whether one of Hollywood's leading couples was still together.

"(I) don't comment on clients' personal lives,'' Parisbeau said as his client Johansson notched up her 22nd birthday yesterday.

A publicist for 30 Days of Night did not return calls.

Sainsbury is known in the UK for her appearances in the TV series Hex and, according to online encyclopedia Wikipedia, for "having a massive rack''.

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Hollywood hunk Josh Hartnett is in damage control following his cosy Sydney weekend with New Zealand actress Amber Sainsbury, fuelling speculation his relationship with Scarlett Johansson is on the rocks. / The Daily Telegraph