Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux are engaged, he proposed on his b-day

This announcement has made me review and revise my working theories about Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux. Didn’t you hear? JUSTJEN FOREVER!!! Justin Theroux proposed to Jennifer Aniston on Friday (last week) – HIS 41st birthday. The backstory – Jennifer had been in North Carolina filming her latest movie, We’re The Millers, for approximately two to three weeks. Until Justin flew to North Carolina last Thursday, they hadn’t seen each other while Jennifer was working. Justin had been in New York and LA, and last Wednesday, Star Mag devoted their cover story to JustJen’s “breakup” – the gist of Star’s story was that Jennifer had issued an ultimatum to Justin about getting engaged, and he shined her on and they decided to take a break. And then the breakup rumors were denied, Justin flew to North Carolina, and magically, they got engaged!

Jennifer Aniston is getting married to boyfriend Justin Theroux!

“Justin Theroux had an amazing birthday on Friday, receiving an extraordinary gift when his girlfriend, Jennifer Aniston, accepted his proposal of marriage,” his rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.

Aniston, 43, and Theroux, 41, an actor-screenwriter, have been dating for more than a year.

The couple – who both starred in Wanderlust – were first spotted together in May 2011.

“They are great friends,” a source told PEOPLE at the time.

During an interview on Good Morning America the next month, when asked about her personal life, Aniston couldn’t hide her emotions.

“Yes, I’m very happy. I’m extremely lucky, and I’m extremely happy,” she said.

[From People]

Congrats! I mean that too. I’m very happy for Jennifer and Justin, and I hope they last a long, long time. Mostly because I enjoy seeing photos of them together, and I enjoy The Transformation of The Theroux. I’m glad that Jennifer got some version of her fairytale – a dude who accepts her as she is, a dude who loves her lifestyle, a dude who is fine with the fact that she’s always going to be the more famous person in the relationship (that’s the big one – many dudes wouldn’t and can’t deal with that). When’s the wedding?! Oh, God. I just realized that the tabloids are going to go crazy planning Jennifer’s alleged epic beach wedding.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

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  1. Alex says:

    I’m so happy for them both! They are super cute & sexy couple. I’m not going even to read all these nasty and mean comment from pressed and obsessed Brangeloonies. I’m more than sure that there will be a lot of them below.

    • Gossipologist, PhD says:

      +1! So happy for them! I hope they have a great life together!

    • samira25 says:

      Such a hypocritical comment made me lol. It’s amusing that Aniston fans have no problem attacking Angelina and her fans but get upset anytime somebody says they don’t like Jennifer.

  2. diana says:

    Congratulations to the couple.
    Wish them all happiness
    – From a brangelina fan

    • Glimmer Bunny says:

      I’m a major Brangeloonie too and I wish JustJen all the best! Congratulations!

      • Veruca says:

        Me too!

      • CC says:

        Hopefully this will make the irritating triangle stories go down while they speculate on their wedding, and the Brangelina one. Well, thinking of it….Jen should go all-out. Brangelina may not be up to it, but Jen should.

    • folly says:

      same here,i am a big brangelina fan and i still wish justjen happiness

    • Rhea says:

      Yup. As Angie’s fan, I wish them the best for the future too. Congrats!!

      • diana says:

        Rhea, dunno if you’ll see this.
        But how are you? Hope you are having great time with your wonderful family 🙂

      • Rhea says:

        Hi, Diana! Sorry, I was out and about most of the day so I could only check back the site now.

        Wow! So many people posted in this thread, already. 😀

        We’re good here, although the city is getting sticky AGAIN…. -_-
        How ’bout you there? Hope everything is ok there. 🙂

  3. Lilac says:

    Considering Aniston was Justin’s side piece when she seduced and stole him from Heidi Bivens on the set of Wanderlust, Aniston is the piece. Whats more, Justin marrying his piece leaves a job vacancy. By marrying a confirmed cheater, Aniston gets what she deserves. A life of fear, because she knows what Justin is capable of.

    • Katyusha says:

      Well, aren’t you optimistic!
      *eyeroll*

    • Louise says:

      No, you’re just stating YOUR truth

      • Lilac says:

        What I have stated is backed up fact. Sorry you cling to a different fantasy version of reality and can’t handle the TRUTH.

      • Louise says:

        You are really cute and really bitter. Maybe you have been in Ms Bivens place and can’t stand that your ex found hapiness with somebody else ?

        That would explain why your truth seems to be se only one relevant for you

      • Lilac says:

        Justin cheated on Heidi. That is ascertained fact.

        Ah, so Team Aniston were bitter hens who were probably cheated on and bitter that their ex moved on and found happiness elsewhere thus their projecting onto Angelina? Thanks for confirming that. I guess that you are a homewrecker and don’t like it being called out?

        I guess that would explain why truth is such a foreign concept to someone as immoral as you.

      • Kate (newer one) says:

        @ Lilac – you do know these are real, actual people, right? Not cartoon characters? And real people you do not know, at that?

        I also think you need to stop basing your opinions on other people’s value as human beings on their opinions of certain celebrities. Let alone their opinions on YOUR opinions on certain celebrities. Just saying.

    • Dusty says:

      Lilac, you are spot on! Red flags are raised on this engagement!

    • Ogechi says:

      Get well soon dear ‘dumped’. Be happy for them!!! They are very beautiful and sexy couple. I understand your pains though but you will sure get a man of your dreams too.

      • Lilac says:

        Is that what you said to Aniston, when Brad left her? Were you happy for Brad and Angelina? Oh, thats right, you didn’t. I remember you on here, attacking Angelina, calling her all sorts of names. Funny how you change your tune when its Aniston that is the man-stealer. You Jenfans are such hypocrites with your moral gymnastics.

    • Canda says:

      Other than the “seducing” part, I agree with you. I blame them both equally, him for cheating and her for carrying on with a “married” (close enough) man.

      Doesn’t anyone find it strange that he was with Heidi for 14 years and never married, yet he hops on team Aniston for a year and a half and wants to make it official? I smell a rat, and I don’t like it.

      Also, what is up with Jen’s face lately? Fillers in the cheeks? She looks puffy and swollen.

      • FLORETTA50 says:

        Of course Justin is going to marry Jennifer Aniston,that’s his meal ticket,it’s his happy birthday present to me! When she said Yes!! All he has to do now is remind her every day she is a prettier and better woman than Jolie. Wherever or whatever and with whomever did he have such a good life, you blame him he has found his sugar mama and now has exposure in Hollywood. What was JA worried about Justin was going to marry her come hell or high water.

      • Liza Jane says:

        A bsolutely he dumped his poor 14 yr girlfriend when the chance to date Jen came along… Meal ticket is definetly the right word for it!! She is desperate to be seen to be loved, she has redesigned him and he trots after her like a lap-dog. It is very sad to see and it doesn’t look genuine at all! Her PR machine has been masterful over the years in portraying her as a victim! You think she would be ashamed to take that role but she seems to relish it! It seems so strange that when all thought it had run it’s course, it suddenly produces this announcement! Very suspect! Good timing though! I am not an unbridled Brangelina follower but I am sure they just shake their heads and carry on raising their kids and making their films and doing their charity work without losing sleep over Jen and her very public amours!!

    • Monday Blues says:

      Agree, Lilac. She smells of desperation. Fact is that he was involved w/ someone else for over a decade when Ms.Aniston caught him in her sights. He cheated, she disregarded his status, and they deserve each other. Kharma is a bitch.

    • Bobby sue says:

      Uh-oh. The first instigator. Get off this thread and go do some work or something.

    • samantha says:

      I agree Lilac, let’s not forget how this all started (Heidi Bivens)

    • gravatar says:

      Lilac, if you’re such a big fan of cheating homewreckers Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie it should follow that you are now a gigantic fan of Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux. According to you, they also cheated – so if this is the mark of truly wonderful people (as demonstrated by your blind worship of Brad and Angelina) then I expect you will be Team Justjen from this day forth. Otherwise you’re a pathetic hypocrite.

    • gravatar says:

      Also @ Lilac – Try rereading your first comment and substitute the name Jolie for Aniston, Pitt for Justin and Jennifer for Heidi. That should clarify things for you.

  4. mln76 says:

    I’m really really happy for them!!! Now everyone can go to their corners and play nice OK?

    • Laura says:

      Hahaha, I’m happy for them too!

    • Turtle Dove says:

      Congrats to the couple. I’m glad that Jen found someone; they seem well matched.

      +1 mln76. The triangle is now dead. Who will the rags now focus on???

      • keats says:

        It’s not dead, its just a complicated love rhombus now.

      • Sandy Pandy says:

        Sadly, the triangle isn’t dead. As Lamey said, it’s now a square. Notice they released the engagement info on the weekend the Brange was predicted to marry? Players. They disgust me.

    • diana says:

      mln- I seriously want your opinion on something.
      First of all, I m happy for them as much as for any couple in the world who I do not know.
      But why do you think when Brange get engaged people are shouting PR ploy, but if this were Brange who announced their engagement same way, they would be considered insensitive and stoned? I mean, not at CB but elsewhere. Why is everything they do considered a pr ploy even by some of their fans?
      I seriously do nt understand.

      • Rhea says:

        Hey, life is not always fair…

      • Ally says:

        Hope you don’t mind me butting in. Personally I didn’t see anyone on here say it was a PR ploy when the Brange got engaged. But maybe some people thought it was too soon after the leg…who knows. On a side note I’ve seen loads of posts elsewhere saying JustJen is PR too. That darn triangle, it’s never going to die!

      • diana says:

        Hi Ally,
        Well the last brangelina thread about the wedding rumour, there was major bashing saying the engagement was all pr and why can’t they get married already and all that. I was referring to that.
        Brange fans vs. Aniston fans shows on a micro level, how wars start in the world. Someone should do this as their thesis 🙂

    • mln76 says:

      @Turtle Dove K-stew and Sparkles will be making tab covers for the next half dozen years
      @diana in a word hypocrisy but lets all play nice today and grin slyly at the verbal gymnastics 😉

    • Sabrine says:

      Justin spent 14 years with Heidi, no ring, nothing, sounds more like a room mate arrangement to share rent and expenses. There’s no children involved either. There’s no “homewrecking” going on here but some people will try to find the negative in everything. Jen and Justin couldn’t look any happier.

      • Lilac says:

        I feel very sorry for you that in order to excuse Aniston, you need to undermine a 14 year relationship. Wake up this is not the 1940s, just because they didn’t have a piece of paper, does NOT mean their relationship wasn’t any less real. Marirage is irrelevant in todays society. I guess to you, Depp and Paradis were simply ‘room mates’? SO too, are Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell? Not everyone feels they need a piece of paper to validate their relationship. 14 years of living together, sharing a life and home together is just as much a real marriage and relationship, some times more so, and no one has the right to demean that just because they want to excuse Aniston’s actions. There was a home, hence the term “home”wrecking, and you have no right to demean Heidi’s feelings or a large chunk of life together, 14 years, to justify Aniston’s actions. Aniston is a man-stealer and homewrecker. Face it, and deal with it.

      • Marie Antoinette Jr. says:

        Lilac, living together is NOT the same as being married. If it were, the LGTB community wouldn’t be trying to legalize same sex marriage.

      • Lilac says:

        Same-Sex Marriage is primarily about property rights and Power of Attorney rights that the marriage act, which states it is between a man and a woman, thus confers which single straight people living together can get, but homosexuals can’t. Its a completely different issue. Hetrosexuals living together still have rights in many states and even those states that don’t recognize De Facto relationship, they still are able to attain Power of Attorney if a form is signed.
        A homosexual couple cannot. Don’t try to muddy the issue.

        Per this and your reply in Post #12, I am afraid to tell you that you are very misinformed. In many states De Facto relationships are recognized and property/taxation/custody rights conferred. Even in states that don’t formally recognize De Facto partnerships, certain marital rights are conferred. This is true in many western countries as well. A couple who has lived together for decades and share children and/or homes and assets together are no less committed to each other and no less a couple simply because they haven’t donned a gown and signed on the dotted line on a piece of paper. And its insulting to suggest that a large chunk of life spent together is less special or meaningful because there isn’t a registration number on a piece of paper. And to suggest that cheating whether going steady, whether living together, whether just engaged, or whether married, is less cheating. Cheating is cheating is cheating.

      • Anna says:

        I agree with you Sabrina. So much hostility from this “Lilac”.

        We don’t know what went on between Justin and this Heidi. Maybe they were just roomates, maybe they did not love each other. Maybe he did not want to marry her. We see that Justin is the marrying type.

        There is no such thing as a homewrecker. No other woman can wreck a home. A front door is opened for her.

      • Lilac says:

        Um, we do know what went on between Justin and Heidi, “Anna”, because Heidi HERSELF told us, as did her mother, as did Justin when he tried to deny the affair when he said that him and Heidi were still a ‘committed couple’. Perhaps you missed that? They all said Heidi and Justin were still together, and they had been at that point, for fourteen years! Trying to write a fourteen year relationship off as a ‘room mate’ is disgusting and pitiful. It says a lot that you would even attempt to do so, when Heidi herself told us what was going on. Truly sad you need to be so hostile to a woman who was blindsided and said so after being with her BOYFRIEND, lover and partner for fourteen years, *just* so your precious Aniston can be excused. And YES, you CAN help wreck a home. If you offer the temptation and a partner is weak, you can be that link that creates the opportunity.

      • Kath says:

        Wow, didn’t take long for the crazies to come out of the woodwork. Get a life.

      • gravatar says:

        And one more time for Lilac. Clearly cheating is something you find morally reprehensible so why are you a fan of Pitt and Jolie again?

  5. Bite me aka aniston says:

    Yay! So happy for Justjen let the tabloid wedding wars begin… And am so happy that’s it’s Justin rep who confirmed the glorious news and not dame Huvane … Justjen 4 ever!

    Oh yeah poor Heidi , chin up hon he just didn’t want to be married to u

    • Amelia says:

      That just reminded me of 500 days of summer :s bit of a kick in the teeth for Heidi.

    • T.C. says:

      I think the PR guy was part of it. Remember Brangelina were supposed to get married this weekend so why not try and steal their thunder.

  6. Monie says:

    The moment I heard this on the radio this morning I thought “I can’t wait to see what Kaiser wrote about this!”. This is too funny. I guess they got fooled by the Brad/Angie wedding too. Trying to steal thunder…now you’re stuck Justin. HA!

    • T.C. says:

      Monie,
      We are twins. That’s what I was thinking. Trying to one up the Brangelina on rumors that their wedding was this weekend. So much trying to win attention.

      • Polkasox says:

        Maybe he just had planned the engagement for a date he was going to visit? Most people plan it ahead of time, they don’t just wing it. Were there rumors about the wedding more than a few days before the weekend? All these conspiracy theories make BOTH sides look crazy.

      • claire says:

        How awkward would that have been?? If B/A really were getting married this past weekend?

    • Liza Jane says:

      I was gobsmacked too when I heard the news! My first thought was “how much is he being paid” to counteract ‘Star’s’ breakup rumors!!! He must want fame really badly! To those attacking ‘lilac'( who by the way is wonderfully literate with her facts lined up) she is quite correct as to Heidi, who by all accounts was totally blindsided when he dumped her and who’s 14 year relationship is akin to a common law Marriage! This must be bitter for her! To try to deify Aniston is ridiculous, we do not know her anymore than we know Angie, but we do know she is all about image and perception. It would be nice to think she will be happy now but there must be drama to keep her in the public eye!

