I was just listening to Courteney Cox’s call-in interview with Howard Stern and I was struck by how well Courteney and her ex, David Arquette, are handling their split and co-parenting. My impression may be based on a carefully cultivated image they’re putting out there with help from Stern, but I do believe that they still care about each other and are going about this in a healthy, rational way. I just wrote about Halle Berry’s acrimonious custody battle. It’s like Halle (and her ex, Gabriel Aubry,) can’t let go of the anger and they’re only hurting their daughter. Courteney and David Arquette know what matters and they’re working to make sure they put their child first. Part of that may involve Courteney making sure she’s completely ready before she starts dating adgain. We’ve heard that David has a new girlfriend, and he’s been a little too candid about hooking up with randoms when Courteney first pulled the plug on their marriage. Courteney insists that she’s been celibate since David, though, and that she hasn’t even been on a date. I guess all those rumors about her hooking up with co-stars were false, or she’s good at lying about it. Here’s more:

Courteney Cox and David Arquette have continued to support each other since their separation in October 2010. Last month, the former couple stepped out for a celebratory dinner marking Arquette’s year of sobriety. And when Arquette competed on “Dancing With the Stars” this past fall, Cox and daughter Coco cheered him on from the front row.

When Cox was a guest on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM radio show Wednesday, she revealed that Arquette has been encouraging her to embrace single life: “He says to me, ‘Courteney, it’s time. Get out there.’ He wants me to date now. He wants me to start my life, and he’s comfortable with whoever that would be [with].”

But the 47-year-old “Cougar Town” actress admits she’s not ready to re-enter the dating game, and has been celibate since her marriage ended. “I have not had a man since David … No guy has asked me out,” she claims.

However, she assures Stern that she’ll be seeking romance again soon: “Right now, I’m not quite ready to date. I’m getting closer … as things become more final in my life with David.” – Huffington Post

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Based on this interview with Cox, and prior chats with Arquette, Stern attributes the couple’s breakdown to sex issues, but Cox divulged that it was more than their bedroom problems that caused their breakup.

“The truth of the matter is that we love each other so much. We have such affection for each other, but we are very different,” she asserted. “I’m a homebody. I like to have people over, but I’m a little socially… not… I don’t love it. David, he doesn’t drink anymore, he’s completely sober, but he likes to go out and dance. He really is a very gregarious guy. He’s very outgoing. I’m much more of an introvert.”

While Cox isn’t dating, Arquette has a new girlfriend. The former “Friends” star admitted that it was hard to meet her.

Cox insisted that she and Arquette are getting along and co-parenting daughter Coco very well. – ExtraTV

[From Huffington Post and Extra TV]

I like these two. I really warmed to David after seeing him on Oprah with his sisters and hearing about his horrible childhood. He’s been committed to sobriety and it shows. Courteney could have been more upfront with denials at the time the cheating rumors were out, but I actually believe her. I do think she at least had some kind of “emotional affair” with her co-star, Brian Von Holt, around the time of her split. She confided in a single dude about her marriage when she should have been telling a friend or therapist. That can surely eat away at a marriage and lead to serious trust issues.

It doesn’t seem like we’ve ever been privvy to the details of a Hollywood couples’ split like this, and they two are acting like they have nothing to hide. It’s smart and they’re keeping the tabs at bay. Why speculate when they seem to be laying it all out?

Here’s Courtney at a screening of “Cougar Town” on 2-8-12. David is shown with his girlfriend, ET’s Christina McLarty, on 1-27-12. Credit: WENN.com

E! News has a new interview with Courteney Cox’s Cougar Town costar, Josh Hopkins. Courteney was photographed with Josh looking very coupled up in St. Barts, but has denied that she’s romantically involved with him and recently said on Howard Stern that she hasn’t screwed anyone during her separation from David Arquette. (She also gave TMI about how David always wanted to have sex at inappropriate moments.) Josh actually explained it better than any of the other denials or articles I’ve read about it, and said that a lot of the cast and crew was there since they were filming on location and were just taking a break.

“You’re talking about St. Barts… this is how that happened. We’re shooting the last episode, we’re all talking about what we’re going to do on hiatus. She’s like ‘I’m going to the beach…’

“We went with a bunch of friends, but of course the pictures are just of she and I frolicking. They frame it like that and then the stories, that’s great, they’re like ‘An unnamed source saw them being suspicious.’”

