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Brian Van Holt has been boning Courteney Cox for a year, pretty much. Rumors of their romance began last spring, months before Cox and David Arquette announced their split. While you can argue with me about the finer points of what went down – open marriage, trial separation, Courteney simply cheating on her husband – the facts are pretty simple: Cox and Arquette split up, and Cox was the one to initiate it. Also, that she and Brian Van Holt have been boning for a while. And David is a total mess about the whole thing. My theory is now (and has always been) that Courteney had a master plan as to how this whole thing would play out, and David was fine with falling on his sword and taking the blame for the split, whether or not Courteney manipulated him into that position or not. I really believe David loved and still loves Courteney, and that he would open a vein for her, so taking a hit in the media was no big deal, especially since Courteney dangled the possibility of reconciliation in front of him.
However, Courteney’s master plan has gone off the rails a bit. At this point, she was likely expecting a gentle rollout of the relationship with her jumpoff, Brian Van Holt. With David taking the blame and the hit for their split publicly, she probably already had the People Magazine story pre-written: “Courteney finds love with younger costar, is ready to move on: A Fresh Start, New Love, New Life!” But David began going on a spectacular spiral of sadness and alcohol, and now he’s in rehab, and Courteney’s master plan is messed up. So she’s in the midst of making a new plan. A new plan that involves Brian Van Holt giving interviews about her and David…?
Courteney Cox’s Cougar Town boasts an energetic ensemble – but even off-camera, the cast acts like a family.
“We are quite lucky to have her as one of our ringleaders,” Brian Van Holt, who plays Cox’s friendly ex husband, tells PEOPLE of the actress. “And the rest of the cast is really close. We are lucky that they are who they are, and I’m glad to have that relationship and trust and support.”
In fact, Van Holt, 41, counts Cox, 46, as one of his best friends. “It’s a good friendship,” he says, “and very healthy for the environment that we’re working in.”
The actor also throws his support to Cox’s estranged husband, David Arquette, who recently entered rehab for help with alcohol and other issues.
“I think it’s very courageous and I have a lot of respect for him for doing so,” Van Holt says. “My thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family, Courteney and everybody. I think it’s fantastic.”
[From People]
Yeah. I think this is all kinds of cheap, tacky and wrong. If Courteney’s costar wants to talk about their show, that’s fine. But it’s tacky for the jumpoff to comment on his married lover’s husband’s rehab. David is in rehab because he couldn’t deal – soberly – with Courteney and Brian boning. Bad move, Court.
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Everytime I see C.C. with this guy, it makes me think she’s banging the neighborhood Jiffylube clerk. He’s really smarmy.
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Yeah, this definitely is a zero on the sincere-o-meter.
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That’s just disgusting. Keep your mouth shut there Bri.. you are showing your arrogance.
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He also may have spoken of this of his own volition. I just can’t imagine someone as controlling as CC seems would think that statement was a good idea.
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Dear Brian,
If she’ll do it with you…
She’ll do it TO YOU!!
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well …
the husband is not that much of a douche
he is not happy, but that’s normal -
she shouldn’t have married a loser like him, then broke his heart moving on to another / better guy, this is life, and all 3 of them are idiots in the public eye now cause they are not normal forks like you and me
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Yea ok…Don’t remember Courtney or Brian saying they are invloved with each other. Don’t remember Courntney going on Howard Stern staying she strayed from her marriage. Don’t remember David saying Courtney strayed from the marriage. Don’t remember Courtney partying with her young costars and getting tats and getting drunk.
Yea I am pretty sure David did cheat because David said he did. David has been the one in the wrong from day freaking one. He is the f*ck up. Why people are going after Courtney is like seriously bothering me. Like seriously? This woman loved him and took care of him. David is the one who fu*ked up and all Court has done is support him as best she can while trying to be there for her child and keep her freaking job and keep working.
The Brian guy just said that they are very close and I believe TV co-stars do tend to be closer. So I don’t see anything wrong with him wishing David, the one we KNOW f*cked up not speculating on whether he did or not or not really sure or just jumping to conclusions but we know cuz it came from the horses mouth, well.
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I have my doubts that these two are really an item or that she is THAT strategic. But I could be wrong.
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I loved Brian in his guest spot on Sons of Anarchy. I don’t think he is smarmy but I do think he had better watch out.
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He really should not have said anything.
I think that was inappropriate even if it was well meaning. David is one of the Producers.. but when the rags are screaming you are sleeping with the man’s wife.. well
Silence is Bliss.
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David looks HOT in the white shirt photo. When he cleans up and dresses like an adult instead of an overgrown 8 year-old, he can actually look handsome.
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Gee, just what a guy who’s in freakin’ REHAB needs to hear from the guy his wife is shacking up with.
What a tool!!!