  7. JulieM says:

    I’m happy for her. Good for them. The Jen haters are going to go nuts. What about Heidi? Wasn’t Justin supposed to be going back to her?

    • Lilac says:

      Just as the JP haters went nuts when their engagement was announced, and just as the Jenloons were adamant that Brad was going to go back to her? Oh the hypocrisy.

      • JulieM says:

        Lilac- you have me wrong. I really don’t care either way for Jen Aniston. Don’t hate her, don’t love her. Don’t hate the Brange either. I hope they are all happy and in better places than they were before they had their current mates. That said, the hypocrisy is ripe on both sides and I find it terribly amusing. You’re awfully invested in all this.

    • rocky says:

      as a #1 fan of anjie and brad…..happy dance for justiniston!!!! woot,woot.

  8. marie says:

    good for them, glad to read it.. but seriously, his extraordinary gift was her excepting? guess she didn’t have time to go buy him a new pair of skinny jeans..

    • suz says:

      I know…the announcement is bit strange to say the least.

      I am going to put cynicism aside and just say congratulations to those two crazy kids!

  9. Shoes says:

    Congrats, indeed! I’ve always thought it’s really sweet when a guy proposes on HIS birthday.

    • Turtle Dove says:

      Imagine her surprise. She probably had something special planned and he pops the question. I think that’s awesome; it must have been a special moment.

      • Aussie girl says:

        I know. It was really sweet. Good on them. I’m all for love & happiness, so I wish them lots if love, love, love. I also liked that the paps didn’t see this coming because they were so focused on brad & ange’s so called wedding this w-end. Come to think of it,is it a little suss?? Ooh I’m going with no & that regardless this was a planned thing.

      • spinner says:

        @ Turtle Dove…I wonder if Justin said…you know what I want for my Birthday? I want you to marry me. She said yes & there was much rejoicing.

    • tracking says:

      I do too. Great way to really surprise her!

      • Isa says:

        I honestly thought not sounded really lame to propose on his birthday but after you put it that way it does sound sweet.

  10. MeMyself says:

    Aw…good for them. Wonder how much snark this story will bring?

  11. hoya_chick says:

    I don’t really care about them getting engaged but how gross is that statement? Lol like it was a gift to him to propose on his birthday? Is that a thing? Anywho, it’s time for the rush to the alter tabloid stories between them and the other couple who shall not be named, Sigh. Oh and if they got engaged on Friday how does People magazine already know!? It was up on their website as of Sunday evening. Damn, pr people don’t even have weekends off? JustJen 4eva or for the next 3-5 years tops. So weird how one can go 14 years without marriage and then 18 months after breaking up you are engaged……

    • Lilac says:

      Agree with everything you said!

    • Joanna says:

      it happens a lot. sometimes you will be with someone for a long time b/c nothing is really wrong, but yet you can’t quite go all the way with them, i.e., marriage. then you meet someone else and realize they;re the one. if you’re with someone for 14 years and they haven’t popped the question to you, theres a reason why. that’s why if marriage is important to you, you shouldn’t stick around for years and years with no proposal.

      • Lilac says:

        Are you from the 1940s? So because a man doesn’t propose, that means you’re ‘not good enough’? That attitude is disgusting. Some people don’t believe in marriage. Just because your man doesn’t ask him to become his property in law, doesn’t mean there was something wrong with the woman. Or that the antiquated institution of marriage was important to her, or to him. Marriage is irrelevant. And it certainly doesn’t excuse cheating. Justin is a slimeball, and Aniston deserves him.

      • Molly says:

        I don’t know why women keep twisting the knife in about this pt. The whole “You should know better” is rude and condescending. I’m in Heidi’s position myself and it hurts like hell. I got strung along and maybe I should have known but I fell so hard and hoped my feelings would disappear. And they didn’t after 10 years. Now I have to deal with pain and the “I told you so” bitchery. Can’t I just feel sad without being forced to be embarrassed too?

      • Ducky La Rue says:

        @Molly – ~hugs~ to you. That sucks, and I’m sorry. 🙁 Don’t feel embarrassed; love makes fools of almost all of us at one time or another.

      • Marie Antoinette Jr. says:

        Joanna you are exactly right. It does happen A LOT. And I do think (even though I’m NOT from the 40s, LOL) that if marriage is the goal, you shouldn’t hang around or live with a guy for more than 2 years.
        If he wants to be with you forever, he will want to marry you NOW. That’s just how the male mind works. If not, you may be just a place filler until Ms. Right comes along.

      • GreenTurtle says:

        Totally agree, Johanna. That does happen a lot. And it’s no disrespect to the person in Heidi’s situation or Jen’s situation with Brad. It doesn’t mean they weren’t good enough. It’s not a competition. Sometimes things just end and sometimes the person who “cheats” (Brad/Justin) is looking to get out and either doesn’t realize it or can’t bring themselves to cut the cord, yet start an emotional affair. It’s unfortunate, but it does happen. And sometimes they marry the other person. But if you aren’t content with someone, you certainly don’t owe it to them to stay with them just because you’ve put in 14 years or 7 or whatever. But yes, please do have the maturity to end things before you get involved with someone else.

      • jaye says:

        @Lilac, I don’t think Joanna was saying that there was something “wrong” with Heidi. She was just saying that it works out that way sometimes. You’re with someone for years and maybe it’s not white hot passion, but it’s comfortable and secure, but then you meet someone who DOES ignite that passion and suddenly they’re “THE ONE” because it’s been so long since you’ve felt that way. Not saying it’s right, but it does happen in a lot of long term relationships.

  12. Lee says:

    Congrats to them both! They do make a good couple. I hope this lasts forever, and somehow, I think it will. They’re old enough to know what they want, and probably mature enough to be grateful that they’ve found it.

    • Lotta says:

      Disagree! Me and my hubby were together for ten years before getting married. We were so busy working, getting our house built, having our first child, that we just never got around to it. I think we made the commitment moving in together and starting a family, the wedding was just a celebration of our love.

      • HungryHippo says:

        Do you realise that, according to Aniston apologists on here, your relationship was not VALID or REAL, until you signed a piece of paper. Building your house together didn’t make your relationship real. Having a child didn’t make your relationship real. Until you signed that piece of paper in front of an old Priest in a building, you were just ‘roommates’. Smdh. That is how some Aniston fans see it. If you haven’t signed on the dotted line, you are just room mates up until that point. Amazing the level of ignorance and delusion, isn’t it?

      • Marie Antoinette Jr. says:

        Actually HungryHippo, that’s how the government sees it too.
        Say they built a house together but her name wasn’t on the title. If he decided to kick her out, she would have no recourse because they were just roommates. But if they were married before they built the house, half the house is hers whether her name is on the title or not.
        See how that works? Marriage is a major legal and financial commitment. “Living together” isn’t.

      • Lotta says:

        Well actually, in the country where I live the laws for a couple living together are very similar to the laws for married couples, unless you sign a paper similar to a prenup. I would have gotten half of everything my partner aquired during the time we lived together.

  13. Krissy says:

    Justjen and Jolie-pitt double wedding!!!

  14. QQ says:

    Im glad she’s found spmeone who’ll obviously play this game with her, i think he likes attention the same way she does, this could be a good match

  15. cupidityrox! says:

    Thank God!
    I couldn’t take another Jennifer breakup story

  16. Dany says:

    So… congrats and a happy life, guys!
    Yes, seriously!
    I’m always seeing him as the boy who carries his helium filled colorful Jennifer balloon. Tamtidamtidam. 🙂

  17. rogue says:

    Congrats !!Thanks heavens she is getting married so we are finally done with the triangle stories.I can’t stand her but she has good style

  18. beyonce's bump says:

    Are people really that happy for her to wed? lol

  19. Ming says:

    France isn’t big enough for both of us…

    /guns

  20. mojo says:

    so predictable was that supposed to knock brad & angelina so called wedding this weekend faux news ha ha what will jens pr team do know

    • birdy says:

      It does look that way, doesn’t it? That it was strategically planned for maximum interference. This week in the mags and on the blogs, would have been engagement news v wedding. Next week would be the ring v wedding dress/ceremony. It does seem like team Aniston is still bothered by the ex getting any “happy family” press or showing how much he has moved on that they have to counteract it with some news of their own.

      Or then maybe the boyfriend enjoys encouraging the triangle drama so proposing now when the ex was suppose to wed entrenches it again with the press and her publicist and he gets more press than if the had just proposed any other time. Maybe he likes the triangle as it makes her insecure and he can get his way whenever he whats.

      I think there has to be something behind the propsal – 14 years with one woman then 2 years (yeah I think they got together whilst he was since with the ex) with her and now he wants to wed. Really? Just like that? And to propose on his birthday so that the date will always be about HER accepting and not about him? Suss.

      • Trashaddict says:

        I propose a double wedding, followed by mud wrestling in various combinations of the two happy couples. Perhaps a pie fight thrown in for good measure.

      • Lita says:

        @trashaddict

        I demand tug-of-war be included, oh imagine the hysterics. They can have a bout of marrieds Vs marrieds, cheaters Vs cheaters, ladies Vs gents, rank each other by number of psychotic fans and divide that way (poor Justin 🙁 but .. who will win? Who will be pulled down face first in the mud?? Star Magazine will have the final medal talley!

  21. Agnes says:

    Good for them?

  22. Amelia says:

    And somewhere in the world Angelina collapsed on the floor when she was told personally by phone :p
    Congrats to them, hoping the rags don’t spin it so it’ll be a wedding showdown etc.
    Bouquets at dawn, ladies …

    • Aussie girl says:

      Ha! You made me laugh with that image!

    • GreenTurtle says:

      HAHAHA!!! Fantastic callback. You KNOW the tabs will spin it into wedding showdown! I swear, most of us could write these stories, and probably way better.

  23. judyjudy says:

    They seem well suited for one another.

  24. lucy2 says:

    Congrats to them!

  25. anon says:

    Finally she gets to be happy I am so happy for her

  26. Jovia says:

    I’m a-happy for them, too. I like the idea of them together. They seem very compatible and as pap photos/gossip items go, they kind of fascinate me, to be honest. I think they are For Real.

  27. Julie says:

    this is good for the lower rank gossip magazines. A BRIDE WAR. who will be first? who will have the better dress? which husband will look more bored during the ceremony?
    after this: Who will have the first twins? (single babies dont count)

    • L says:

      THIS!

      I knew once Angelina and Brad officially got engaged, Jen would get engaged within a year (ala Jessica Simpson). I think the tabloid drama is only beginning.

    • Catty says:

      Let me get this straight – Brad & Angie have had 7 years to get engaged but Jen & Justin should wait until B&A decide to get married?? Please – the way Brad keeps making excuses it will never happen. And excuse me if I’m wrong but didn’t Justin propose on his birthday – guess he should have rescheduled due to the faux wedding plans of Brad & Angie?? He would have been waiting forever!!

  28. audreys says:

    I still don’t see any chemistry between them and he seems smarmy. But, it’s their life , so good for them.

    • Ming says:

      He has starred in two David Lynch movies, which makes him okay in my book. But yes, he looks smarmy extraordinary.

    • Liza Jane says:

      I don’t see an iota of chemistry either.John Mayer was the one guy she looked crazy about,always touching him and not caring who saw..this romance seems very scripted to me!!! They look fashionably good together but as to ‘love’? Not seeing it!

  29. Tillie says:

    Happy for them! She will make a lovely bride. Happy to see her (and him) happy and in love. I hope this brings all the Angelina Bullshit to rest!

  30. I.want.shoes says:

    Fingers crossed that she makes him over for the wedding and that the itty bitty bangs and orange tan are back!

  31. ana says:

    Congrats to the couple and please, please let everyone bury the stupid triangle already!!!

  32. Jacq says:

    So for his birthday, she bought him a ring for herself? Are we pretending that isn’t how it went down? And like it wasn’t a move by her PR people to draw attention back to her on the weekend Brad & Angie were “supposed” to get married? At least she can’t play the jilted lover card anymore. I wish her the best, but puh-leeze.

    • Bad Irene says:

      Stop ruining the fairytale magic, Justjen are unbroken! Runs off sobbing to comfort Jen’s abandoned beanie babies

      • TheOriginalTiffany says:

        I wonder if the lighting at the ceremony will be ‘delicate’?
        I can’t wait for the descriptions of his wedding outfit.

      • MorticiansDoItDeader says:

        Hipster Justin would wear black skinny jeans, black chuck Taylor sneaks and a tux jacket with one of those bow tie shirts underneath (but Jen’s stylist won’t let him). So he’ll probably go boring with a fitted black suit and a skinny tie : /

      • TheOriginalKitten says:

        Tiff-I sent you a request on FB. My initials are MW. Hope that’s cool! Sorry for snark-interrupting.
        Please continue.
        😀

      • TheOriginalTiffany says:

        Kitten, you have a Scottish fold! OMG, I’m having a pet want crisis. I’m so getting one when we settle back down.

        Btw, every CB chicks I have gotten to know offsite is gorgeous in addition to be smart and snarky! Just as I suspected, we ARE awesome:)

    • Catty says:

      Stop being so bitter because Brad didn’t marry Angie AGAIN!! Jen & Justin should plan their life around Brad & Angie’s never-ending faux wedding plans?? They would wait forever – Brad & Angie should just get married already and quit the PR shenanigans. 7 years and 6 kids and they get engaged?? Oh, wait they get a promise for the future per Brad?? Ridiculous – they should have just married quietly with their family and told everyone after – that would have been the classy move. Not having your jeweler announce for you with no words of love or marriage – how tacky!!

    • teddy says:

      My thoughts exactly. Something just not “right about this timing. – they certainly deserve each other. They appear to have the same goals.

  33. Franny says:

    I’m excited for them…but it does make me feel bad for heidi. 14 years, no ring…and within a year he’s engaged to someone else.

    • Dirtnap says:

      +1

    • Joyce says:

      Heidi is not a sugar mama & not as recognize as this woman. He has been in this business for over 10 years. Most people haven’t even heard of him. Now, he is pretty much everywhere. I guess he doesn’t want to be unrecognized anymore. She better has prenup

      Also, why propose on his birthday? Why not on her birthday? Why not propose around x-mas. A special present for her. I guess he wants to beat Brad to the alter.

      Regardless, congrats to her.

    • lem says:

      I’m going to throw this out there that maybe it was Heidi that didn’t want to get married and maybe Justin did and that’s part of the reason their relationship eventually ended? It’s just a thought.

      • Lilac says:

        Marriage has nothing to do with anything. Heidi and Justin’s relationship broke up because Justin and Jennifer were having an affair. He cheated on Heidi. That is the reason they broke up. Marriage or no marriage, cheating is cheating.

      • lem says:

        I wasn’t saying that cheating had nothing to do with it. From the previous comment, they were implying that Heidi never got the ring she always wanted, and my only point was that maybe she never wanted the ring and that maybe he did want to get married and that contributed (wasn’t the sole reason) to the demise of their relationship. I fully believe that there was overlap between these two relationships and I never said that cheating only occurs when you’re married.

      • claire says:

        Yeah, Jennifer fans kinda switch their morality radar on and off when it comes to her, don’t they?

        I couldn’t care less about Jennifer Aniston. She is a bad actress and boring as hell, and he seems like a total immature cheating tool.

        Unfortunately, we’ll get even more inundated with stories about her now. UGH.

  34. Fron Paris says:

    Passing Through and Cliniqua took two seconds to go to JJ, it was so funny
    For brangelunatics everything is a conspiracy of evil Huvane
    I always thought the Jolie liked the triangle, will be sad?