It looked suspicious to me because the pictures were so incredibly clear and most all of the agencies had them. It’s hard to believe that several paparazzi agencies all paid for a photographer to go to St. Barts just to follow the C-listers of Cougar Town while they were filming. I think that these were meant as promotion for the show and that Courteney cosigned the cheating rumors in exchange for some publicity. US Weekly even carried these with a breathless report on how Josh and Courteney shared a villa. She’s been inviting the paps and dealing with the resulting stories because she wants people to watch her show.

I still think there was something to the rumors that she was with her other co-star, Brian Von Holt, and that she was fibbing on Stern about not sleeping with anyone else. Maybe this guy is telling the truth, though. I sound naive here, don’t I?

Photo credit: Fame Pictures

When I heard this story I thought it was old news, because didn’t David Arquette just tell Howard Stern that he tried to make a pass at Courteney Cox while they were on a family trip to Disneyland but got shot down? He did say that, but it was on Tuesday and as E! reports he was sitting in on Howard’s show all week. Well Courteney paid him a visit yesterday on the show and she confirmed that story that David tried to get in her pants but she turned him down. She also claimed that she hasn’t had sex at all since their split. Now why is she palling around with all those fine men and going on vacation with them? What is the damn point? Whether she was telling the truth or not, David believes her. What’s more is that Courteney said that she and David broke up because he couldn’t just hang out with her without getting a boner and wanting sex. They must have gotten old after 10 freaking years.

In an interview with Howard Stern yesterday, the estranged couple discussed their sex life at length, leaving little to the imagination.

When probed by Stern regarding Arquette’s reported advances on Cox during a trip to Disney World with their daughter Coco, 6, the actress said frankly, “It was early in the morning. This is one of our problems in our relationship. Whenever I would need consoling from David, he could not literally put his arm around me for one second without completely getting a boner.”

Cox told Stern that, despite her husband’s admitted flings following their separation, “I have not had sex,” since the split, denying that she is romantically involved with her ‘Cougar Town’ co-star Josh Hopkins.

While Cox had said just weeks before of her ex, who recently celebrated his 100th day of sobriety, “He looks the best he’s ever looked. He’s doing great. He’s just awesome,” she admitted that she was hesitant to become intimate with him again. “I don’t want to confuse the issue,” she said. “We’re going through a hard time.”

“I’m always ready for [Courteney],” said Arquette. “I know I’m more in touch with what she needs now…She takes one sort of thing and she clumps it [and says] that’s what happens all the time in our relationship. It’s not really true.”

Cox told Stern that in the past, Arquette had supported her through difficult times, including her father’s death in 2001, but she seemed far from ready to get back together. After Arquette accused her of being “over it,” Cox admitted, “The truth of the matter is that we love each other so much. We have such affection for each other but we are very different.”

[From Popeater]

You can hear a clip of that at TMZ. David said that “I’m always ready for you,” but as Popeater noted above he claimed that she was overgeneralizing.

Can we believe Courteney, did she really not bone any of those hot guys from her show? David is buying it, but it’s obviously not helping their relationship much. I get the impression that she just doesn’t want to tell him it’s over for good and is hoping he’ll figure it out and come to terms with it on his own. She may think she’s doing him a favor but it looks to me like she’s just stringing the poor guy along.

Image below credit: HowardStern.com Other photo is from 6/1/10. Credit: WENN.com

Fame Pictures claims Courteney Cox and Brian Van Holt are “filming” in these photos. Do you see any cameras? I don’t. Granted, they’re probably on a break from filming Cougar Town, but I suspect that there’s another reason for these photos. First, Courteney has allegedly been boning Brian for months – tabloids were reporting their alleged affair months before Courteney and David Arquette announced their split. When Court & David actually split though, is up for grabs – and it’s totally possible that Cox and van Holt began having a sexual/romantic/emotional relationship AFTER Courteney and David had decided to try a trial separation. Of course, I’m of the opinion that Brian Van Holt is the reason for the trail separation in the first place. Arquette’s opinion? That Courteney and Brian had an “emotional affair”. Yeah… that’s what they were doing at a hotel. Having an emotional affair.

