Cue the adoption and pregnancy rumors, Jennifer Aniston just announced through a “source,” aka her publicist, that she’s taking a year off work starting this fall. Doesn’t it seem like celebrity actors make this announcement whenever they have some unplanned-for down time, and then reneg once a half decent project comes along? I predict a similar outcome for Aniston.
There are a few of things that I took away from this brief article. 1. Aniston wants us to know how happy she is, as usual. 2. Her people want us to think she’s planned the fact that she isn’t in another romcom right after her Horrible Bosses gig. And 3. it’s clear that US has been running publicist-planted stories from her camp for some time. I mean, we didn’t need even more confirmation of that, but it’s just painfully obvious now. (Revisit some of their past articles trumpeting her new relationship and fabulous lifestyle.)
So Aniston meant to do this with her career, and Huvane is giving us the heads up on it. (Note: Kaiser just reminded me after I wrote all this that this blurb was in last week’s US Weekly print edition and we mentioned it in an earlier post. Everyone was focusing on the potential cheating/homewrecking angle so I’d rather run this article though and not scrap it.)
Jennifer Aniston is turning love into a full-time job!
“Jen’s taking a year off from work to enjoy herself,” an Aniston insider tells the current issue of Us Weekly (out now).
Indeed, a second source familiar with her schedule confirms that after Horrible Bosses and the October release of Wanderlust, the only thing on her plate is developing The Goree Girls, her production company’s years-old project about singers in a women’s prison.
And guess who she’s picked to juice up the script? “She wants to collaborate with [Justin Theroux],” a source says of Aniston’s latest beau, who won screenwriter cred with Tropic Thunder and Iron Man 2.
“She’s impressed by his ability to find humor in dry material,” the source tells Us.
[From US Weekly]
I just want Aniston’s team to stop hitting us over the head. She happy and in love, we get it, and they don’t want the public to forget about her. Maybe they’re also hoping that all this news will help advance her projects within the industry as well. Goree Girls was announced in the summer of 2009 and filming was supposed to take place in January of 2010, but it was supposedly delayed so that Aniston could film Just Go With It. Now she’s done yet another movie and has all this down time where nothing is scheduled. It seems like the project is on hold indefinitely for some reason. IMDB has the release date for Goree Girls listed as 2013.
Photo credit: WENN.com
Remember the blind item about a toned celebrity having fertility treatments? Me thinks she is going to have kid.
She seems to have really wanted to do Goree Girls but since her movies don’t do well without a big name co-star the studios pulled the funding. She was signed up to do something called Buttercup but that too seems to be going nowhere. There were also rumors (which her publicist denied) that she lost a rom-com role to Zooey Deschanel because the studios thought she was too old. And she has never worked with any creative filmmakers it’s always been studio projects so it’s not like Scorsese or Woody Allen is going to call her to do their next film.
Maybe this is the right time for her to have a kid (if she really wants one). Or to keep her fingers crossed that Horrible Bosses or Wanderlust will hit it big. Or take a look at a TV script that would suit her much better than any of her film work ever has.
I still think her new romance is another PR stunt with a new twist. It would have been a lot more believable if she didn’t have a new movie coming out that she’s promoting. She got called out so badly last time that she’s stepping out of her comfort zone and upping her game. Only thing is she’s a creature of habit and of course her latest romance just happens to coincide with her latest release. I’m giving this PR stunt a year or two before it fizzles off quietly. I doubt she’s getting married again or even wants to. Her net worth is too high to go through the hassle of marriage and a potential divorce.
She’s never going back to tv. She wants to be a movie star.
I think one of her primary goals is to surpass Brad+Angie’s baby picture payment and sales.
@ Link234:
My thoughts exactly.
Aniston has purchased all those apartments in NYC.
Which is going to be at least a 2 year project to combine them all into one super size apartment. So she has that to keep her occupied.
What I find odd is the need to announce anything at all.
I suspect there are oodles of known actors who go periods of time not working. On purpose. Do they all release a statement to that fact?
I tend to think there is some grand PR plan in place. So I expect to see more odd statements over the next year.
Preparing for menopause?
Good move Jen.
I mean she has had A LOT of movies in a short period of time, but are any of them memorable??
I bet her and her PR team realised that people are getting tired of her.
Jennifer has tons of money..
she could finance any film she wants. That is what an Alister can do. So I think if she wants to do better films, then she has to put her money up.