    • Lilac says:

      How many seconds did you and the dlisters take? Considering Aniston is the one one that has milked this triangle and the only one who has gained from it, she is the only one who likes it.

    • Janet says:

      Who are Passing Through and Cliniqua and why would you care what they say about anything?

      • GHJackie says:

        Cliniqua is a raving nutjob.

      • Ciara says:

        And Jen’s fans on DListed (who admit they multi-nick and use proxies to flood JJ, here and other places with anti-Jolie posts), IUC, Female First, USWeekly, Gossip Cop etc etc are sane and rational? Ever thought that Angelina fans are a REACTION to seven years of Jen fans causing trouble? Oh no, thats just to rational a conclusion.smh

    • Rhea says:

      “I always thought the Jolie liked the triangle, will be sad?”
      —–> That doesn’t make any sense for me. Most of the people brand Jolie as the Ultimate Evil a.k.a Man-Eater a.k.a Husband-Stealer in the triangle story.

      Why would she like it if this triangle war keep on continuing? She obviously doesn’t get many benefit from it. After 7 years enduring “the homewrecker role”, I think she would be the one that happy the most with Jen’s engagement story.

  35. Roma says:

    For the love of god. He proposed on his birthday, which is actually very sweet and I’m sure unexpected. But of course people have to tie it in to Brangelina.

    I have never once heard people say they thought Brad was going back to Jen. Can we all just let them move on?

    • Lilac says:

      “But of course people have to tie it in to Brangelina.”
      The very first poster (a pro-Jen poster) did that, funny how you conveniently over-looked that…

      “I have never once heard people say they thought Brad was going back to Jen.”
      Then you’ve been living under a rock on another planet because *almost all* her fans have said Brad will go back to Jen and they can’t wait until he does, and some want him to take his “bio” children with him. Its strange how you don’t seem to ‘noticeanything Jen fans do. But take stock of EVERY thing JP fans do. Very *very* strange. YEAH, RIGHT!! VERY strange indeed. Especially when its right in your face. Jen fans swarming all over the net saying how they want Brad and Jen back, fanship YT clips of Brad and Jen etc. They LIVE for the day Brad and Jen re-unite. Can’t swing a dead animal on the net without coming across one, and we all know this. Selective eyesight? Very peculiar…. If ever there is a reason to hate Aniston, the deceitful and hypocritical Aniston apologists on here and elsewhere truly have made me hate her and root for Angelina by default. The hypocrisy, denial, lies and convenient over-looking whats right in front of you, even at the top on this page on the board, is enough amunition and reason. Aniston apologists don’t realize what their deceitful and duplicious behavior does and the affect it has on readers.

      • samanthaik says:

        hmmm. you’re really passionate in your dislike for Jennifer. Strange :s

      • Lilac says:

        In response to the passionate dislike of Angelina by the Aniston fans, who started this all in the first place. Whats good for the goose…

      • Roma says:

        Responses like yours highlight how irrational your hatred for this woman is. I am not an actual Jen fan, but years of reading CB has made me somewhat defensive of her.

      • Jaded says:

        @ Lilac, the word is actually “duplicitous”.

        None of us, even you unless you’re Heidi Bivens, knows exactly what went down with their break-up, what the dynamic was in their relationship. Maybe they were coasting, they’d hit a wall of ennui or something. Nobody walks away from a great, loving relationship – clearly there were cracks in his relationship with Heidi before he met Jennifer and the wheels were set in motion when they fell for each other.

        Sure it’s awful for Heidi, the same thing happened to me years ago and I got my heart broken. But he and the woman he left me for are still happily married after 30 years so it’s clear I wasn’t the one who made his heart strings sing, but he found the woman who did.

      • Lilac says:

        Roma, its hypocrisy from pretend ‘fence-sitters’ like YOU PARTICULARLY, that make me defensive of Angelina. If you called out BOTH sides it would be different. But the fact that you ONLY point out ONE side shows what a hypocrite you are, and your true motive. I remember you, and you are one of those prime posters who disgusted me with your cowardly hypocrisy, and is why I hate Aniston so much. The sad thing is, you don’t even realize your part.

        Jaded, its already been confirmed by Heidi herself that he cheated, even if the cosey photos of Jennifer and Justin 2 months prior to the weekend Heidi left the house, didn’t. And nothing excuses cheating. If your relationship isn’t working, you exit it, before starting another. Its a very simple concept.

      • TheOriginalKitten says:

        @ Lilac-“fence-sitters”?
        WOW.
        If only people like you put this passion for strangers to good use. Why don’t you put this energy towards politics or something that really matters? You’re just way too invested and it strikes a lot of us as peculiar. I might be a “fence sitter” like Roma but then again, the 3 corners of The Triangle really isn’t a priority for me. Rooting for Brangelina, rooting for JustJen-how does any of this impact my life or yours for that matter?

      • Roma says:

        @Lilac: Thanks for remembering me! Made my day.

      • lucy2 says:

        “pro-Jen posters” are people too. Don’t see how Alex overlooked anything.

        I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a fan of Jen’s want her back with Brad.

      • MorticiansDoItDeader says:

        Reading this reminds me of why I usually avoid posts about the unholy triangle. Someone hold me, I’m starting to get scared.

      • TheOriginalKitten says:

        I know, Mort. These posts make me worry for the future of this world.

      • stinky says:

        there is such a thing as a “paid-troll”, y’all. remember that.

      • TheOriginalTiffany says:

        I try to stay away from the unholy triangle and the black hole of twihard.

        Some people are way too invested.

      • Roma says:

        @stinky: If they paid for that level of delusion, they should get their money back.

      • TheOriginalTiffany says:

        Right? I come here to make fun of everyone, not to play pretend best friends with them in my cyber delusion.

        So frightening. The Mayan apocalypse is coming!

      • MorticiansDoItDeader says:

        @tiff, LOL at “the black hole of twihard,” aka KStew’s vagina : O

      • JRenee says:

        Got it now…Heidi is that you? If Jen and Justin were cheating, shame on Jen/Justin ok? Justin was in a relationship and should carry just as much weight if not more for ANY cheating. Sheese so much emotion for people not known personally…unless it’s Heidi. Oh and if it is you or a rep, you dodged a bullet.You seem like a lovely lady and he just was not the man for you.

      • jaye says:

        I have to admit that I come to the Brangelina/Jen/JustJen posts because of the crazy it attracts in the comments section. It’s amusing and a little bit scary the amount that some of you (Lilac) are invested in a situation that a)has nothing remotely to do with you b)won’t improve your life in any way, shape or form and c)involves people you don’t know in the slightest.

        Gossip is supposed to be fun. Lilac, you don’t seem like you’re having any fun.

  36. dahlianoir says:

    Where’s the ring ? Let us see her bling !

  37. Talie says:

    I agree, I think it’s nice that she found someone happy to play #2, but he is about to direct a movie with some big stars, so…he seems to be doing okay for himself.

    • Molly says:

      I think he was sick of being a working actor/writer no one really knew and wanted to trade up professionally. Jen is the vehicle for that. He wasn’t getting anywhere linked to a stylist.

    • Kim says:

      Every day I read her fans talking about Jen being the only woman Brad loved.He is only with Jolie because of the kids.Funny they rarely mention Justin.Well Congrats Curious why they went public so fast Sunday night?

      • Janet says:

        ROFL you keep on telling yourself he is only with Jolie because of the kids. Men don’t stay with women only because of the kids. A bajillion divorced mothers can attest to that.

  38. DanaG says:

    Let’s see how long it takes them to get down the aisle. Jennifer was engaged for a couple of years to Tate Donovan getting engaged doesn’t always mean a wedding with Jennifer. I’m on the wait and see side so far they have been together a year and she has changed him so much. Let’s see how it goes when he starts getting lot’s of attention for his work etc or no attention for his work and it’s all about Jennifer and her hair. I wonder if she will have that baby she has often talked about wanting?

  39. Shannon1972 says:

    Hallelujah!!! Now she can stop being portrayed as “poor Jen” in the press, and maybe everyone can finally give the Brad Pitt thing a rest. She’s a strong, successful, independent woman, and I never bought that poor Jen story. You don’t get to her level of fame (and live in the fishbowl) by being a wallflower. Congrats to her!

    That said…let the baby bump watching begin…

  40. spinner says:

    Oh wow…was not expecting this. I am very happy for them & wish them the best. This is a great match. YAY!!!

    • Guest says:

      interesting no comment on a “pr ploy” spinner is one of the main ones that snarks on Brad and Angelina about using pr yet Justin and Jen announce their engagement on the weekend of a rumored Brad and Angie wedding and tell the media before they tell Jens dad(celebuzz has a interview with Jon saying he just found out through the media)..gotta love the hypocrisy of jens fans

      • Toot says:

        All excellent points. ((clap))

      • Lilac says:

        John Aniston had to find out about HIS OWN DAUGHTER’S ENGAGEMENT, via the MEDIA? :O 🙁 Why am I so not surprised. Disgusted, but not surprised. She spent Thanksgiving a couple of years ago with Chelsea Handler, instead of with her father, or half-brother or extended family. She certainly is not a family person. Even so, she and Justin could have at least told her father first, before giving Justin’s Rep the go-ahead to announce it. Such a low blow imo. But what I’ve come to expect from her. What would spinner et al have said if Brad’s publicist released this and Angelina’s father or Brad’s mother and father said they found out from the media? Such hypocrisy. Just confirms my belief of the lack of morals and rightness of argument on that side. I mean, you don’t have your father, that you are supposed to have a good relationship with, find out from the tabloids. How can her fans and apologists ‘spin’ and defend that?

      • JulieM says:

        Right, and Justin specifically engineered his birthday so it would coincide with the Brange’s rumored wedding.

      • jaye says:

        No…there are some up thread.

    • Lilac says:

      It definitely is a great match, for reasons you don’t think.

      • Laila says:

        Do you know Heidi or something? You seem personally invested in this whole thing. Really creepy if you are not…

  41. Maritza says:

    I’ll believe it when I see them getting married.

  42. Paloma says:

    This is a pleasant surprise. I hope she is truly happy. Now for the wedding; low key or a Hollywood presentation. When and where? This will be fun to ponder.

  43. G says:

    Brangie fan here.

    Congrats to the two of them. Being engaged is a wonderful time. I hope they enjoy!

  44. Isa says:

    No shit, I had a dream last night and they were in it. Which is weird because I’ve been staying away from most of their stories because theyre boring or obviously made up.
    Anyway in my dream I was making fun of them to her because he proposed in front of a whole crowd of people. I said it was cheesy she said it was romantic. I made her feel bad and I appologized. Really weird.
    Anyway I can’t wait for all the epic tabloid headlines :WEDDING SHOWDOWN! JustJen and Brangelina compete for the wedding of the decade!!!

  45. Mac says:

    This all seems so contrived and when you look at the big picture the puzzle pieces fit together a little too neatly.

    Justin Theroux is a straight Casper Smart with some street cred, and everyone was led to believe that he was indecisive about marrying Jennifer?

    This romance has become about as predictable as a season of Friends.

    Justin will eventually do something hurtful to Jenn, they’ll break-up, she’ll be devastated but ultimately pick up the pieces and persevere.

    • Paloma says:

      It is fun to speculate :-). I started thinking about her beaus before Justin. I think the only one she really cared for was John Mayer.

  46. Jennifer12 says:

    I wonder how Heidi Bivens feels. Cheated on, dumped, and then seeing engagement news when she’d been with this guy for 14-15 years. And I don’t care about this love triangle and never did. I just think that Jennifer did what she did and isn’t sorry about it and now has a fiance who treated his ex like crap. Doesn’t bode well. And what a weirdly worded statement and how oddly phrased and timed it was.

    • hoya_chick says:

      Totally, such a weird announcement isn’t it? For all we know Heidi has moved on and is happy in a new relationship. It’ll be interesting to see how this all works out.

    • Molly says:

      It’s not Aniston’s fault. I’m pretty much in Heidi’s situation and I’m sure if Theroux could have gotten to Aniston’s level on his own, he would have married Heidi. But he couldn’t and wanted a fast trajectory to the top.

      • Jennifer12 says:

        It was both Justin’s fault and Jennifer’s fault. Justin’s for obvious reasons and Jennifer’s for taking what she wanted when she wanted it and not caring about backstabbing another female.

  47. Cathy says:

    Well, I’m glad for them. Hope they have a long and happy marriage

  48. Janet says:

    WHOOPEE! Somebody declare a national holiday! Jen finally got a man!

  49. Brooke Ophardt says:

    I think Lilac is just jealous, maybe she’s Heidi…. Seriously, just go find your own man, get laid and stop being so angry. O_o

    • Louise says:

      Exactly my thoughts, she really is bitter and she reacts as if she was directly concerned by this subject

    • Lilac says:

      Lol, and I think you’re a multi-nicking paid Aniston shrill. I have my own man. Why don’t you support women who don’t steal men, instead of supporting man-stealers? :O Or are you as devoid of morals as your idol is? If you want to see bitter, read Aniston fans’ posts about the JPs. Now THAT, is BITTER! O_o

      • Louise says:

        Oh please, don’t bite me….

        I am not a fan of Jenifer, in fact, I don’t care, I just find you funny… And good for you if you have your own man lol

      • Linda says:

        Lilac just shut up seriously, u are just embarrassing ur self.

      • Lilac says:

        Takeyour own advice Louise/Linda.

      • Louise says:

        I really really hope you don’t bite… lol

        So much anger, what a pity…

        Nevertheless, have a good day

      • Lilac says:

        I’m not the one thats angry and telling people to shut up. I hope you calm down and manage to have a nice day yourself.

      • jaye says:

        It’s “shill” not “shrill”. Just thought I’d put that out there.

        Carry on.

    • Brooke Ophardt says:

      She really is an embarrassment, Louise & Linda, isn’t she? 😀 Doesn’t Lilac realize that Brad was still MARRIED when he “fell in love” on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith?!? Soooo…. Who got her man stolen? Pu-lease! Justin was NOT MARRIED when he met Jen; it makes a big difference. Justin DID NOT, repeat, DID NOT pledge to love, honor, and cherish Heidi for the rest of his life in front of his family, friends and the world in a marriage ceremony. That makes a big difference if your gonna talk about man-stealing. Sure, it sucks for Heidi that he didn’t feel motivated to do that for her; he didn’t even buy her a ring after 14 years, whatever the reason may be, but you can’t compare Jen stealing Justin in the same way that Angelina stole Brad, plain & simple.