Even though Courteney seems to be publicly denying that she and David are going to divorce, I’ve been wondering for a while if Van Holt isn’t going to end up The New Ex Mr. Cox, you know? How would it look if Courteney began rolling out a new relationship? It would look like this. It would be comfortable-looking photos of two costars talking and bonding, and then in a few months, they walk a red carpet together… maybe for the Golden Globes? And then an brief interview, confirming that they are, in fact, dating. Et cetera.

By the by… this week, Star Magazine (via Jezebel) is reporting that “Courteney and David Arquette broke up because he was drinking too much; she got sick of seeing him sloshed. She won’t take him back unless he goes to rehab. This story is accompanied by three pictures of David drunk and partying; in two out of three images, little people are involved. In the third, David is carrying a bottle of champagne through the streets.” Honestly, I’m worried about David’s partying too, but I don’t think his partying was the CAUSE of the split with Cox, I think it was the RESULT of the split.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

The National Enquirer has a story this week that I’ve been waiting for – it’s the story that makes the Courteney Cox-David Arquette split all about the Jolie-Pitts. I’m surprised it didn’t come out last week, but this was worth the wait. According to the Enquirer’s source, Angelina Jolie totally freaked out when she found out that Brad made a consolation call to Courteney. At this point, Angelina should just take away Brad’s phone privileges. He gets into so much trouble with phones.

Angelina Jolie flipped out after learning Brad Pitt had called Courteney Cox to offer condolences on her marriage bustup. Sources close to the couple say that super-jealous Angelina angrily accused Brad of contacting Courteney as a cover to rekindle his ties to ex-wife Jennifer Aniston!

Now a suspicious Angelina, 35, is demanding that Brad stop speaking to both Courteney and her estranged husband, David Arquette, both of whom he’s known for years.

“Angie flew into a rage when Brad admitted he called Courteney – and she accused him of using the Arquette split to reach out to Jen,” says an insider. “Angie said she wouldn’t be surprised if Jen was sitting right next to Courteney when he called!”

“When Brad heard that Courteney and David had split up, he thought is was natural to reach out,” the source said. “He called Courteney and told her, ‘I’ve been there. I know the pain you’re feeling.’ He said all the things you say to an old friend who’s going through a breakup. But his mistake was bringing it up to Angie.”

According to the source, Brad was “astonished” by Angelina’s angry reaction, and he patiently tried to reassure her that his phone call to Courteney had nothing to do with Jennifer.

“But Angelina can’t bear the thought of Brad having any communication at all with Jen – even if it was just to console her best friend over a marital split,” said the source. “Angelina is convinced that Courteney has been bad-mouthing her for years in an attempt to protect Jen’s reputation. It’s all very high school, but when it comes to her rivalry with Jennifer, there’s no getting through to Angie.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition]

Yes, it IS “all very high school.” And yet… there’s something there, right? I can actually see Angelina freaking out over Brad calling his ex-wife’s best friend. Even though I don’t think Courteney has been “bad-mouthing Angelina for years.” After all, Courteney has her own drama to deal with, and her life doesn’t revolve around her the Bermuda Triangle. Can I just say one thing, though? I’m pleasantly surprised that Jennifer Aniston hasn’t said anything publicly about the Cox-Arquette split. I like that she’s not out there, making public comments about her friend’s marriage. It’s nice.

In other news, both In Touch Weekly and Star Magazine have stories about how Brad and Angelina are “struggling” while Angelina works in Budapest. She’s losing sleep and losing weight, and people are calling her “The Crow” which is a pretty cool nickname, in my opinion. Maybe Brad’s nickname is “The Bluejay” or “The Dodo”. Meanwhile, Life & Style got photos of the interiors of the Budapest home the Jolie-Pitts are renting:

Additional pics courtesy of Fame.

Courtney Cox, 45, gained a little bit of much-needed weight so now there are inevitable pregnancy rumors. In this case, Star Magazine claims to have a “source” who says Courtney is pregnant, but they lead the story with the fact that she’s not so skinny and was maybe holding her stomach at the SAG awards. I think that’s pretty much what they’re basing the story on, but there’s also the fact that the Cougar Town set was shut down briefly in November. Here’s Star’s account:

Curvier Courteney Cox raised eyebrows by holding her purse in front of her stomach while walking the Golden Globes red carpet in a black dress. And at the after parties for the Jan. 17 awards ceremony, the glowing actress stuck to drinking water with lime, leaving partygoers to wonder: Is she expecting?