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Karma’s a bitch and Courtney will get hers
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I hope David works out his issues and then gets away from Cortney… I can’t stand her – maybe he could shack up with Jennifer Aniston.. that would be awesome!!
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I also am having a hard time believing that they are a couple.
There was a great blind item reveal about him on CDAN earlier this year.
Which makes me believe that he would not be interested in Courteney. Maybe as a random lay but not a legit girlfriend.
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Does he have an English accent? I read that for some reason in an English accent.
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Again, I’ve seen absolutely no evidence that these two are involved. I really dislike how it just keeps getting stated as fact that she cheated and then those statements just keep getting re-referenced as proof that she did indeed cheat. Ridiculous.
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I believe Courteney has been cheating on David for a long time and thats driving him over the edge. Courteney don’t seem to be broke up at all which is a good indication that she has been with this guy a long time. I do believe she wanted David to take the blame when she was the one who started having an affair first. What a cow Courteney turned out to be.
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@Love Angelina, you are naive. When a man has sex because his wife suggests an open marriage and he cries after the sex with another woman, he is a man losing his wife and doesn’t understand. What he is doing is fighting a losing battle. She has been in an emotional affair and most likely for quite a while a physical affair with this other guy. David is spiraling and in depression because he can’t fix the marriage. He can’t because she emotionally left him a long time ago and is trying to ease her way out of the marriage. I had a friend have an affair for two years and I watched her husband spiral just like David. He was a mess and drinking during the day. He never believed her workout buddy was truly boning his wife for all that time b/c she said they were only friends. Wrong. She was madly in love with the other guy and she and the other guy finally left their spouses. I don’t blame Courtney for falling out of being in love with David. He’s too immature for her. But the other guy was the catalyst for her ending it and she doesn’t want to look like the bad guy. You will one day see them come out as a couple, mark my words.
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I hope David finds a younger and prettier girlfriend to be his soulmate, he’s such a nice sweet guy.
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Honestly David seems like the type to hurt himself. He may not seem like much of a catch but he really needs help. Courtney seems manipulative & it wouldn’t surprise me if they have been having an affair for a while.
Side piece should just say nothing.
Nice post Jayna!
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Im not going to pretend to know what happened in thier marriage, but I believe that he cheated on her, mostly because he admitted to it..and he has been photgraphed with all kinds of girls at all kinds of bars..Courtney has not…according to the tabs, if a woman is friends with a guy, she must be sleeping with him. theres no proof of her cheating.
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David Arquette and Courtenay Love would make an interesting pair.
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Does he send these prayers between thrusts or when he’s done?
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David never said he cheated on Courtney. What he said was after the seperation he’s been with other women. I don’t know if Courtney and Brian are having an affair but considering the rampid rumors, he was better off saying nothing. It comes off as rubbing salt in the wound.
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It’s pretty much a ‘slap in the face’ to be given ‘support & prayers’ by someone who’s been sleeping with your wife.
I just wish this guy could’ve kept his mouth shut regarding David. There was no need to make a public statement.
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Yeah, he needs to shut up but honestly I’m still on Team Courtney. David has acted like a child his whole life and he has acted even more like a baby through this whole break up. People are acting like we need to coddle him feel all bad cause he couldn’t deal with the fact that his marriage ended. I’d have had more respect for him if he suffered quietly and with some dignity. Maybe she did manipulate the whole thing and maybe she just ended a marriage she wasn’t happy in and he obviously wasn’t happy either else he wouldn’t have cheated and now he feels bad cause he couldn’t have his cake and eat it too … cry me a river
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I’m with Jayna & Hakura on this.
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“Again, I’ve seen absolutely no evidence that these two are involved. I really dislike how it just keeps getting stated as fact that she cheated and then those statements just keep getting re-referenced as proof that she did indeed cheat. Ridiculous.”
@Carol: I couldn’t have said it better. I do not understand why, in the face of any kind of concrete proof, anyone is stating that she is a cheater as fact. At best it is a tabloid rumor (from months ago) – akin to all those tabloid stories that posters and commenters on here dismiss all the time when about other celebs. For some reason there is an irrational level of hate for Cox and a belief that she is some sort of manipulative, controlling shrew, ergo she must have cheated and plotted her separation for PR purposes. If she really was so calculating, these comments from Van Holt would never have happened.
I find it quite hypocritical and contradictory that many cannot possibly fathom, for example, Bullock and Reynolds being more than friends, despite various reports of their recent interactions along with photos, yet despite zero photographic evidence of Cox and Van Holt even hanging together off set after all these months, or any reports of them spending time together off set (romantic or otherwise), people have concluded they are together. I’m not saying Reynolds and Bullock are together, and as I’ve said before, for all I know, Cox and her co-star are an item, but unless and until there is some actual proof I think it ridiculous and inflammatory to continue stating it to be true so adamantly.
