Jennifer Aniston has been flirting up a storm on the red carpet with her Bounty Hunter co-star Gerard Butler.

WireImage.com

On March 11, she cuddled the hunky Scot at the London premiere of the film, and again five days later at their film’s New York outing.

The affectionate displays echoed the pair’s public canoodling at the Golden Globes on Jan. 17, a performance which prompted US TV’s Showbiz Tonight to theorise that the star has a tried and tested three-step recipe to promote her films: cosy up to a high-profile man, take part in a raunchy magazine photo shoot, and top it off with a confessional interview.

The actress denied the claims in a March 12 interview. “All this that me and Gerry are in this fake relationship for the press of our movie, or the selling of it, is just insulting,” said Aniston.

But that’s not to say that they’re in a real real-life relationship, she pointed out: “They think that if you do a movie together and you get along really well, you must be dating … it has nothing backing it at all.”

Butler seconds that. “We hang out,” he told WHO at the London premiere. “Of course, everyone takes that as something else, but we are very good friends.”