Celebrities seem to always set the trends. The latest movement concerns affairs of the heart. NOTE: Being single is out and being in a relationship is in. Married, dating or keeping it on the low, the stars are connecting and making a lot of magic. Cupid was working overtime this year. Check out 8 of the hottest couples on the celebrity circuit in 2008.

Watch the sexy starlet get down with the Oscar-winning actor here… in the trailer for their new film, Powder Blue.

In the film about redemption in the seedy streets of Los Angeles, Biel plays a stripper while Whitaker is cast as an ex-priest. Filming this had to be… interesting. I wonder if Kiesha and Justin were on set for the strip club scenes. Powder Blue is due out next year.

For more of the incomparable Ms. Biel, check out her GIANT gallery here!

Red hot actress Jessica Biel strikes a pose for the pages of GIANT.

Those lips, those eyes… surprise! Behind the drop-dead gorgeous looks of Jessica Biel is the heart of a soldier who loves a good fight. Just don’t give her a steak knife.

In the weeks leading up to my conversation with Jessica Biel, the following dramas rocked young Hollywood: Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan had a tiff, which then escalated into a full-blown war when oil heir Brandon Davis issued the Lohan-lashing heard ’round the world. Christina Aguilera got into it with Mariah Carey about, well, something, and Mischa Barton took sides, to notable effect, in the Nicole Richie-Paris Hilton battle royale (Barton is Team Richie).

But Jessica Biel has no tiff–no history of them and no real prospects, either–and when asked about her lack of beefs with fellow celebrities, she laughs. “It’s not really in my personality. I’ll go out and dance adn have a drink, but I don’t get messed up in the drama. I’m also pretty busy. On most nights people are going out, I usually have a 6 a.m. call the next morning.”

Ten years into a career that began with 7th Heaven, Biel is one of the few young celebrities without some kind of scandal, feud or sex tape to call her own. “Sexiest Woman Alive” by Esquire magazine last year, Biel is more the anti-Paris Hilton, refusing to coast by on looks alone and choosing instead to work her ass off for every audition and part she’s ever scored. Even with three movies set for release in the next year, the unassuming 24-year-old actress places herself, ona fame scale of one to 10, on the lower end of the spectrum. “I’m probably a… four? I don’t know. I’m always thinking about how difficult it is to obtain the parts I want, and how I’m losing roles to all these other girls–Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson, Rachel McAdams. All those really, really talented women who are doing movies that I’d like to be doing.”