Last week, Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler were reportedly seen looking “lovey-dovey” and sharing a “little kiss” on the set of the currently shooting flick “The Bounty.” Now they may have progressed to public digit-on-digit contact.

People magazine reports the actress, far from looking “rejected and upset” over her supposed brush-off by a Renée Zellweger-preferring Bradley Cooper, was spotted holding hands with the burly Scottish star at a New York hotel over the weekend.

Aniston, 40, and Butler, 39, have apparently been “flirty and affectionate” during filming, with an eyewitness allegedly catching them in some interrupted finger-entwining last Wednesday.
“We watched them at one point start to hold hands, but she pulled back because she realized people were watching,” the snitch tells Radar, before concluding, “They look like they’re in the beginning phase of a relationship that’s really nice.”

But the stars, who touched off romance rumors last month when they were photographed walking arm-in-arm, have repeatedly pooh-poohed the whispers, although this latest round conveniently comes just weeks before both begin promoting their new movies (”Love Happens” for her and “Gamer” for him).

If you look at the pic, the 40-year-old actress seemed to clutch onto Gerard in the same way she hung onto former husband, Brad Pitt, in 2005!