      • Lilac says:

        This is PROOF of the moral gymnastics and sheer hypocrisy of the loonistons.
        1. Angelina didn’t steal Brad. He didn’t do anything with her on set. AND, the move was still shooting in May, 2005 MONTHS after Aniston and Brad split on January 7 2005. Facts are not on your side. There was no affair and in fact, Aniston moved on with Vaughn before Brad and Angelina became an item.
        2. It makes NO DIFFERENCE!!!!. You CANNOT EXCUSE Aniston’s homewrecking and man-stealing on the lack of a PIECE OF PAPER. It doesn’t work that way, unfortunately. Heidi and Justin had a life together, and a home together, for fourteen years, not a measly four and a half. Fourteen years is more of a true marriage, a common law marriage at least, under LAW, than what Brad and Jen had. What Aniston did was WORSE, because Justin and Heidi were together for 14 years. Cheating is cheating, is cheating. A piece of paper does NOT give Aniston immunity. Sorry, but this is not 1940s, this is 2012, so that ‘get out of jail’ card for Aniston WON’T WASH in modern society. Aniston is a homewrecker, an adulterer who stomped on a woman’s home, life and heart, and you have no right to belittle Heidi’s pain on the basis of a piece of paper. Angelina did nothing to no one. Aniston destroyed a woman’s home, life and heart. What she did cannot be excused by your lame 1940s excuse. Marriage is completely and totally irrelevant, so don’t even try that line. Pain and simple, Aniston is a homewrecker and manstealer. Thats a fact you can not wriggle out of so don’t even try. If you truly feel that a technicality of a piece of paper means a 14 year Common Law marriage, which is Legally recognized, means less than a merger – er, ‘marriage’ of just over 4 years, then I feel very truly sorry for you, because by trying to belittle and demean Heidi and Justin’s 14 year union, you are just embarrassing yourself. If you truly are that desperate to defend Aniston’s actions that you will demean a 14 year relationship to do so, then I feel sorry for how desperate and obsessed you are with Aniston and your desperate need to defend her that you bend morals and rules to justify her behavior. That, is the definition of embarrassing.

      • GHJackie says:

        You know what’s embarrassing?

        Seeing someone make up a “recognized common law marriage” when no such thing exists in the State of New York.

        It’s also embarrassing to see the mental gymnastics that you’re resorting to in order to convince yourself that Pitt and Jolie weren’t screwing on set while he was married, despite more than one person directly involved with the movie having let it slip over the years that they were, and almost right from the beginning.

        It’s glaringly obvious that anyone, man or woman, who shacks up with his or her co-star / co-worker etc almost immediately after the demise of their current relationship was already involved with them and hiding it.

      • Lilac says:

        More lies. No one, not one, not ever, from M&MS has ever come forward and said anything happened on set. No one. Its embarrassing that tabloid ‘sources’ are what you believe. Says it all really. Not only has not one person from the set ever said one thing, but Aniston, Cox, Brad, Angie their friends all have said the same thing. No affair happened. Yet you believe your tabloids of a ‘source’ from the set, if you want. I deal in reality and the reality is no one has ever to date come forward and said anything was happening. That says it all.

        “It’s glaringly obvious that anyone, man or woman, who shacks up with his or her co-star / co-worker etc almost immediately after the demise of their current relationship was already involved with them and hiding it.”
        True, but since that did not happen with Brad and Angelina, it clearly isn’t relevant. Oh, I forgot. Only tabloid sources are relevant to you. How embarrassing for you that tabloid lies replace truth and facts.

      • GHJackie says:

        Clearly the reality that you deal with exists only in your head. Most people who live in the real world are a bit more realistic.

      • Laila says:

        @Lilac
        Cox, Aniston etc may have said there was no affair but Angelina clearly stated that MAMS is the movie in which her and Brad fell in love. I don’t get how people arguing that the two didn’t have an affair overlook this direct quote from Angelina. Two people in a strictly professional relationship do not “fall in love”, they may be attracted to each other but falling in love, I think, requires a level of intimacy. They were obviously intimate on the set, whether emotional or sexual, and that is cheating.

      • Lilac says:

        Laila, that simply is not true. This was Angelina’s full comment: “‘They haven’t seen a lot of our films yet, because they are a little young, but I’m looking forward to them one day discovering Mr and Mrs Smith,’ she smiles. ‘They’re going to have a great laugh – to see when their parents actually met, and watch them fall in love and try to kill each other!

        ‘And Madd was there while we were filming, so he was a part of it. It’s pretty extraordinary.’”

        Ergo, she was talking about the CHARACTERS falling in love, not them themselves in real life. Unfortunately the pro-Jen media maliciously left the pertinent bit off the end to make it look like something it was not. Unless you think Brad and Angie got married and tried to kill each other – IN REAL LIFE?

      • TheOriginalTiffany says:

        Lilac, I happen to know someone who worked daily on the set of MAMS and hung out with brad a lot after hours during filming and it was well known between the two that an affair was going on.

        I’m happy for brad, he got the family he wanted. Now Anniston is hopefully going to get married and shut up about her first divorce. Let’s not play coy about how the Brange got together. yes, I’ve already told this story and no I will not name names, I like my friends to keep their jobs.

        None of these people will ever know you or care that you exist. Use them for fun, nothing more, it’s not good for you. You sound like you need a good yoga class.

      • marie says:

        O Tiff.. you just made her head explode.. why in the heck is everyone so angry?

      • SoWhatchaWant says:

        Awesome Brooke! Now when my significant other of 5 years gets home I can tell him that our relationship doesn’t matter and I can jump on some random, strange dong all night long since we haven’t signed and paid for a piece of paper.
        Do you think I can convince the government of my country that I can weasel out of couple’s taxation as well, because they sure as hell see us bound as tightly as an official marriage!

        Strange dong all night long!!!! JEAHHHH- Ryan Lochte you can finally have a non-one night stand with me-I don’t care what your mama calls it.

    • Brooke Ophardt says:

      @GHJackie – Ya know, the more she writes, the more it’s obvious something like this happened to Lilac, and she’s not quite over her man leaving her for someone else; why else would she keep going on & on & on & on… You’re right, I live in NY, and there is no common-law marriage here, which is where Justin & Heidi were living at the end of their relationship. And Brangelina were *totally* having an emotional affair if they weren’t bumping uglies on the set. You have a better way of saying it.

      • Lilac says:

        I guess like Aniston fans are not over their men leaving them. Which is why ‘Team Aniston’ started this war and hounded and witch-hunted Angelina for an imaginary transgression, for 7 years. Because they too, were a dumpee, like JenJen, and sympathized with her. But that was acceptable, wasn’t it?

        But, its DIFFERENT NOW, that she is the one doing the homewrecking, isn’t it? Such hypocrisy.

        Common Law Marriage is recognized in many states, in almost every western country. Even the states where it isn’t, some property rights are granted in the event of a split. Also society has long recognized
        De Facto/Common Law Marriage. The more you post, the more ignorance and moral gymnastics you display.

      • GHJackie says:

        Common law marriage only exists in 10 states.

        Btw, lets put the blame solidly at the feet of the person who really is guilty… Pitt.

        He quite obviously started something with Jolie while he was married. And then, coward that he is, rather than taking responsibility for his actions, he:
        a) shifted the “blame” for the end of his marriage to Aniston for not giving him a baby the moment HE wanted it (now THAT really is 1940’s) and…
        b) letting Jolie take all the heat for the breakup, while walking away practically scot-free.

      • Lilac says:

        1. Brad never shifted the blame, he has never said a bad word about her despite her throwing him under a bus when she saw a benefit to it, in fact, there were rumors about baby issues between the 2 of them in 2003, way before he met Angelina. Jen herself even did a skit on SNL (I think it was SNL?) mocking reporters asking about when shes going to have a baby. And considering he had waited for years, it was hardly at the moment he wanted it. She promised him she’d start a family when Friends ended, but instead signed up for 4 movies back to back, one he had to read of in Variety magazine. She shouldn’t have strung him along and married him if she knew damn well she didn’t want children. The guy was more than patient, lesser men would have left earlier when it became apparent she was playing him.
        2. The rumors of the fictitious tabloid hoax, the affair, only came out via Team Aniston who were outraged at the focus on Aniston’s lying to Brad about children to take the heat off of her. But you live in your own reality and believe that something happened despite it being a miracle that there were no rumors or whispers and not one confirmed actual person came forward.
        EDIT:>>>>>PS Am having problems with my sign-in email address so am having to change name after posting.

      • GHJackie says:

        Is it just me, or are Lilac and Hungry Hippo the same person?

      • Lilac says:

        Testing. YES! That worked now. Changed from IE to Google Chrome.

      • SoWhatchaWant says:

        So cheating doesn’t count unless your relationship is defined by the laws of where you live? Why the uproar over Sparkle Spackle and Kristen Beef-Stew then? Some people want monogamy without marriage. It’s possible and entirely realistic.
        Try living in the present millenium, it has some great perks for women!

      • Electric Youh says:

        So it’s not cheating if your relationship is not defined by the laws of where you live? Some people do want monogamy without marriage and I believe it’s entirely realistic to achieve it.
        Some women don’t want to get married. It’s gross to see that those women who do want to be married project their own wishes and fears onto those that don’t. We don’t all dream of diamonds and organza as the epitome of lifetime achievement.
        Oh, and yes, I have my own man who wants to marry me and I choose not to.

      • GHJackie says:

        Double posting under different names much?

        See above where poster claims Justin and Heidi were “common-law married”. See also above where it’s pointed out that no such thing exists in the State of NY.

        See above where no one in this particular nesting of comments claimed that living together was insignificant. Perhaps you might want to argue the point with someone who avtually said that.

  50. Ogechi says:

    Congrats to them. They look very cute together.Glad that Jennifer is the only woman Justin has ever proposed to.

  51. Toot says:

    I’m an Angelina and Brad fan who’s wishing these two congrats, like many above me.

    I don’t like Jennifer, but I wish her good luck and to get a really good pre-nup.

  52. Linda says:

    I am so happy for her and her vagina also for him too but mostly for her vagina. That is the real winner in this situation. Justin is the sex and she deserves To have such hot piece.

    • Mac says:

      Jennifer’s Jaws of Life vagina rescued this man from the twisted wreckage of a suffocating 14 year dead-end relationship.

  53. valleymiss says:

    I’m still cracking up at the people who think this was deliberately done this weekend to compete with Brangelina’s Nuptuals That Weren’t. As I said in the Brange thread yesterday, what was Justin supposed to do – travel back 41 years in time and rearrange his bday so it wouldn’t coincide with Brad’s parents’ anniversary? Clearly this was planned for a while since Theroux proposed to Jen on his bday.

    Now, I’m willing to concede that giving People the info on Sunday instead of Friday might have been for 3 reasons:

    1) so their great news wouldn’t get overshadowed by Brange, they waited until Sunday evening to make sure they were in the clear
    2) news stories get buried on Friday, but if it’s done Sunday, then it’s the talk allllll week
    3) I had a 3rd reason I can’t recall now lol

    Either way, I’m super happy for these 2. Yes, it sucks that this is how it went down for Heidi, but guys are SO like that. They stay with 1 girl forever, dump her, and marry the next one. That happens *all the time.*

    • spinner says:

      +1

      Go valleymiss!!

    • Kim says:

      Why do you think the private couple told People mag before telling her dad? Why the rush?

    • lucy2 says:

      Agree, the conspiracy theories are silly if he planned it for his birthday. Some people just need to let that whole triangle nonsense go.
      Besides, there’s a “Brangelina Wedding!” story every few weeks or months, it’s not like that’s a rare occurrence – which is dumb, the tabloids need to just wait until it actually happens.

      I don’t really get the need to announce it at all, but those two do have aggressive PR people so I’m not shocked.

    • Mac says:

      A better question to ask would be why would Brad & Angie choose Justin’s Birthday weekend to get married?

      Could it be because they had inside information that Justin planned to propose to Jennifer on his birthday? And if so how did they come to learn about that when even John Aniston didn’t know?

      The answer is that Jenn, Justin, Brad and Angie are all working in concert to perpetuate the relevance of the Triangle while appearing that they are still adversaries.

  54. Dusty says:

    It seems to me like there are a lot of starry-eyed romantics on this site today writing about this engagement. While that is all fine and good, the odds are stacked against them.

  55. rlh says:

    I am happy for the betrothed couple and send good wishes.
    But I really feel for Heidi Bivens. Even if it is a good thing your relationship ended, the day you find out (via massive media exposure) your ex proposed to his jump off…never a good day.
    I would be roaming the house in my pj’s all day with a bloody mary firmly in hand.
    Wishes for peace-of-mind to Miss Bivens.

    • Toot says:

      Yeah, I feel for Heidi, hopefully she’s in a good place in her life right now and glad he’s not in it any longer.

  56. ramona says:

    If this means less Aniston stories once the wedding takes place, I’ll be delighted. She hasn’t done any interesting work since The Good Girl. I’m bored of hearing about her hair and her figure and her lifestyle.

    • really says:

      yes! i don’t hate her or love her… but i’d sure be happy to never hear about her again.

    • claire says:

      Seriously. Could not agree with you more. I hope she’s happily married, goes and lives in the country somewhere, and we never have to hear about her again.

  57. Sara says:

    I am very happy for her. I just hope their was no pressure or ultimatum done here.

  58. Fyofeelings says:

    I’m happy for her.. Hope she has a solid prenup!

  59. dfdf says:

    Such a rush to announce this just in time for this weeks magazines! Why even announce it, there is no need. Also people do not care about Justin & no one would care about Jen if she had not been married to BP. Fact.

    He looks sleazy & his friend choice of Terry Richardson show he is sleazy!

    He will play the game with her, but they will never be a power couple.

  60. Az says:

    I’m sorry but he looks like hipster Eddie Munster to me. I think this is a good match, similar to Streisand and Brolin. However, it continues to piss me off that Aniston is considered a boctim always when in this case, she was no better than Angelina and went after a man who was in a 14 year relationship. And yet Aniston doesn’t get labeled a homewrecher, when she is one. I can’t make up my mind whether this will be a looooong engagement. I really hope they are. Appy together and this finally lays that stupid triangle bs to rest. Meanwhile, the Brange is totally getting married this weekend, aren’t they? Oh and let’s hope that gross Chelsea Handler isn’t her MOH!

    • claire says:

      From what I read in the comments above, because he wasn’t married, cheating is fine. 14-year relationships don’t count. Sad, isn’t it?

  61. Is he dying his hair black because he needs to stop.

  62. Chicoulina says:

    Big Brangelina fan..I’m so happy for Jennifer.They look so happy.I also find him very hot.I don’t know what but there’s something about him..

  63. RHONYC says:

    you KNOW she must be happy too. she’s put on some lusty-bumpin’ weight. her hips are getting wider and it seems she’s not so obsessed with being ‘yoga’ thin now that she’s found her beloved who accepts her as she is.

    good for her. 😉

  64. TheOriginalKitten says:

    LOL @ some of the posts. People getting WAY too worked up over nothing.
    Congrats to them. Wish this would be the end of The Triangle but I think that might be just too much to hope for.

    • Chatcat says:

      OMG Kit I so agree with you. So many haters! LOL

      I have fun and entertain myself with these boards, and have engaged with some incredible people (i.e. YOU, OTiffany, OBellaluna, Mort, etc…you know who you are!) But I have NO vested interest in these people’s love lives, daily lives, state of their uterus, whatever! They’re entertainers for Christ’s sake … if they aren’t doing that on the screen they I simply come here to CB to be entertained. Perspective perspective perspective!

      • TheOriginalKitten says:

        Exactly Chat-you and I are people who come here for the snark/fun factor. Personally, I think gossip stops being fun and starts being freaky when the comments dissolve into name-calling or childish “shut ups”. Worse yet the amount of interest people invest in the particulars of a celeb’s life or just the general time wasted trying to defend/attack a particular celebrity. I honestly think celebs get the last laugh on this one. Jen Aniston, Brangelina etc are all going to sleep on a bed full of money while silly people duke it out on their behalf.

        And then meanwhile, in war-torn Africa…….

      • Chatcat says:

        They may have a ton of money, and that is nice, but I’ll keep my soul thank you…

      • MorticiansDoItDeader says:

        Yay! Thanks Chat! I feel the same about you and everyone you mentioned. I can’t imagine being so invested in the lives of people who I will never talk to. I enjoy coming here to interact with other commenters and have a laugh, not to vociferously attack or defend Jen, Angie, Brad, Justin or anyone else.

