We haven't seen much of her on The Hills in recent weeks - maybe that's due to the fact that she's filming her own spin-off, The City, 3,000 miles away!

Below, Whitney Port and her musician-model beau, Jay Lyon, share an embrace at a photo shoot for The City - where else - in NYC on Wednesday ...

"CITY" GIRL AND GUY: Australia native Jay Lyon and The Hills' Whitney Port are supposedly dating. We will find out in her spin-off series come 2009.