I’ll also point out that Bullock and Reynolds getting photographed in Austin is further evidence to me that the lack of photos of Cox and Van Holt after all this time is telling. While I know that Bullock and Reynolds are far bigger pap “gets,” they were also far away from pap-central LA (where Cox and Van Holt live), were at Bullock’s own restaurant – a setting you would think she would be able to control better, and have not been linked repeatedly by the press such that paps would be hot on their “couple” tails. Still, photos were able to be captured. How is it then that Cox and Van Holt, despite living in crawling with paps LA, and being suspected as a possible couple, have been able to elude photographers for nearly a year?
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Gah, I just really don’t get all this sympathy for David, the dude needs to man up and grow up.
He’s not some poor victim that is spiraling downward because of the way ‘evil’ Courteney was/is treating him, he brought this on himself. I believe Courteney loves David but finally had enough, good on her.
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This was one of the more clever analysis I’ve ever read… It seems pretty right on and I hate speculation. I feel really badly for this guy…
he seems like one of the few people in hollywood with a heart. These people jump from one relationship to another without even batting an eye so it’s kind of refreshing to see someone actually being utterly heartbroken about a breakup… I mean I can kind of relate. I had a minor nervous breakdown back when my boyfriend cheated on me with my friend. It was very heartbreaking. I’ve since then found someone who I really love and I am so grateful that the loser left me so I could meet a real man. Anyway, here’s hoping the same fate to David Arquette…
Also, I don’t get why all these people are saying DA admitted to cheating? From what I understood, he admitted to having sex with people after the breakup and after CC had emotionally checked out of the relationship and basically told him to “go see other people”…
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Hey “Angelina”, how much does being on CC’s PR team pay these days?
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Why is she taking such a big hit for this? If they are friends, what is wrong with Brian saying something supportive? I am confused. And I clearly remember David going on all over the place (on Howard Stern for f’s sake!) talking about what he should’ve been quiet about. At least this was an appropriate and kind comment. Maybe she IS like the characters she plays on TV, but I think an awful lot is being read into this situation. I know, it’s a gossip site, it’s what we do. But this is a real stretch.
Also, I love how David is getting all the sympathy just because he’s a f’ing mess. Maybe the fact that he is a mess was what broke up the marriage, not her boning a costar…
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Well…he was responding because don’t David and Courtney produce the show? Like, it’s their joint project. Which means that he must know him on a personal/professional level. He’s not just spouting sh-t.
Oh, and I totally agree with Anon and Carol. Tone it down a bit.
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I have to agree that we seem to be jumping to conclusions and vilifying CC here without any proof.
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What happened to ‘Divorce is not an option.’?
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I’m not trying to vilify CC, personally. I do think she’s probably been sleeping with this guy, but that’s just my opinion. I’d not be arrogant enough to state it as fact.
But I just think regardless… There was no reason for Brian to make a public statement, even well meaning though he may have been. David probably thinks this guy has been sleeping with Courtney (whether he is or not), especially in the emotional state he’s in right now. So it was going to be perceived offensively & painfully, no matter what.
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He knows David personally, they work together (David is one of producers for Cougar Town) it’s absolutely appropriate for him to wish him well.
The whole “affair with CC” saga is absolutely fictional at this point. There were zero proof of it as many have pointed out.
And CC had known David for too long to not foresee him breaking down exactly the way he did. He had substabce abuse problems all his life, he’s been an irresponsible man-child all his life, none of it is a new development for him. So her “plan” would have certainly included it from the beginning if she were as manipulative and cunning as you seem to think.
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I believe that Courtney wanted out of the marriage (for whatever reason) and set David up -she’s clever enough to know that if she gives him enough rope he’ll hang himself. David is a naive, immmature but honest guy who always loved his wife but couldn’t make the marriage work. She must have withdrew emotionally, he probably knew she was having an affair but she never admitted to it, made it into an open marriage and out of despair he fell into the trap. Now he looks like the bad guy since he openly admitted to cheating and she thinks she’s coming out of this smelling like a rose.. Not so fast. And that statement by Brian Whatshisface is simply tacky.
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While I agree with Jayna 100% let’s just say that even if CC didn’t sleep with this guy there have been rumors that the slept together all over the place. And even according to David on Howard Stern their was some sort of emotional affair. Why on earth would he make a statement to People it’s just inappropriate the dignified thing to do would be to keep his mouth shut.
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Disgusting, pure and simple. Maybe Jens good friend CH, can do a nice little rant about Court now.
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I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that I think it’s genuine. A friend of mine worked with him on a film a few years back and said he was really lovely and quite the sweetie-pie.
I really like Courtney, David and Brian, so it’s hard for me to pick sides. But, I hope it all comes out in the wash.
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