Justin Timberlake and actress Jessica Biel have ended their three-year courtship, a mutual friend told Usmagazine.com.

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The source said Timberlake broke up with Biel on the phone. “It was about a month ago,” the friend reported, adding the actress is in “severe denial and won’t accept” the relationship is over.

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“There’s no way of knowing if it’s a firm breakup, because with them it’s so hot and cold,” another source told Usmagazine.com.

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Biel, 27, marked her major musical-theatre debut this weekend in Los Angeles, as the Hollywood Bowl presented a three-night run of a concert version of the classic “Guys and Dolls.”

“I haven`t really done anything like this,” Biel said, following a dress rehearsal Friday afternoon. “Well, I did one thing in college. In college, I did a concert version of `Tommy` when I was in college. But, other than that, it was 10-11-12, 8-9-10-11-12 when my big musical-theatre world was happening. So it`s been 10-plus years since I`ve done anything like this.”

For “Guys and Dolls,” Biel takes on the role of Sarah Brown, a Manhattan missionary at odds with a gang of gamblers — and eventually in love with one of them. It`s a far cry from one of Biel`s last roles: a stripper in the steamy, straight-to-video “Powder Blue.”

“No, definitely not what you would think to go from `this` into this,” Biel said, with a smile. “But that`s the fun of this world. That`s what I love about this job. You get to do something like that and then you go completely extreme to the other side of it, and terrify yourself in some other way. It`s really about terrorising myself. I`m fully terrorised, and when is the next challenge that will come around the corner?”

Perhaps Broadway? “Oh, yeah. I would love to,” Biel replied. “Literally, that is one of my eight-year-old dreams. That`s like my little eight-year-old inside me is cart wheeling around, thinking about that idea.”

Jessica Biel in “Guys and Dolls” plays through Sunday night at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

Jessica Biel has posed sans clothes for Gotham Magazine, but she is adamant that she will never go commando.

Biel, 27, who is currently dating singer Justin Timberlake, has revealed that she would never leave the house without her panties on.

Says Biel,

I don’t really get that. It’s not my thing. I’m a knicker person. I actually know a handful of people who aren’t knicker people, but I don’t get it!

The 27-year-old actress, who recently set up home
with the singer, has revealed that she wants to play his leading lady in a movie, reported femalefirst.co.uk.

“I would love to co-star with Justin,” said Biel.

The “Powder Blue” star has been dating the 28-year-old singer for past two years.

Just ask Jessica Biel, who despite her stunning looks, perfect figure and hot boyfriend, says Hollywood discriminates.

In a new interview with Allure magazine, on newsstands May 26, the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” actress says that being too good-looking can be a problem for an actress.

Still, the star says she has “a lot to do, careerwise” and is looking to get roles like her fellow actresses Scarlett Johannson and Natalie Portman.

But what’s not part of her current plans, despite the fact that she and singer Justin Timberlake seem to be very much in love, is marriage.

“I have no idea if I want to get married, she says.

And the antique emerald ring all the tabloids say Justin bought for her during their romantic trip to Rome?

“I bought that ring for myself,” she proudly declares. “It really is a problem, I have to be blunt,” she says. “I just want an opportunity. If you don’t like the audition, then don’t hire me. But if you don’t want to see me, that’s hurtful.”