      • Liberty says:

        Very well said!! Thank you for taking your time to write this.

      • the original bellaluna says:

        So, so very true. Gossip is supposed to be fun AND smart, an escape, not middle school-ish. I have much love for you, ladies!

      • Kate (newer one) says:

        This post’s comments make the Twihards look sane. And that’s not a sentence I ever thought I’d type.

    • RHONYC says:

      WORD. 😉

  65. dfdf says:

    People act like she went through some horrible thing like cancer or war! It was a divorce 7 years ago and she has been the victim ever since.

    I have seen so many she “deserves to be happy” comments. Everyone deserves to be happy, but she is the only celeb I see getting those comments.

    In the world of her fans, she is only happy with a man.

    • Joyce says:

      I know. I’ve seen women who went through worse than this woman. The woman has $110 mil. What’s to cry about. She’s not the only woman who’s husband ever left her.

  66. Viv says:

    And to think my grandma used to say “issuing an ultimatum never works” .
    Sure does when you have a few million $ spending money.

  67. The Original Mia says:

    Congratulations on having the weirdest sounding engagement announcement ever! I’m suspect of the timing, but whatever…congratulations! I won’t hold my breath waiting on your actual wedding.

    • Liza Jane says:

      Thing is,I’m not a hater…but the downright cynicism with which this girl and her PR team have manipulated the tabloids and gossip sheets for 7 years ,creating this persona of ‘victim’ whilst keeping her relevant in the movie business with very little talent to back it up…it does make one annoyed at the hypocrisy and the flack that Brad and Angie have had to take. he tried to stand up for himself, and Angie but was vilified for what he said….truth seems to be, he had long realized that the marriage was in trouble, and the lack of motivation ( for want of a better word) in the confines of the union. ….seemingly he had told her as well but as in all relationships,when one person will not confront the issues then it is a messy debacle! I think that ‘lilac’ ,like me,gets frustrated at the one-sidedness of all this and the continued force feeding of the Jen/angel myth!!

  68. RobN says:

    Good for them. Hope they’re very happy and have a nice long marriage that drives the anti-Aniston people crazy, which, based on some of these comments, it already has.

    • dfdf says:

      It is not a competition.

      Aniston has met her match in that Justin is enjoying the professional benefits of dating BP’s ex- wife.

      You are the type that would be happy if she was with Charlie Sheen! As long as she is not alone.

      Their marriage if it happens will not be long. Her neurotic and insecure self drives men away eventually.

      • RobN says:

        I’m amused by bitter people. One person wishes somebody else well, and you just can’t stand the fact that a total stranger might be happy. Weird.

      • Roma says:

        I think the hate towards her is by people who got picked on by blonde cheerleaders in high school. Because some of them act like she came to their home and killed their kitten. It’s fascinating, if not creepy.

  69. Messenger says:

    not buying it shouldn’t be selling it fake fake fake fake

  70. Birdie says:

    Congrats to JustJen. I am really happy for them, cannot wait to see the ring!!

  71. original kate says:

    justin looks like a manorexic.

    that is all.

  72. lili says:

    Shes is just pathetic! Anyways, congrats and disappear!!

  73. Ogechi says:

    I honestly feel on top of the world for this great engagement news. Justin is very eduacted and humble, Aniton is very hot and sweet. Such a good combination! I see beautiful kitchen sex going on, wow such a lucky lady….

    • Linda says:

      Ogechi are you Nigerian, just curious cos I am too and Igbo. Am so thrilled for Jennifer and wish her a life of joy and happiness.

    • kj says:

      He is not humble. He is full of him self. She is not hot. Nothing hot about damaged skin and a face that looks like Fabio/Miss Piggy.

      She is also not sweet. She thought a cartoon of her holding a GUN talking to Angelina was ” the funniest thing” she ever saw. She is also BFF with a girl who calls women c*nts and b*tches. Who makes racist jokes.

    • HungryHippo says:

      So in your world, a “sweet” person is a cheater and a homewrecker who destroys a woman’s life and encourages her bff to make racist comments about children?

  74. kj says:

    The thing is all you people who are sooooooooo happy for her would be happy for her no matter who she was engaged to!

    If it was carrot top, Charlie Sheen, etc. , it would not matter. Just as long as she has someone! Every guy she dates is so great until they dump her. Vince was the one, John Mayer was the one.

    Now she is with Eddie Munster & his hipster clothes, BFF Terry Richardson. He is not a catch. Iron Man 2 sucked so he was not even asked back for IM3!

    • Saralita says:

      “Now she is with Eddie Munster & his hipster clothes,”

      OMG…I HAVE NOT LAUGHED THIS HARD IN A LONG TIME!It just came out of nowhere and stopped me in my tracks. IT WAS THE BEST EVER! thank you for that fun.

  75. Dhavy says:

    Bigger PR strategy would’ve been to announce they got married. That would’ve been the talk for week but now we have to hear every detail as if it was a royal wedding

  76. olivia says:

    I want to see THE RING!

    • Janet says:

      Oh you KNOW the ring is going to be not just a rock, but a BOULDER!! Let’s see now, Angie’s ring is ten carats total, so Jen’s will have to be AT LEAST twelve carats, or what is the point? What I want to know is how much Jenny is paying for it, because you know she’s footing the bill.

  77. Rachel says:

    She stated in a few interviews that Brad was the love of her life. I really do believe she will never love anyone more than she did Brad. Brad was her first love, so that’s understandable. I hope she doesn’t rush things because she thinks she found “the one.” I don’t have a good feeling about this at all. Justin looks like a creeper.

    • HungryHippo says:

      Actually what she said was that Brad was not the love of her life, but a love of her life. She said that while they were still married so that must have hurt Brad. I don’t think she ever loved him.

      • Rachel says:

        I think she loved him! He was the one who wasn;t in it for the long haul. Jen stated in previous interviews how she would try and make a relationship work while Brad said he would basically leave if it wasn’t going well

      • HungryHippo says:

        Thats false. Jen never said any such thing as she would make it work, on the contrary she said the marriage was an ‘experiment’. Despite Brad and Jen both saying it was a merger and that they’d see how it would go, Brad was the one most invested and in it for the long haul, Jen only wanted to get into Hollywood, she wasn’t committed. She said her husband was not her soulmate, not the love of her life. She used him.

    • Janet says:

      Rachel, what she said was this:

      “He was never the love of my life. He is a love in my life.”

      She said this while she was still married to him in a public interview. If your spouse said something like that while he was married to you, how would you feel?

      I don’t think she ever loved him, and I don’t think she loves Justin either. She married Brad because she felt it would put her on the A list and get her a hot career in the movies. She wants to marry Justin because she’s desperate and she knows he’s her last chance.

      The only man I think she ever really loved was John Mayer. She humiliated herself by crawling back to him after he publicly dumped her.

      I agree with you that Theroux is a user and a taker, and I hope she’s got a good pre-nup because she’s going to need one when he dumps her for a younger, prettier and hotter actress.

      • Just Passing Through says:

        I don’t remember her saying that in an interview, but I do remember an interview with Diane Sawyer the year before she and Brad split where she said, “I can’t imagine being with any other human being. I married him because he was the love of my life.”

  78. Kate (newer one) says:

    I really hope they’ll be happy, and Brangelina continue being happy. And that the Triangle is now allowed to diiiiiiie.

    • Kate says:

      agree

      p.s. this is one of the craziest threads i’ve ever read…. I hope some people are joking about how serious they’re taking this. I doubt it’s healthy to be that invested in strangers lives…

      • Kate (newer one) says:

        The British royal family are alleged to call their most zealous fans “cat stranglers”. Reading this, I can see where they’re coming from.

  79. Bobby sue says:

    Super happy for them both. Congrats to a well-suited couple.

  80. Lindy says:

    Congrats to both of them–she does seem pretty happy and content these days, so I hope she and Justin end up working out for the long haul. There’s a lot to be said for settling down when you’re a little older and wiser and know what you need and who you want to be. Good for them.

  81. Saralita says:

    As long as this no talent sitcom star is going to be shoved in my face, I will continue to be fascinated with her desperation to stay in movies. She is no different to me than what Paris Hilton was to me.

    Jen is even more desperate for a career than I ever thought. She doesn’t even care how pathetic this makes her look. She is the total Jessica Simpson of this whole thing.

    1)Let’s not forget, She is the author of her own misfortune—she started this whole “pity party”, poor Jen circus when she aired her dirty laundry in Vanity Fair.

    I have no sympathy for a celeb that uses their personal life to get PR (especially, when they make sh*t movies.)

    2) ITA with Lilac’s remarks,pointing out the hypocrisy of the Jenhens, that for years have been ruthlessly hateful of anything Angelina ( I’m not specifically, talking about anyone here. This is a generality of boards everywhere for the last 6 or so yrs—until Bivensgate—made them all do a 180 on “cheating”)

    3)Brad and Angie get engaged 4 months ago, wedding speculation goes into overdrive.
    Suddenly, up pops 43yr Jen rushing to b engaged after one of the quickest courtship I’ve ever seen(anyone remember how fast this got shoved out there that they were a couple???it was so TOMKAT 3.0

    This whole engagement is so TOMKAT! just like they had their reasons, so does Jen.

    Her movies:(which aren’t really her movies as they are all on the coattails of ensembles or her carefully calculated pairings with every TOP male comedic boxoffice superstar out there.)ALL BOMB otherwise, her fans don’t go to her crap movies for the same reason I don’t. They may root for her as a person, but they don’t care too much for her as an actress.

    Her Q rating doesn’t translate into box office. She is the only actor out there I can think of that is continually allowed to bomb at the boxoffice and still get shots at more movies! it all comes down to publicity, she has to stay relevant.

    Ala Huvane’s Tomkat tactic:

    a)get another co-star to blitz prior to release of movie, blitz with him(Europe) prior to his screenplay movie/dvd release.

    b)this one has to stick for a while as the “Gerard’s” of the past have made this old tactic so obvious.

    c)wear matching rings right away, hold them up for every photo. push, push, push that you are already a tight couple, have him??? a virtual nobody go on Ellen???? Ala what “couch jumping” did for TomKat.

    great, fans are happy, Jen’s got a guy who seems like he’ll stay. He will stay. Because he’s signed the same paper Katie Holmes signed.

    Justin “in it for the fame” Theroux is the man for the job! He wants the publicity as bad as she does(he’s a “Mayer”, tht can actually keep his mouth shut.)

    Even with Brad&Angie engagement only 4 months ago, Jen at 43 with no need to rush, must have her publicity agent make a statement on not the friday(when it actually went down, which we all know is when you annouce so there is the least amount of press) No, no! Gotta wait until Sunday night (after conformation that a wedding did not just go down in the south of france.) and thus making sure all the outlets have a jump on it for monday AM press releases. Paaalease! Waaake up!

    • The Original Mia says:

      Excellent analysis. She & Huvane are very transparent.

    • Lilac says:

      Thanks Saralita for restoring my faith in humanity. 😉 Sometimes I wonder what type of planet some of these people inhabit, when wrong becomes right and right becomes wrong. I smdh at some of these comments. For example ok, the Jenloons suddenly have decided that cheating is ok if you aren’t MARRIED. And that if you’re not married, you don’t have a relationship, and are just like ‘room mates’. You couldn’t make this stuff up. And they try and make out we’re the loons, when they come up with rubbish like this? smdh So, that means that if any time between now and the minute or second after Justin and Heidi are pronounced Husband and Wife, its ok for Justin to cheat on Aniston because “hey, they weren’t married”? Would any Jen fan on here be happy if Justin any time prior to the wedding, like say, from day one of the relationship up until the engagement for example, cheated on Aniston? Would they try to say that, despite Jen and Justin owning apartments in LA and New York that their relationship ‘didn’t count’, and therefore the (fictitious) girl Justin was cheating on Aniston with, was not a homewrecker?
      How would that go down with Aniston fans I wonder? Aniston fans are the biggest fan base of moral hypocrites I have ever come across. They will change the goal posts in a heartbeat if their precious Apple Pie Sweetheart idol looks like doing something wrong. Then get p*ssy when someone on here has the temerity to point out their moral gymnastics, double-standards and hypocrisy. That they think they have the right to call anyone else loons is beyond a joke.

      • Saralita says:

        I posted here today solely because of your fabulous posts. I go about my life and then every now and then BANG! some stupid Jennifer Aniston crap boils up to a point where I just can’t take it anymore and need to see other people that can see through her and the level of desperation she stoops to for attention, to stay afloat in her Titanic of a career.

        Like even stealing a man away after yrs of not putting out ‘not so veiled’ snide remarks about angie taking Brad and milking the sympathy of woman to propel her worthless ability to act.

        I can’t wait for the day when she is finally put in her place in cinematic history right next to Steve Guttenburg.

        Because that is where she belongs. She will be remembered as someone who was once omnipresent in movies but now nobody can explain to you why.

    • wisegirl says:

      saralita, absolutely great post.
      Very astute about the machinations that have made soooo many of us gals that used to enjoy Jen on Friends eventually begin to abhore her!

      It irritates us to see the paradox of how Jen and Angie are being perceived by her most of her misguided fanship.

      Angie is the big bad witch and Jen is the sweet innocent good girl.
      Makes for a good cliche but the facts dont match this map.

      Angie has practically given up her truly A-list career to be a mom to her beautiful bevvy of children JUST like she said!
      She is a true partner for Brad; seems to keep him endlessly interested and attracted to her and finally content.

      Jen on the other hand, covets an A-list movie career and has settled into instead being a topnotch (A-list if you will) celebrity gossip maker–thanks to her fabulous publicity juggernaut Huvane.

      Brad grew weary and embarrassed to go with her for the endless mani pedis and tannings and highlights…..Justin holds her bags! They are made for each other.

      Brad wanted relevance, depth, meaning in his life.
      Justin seemed to want that too-back when.

      Poor guy just got tired of seeing lesser talents get the A-list treatment and ah what the hell, man done sold his soul to breathe in that rarified air that Brad takes for granted.

      Me? I’m happy that the dust has settled and the lines are going to be drawn as to how wrong Brad and Jen were from the getgo.

      He married on the rebound ’cause he was ready for the full meal deal of familylife and almost missed his true soulmatch in his haste.

      He’s an admitted snob when it comes to movies and he must’ve cringed when he saw Jen’s dismal performances in her 5 movie grab at movie stardom…………

      The woman was delusional-cocky even!

      Jen thought she might attempt to play Marianne Pearl-imagine that utter joke??!!
      Imagine when Brad saw Angie’s virtuoso performance of such a difficult role!

      He’d missed a bullet by easing away from an uninteresting mate and an actress of the calibre of a Kathie Lee Gifford…..

      Justin’ll take her no problem—-she’s got her qualities but best of all, she’ll help get him the exposure he needs to finally get him into the world he covets so much.

      Same world Jen covets.

      Angie and Brad rule that world so they are free to covet what really matters.

      Thats why so many of us support the real deal couple.

    • claire says:

      Thank You. Couldn’t have said it better. And Steve Guttenberg?! HAHA. That was hilarious.

  82. the original bellaluna says:

    Huzzah! I’m happy for them. But let us not forget that many engaged couples don’t make it down the aisle – they are perma-engaged.

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m hoping they do get married, because they seem happy together. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

  83. snoots says:

    Rough week for Brad. World War Z problems. No wedding this weekend. Ex-wife officiallly off the market. So much to cry about.*
    *No tabloid story is complete without Brad crying.

