While John shoots for Nagesh Kukunoor's Aashayen, girlfriend Bipasha Basu is generously being linked with Saif Ali Khan.

It all started during the Koffee with Karan show, Bips had made an innocent statement that if she was not seeing John, she may have been attracted to Saif.

Much-amused Bipasha says that Saif and her are just colleagues in Abbas-Mustan's Race, and that they get along very well. They went out for dinner just once and that too for half an hour.

"It's crazy, we're colleagues in Abbas-Mustan's Race and we get along very well. I've been out with Saif for dinner just once. If that's a reason for rumours to start, then so be it," she says.

Well however now that Bips is being linked to Saif, she perhaps regrets making that statement.

What is adding to speculations that all is not well between John and Bips is her recent appearance at a fashion event with ex-flame Dino Morea.

However Bips claims, "It was only because John was out of town. The minute I drove in with Dino, I knew tongues would wag, let them."

Bips feels that all these rumours surface just because John is out of town and she says "Just because John is out of town so much, people think they're free to jump to conclusions about the status of our relationship. What they don't understand is that such rumours can affect our relationships."