It’s not like she’d have to set aside a white hot career at this point to do it.
*YAWWWWWN*.
And the world of “entertainment” will be OH so the more less without this vapid fame whore and her manufactured life.
AKA no blond romcom’s being shoved under her nose. Yet. Kind of pathetic that she had to announce this. Go be happy – and maybe wait until someone *asks* where you are or what you’re doing. Go away and give us time to miss you!
Good for her, she has enough money that she would never have to work again if she didn’t want oo.
Dream on, alfabc. Aniston would never want a child. In fact, I dare say that if she accidently fell pregnant, she wouldn’t go thorugh with the pregnancy, if you know what I mean.
Maybe she’s announcing a break so people don’t think studio people are just not calling if all her movies bomb this year. Making a pre-emptive strike.
As an aside, the outfit she is wearing in the top pic looks a little “young” for her.
Poor little rich girl…what shall she do with her money? Oh…what do to do, what to do…
Well, we will soon find out! Her PR machine will continue to release stale announcements about her life–oops, I meant so say “career.”
I am still in awe about the major career facelift changes she has recently admitted to: NOT wearing mascara to disguise her looks, and the latest, …wearing a
brunette wig! ROTFLMAO! Tee hee hee!
Agree with the poster above…allow us the chance to miss you, you silly rabbit!
I agree that she should opt for a TV role. Lots of actually good actors do television, so it’s not like it’s *beneath* her, and she has a very faithful audience.
Big screen requires versatility and JA has a sort of odd mannerism that I find difficult to put my finger on but it makes her look and sound and even move the same in every role. It’s not a bad thing per se, it’s just you either manage to shed it or you get typecast for the rest of your life, for better or worse.
I’d say, land a good TV role with some solid writing, try a movie once in a while instead of pounding us with the same thing over and over again, and who knows. Hopefully the new guy doesn’t turn out a complete douche. He strikes me as a poseur who will dump her in a year or two for someone 10 years younger but maybe appearances are deceitful.
And if this declaration actually means less *insider* comments and details of her meals in the media, even better.
I finally watched an episode of “Friends.” I guess beginning your career in a sit-com is not the best for making it really big. Especially if it is a vapid as this one.
Maybe she is going to have some surgical work done…she’ll come back looking rested and better than ever!
someone: she has enough money that she would never have to work again if she didn’t want oo.
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Then let us all pray that she never wants to.
How can I miss you when you never go away, all you do is stay and stay and stay? Aniston please go away give us a break, and yeas Angie is still better than you in every way. Oscar winner, and humanitarian and mother of 6, and loving wife to your ex Brad Pitt. As to the baby factor people were curious to see what two beautiful people would produce Brad and Angelina, JA had a big nose and her new man looks like Abe Lincoln, so go figure.
I can’t wait. If Huvane has a brain in their collective heads they will take the Aniston non-stop PR trek off of their to-do list.
We are sick of the sight of her. How many celebrities have news articles circulated about a new tattoo or hair color? Ridiculous.
LOL She’s taking a year off so she’s not away on location for three or four months. She’s got to keep an eye on her new guy and give him all her attention so she can lock this deal down.
“Preparing for menopause?”
@ ruby: ha! i just started early menopause (it runs in my family)and it. sucks. hard. i would love to take a year off and sit on a beach in mexico until mother nature is done fucking with me, LOL.
Why do I have the feeling she’s looking over her shoulder and giving us all stank face,as she grumbles *I’ll be baaack..*
GOOD BYE ALREADY!
I hope she’ll have a kid of her own.
A friend of mine has just announced she was pregnant and she is 43!!!
That is possible, though hard and takes a lot.
Just because things didn’t work out the traditional route, doesn’t mean she can’t find happily ever after- after she turned 40.
I hope that she will. That will inspire so many women to think that that is possible.
Shortest Post I’ll Ever Write:
BYE!
(I’m glad she read my retirement roast speech a few days back and got the message. And now I’m going to watch a few “Friends” reruns and remember her back when I liked her.)
BUH BYE! Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out. Y’all don’t come back now, ya hear?
She is absurd–and absurdly homely–and absurdly not talented.
How many hideously terrible films can this person continue to make?