  84. Lola says:

    If this is true I am so happy for them! (You never know what the tabloids will spew out)
    They are a gorgeous couple.
    Out of something bad always comes something good. Now her (and Brad) have found happiness.

  85. Lilac says:

    I must say, I find it sad that one group of people can bash and abuse and write vile things about a woman and her children including death wishes and death threats for seven long years all over the net based on nothing but tabloid rumors of an affair, of Angelina being a homewrecker and this group of people can carry on about it for 7 years. Yet, the moment someone comes on here to purely remind people of what they accused Angelina of, Aniston is doing, now her fans are singing a different tune, trying to act sane and rational and abuse the person merely pointing out the double standards. It would be a joke if people weren’t so serious about not seeing the double standards and instead attacking the messenger. Its ok to vociferously attack Angelina and defend Jennifer, but its no ok to merely try to make people see the double standards.

    • diana says:

      Hi Lilac,
      Am a fan and of course sometimes feel surprised. But you have to remember the world is not fair. Double stds do exist.
      Angie herself is more interested in the real problems of the world, and not about some perceived public opinion. So why not take the brange’s cue and ignore unfair people? In the end actions do matter and not how some stupid people see you as ‘evil’ or ‘homewrecker’ etc..
      I hope your day is not spoilt by all this silly gossip. Just laugh at the haters and leave it at that.
      I m sorry if I butted in and offered foolish advice, but your comments reminded me of one of my friends’ who was always passionate about justice and finally ended up disillusioned. Have a nice week ahead 🙂 Sincere wishes.

      • Lilac says:

        Thanks Diana. 🙂 I have always gone for the underdog – always had a strong sense of right and wrong, and feel really strongly when a person is being bullied or when someone is trying to paint right as wrong, and wrong as right. Morals, ethics and justice has always been really important to me and gets me quite upset and heated. I hate injustice and unfairness. Unfortunately, I don’t have the right words to express how I feel, and I never seem to come off the way I want to or seem to be able to adequately express my point and people misunderstand or mistake me. The unfairness of what is happening here does truly disillusion me.

      • jaye says:

        @Lilac…I actually admire your passion regarding justice and standing up for the underdog…in my real life I am the same way. But…this is tabloid gossip. There are far greater injustices in the world to speak out against.

  86. Barbara says:

    Don’t forget folks…engaged is not married. I say wait and see..

  87. folly says:

    since the anouncement of this engagement,i av been waiting for lainey and i must confess i wasnt dissapointed

  88. folly says:

    since the anouncement of this engagement,i av been waiting for lainey analysis on it and i must confess i wasnt dissapointed

  89. G says:

    I am really perplexed her by the idea expressed that if you’re not a fan of Aniston’s, you must necessarily be enraged by her engagement?

    If she was going to be interesting, it would have happened by now. No film role, tabloid feud or haircut has managed to do this for her yet.

  90. WTF says:

    First of all I want to give my congrats to Jen and Justin. Let first say, I have no issue with Jen….but I have issue with her so-called fans.

    The so-called Jen fans who have spent the last 4 months calling Angelina and Brad “fameho’s” for announcing their engagement. Jen and Justin just announced their engagement in less than 3 days.(from getting engaged) Who informs People magazine before their own Father? That’s right Jen’s dad found out through the media NOT his daughter. The hypocrisy on this site (by some Jen fans) is sicking. So where are the rants Jen and Justin should have kept it private and not made an announcement?

    • Saralita says:

      SO TRUE! also I’ll add what I just read from lainey—that releasing the news on Friday would have also made the story get buried by the Olympics and if they at least had waited until tomorrow Tuesday–then all the mags would already have got their covers done.

      This Sunday release gives the story the maximum publicity.

      She is truly the most pathetic celeb out there. I loath her more than any reality star, because at least they get called out on their bullsh*t, Jen never gets called out on hers.

  91. Catty says:

    Lilac is sure on a rampage today. So upset that Justin is engaged to Jen and not Heidi – how sweet. But did you have such compassion for Jen when her husband cheated on her with Angie?? No, that was OK because there weren’t any children involved, Angie was more beautiful and Jen, according to you, was a horrible woman. You are the biggest hypocrite on this board. So Heidi being unmarried is worse than Brad & Jen being married – OK. And you fail to mention that Justin and Heidi were on and off for all those years – big difference. You excuse Angie everything but despise everyone else you accuse of cheating – very strange.

    You are just buttsore because Brad has had 7 years to marry Angie and he still won’t do it. God forbid Jen gets engaged when there are again rumors of another Brad & Angie wedding – how many does that make now?? And if you honestly think Brad & Angie’s engagement, oh sorry, promise for the future, is not for PR you are delusional. Why have an engagement when you have been shacking up for 7 years and have 6 kids?? Even Barbara Walters said it was ridiculous and tacky and just attention-getting. And as for Brad – he doesn’t seem too eager to marry her – always an excuse with that one – promise for the future, the kids want it, the gays can’t do it – God forbid he ever mentions the word love. Haven’t heard that they are marrying for love – not once!!

    So you go on and denigrate Jen for being the woman Brad was married to when Angie set her sights on him and cheated with him and got knocked up by him – her words. Jen will go on living her life without referring to Brad & Angie’s schedule, OK. Funny how out of the three Jen looks absolutely fantastic while Brad & Angie look absolutely horrible – skinny, old and dirty – really have lost their looks quickly. But according to you loons – true love will do that to you – make you look like the walking dead – not glowing and happy like the rest of the world. Brad got want he claimed he wanted – would be nice if he acted like he was happy – oh, that’s right, according to Brad happiness is overrated!!

    See ya Lilac – try harder to conceal the rage you are feeling – you are quite comical actually!!

    • WTF says:

      You and Lilac both need mental help. BTW Brad is in print and on camera stating he LOVES Angelina. Both Jen and Brad have moved on. Pity “some” of the fans can’t do the same. Here are 2 videos where Brad states he loves Angelina.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_g_D2QK-rk

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBKwBQvUj2g

      1:53 mark

      • ana says:

        “You and Lilac both need mental help”

        I so agree with you, and I really don’t want to insult people, but obsession from both sides and narrow mindedness is just sheer crazy! My god, you don’t know these people, you never met them and probably never will!!

      • Kate (newer one) says:

        +1 to the both of you.

      • Pauline says:

        Wow. People (Lilac!) sure have a lot of time on their hands. Busting out quotes and talking about these celebrities like you know them personally. The line between reality and fantasy has officially blurred and the result is quite frightening.

    • Karen says:

      No compassion is because he didn’t cheated on her. I have no proofs of that but what I have proof is what I read in the magazine. Not gossip magazines. Brad/Jen/Angie said they didn’t cheat/broke up. Jen said and I quote “there are no bad guys or good guys. No hero or Villian” So, why don’t you choose to believe what she said.

      Heidi & Justin were on and off but it doesn’t mean that they were off when Jen & Justin hooked up. If you believe they were on and off, then why didn’t you believe that Brad & Angie were hooked up after MAMS done filming? They said so themselves. But of course you chose not to believe that because it made them look good. You have to knock them down just to make Jen look good. Bottomline, none of us know what went on in that marriage.

      • Lilac says:

        Thats right.

        “Lilac is sure on a rampage today. So upset that Justin is engaged to Jen and not Heidi – how sweet.”

        Unlike you, I don’t care. Unlike the loonistons who went headless when the JP engagement was announced. I couldn’t care less. I am so looking forward to their divorce in fact. Bring it on!

        “But did you have such compassion for Jen when her husband cheated on her with Angie??”

        The problem you have with this, is that, is that its a false premise to begin with. That never happened. Per Jen, Courteney, and everyone else, there was NO AFFAIR. So how can one have compassion for SOMETHING THAT NEVER HAPPENED? Did you ever stop to think, for ONE moment even, that you were baring false witness against an innocent woman whom from all EVIDENCE, did absolutely nothing? No, of course not.

        “You are the biggest hypocrite on this board.”

        Nope, that is your ilk. I have never supported cheating. You support cheating when its convenient.

        “And you fail to mention that Justin and Heidi were on and off for all those years – big difference.”

        Why would I mention it, when ITS NOT TRUE! Unlike you, *I* deal in FACTS. It was a TABLOID *LIE* that Heidi and Justin were “on and off” that was written by a pro-Jen tabloid writer. JUSTIN HIMSELF CAME OUT AND DENIED THE REPORT. Why is it that you loonistons believe EVERY thing that will give Aniston an excuse, even if its tabloid junk, but believe nothing that coems out of Justins, out of Jen’s, out of Courteney’s, out of Heidi’s, out of etc mouths? Why is it that loonistons get their version of the ‘truth’ from TABLOIDS and then are surprised to learn the REAL truth? Heidi and Justin and been solid for 14 years. Justin himself said so. But tabloids are your bible.

        You excuse Aniston everything but despise everyone else you accuse of cheating – very strange.

        “You are just buttsore because Brad has had 7 years to marry Angie and he still won’t do it.”

        I’m not buttsore at all. I don’t even believe in marriage, and I see no reason for Brad and Angelina to marry. Heck, they share flesh and blood together, no more of a commitment can 2 people make than that. Sorry to disappoint you if you honestly think I care if Jen is engaged, or Angelina is engaged, or both or even neither. What bothers me is the LIES and HYPOCRISY from the Jenfans. Marriage is completely irrelevant to me.

        “And if you honestly think Brad & Angie’s engagement, oh sorry, promise for the future, is not for PR you are delusional.”

        This, says it all about you. You believe Brad and Angelina’s engagement is for PR. But get butthurt when othrs say the same thing about Jen. You are the biggest hypocrite on here.

        “Why have an engagement when you have been shacking up for 7 years and have 6 kids??”

        Why? Why not? Many people in real life live together for years and have kids before they marry their baby daddy/mamma. Why is it different for celebs?

        “Even Barbara Walters said it was ridiculous and tacky and just attention-getting.”

        Lmao that you think Barbara Walters, who herself had a much publicized affair with a married politician and bragged about it has any clout or why I would think what she says is worth anything. I guess you are clutching at straws.

        “So you go on and denigrate Jen for being the woman Brad was married to when Angie set her sights on him and cheated with him and got knocked up by him – her words.”
        I am denigrating Aniston for setting her sights on a taken man and destroying another woman’s life, when IF she TRULY were cheated on, she wouldn’t do that, because she wouldn’t make Heidi experience that pain. I’m not going to condemn Angelina for something by all accounts, INCLUDING JEN, she DID NOT DO. Its ironic you falsely accuse Angelina of something it was proven long ago she didn’t do, but bend over backwards in your starry-eyed infatuation of Aniston to excuse her ripping another woman’s heart in 2. Speaks a lot. The true homewrecker is right in front of you and you accuse an innocent woman of doing that which ONLY YOUR idol did.

        “Jen will go on living her life without referring to Brad & Angie’s schedule, OK.”
        As Angelina is, and doing much better than Aniston.

        “Funny how out of the three Jen looks absolutely fantastic”

        Typical off a Jenloon to resort to infantile ‘she looks better’ grade school petulence. Though its ironic because both Brad and Angelina look stunning and hotter than ever, whilst Aniston still looks homely, big chinned, big nosed, beady-eyed, short and stocky-legged, masculine and rough with leather skin and unhealthy-looking. Hard booze and cigs do that to you. She looks put away rought. She really has aged badly. She is ugly, inside and out. Then again, her career is a joke. As is her life. JPs are doing better than ever and are on top of the world. I guess thats karma telling you which side is the right side. 🙂

        The sad thing is, you have no idea the thing you despise most, is that what you idolize, contort yourself into a knot to defend and excuse. I feel sorry for you.

      • Karen says:

        I meant WEREN’T hooked up.

    • G says:

      I’m not in anyway, saying this to mitigate how painful it is to have this happen to you, but it IS an exceedingly common occurrence. I also have compassion for any person whose relationship breaks up in a hurtful way. But I don’t think that such a compassion extends to endorsing a seven stint playing the victim or insulting children or denigrating the appearance of any of the parties.

      If you choose to believe that all the parties here are miserable and unhappy, go ahead. They all say they’re happy and I believe them. What is interesting is the number of ragaholic posters who insist on inflaming a grudge that even the principals no longer (if they ever did)feel.

  92. Newtsgal says:

    I’d like to be happy for them, if it’s true!
    But for me, it doesn’t pass the smell test!
    They just happen to get engaged at the same time all the rest of the tabs are talking about Brad & Angie were gettin married…..can you say desperation!

    • toni says:

      Hmmm, let’s see…Jen has been divorced for years, she’s 43 years old, wants a family, is in love with her boyfriend (who is also in his 40s)…yeah, sounds like two desperate kids. And to quote a tabloid last week, “Brangelina are getting married this weekend – Again!”. After 7 years together and 6 kids, could they be more married? It isn’t even news anymore.

    • Sandy Pandy says:

      I know – totaly attention seeking. Gawd, give it a rest already. go yell at the ocean or something.

    • Saralita says:

      Comment is to Catty’s post to Lilac:

      How can you say someones on a rampage or enraged whilst going on an enraged filled rampage yourself? anyways…

      RE: Brad dumping Aniston, IMO, what I saw over the yrs was a guy who on a rebound from being cheated on by a beautiful woman married a homely woman, mistakenly thinking she was sweet and down to earth like the role she portrayed.

      He thought she wanted a family like she lied to him to get married, but as the yrs went on he saw the real her, shallow, dumb, super ambitious making movie after movie(all parts she got due to his fame.) he had to refer to her coming to his set a conjugal visit(during their honeymoon yr) because he never saw her.

      After, yrs of no family and nothing to relate to seeing as though she was spending all her time working and working out and tanning in her bikini….He meets a stunning woman, who unlike his vain wife, is a natural beauty, has a son she has adopted even though it meant losing her marrige, and has been donating more than the $500,000 that his dingbat wife spends on just her hair alone.

      Now if this was a woman wanting children in her 40s, everyone would understand his choice in leaving. Especially when your wife makes public statements like”is he the love of my life?and they both went into a marriage saying “the experiment” and having vows like “I promise to make banana milkshakes for you.”

      This is not really a very binding pledge to someone.

      “God forbid Jen gets engaged when there are again rumors of another Brad & Angie wedding – how many does that make now??”

      I don’t get this, they are actually engaged, you do know this right? These are not tabloid reports this is fact. Just like jen is now actually engaged now…which. I could be mistake but sounds to me like you had no problem taking as fact?

      Angie got caught at an art galleery wearing her ring, seems pretty un PR seeking to me. Seems fair enough that after this many yrs together you might wanna wear your ring??!

      Barbara Walters is an old bag—that’s like listening to my Nana harp on about how things were when woman still wore ho’s. ‘shacking up’??? Did I read that? Very outdated terms here.

      “God forbid he ever mentions the word love. Haven’t heard that they are marrying for love – not once!!”

      If you haven’t heard Brad mention love then I can’t help that—you must have missed the interviews and specifically referencing engagement when he said on access hollywood something to the effect of “when your in love with the mother of your children.”

      “Funny how out of the three Jen looks absolutely fantastic while Brad & Angie look absolutely horrible – skinny, old and dirty – really have lost their looks quickly.”

      Uh… have you not seen the photo of her in those cut off jeans??? she’s storing nuts in her cheeks or she’s become a prize fighter or she’s injecting again.

      • skuddles says:

        Fabulous post Saralita!

