Law caught kissing mystery blonde

Actor Jude Law has sparked rumours of a new romance after he was spotted passionately kissing a mystery woman at a bar in New York.

The Sherlock Holmes star downed shots with the blonde at a venue in Manhattan on Thursday and onlookers saw them "kissing a lot", according to the New York Daily News.

But Law was clearly keen to keep the lid on his love life - he refused all requests to pose for photos, bizarrely telling one excited fan, "I'm in and I'm out, but it was good to see you, darling."

Law split from his fiancee, actress Sienna Miller, in 2006 after bedding his children's nanny behind her back. They reconciled in 2009 but announced in February last year that they had split for good.