Who on earth and why on earth do they want this 42 year old woman with virtually no talent, whose total persona is manufactured by a PR team who must be paid big bucks to make her palatable, to make at best another sub mediocre film??
She needs a new stylist to put her in age appropriate clothing that does not bare her wrinkly knees, bunion
feet, knobby hands or saggy elbows???
Feel free to take 10 years off or better yet retire. She will not be missed.
Jennifer has taken 6-12 months off before so I don’t understand why people are making a big deal about this. The reason Goree Girls hasn’t happened is because of no funding. I remember she went on Ellen to promote it. She even sang a couple of lines. The deperation was hilarious. If she really wanted to make this movie, she would fund it herself. It seems like a low budget movie so I don’t understand why she can’t chip in half, about $10-$15 million.
I WAS wondering why there hasn’t been a JA pic out lately…..it’s been a couple of months since her last one and she’ overdue!
@louiset
ITAWY.. she has the money and a production company. She would not be the first actor to get funding for a pet project. I just don’t understand why she won’t get off the money. she has not kids, and doesn’t seem all that close to her family. So what is she going to do with all that money.
Why not invest in yourself. But she really has not produced a lot through her production company at all.
Attention, delusional Jen fans:
Please go on Huffington Post and click on the latest title of Aniston’s new interview. Jeebus! They reference Brad Pitt AGAIN in the title “…Brad Breakup!” This chick is still not able to stand on her own name! Still coat-tailing the Pitts…after 7 years!
Next, watch the video clip of Aniston’s interview. She talks about the movie “The Break Up.” Why? Why not Marley & Me, Just Go With It, or any one of her other beloved movies? Anything else is better than referencing/talking about the time of your split with Brad!
The interviewer seemed to behave more like an encouraging drug addiction mentor from a 12-step program when he stated to her “You’re a big (movie) star…” When he said it, she was just as astonished as he was. She still presents as unsure of herself.
@Kim and Cheyenne: ITA.
We should all be so lucky though right. 🙁
@Josephina Just read the article. WTF Jen!! Brad never talks about you. EVER.
She really needs to take years off and hopefully when she comes beck, there will be no market interest in her and she will just fade away.
Gosh this woman!
I don’t see her doing a year. That is a long time in this industry. I still think she is waiting for the BO results of HB. If they are good she will ride it as her SUCCESS. Especially since she has been the one really promoting it.
If HB does well then she may start getting other scripts. Which she will then come back and say this gem came to her and she just could not say no. Which is why she is “taking the break” after Wanderlust.
Watch. NO way she is laying low for 12 months.
Her age is a factor too. She will be 43 and there are lots of younger actresses getting the parts she use to be offered. She can’t play the quirky girlfriend anymore. She has to play WOMEN roles. That being said, there are better actresses getting those parts. So I’ll just wait and see.
Besides her PR guy makes too much money off her.
she is looking very much with child these days
@katnip. 2true. The one thing consistent in Aniston’s life is her absolute dedication to her FAME. She does a million bad movies, a million bad interviews, photo shoots, magazine covers, sells bottled water, perfume, uses her love life as PR bait, and her PR talks to the tabloids about her regularly. Mostly, it’s all–ME, ME, ME–all the time. My guess is that she can’t give up the fame addiction. Like Warren Beatty said about Madonna, “if you are not on camera, then what else is there? What’s the point?” People who are addicted to fame don’t just quit cold turkey. I think this new screenwriter boyfriend (how convenient) is part of that deal. How much you want to bet he will write a movie for her, and she will be staring in it? Or, she will direct and star in it? Either way, we’ll never be rid of this famewhore. And, much better actors will have to muck it up and step aside for YET another big Aniston PR production–complete with semi-nude photos, her Pr talking to all the tabloids about her, lame interviews where she hints at her relationships, talks about her hair and yoga. Yep–that’s our future, unfortunately. Haha 😉
Jennifer Aniston has been acting childish lately as if she were in a junior high romance. She needs some color in her life. The little black dress is alright once in a while. I think she is going to take some time off for menopause, marriage, and a pregnancy. I think that Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux will probably have a failed marriage if they get married because they are going at their relationship too hot and heavy. I think that Jennifer Aniston should stay away from Chelsea Handler because Chelsea Handler is a low life. Chelsea Handler will be the next woman for Justin Theroux. These Hollywood people lead some of the worst lives.
dont worry about me.be happy