      • GHJackie says:

        “Angie got caught at an art gallery wearing her ring”

        Actually, Angie posed “casually” with her ring during a private showing at a museum. Private showing = only the people you authorize can be there because you’ve rented the whole place out. Ergo, the photographer was part of her group. So don’t kid yourself, that oh so casual photo was every bit as much a PR announcement as Huvane releasing a statement for Aniston. Plus, they probably got a large part of the fee that was charged for the photo.

  93. thetruthhurts says:

    Love her. I’m so glad she found happiness again. They are a gorgeous couple.

  94. Nev says:

    So far there isn’t alot of OBJECTIVE criticism going on here within the debates….if your going to spend time writing remarks abut how you feel regarding who cheated and who is right, etc…then you HAVE to be FULLY OBJECTIVE….there cannot be any hint of personal disdain because of their careers or personal style….doesn’t count….esp since no one knows the real truth about what happened seven, five or even two years ago with all these couples.

  95. Joyce says:

    The triangle chapter is over. Now, it is the comparison chapter. Who has a better ring? Who’s wedding dress is more beautiful? Who’s marriage will last longer. Who’s the better husband/wife? On and on and on and on until we all die.

  96. skuddles says:

    Not looking forward to being bombarded with a gazillion Aniston pre-wedding stories…. Especially the ones trying to suggest that Justjen are in a race against the Brange to tie the knot first. People think this puts an end to the perceived “triangle” but I think it’s just going to create an even less savory “quadrangle”. Wait, is that even a word?? 😀

  97. wisegirl says:

    saralita, absolutely great post.
    Very astute about the machinations that have made soooo many of us gals that used to enjoy Jen on Friends eventually begin to abhore her!

    It irritates us to see the paradox of how Jen and Angie are being perceived by her most of her misguided fanship.

    Angie is the big bad witch and Jen is the sweet innocent good girl.
    Makes for a good cliche but the facts dont match this map.

    Angie has practically given up her truly A-list career to be a mom to her beautiful bevvy of children JUST like she said!
    She is a true partner for Brad; seems to keep him endlessly interested and attracted to her and finally content.

    Jen on the other hand, covets an A-list movie career and has settled into instead being a topnotch (A-list if you will) celebrity gossip maker–thanks to her fabulous publicity juggernaut Huvane.

    Brad grew weary and embarrassed to go with her for the endless mani pedis and tannings and highlights…..Justin holds her bags! They are made for each other.

    Brad wanted relevance, depth, meaning in his life.
    Justin seemed to want that too-back when.

    Poor guy just got tired of seeing lesser talents get the A-list treatment and ah what the hell, man done sold his soul to breathe in that rarified air that Brad takes for granted.

    Me? I’m happy that the dust has settled and the lines are going to be drawn as to how wrong Brad and Jen were from the getgo.

    He married on the rebound ’cause he was ready for the full meal deal of familylife and almost missed his true soulmatch in his haste.

    He’s an admitted snob when it comes to movies and he must’ve cringed when he saw Jen’s dismal performances in her 5 movie grab at movie stardom…………

    The woman was delusional-cocky even!

    Jen thought she might attempt to play Marianne Pearl-imagine that utter joke??!!
    Imagine when Brad saw Angie’s virtuoso performance of such a difficult role!

    He’d missed a bullet by easing away from an uninteresting mate and an actress of the calibre of a Kathie Lee Gifford…..

    Justin’ll take her no problem—-she’s got her qualities but best of all, she’ll help get him the exposure he needs to finally get him into the world he covets so much.

    Same world Jen covets.

    Angie and Brad rule that world so they are free to covet what really matters.

    Thats why so many of us support the real deal couple.

    • Saralita says:

      BRILLIANT!

      It’s all so true, Brad and Jen were a terrible match.

      Angie has stayed true to the things she said about family.

      Jen has lied,lied, lied, flip flopped, and lied some more.

      I will have a baby in the next yr.(during divorce.)
      I will have a baby.
      Everyo one wants me barefoot and pregnant
      why does having a baby have to be the ideal of happiness.
      by publicist: justin doesn’t want kids so jen won’t now.

      YEAH RIGHT

      Well in all these yrs sh has not tried to be in any relationships with normal guys (because she doesnt want kids and never did.)and she has been repeatedly been dumped by all these other guys so she can’t even save face in the midst of the Brangalina lovfest.

      Enter stage right:

      Just-in-it-for-the-fame right on cue.

      And he is happy being her bag boy and getting papped doing it.

      Jen is high maintenance not just in her appearance—she also has to be well pampered, like Tate D said, she’s the kind of girl that needs to be in the fanciest hotels.

      Just-in-it-for-the-fame would understand that as he’s very effeminate and puts a lot of effort into his pseudo punk look.

      (Which couldn’t be more embarrassing for a 40 something.)

      she’s just as bad with her copycat outfits(remember when she was with Brad and suddenly she was a bohemian!!! haha now she’s tried to be all punk)

      She also doesn’t want kids like him. she need publicity desperately like him.

      they were a perfect match for a 5yrs or so contract.

  98. wisegirl says:

    Hey Lilac, no need to spend time defending your right/explaining your intent to your posts imho 🙂

    There’s plenty you said on this thread that is interesting, perceptive and just plain fun to read!

    You’re a smart gal and you speak for the likes of me, so knock yourself out ’cause I for one am having a hoot reading your posts!!!! hehe!

  99. april says:

    Not a fan of Angie or Jen but happy for both Jen and Justin! They look good and happy.

  100. kellymick says:

    Good luck to Jennifer and Squiggy!

  101. ZenB!tch says:

    Does this mean she is finally giving up on her “career”. She can’t pull the poor-poor pitiful me crap anymore.

  102. Heidi Bivens says:

    i feel sorry for Heidi, she must be heartbroken.
    she lost her boyrfriend to this suggamama…..
    i cant feel happy for aniston because of heidi. all his actions shows that he loves the money. i hope jennifer makes a good pre nup.

    he was with heidi for 14 years and no marriage. now hes dating superrichfamous aniston and wants to marry after this short time with jennifer???????? just sayin……

  103. Aqua says:

    Hopefully now that Jen is finally engaged the tabloids will start to get past the endless cycle of Angie,Brad and Jen.Somehow though I hardly doubt it.Congrats to both happy couples.

  104. Yep says:

    Shes a homewrecking whore and hes a cheating douchebag. They deserve each other.

  105. Bettie says:

    Congrats to Jen and Rockabilly Eddie Munster!

  106. Interesting says:

    yall remember when brad and angie got engaged and how jennifer fans kept saying no one cares and that people would care more for a Jen engagement..welp just checked umagazine shes not even the top story out of 5, the jon aniston denial on eonline posted HOURS ago has ZERO comments, on people mag despite the news being close to 24 hours still not number one most read story(brad and angie’s shot to number one within hours when engaged), just checked yahoo trending and shes nowhere to be found, just checked msn trending nowhere to be found…just checked eonline and they posted a new jen story an hour ago called anatomy of an engagement, it now has ZERO comments…so why are people not interested in this wedding, would love to know 🙂

    • The Original Mia says:

      I think it’s hilarious no one cares. After playing the press for 8 years, she’s finally petered out. She’s like the kid who cried wolf too many times. So many of her boyfriends have been the one that when the one really came along, no one cared to write about it. Hee.

      • Ally says:

        Love, hate or like her, people clearly do care. This thread is way over 300 replies already. The engagement news is number one most read on People.

    • Saralita says:

      My theory is that the whole reason that she would make such an ASSS out of herself and get engaged on the heels of Angelina’s engagement is for ONE reason and that of course is that it will maximize the publicity she could possibly get for her own engagement.

      picture this: pretend Ansiton wasn’t engaged and it’s 2 or so yrs from now Brad and Angie have been married now for sometime…then Aniston gets proposed to on Just-in’s birthday. WHO CARES?? it’s some nobody actor and her??? big deal…megawatt couple they are not.

      unlike, that scenario now how it went down last night…it will be endless “who wore it best?” “who’s wedding was better.” blah blah.

      She’s just a real pathetic insecure person. She constantly needs to detract from any attention Brad and Angie get.

      –Angie pregnant with twins/Aniston pops up at John Mayer concert as a groupie taking photos of him with her pentax like she’s in the Serengeti

      —Angie nominated for Oscar and Brad’s movie is nominated, THEY MAKE THEIR FIRST OSCAR APPEARANCE AS A COUPLE and suddenly Aniston’s gotta be there, pawing Douche bag-Mayer??? WTF AUDIBLY WHISPERING “I love your whole body” to him.

      cut to Angie getting married now she has to pull a Jessica Simpson and try and pisss all over their happiness.

      She is the forty-F%#$@ing-three years old and she still acts like an absolute teenager.

      • wisegirl says:

        you are Beyond fun on a thread!
        continue to share your inside scoops/thoughts…..it goes down good with a summer mint julep, dontcha know!!! 🙂

  107. taxi says:

    Show us the ring!! Wanna guess who pays for it?

  108. GrandPoobah says:

    But but…does this mean STAR Magazine lied to me?

    Congrats to the happy couple. Tanning and booze for all!

  109. Interesting says:

    i thought the jen fans say its only JP fans suspicious of this announcement

    http://www.eonline.com/news/337557/brangelina-s-wedding-plans-vs-jen-aniston-s-surprise-engagement-coincidence

    So Jennifer Aniston happens to announce an engagement right around the time when Brangelina is supposedly planning their own wedding? Coincidence? I think not.

    So you suspect Aniston of prearranging her engagement to Justin Theroux, just so it would break on the same weekend that Brangelina was, supposedly, marrying? Well, stranger things have happened. While there is no direct evidence pointing to a coordinated PR attack, publicists tell me that the timing of Aniston’s announcement is, in fact, suspicious.

    In case you need a primer, know this: Jennifer Aniston got engaged this weekend to writer/actor Theroux. It was the same weekend that tabloids had expected, or, at least, speculated, that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt would be marrying. Turns out that wedding didn’t happen. But Aniston got a headline.

    Between the three of them, Aniston, Jolie and Pitt have a reputation for stepping on each other’s media moments. The rep isn’t entirely warranted, but there have been a few times when personal developments have nearly overlapped. Within a month of Brangelina’s adoption of daughter Zahara, rumors began to surface that Aniston was dating Break-Up costar Vince Vaughn. And when interest in Jolie’s first pregnancy was at its fever pitch, Aniston called in to Oprah to deny her engagement to Vaughn.

    However, this latest one-two gossip punch seems a bit too pat to be an accident, says Cherie Kerr, a crisis PR expert who has worked with plenty of celebs.

    “I don’t think it’s coincidental,” Kerr says. “It does seem like every time there has been some big thing from Brangelina’s camp, something else comes out on Aniston.

    “Even if it wasn’t done on purpose, why not wait so the announcement could have focused on just her? Now it just reminds everyone of Jennifer Aniston’s sad past.”

    And in case you’re wondering: Yes, stars do coordinate with PR people quite often to time their big announcements, especially when professional or personal rivals are involved.

    • Saralita says:

      there is nothing remotely accidental about it. it’s as contrived as her annual half naked, asss up in the air bikini shots in Cabo.

      nobody makes a press statement before telling their own dad unless they are rushing to get the news of an engagement out there.

      And why the rush? Tomkat was pregnant, what’s jen’s reason?

      Seriously, it’s just so embarrassing. It’s so tacky to need to steal other peoples thunder…she’s is a bigger loser that I ever thought.

      • lili says:

        Agree 100%

      • GHJackie says:

        Whose thunder did they steal? As far as I can tell, there was no Brange wedding last weekend and Jolie wasn’t even in France since she’s filming in the UK.

        Seriously, did anyone really believe that if Pitt and Jolie were going to get married they would do it in the middle of one of them filming rather than waiting for a time when both are free and unstressed by other demands?

        Please…

  110. Agnes says:

    meh.

  111. skuddles says:

    I find it a bit odd that just last week we heard that Aniston gave Justin an ultimatum… marry me or it’s over, and now poof! they’re engaged. Did she literally force his hand? Who the heck wants to get married under those circumstances?? Or did they perhaps plant the break up story in a lame attempt to drum up more interest in the engagement announcement? Either way it kind of smells….

    • Saralita says:

      so true and weirder still, that Justin went running to the set last week to be papped with her and statements went out denying a split???

      Since, when does she or any celeb that’s not married rush to make a statement like that when it’s only in the rags?

      Unless, of course they are planning a big engagement media alert for the following Sunday and don’t want the story looking like exactly what you just said—Jen pressuring him or this being some rebound engagement.

      then it falls into place for all the frenzied denials.
      because this contrived engagement story was all wrapped and ready and they didn’t want it to have a negative spin on it’s heels. and that is why it rings so false to so many of us.

      along with that chessy unauthentic sounding line coughed up by huvane.

      “the best present he got was her accepting his proposal”

      It’s like a line from some hallmark movie f the week…gawd awful.

  112. bELLA says:

    HE IS MARRYING A NICE PORTFOLIO!!!!THATS IT$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$CA`NT WAIT TIL HE CHEATS….LOL

  113. Emma says:

    Remember when Loonifers said B/A are attention hungry for releasing an engagement statement? But now they are all up Jen’s ass congratulating her? Remember when Loonifers called Angelina a man stealing whore? But now they ignore the fact that Jen has broken up a 14 year relationship. Remember when Loonifers called Angelina a crazy bitch because she doesn’t like her father? But now they are ignoring Jen not even calling her own father to tell him the news. It’s all so hilarious how hypocritical they are.

  114. lu says:

    Wow i was looking at all the comments and lilac was from 8am till 3pm. Thats a lot of hatin hours.

    • Ennie says:

      Not as many as the hating to the other side fresh since 2005. I understand some ofmthe frustration since Brad and Angelina have been criticized for every pic, interview, action they do. Even their own engagement (when they made it known) was microanalized, dissected and criticized, and now people complain when these two are criticised in they way they make known their compromise.
      Besides my preferences in this quartet of doom, I think the dislike is more fpr the way some fans have acted, hating for no reason, eg, Olivia in every JP thread, even calling names like “concubine”… WTH?

  115. Nina says:

    Who cares if she’s more famous? He’s clearly smarter and more interesting… so they kinda balance each other out.

  116. Kate (newer one) says:

    It seems fans are waaaay more invested in JA and BP’s broken marriage than they can have been for several years now. Which is, by any standard, a little odd.

  117. Saralita says:

    in response to Lu:

    I don’t know what the point of your comment is other than to bash a poster?

    Which just makes you look defensive of her truly astute remarks regarding the hypocrisy—frankly, it also seems really mob mentality of you when there have been more than 5 others singling out one poster to bully. when many others like myself have made the same comments freely. It’s disturbing to see.

    For crying out loud, when posters speculate on other posters motives it only reflects on them and their motives.

    In the words of the great Thumper: “if you don’t have anything nice to say then shut up or gossip!”

    or something to that effect.

    ps You should fact check she last posted at 2pm from what I see, AND what of it? your taking time out of your life right now to bother with that post? So?

  118. Lucky Charm says:

    If this engagement wasn’t a pre-planned PR move, then how come on last Wednesday’s episode of The Soup, they were promoting the very special “Wedding of the Century: Jennifer & Justin” episode on August 29th? How would they (E!) know about the engagement two days BEFORE the proposal if it hadn’t already been planned to be announced this particular weekend?

    • Mairead says:

      From my reading of it, it does just seem to be serendipity.
      It’s probably a piss-take as a result of the Brangelina wedding rumour so that Aniston is able to FINALLY give up her Queen of the Dumped crown. It just turned out they were more on the money than they reckoned.

