So, Robert and Kristen were in Budapest. Together. Really.

UPDATE: The Star has coverage and photo of Rob and Kristen’s arrival in London on Sunday. I believe as tabloids go, after being stung by lawsuits over incorrect reporting in years past, the Star is usually quite accurate.

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Score one for the tabloids.



After weeks of build up to this past weekend, during which Kristen Stewart celebrated her 20th birthday, certain (some might include the phrase, “low level”) tabloids have been going nuts talking about:

• - How Robert Pattinson and Kristen’s secret affair had become too tortuous for the two of them, while he’s filming romantic scenes with famous beauties in far off Budapest, Hungary, while she’s jet-setting around the world to promote her latest film, the aptly-names “The Runaways”…




• - How he was secretly shopping around Budapest to buy her jewelry — which perhaps was secretly an engagement ring(??!?!)




• - Which — of course! — must mean that she was secretly planning a secret trip to secretly spend her birthday wrapped in the glittering arms of the man she secretly loved…

It was all too much. As if. How un-secretive could so many secrets be? If the whole world knew about every one of these secrets, then they weren’t really secrets were they?



And so, a secret war ensued.

• - Authoritative sources denied all these reports, deriding the bottom-feeding tabloids, and stating with authority that Kristen had a birthday party at home, explaining just how long it takes to fly to Budapest.




• - Gossip Cop issued a story stating it had confirmed that Kristen was still, in fact, in the U.S., making it quite difficult to be in Budapest at the same time.




• - Major tabloids and proper news organizations ignored the claims of these lowest-of-the-low celebrity stalkers. Sniff. The very idea.




• - Twilight web sites, this one included, pretended that their traffic spikes had nothing to do with the possibility of the possibility of a secret rendezvous, and possible engagement, of the two Twilight stars, who it just so happens, also get more or less secretly engaged in their upcoming film.

And that was that. We all waited with dark thoughts for Kristen to show up at the Galleria while Rob left Hungary, his filming ended. “Guttersnipes,” we murmured to ourselves. Waiting. Watching. Years of endless speculations about a non-secret, secret affair about to be undone by the very outrageousness of their claims, taken to the brink of insanity. Mua-ha-ha-ha. At last. The end of Robsten. The end of the guttersnipes.



Meanwhile the low-level tabloids, like Jared Jr. and Radar Online, got increasingly desperate, issuing mad pleas for someone — anyone! — to please get a picture or something, anything, to prove they were together in Budapest. They even posted a pathetic, exceptionally blurry video of the backs of two people walking away. “It’s them!” they claimed. “We promise!” Pathetic.



“It’s over,” respectable media sighed with relief as the weekend ended, and Rob was slated to be back in London.



There was just one little, tiny, teensy-weensy problem. There were some more photos that showed up, on Jared, Jr., or course. Of Rob and Kristen. Together, in an airport. Well, it must be old photos drummed up with another date on them…



Except they weren’t in black leather jackets, like that time at LAX… Wait. Um.



Budapest Airport, they said? Really?? But isn’t that airport shuttle logo in English?!?







And then, sigh, Gossip Cop retracted their earlier article (??? seems to have disappeared from their site ???) and published this one here sneering that HollywoodLife was so horribly incorrect with their pathetic “exclusive details” … … … … … … … … about Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart leaving the Budapest Airport together.



Oops. They even confirmed it with the agency that sold the photos. The photos from Budapest Airport in Hungary. Yes, it’s really called that. I checked.



Holy crow.



They were right. It’s really difficult to see it anyway else.



Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart appear to be more than just two professionally courteous friends thrown into a contrived romantic scenario by over-eager fans and rabid, over-reaching, low-level, gutter-sniping tabloids.



Okay. I’m sorry, and promise to remove the quotes around the “journalists” journalists working for these sources, on this publication and in private conversation.



And congrats to Rob and Kristen, who it must now be admitted, should probably deny themselves no longer. Save yourselves, go public, and let the chips fall where they may.



So romantic. Long sigh. God bless them.



And to the cast members and crew: You liars. You all deserve Oscars. Except Catherine, who said it right out, but we didn’t believe her. Sniff. So sorry.



And, score one for the tabloids. Best investigative journalism in the business, is what the Men in Black say. Apparently, against all odds, they were right.



No photos of rings yet. At this point, honestly, I’m just wondering what the odds are that that the ring will be the one for sale in the sidebar on the Twilight Lexicon, Elizabeth Masen’s ring…



Knock me over with a feather. At this point, Rob could turn out to be pregnant after all, and I wouldn’t be surprised one bit.



Okay, maybe a little.