Now a source tells Star that Courteney, 45, is thrilled after finding out she’s pregnant with her second child. “Courteney’s telling friends she’s almost three months along,” an insider tells Star. “She’s been trying to get pregnant again for so long. She feels really lucky.” Courteney, who has a 5-year-old daughter, Coco, with husband David Arquette, is due in late July, says the source.

The Cougar Town star confided to friends she had multiple IVF treatments to get pregnant. “The Cougar Town set was shut down in November because she was getting IVF. She was on bed rest to make sure the implant took,” says the source. “Courteney’s being very careful. She had several miscarriages in the past and doesn’t want to suffer that loss again.” And her best friend, Jennifer Aniston, is by her side, making sure she takes care of herself. “Jen is totally into helping Courteney with her baby,” says the source.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, February 8, 2010]

Courteney suffers from antiphospholipid syndrome, an autoimmune disorder that causes blot clotting and pregnancy loss. Most women have no idea about it until they suffer a miscarriage. It’s worth looking into if you’ve had a miscarriage and is easily treated with blood thinners and/or low dose aspirin. Courtney suffered multiple miscarriages before she found out she had the disorder and was able to get treatment and become pregnant with Coco, now five and a half. Anyway she’s in a high risk category due to her condition and advanced maternal age.

Courteney has said in the past that she’d love to have another child and that if it didn’t happen naturally she’d adopt. I hope she is pregnant if that’s what she’s hoping for. It’s true that the Cougar Town set was shut down in November for Courteney to attend to a “family matter.” Was the family matter an IVF treatment? Fingers crossed for Courteney if this is true.

Photo credit: WENN.com

Production has been temporary stopped on super-corny comedy “Cougar Town,” with ABC issuing a statement that star Courteney Cox needs time to deal with a “private family matter.” It all sounds so mysterious, and let’s hope that everything is ok for Cox, her husband David Arquette and their five year-old daughter, Coco.

Production on Cougar Town has been suspended for now while star Courteney Cox attends to a family matter.

Neither reps for Arquette, 45, nor the show disclosed what the issue was.

In a statement, an ABC rep says: “We can confirm production on Cougar Town has been temporarily shut down in order for Courteney to deal with a private family matter.”

[From People]

There’s a lot of divorce speculation, and some are wondering if Cox is adopting or if she could be pregnant. It could really be anything, and I know I’ve used the “family matter” excuse when I wanted to get out of work for whatever reason. A couple of weeks ago, the National Enquirer reported that Courtney was very domineering and rude to crew on the set of “Cougar Town” and that she’d earned the nickname “mother hen” from fed up staff. She is also said to regularly demand last-minute script changes in order to present her character in the best light. Maybe she’s having some kind of conflict with producers and that’s why she’s stopped working.

The show is doing well in the ratings and has been picked up for another full season. I’m not a fan and had to switch it off midway into the second episode. I just don’t find it funny and seems like they’re trying way too hard. Sadly, ABC canceled one of my favorite new shows, “Eastwick,” while ordering another season of this mess. It’s making plenty of money for them so unless Cox doesn’t come back for whatever reason it will probably be on for a while.

Courtney Cox’s old “Friends” castmate, Lisa Kudrow, will make a cameo on Cox’s new ABC sitcom, “Cougar Town”, which airs Wednesdays at 9:30. The show is performing well in the ratings and has been picked up by ABC for a new season, so it doesn’t particularly need a boost. Kudrow could benefit from the appearance as much as the show – she hasn’t been seen much since her HBO faux reality series “The Comeback” was canceled after one season in 2005. She now stars on an improvised Internet-based show called Web Therapy that’s earning praise from fans.

This excerpt has spoilers for Cougar Town beyond the news that Kudrow will appear:

We know this much to be true: Any Friends rerun playing at 11:30 p.m. on channel 5 is still as good or better than most of the original episodes of TV airing on any given day.

Friends still rules, after all this time, which is why we’re delighted that five years after the series went off the air, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow are reuniting onscreen!

ABC sources confirm that Kudrow is set to film an episode of Cox’s hit freshman series, Cougar Town, later this month.