  119. BrickyardUte says:

    Happy for Jennifer and Justin. I think it’s sad people like Lilac are so negative and angry over them.

    I seriously doubt Jennifer or Brange consider each other’s schedules when making life decisions. Should Justin move his bday? Jeez!

  120. Lurkeelee says:

    The important questions are: Will Justin wear a skinny pant tuxedo with white combat boots? Will uncle terry be the ring bearer? Will the minister be coincidently named Brad? Will Jen be wearing Beyonce’s baby bump thingie under her dress to intrigue her fans? Will the actors who played Squiggy, Eddie Munster and Beavis be guests? Will the bride and groom throw out antique dentures and bottle caps instead of rice? Finally, what does Justin get paid per hour for all this?

    • wisegirl says:

      Lurkeelee what a delight you are!
      an imaginative snark attack thats chockful of good humor!

      Thanks for making me laugh!

      some of you gals on here are cybergems!

  121. anom says:

    out of the men that have “sampled” manniston, Therox is willing to JUST GO WITH IT” for perceived fame and fortune! paid manho is REALLY UGLY but matched with uglyManny…….PERFECT MATCH!!!

  122. Pounette says:

    Her thighs are so much larger than his–and his face is orange from spray tan–wonder whose idea that is???????????????????

  123. Mairead says:

    Ugh, just when I thought this twat couldn’t get any more passive-aggressive. OF COURSE it was seriously feckin’ convenient that they announced their engagement on the weekend the strongest rumours of a Brange wedding yet. It was the best timing for them. If it didn’t happen, then yay, loads of publicity and magazine covers for them. If the wedding went ahead then Aniston stole some of the thunder.

    And yes I do believe that she would do it, some people just like being bitchy like that. Personal story time: when my bf and myself first got together he was living with a housemate who happened to be his ex. She was not a happy camper that he found someone before her and wouldn’t be around as her baby-making backup plan. Even though we didn’t meet until ages later she’d be in the background making up bullshit like how she had a vision that I would cheat as she was psychic (personally I think the dumb bitch just didn’t know how to spell psycho). Basically she did everything she could to make me miserable. But for the longest time she never let on to us that she actually had a long-distance boyfriend just so she could play the “oh woe is me alone in the world card”.
    Fast forward a few years and myself and himself are having a weekend break that coincides with my birthday. As soon as we land we get a text that said “Me and Lazy-streak-of-uselessness got engaged. Sorry if I’m annoying you). I saw it for what it was: she thought that we were going to get engaged that weekend so she decided to be nasty and “steal our thunder”.
    Strangely we never heard any more about it until about a year or two after when they actually DID get engaged for real. They had their wedding recently. Myself and Himself are still not engaged which suits me fine 😉

    I’ve been itching to come on here since I heard the news. Saralita et al, ye didn’t disappoint 😀

    • Saralita says:

      ITA, loved your post Mairead. It’s amazing to me that anyone is even trying to deny this fact of her sabotaging Brad’s engagement.

      It’s one of the most cliche things in the book of jealously to do…

      get engaged 4 months after your ex gets engaged, announce it to the world at the height of attention for the Ex…I mean come on???

      and like you said, she had it so both ways she gets the attention back on her.

      she did the same thing with going to the Oscars the one yr Brad and his wife went—the ONE yr!

      She had no reason to be there at all and look at all the yrs prior and after, she never went again—but she just had to the yr that her Ex went???

      and take who else but Douche bag Mayer, she tried to upstage their whole night.

      Then she bombed on stage in front of them which was so great…I played it over with my friends like 3 times!!! she was so akward…but I digress…

      point is like you said she’s just the type of person that is super passive aggressive.

      like with the woman in your story, I know these types too, had teenage girlfriends like this…usually it passes in your 20s…I call those type of woman ‘Saboteurs’ because that is their entire goal, their happiness is second to it, disturbingly they actually can find a type of joy in what they are doing.

      When I see Chinnifer with Just-in-it-for-fame, she always has that look in her eye. like those girls. She is getting a type of happiness out of the attention she’s pulling from Brads life. It’s disgusting.

  124. Mairead says:

    Actually, I’m going to change my stance on this a little as I just read an interesting perspective over on CDAN (yes I know). Sure f*king with the Brange is nice and all, but the fact that John Mayer is back in the news by dating Katy Perry is equally interesting timing, and probably has more to do with it than the wedding-that-never-was. That just made it an even better sell in the media.

  125. Guesto says:

    Just…wow. The investment so many of you seem to have in the lives of these people is downright frightening.

  126. JulieM says:

    Sometimes this site really scares me. The emotional investment some people have in loving/hating certain celebrities is quite astounding. I don’t think there is anyone else in the Hollywood/celebrity world that engenders this much toxic loathing as Jennifer Aniston; a somewhat mediocre actress who was once married to a more famous actor. She’s finally found someone to love and some of you resent her for it. Brad is forgiven his mistakes but Jennifer is condemned for hers. You must all be very, very perfect in your lives, never tripping up or hurting someone or making any mistake of any kind to be so vicious towards this innocuous woman. I know I’ve screwed up in my life; haven’t you?

    And please, no lectures about how calculating Jen is and how natural Brad is. And how Justin manipulated his birthday to step on the Brange’s non wedding weekend. I think they can defend themselves. I also have a feeling that Brad is secretly thrilled that Jen has finally found someone to move on with.

    Jen hating lecture (in which someone accuses me of being an immoral hypocrite) in five, four, three, two….

    • Saralita says:

      personally, that is not remotely why I can’t stand Maniston.

      my reason are as follows:

      HARD NIPPLES showing on friends in like every episode started my dislike.

      PLAYING COY in ’99 with her engagement ring for months (when she was a rebound.)

      GETTING MAJOR MOVIES after being with Brad, when prior her movie attempt was a failure just like her friends co-stars.

      CONSTANT FIDGETING WITH HER HAIR drives me nuts how her hair is always cut to frame her huge manly face, and this causes her to have to repeatedly, brush it strategically to the side, as she knows sh cn’t put it badd or t will reveal her giant rodent ears!

      (Why does this bother me so much you ask? Because, she gets away with being considered good looking by the media–WHEN SHE IS SOOOOOO HOMELY.

      —if she were a good actress/character actress or even just an uncalculated person—this would not bother me so much.

      But her entire career has been based off trying to be a tart–so her looks are fair game to criticize. )

      HAVING MULTIPLE NOSE JOBS and not admitting it, along with fillers and the 500,000 she spends on her hair etc

      HER WINNING all the awards over friends co stars suddenly–just bcuz she was with brad.

      EVERY SINGLE SUMMER FOR THE PAST 8 YRS pictures of her in her bikini,tanning with her ass up in the air as she changes her towel.

      THE STUPID AIR HEAD THINGS THAT COME OUT OF HER MOUTH
      “life’s hard get a helmet.”

      HER USING HER BREAK UP(vanity fair interview)with Brad as a way to suck sympathy out of people so she could boost her career. making snide remarks and then crying when appropriate—oldest, lamest trick in the book.

      THIS IS ALL I FIT INTO NE POST, I’VE GOT AN ENDLESS SUPPLY THOUGH…she annoys me on every level. Don’t get me started on how slutty she acts…that’s a

      ‘ho…

      nutha…

      leva!”

      NONE OF THIS WOULD BE A PROBLEM FOR ME IF SHE WENT BACK TO BEING ON TV OR JUST DID SOME MOVIES HERE AND THERE, AND STOPPED BEING SUCH A DESPERATE FAME WH0RE.

      BUT, SHE’S PERPETUALLY SHOVED IN MY FACE BY HUVANE AND HER ANTICS AND SO LONG AS THAT IS THE CASE I WILL LOATHE HER!

      There is nothing that makes me more annoyed than someone that lacks talent yet gets free passes to be in movies solely because she hangs on the perpetuates gossip over her long ago, short lived, childless relationship with BRAD PITT….with the newest example being GETTING ENGAGED RIGHT WHEN THERE WAS A FEVER PITCH OF GOSSIP FOR HIS MARRIAGE TO BE TAKING PLACE!

      IF THAT DOESN’T SAY PATHETIC I DON’T KNOW WHAT DOES.

      • JulieM says:

        Saralita: Are you trying to convince me or yourself? I simply don’t understand why you care so much about people you don’t know. Unless you do. You don’t like Jen; I get it. But why be so abusive about it.

        Also- Count me out of the people who slam Brad/Angie whenever there’s a story about them. I say live and let live. Both couples are better off and happier where they are now than where they were.

      • wisegirl says:

        saralita, you are nailin’ for me on this thread!
        Yup! you pretty much have it covered, why this chick is so annoying to so many of us gals!

        Just like Meg Ryan is nothing like her image–she is jaded, cynical and tough—Aniston is no girl next door all around sweetheart—she is ambitious, calculated and hungry for the limelight.

        The chick actually had the temerity to ACCEPT the Sexiest Woman of ALL TIME, people!!!!

        she should have refused it outright on the grounds that it was RIDICULOUS!AND provided as exhibits A-Z

        Elizabeth Taylor, Monroe, Ava Gardner, Garbo, Cleopatra, Jean Shrimpton, Julie Christie, Vivien Leigh, and on and on and yeah, as long as Jennifer Lopez, Rachel Weisz and Angie are around, Jennifer is waaaaaaaaaaaaay down the list.

        For shame.

    • Mairead says:

      If this means the end of “poor Jennifer the brave little solider without a may-un” then I’m absolutely over the fucking moon about this. I actually think they make a very attractive couple together (esp in that first pic) and hope they last forever and ever and ever and ever.

      My dislike of her only goes back a few years, and its none of the above reasons 😉

      it’s mainly the allowing of constant “tragic singleton” and “stabbed in the heart” stories which she and her publicist are well able to curb if they really wanted to. And her interviews are just so passive-aggressive and dumbass fibs (like her wanting to travel and explore the world- what’s the point).

  127. kathy k says:

    Jennifer”s fans are so funny. For years, they crucified Angie/Brad for their “mistakes,” but are willing to forgive Jennifer anything. I think Jen and Justin are all-about-me a-holes. Their behavior says it all.

    They started this relationship with lying and cheating and the girlfriend was totally blind-sided by it all. She has never denied cheating once–this woman will deny everything said about her to the press–even how much she uses on beauty products–but not the cheating. It”s obvious they were sneaking around. After all her carping to the press about Brad/Angie missing a sensitivity chip and being uncool? What a classless hypocrite.

    Plus, the very week his girlfriend moves out, they release pictures of themselves kissing to the press, and wearing matching rings. Not only did they lie to Heidi and her mother, and to the world, saying they were nothing more than “friends,” but they also rubbed salt into her wounds. Only nasty people do that. She”s no better than Brad or Angelina and her fans are seriously off for making one excuse after the other for her. She”s shown her true colors and she”s a nasty person.

  128. Megan says:

    Congrats to Jen and Justin and equally congrats to Ange & Brad 🙂

    This thread has honestly scared me. It’s one thing to be a fan and it’s quite another to be a fanatic.

    The fanatics on either side are so emotionally invested in these people, people who quite frankly could not care less. Each of these four people are doing exactly what they want with their lives, they’ve made choices in the past that you may or may not agree with and guess what in the future they’ll make moves that will make you question (or in some cases hyperventilate and frantically recall tidbits of interviews almost ten years ago, yeah it’s only been that long)

    My point is, this is a place to celeb-bitch! Not bitch at each other! Speculating on the lives of the rich and famous is supposed to be fun…i really think its time to move on from this silly so called triangle. I don’t understand the team this or team that bullshit or the reactionary “but you should have seen the way THESE FANS were for the last so and so years so we had no choice but to RESPOND IN THE EXACT SAME CRAZY WAY”
    I call bullshit again. Maybe it’s time those people who seriously can’t let it go (and again this is directed at both fanatical ends of the spectrum) to see get off the keyboard and take a break from these posts. Because I promise you it is simply not normal (free pass to tweens and teens who dont know any better ;)) to be so fixated on the details of a celebrity image whom you will never meet or truly get to know. And it’s pretty disturbing to see the vitriol directed from certain posters to others. This is not a game you’re gonna win a prize for guys.

    Anyway that’s my fiddy cents, feel free to agree or disagree but don’t bother attacking me personally. Can we all move on now?

    • Saralita says:

      personally, I find posters that basically have nothing to say other than to bully a poster much worse than a seemingly fanatical enthusiasm.

      When someone is willing to post a comment to try to bully or embarress another poster that shows just how invested and how personally they are taking comments that are directed at Chinnifer Maniston.

      I find those types of comments so useless, why come to a gossip site, if your going to say people are “too invested” or have “too much time on their hands.” I don’t get it(you’re) here too?? LOL (not directed at megan)

      personally, I will continue to say my views on a celeb like Maniston as long as she is going to be shoved in my face by Huvane and her antics.

      If she wants to keep doing things like getting engaged on the heels of brad’s engagement then there is going to be lot’s for me to talk about re: her.

      She is overwhelmingly fun to despise because she never let’s you down.

      I thought she might evolve over time and start actually living her own life and slowly bore me and stay quiet and my past annoyances with her would fade away…but, she just never ceases to act like a complete idiot time and time again…so I will keep having things to comment on and laugh at.

      Since, it’s a gossip site and all it just seems like the right place for it? could be wrong though??

      I don’t think it’s a site for commenting on the intent of other posters though…that I’m pretty sure of.

      • Saralita says:

        From Megan:
        “(or in some cases hyperventilate and frantically recall tidbits of interviews almost ten years ago, yeah it’s only been that long)”

        I find that statement really rude and I also strongly disagree with it.

        That is what I love most about reading posts, when a poster has an infinite ability to pull from obscure references from the past—that takes talent to weave into a great post and I relish them.

        What is mind numbingly boring is useless posts that are not about the celeb.

      • Megan says:

        Thank you for completely proving my point and others who have made similar comments to mine Hun 🙂 you have a great day and don’t let it stress you so much, it’s seriously not worth it

    • JulieM says:

      Megan- I, for one, think your comment is terrific. It’s as if the Jen haters are trying to browbeat the rest of us in to hating her and agreeing with them. Won’t work. Kinda silly. Waste of energy.

      • Megan says:

        I agree completely Julie, such a waste of energy for some people 🙂 there are celebs I like, some I don’t but I’m not going to browbeat others into sharing my opinion.
        I noticed you got a pretty imitate reply as I did to my comment, funny how it was the same poster 😉
        Edit, meant similar not imitate, damn tiny keyboard on my iPad!!

    • wisegirl says:

      Megan, maybe you don’t mean to be but you are appointing yourself a Poster Police.

      The snark on this thread is just mindless sport bitchin’ about a gal many of us find overrated, that’s about all.

      You need to be on sites where they take joy in the prospect of Angelina being raped at 16 (don’t ask) or find amusement in calling B&A’s baby Vivienne mongoloid, Zahara unkempt and Shiloh a future transgender……for egs.

      This stuff here doesn’t even come close and is like target practise with blanks.

      Don’t sweat us gals sharing a snark here and there.
      Nobody wants ill for Jen, rest assured.
      Peace. 🙂

  129. jaye says:

    Just read through most of the comments here and wow. Just…wow.

    • wisegirl says:

      wow thanks for sharing–your opinion….
      I read the same posts and found an interesting interaction of totally divergent opinions. MMMMM. I will return just ’cause of that.

      I appreciate that. 🙂

  130. anom says:

    so glad these two fame whores will unite. both ugly and talentless. sure hope they don’t breed.