All of Jennifer Aniston’s past words to kind of clumsily explain her ex husband’s infidelity are coming back to her - “uncool,” “lacking a sensitivity chip,” “pity party,” I think I covered the most popular ones. We’ve heard recently that Aniston’s latest boyfriend, her upcoming costar Justin Theroux, had a longterm girlfriend and that she just
moved out of the house they shared last weekend. This wasn’t just a rumor, either, the ex girlfriend’s rep confirmed it, and her mother told the press a few weeks ago that it wasn’t true that Aniston and Theroux were more than friends. So these two moved fast, they did it under the nose of Theroux’s girlfriend of 14 years, and they’re going
full throttle to the press. Hence these latest photos of Aniston and Theroux wearing matching
gold watches - and matching chunky gold rings on their left ring fingers. (We don’t have access to those pictures, but you can
see them here, on Radar.
Update! Oh snap, Radar took those photos down, but they do have a new
glowing piece on Theroux’s career.) It could be a cheeky nod to the press that they’re together, but it does come off as insensitive, for lack of a better word, to Theroux’s very recent and blindsided ex.
US Weekly has a whole piece on Aniston and Theroux’s romance, and it reads suspiciously like a publicist-planted story. It’s hard to tell, though, because
US hasn’t been kind to Aniston in the past and they basically admit that Aniston and Theroux were cheating together, although they downplay it. It could be an attempt to revamp her image as the wronged woman, I have no idea. It’s not like she’s been making smart PR
moves lately.
After a brief on-set fling last fall, they reconnected in March. And now? “He’s living at her place in L.A.!” says an insider. “And she’s introducing him as her boyfriend…”
But an Aniston source says friends - including pal Courteney Cox - have no worries about the speedy romance: “They like him, and they like seeing her happy.”
Aniston had her eye on Theroux as soon as she met him in September on the set of Wanderlust in Georgia… She was taken by his sense of humor, says a pal, adding “He’s sweet and funny and so easy to be with.” One thing she ignore? His live-in girlfriend, costume designer Heidi Bivens, 35. “Jen went after him,” a Theroux source says, adding that she set the scene for seduction at her rented lakeside home, hosting intimate parties for the cast. “They drink and play games, and they started hooking up.” However, nervous that word would get out - or perhaps that comparisons to Angelina Jolie would be made - they soon cooled things off.
But by March, after Theroux finally split with Bivens, they reconnected in L.A….
And the whirlwind continues: Conveniently, Aniston just bought not one but two NYC apartments near Theroux’s (she’s combining a $5.9 million pad with an $1.8 million one), and a pal says he’s mulling a stay in L.A. through summer, telling Us, “He really likes Jennifer. He’s like a new man.” As for Aniston? “She’s very hopeful,” says a source. “She’s excited for a fun summer.”
[From US Weekly,
print edition, June 27, 2011]
This reads like a PR piece, doesn’t it? Theroux and his girlfriend broke up in March, according to this account, even though the girlfriend’s rep
kind-of said that it wasn’t over until last weekend. (It’s hard to tell as their statement is vague, but that’s heavily implied.) It’s all about how much fun they’re having and how happy they are together. They admit that Aniston was cheating, but that’s downplayed and supposedly they didn’t get serious until Theroux broke it off “
in March,” but his girlfriend stayed at the house they
shared for three more months anyway. Aniston just hooked a guy who is more than happy to trade up to a movie star, but who didn’t cut his longterm girlfriend loose until he was absolutely sure that he had another warm bed to roll into. Douches like that are a dime a dozen, but not to Jen. She needed someone to help her promote her latest films and this guy fit the bill. I’m sure her people convinced her to play it for all it was worth.
Rather than explore this mess any further, I think I’ll
back up a little and impart some wisdom that someone told me ages ago about dating people you work with. I think it also applies to Hollywood. “You don’t sh*t where you eat.” With this latest romance, Aniston just got a toilet installed in her kitchen yet she keeps whipping up boxed
mac and cheese and expecting the public to eat it.
huh
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