But who will Lisa play, and when will we see the episode onscreen? Here’s what we can tell you…

According to Ms. Cox herself in TV Guide magazine, “If it all works out, she’ll play a dermatologist that my character can’t stop going to even though the doctor is mean to me…whatever it is [she does], she’s the best in town at what she does and I become addicted.”

Words that could apply equally well to Cox, Kudrow and their fellow Friendly brethren: Best in town and addictive. (Yay for this reunion!)

The Kudrow-Cox joint is expected to premiere in early 2010 on ABC.

Do you already love Cougar Town, or can you live without it until Kudrow comes by?

[From E! Online]

I really loved Friends, but Cougar Town is no Friends with benefits. I’ve tried to watch the show and sat through the whole first episode. Some of the jokes made me cringe and the dialogue is over the top and unrealistic. The characters get in ridiculous situations that could never happen in real life. I watched about ten minutes of the second episode before I switched it off. A lot of people enjoy Cougar Town, and I’ve seen people raving about it online, but it’s just not for me. It seems like it appeals to the same fans of Scrubs, which I also couldn’t get into. For that type of genre it’s probably a great show that I’m just not able to appreciate.

I enjoy more subtle kind of humor – like Friends, that was a great show. Eastwick on ABC is a supernatural dramedy that I really enjoy this season, too, and the rest of my favorites are dramas. I’d love to see more of the former Freinds castmembers and this is good news that Kudrow will be popping up in Cougar Town.

Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow are shown on 9/29/09. Credit: WENN.com

Rumors have resurfaced that a “Friends” movie, based on the hit NBC sitcom that ran for ten years, is in the works. “Friends” has been off the air for five years and it seems like we’ve been hearing stories of a big screen version ever since. Last year, The Daily Mail claimed that a Friends movie was forthcoming, and that it would be produced by Warner Brothers, a claim that Warner Brothers promptly denied. Now News of The World has a new interview with James Michael Tyler, who played cute bald barista Gunther at the show’s coffee house, Central Perk. Tyler allegedly confirms that a film is underway, and that everyone has signed on, including presumed holdout Jennifer Aniston:

Hugs all round – because we can reveal that Friends is back for a big-screen version of the hit sitcom.

Studio bosses have got together for an oversized mug of coffee to prepare a script for a film version of the series.

And they are ready to break the bank with a multi-million package to get the main cast on board.

In an exclusive interview with the News of the World, James Michael Tyler – who played Central Perk oddball Gunther – confirmed: “Friends: The Movie is definitely on. I still keep in touch with a lot of the cast and they say that they are really keen.”

The film comes in the wake of the big screen version of Sex And The City which took an astonishing $408,921,925 at the box office.

The cast have always made no secret about a desire to do a film and Lisa Kudrow said: “It would be so fun to be with all those people again.

“But our show was not like Sex and the City – ours was multi-camera, in front of a live audience.

“It’s a completely different feel. You’d have to bring the tone down, and I don’t know how it would be. I’ll just stay open.”

Meanwhile actor James, 47, who is in London for the launch of a Central Perk themed coffee shop in Soho, is keen to reprise his role as Gunther on the big screen.

He said: “The one thing I can tell you is that I am definitely on board to do the film.

“I really loved my time on the show and I am looking forward to meeting up with the old gang again.

“I just hope we can do justice to the show in a film.”

[From News of The World]

Jennifer Aniston is just about the only castmember who seems busy and successful enough to want to avoid a film version of “Friends.” She’s been gracious to the show that helped launch her career but has said several times that she’s moved on and doesn’t want to do a movie. Aniston has her own production company and according to IMDB she has three films in post production and a whopping seven films in development. I doubt she has the time or inclination to remind us yet again how well she plays Rachel Green. Courtney Cox has a new sitcom, “Cougar Town,” that premiered last week and is doing well in the ratings. (I saw it and thought it was goofy and trying too hard, but people seem to like it.) She isn’t that booked and would probably gladly do a “Friends” movie. The other cast members, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer, have all kind of floundered in their careers post-”Friends” and would probably love to a do a film.

That said, it’s possible that News of the World is either making this up (they’ve been known to fabricate entire interviews) or that they’re twisting Tyler’s words to make it sound like a movie is in the works when all he said was that he’d be open to it. It seems like all the latest films are based on old ideas and I wouldn’t be surprised if this was in the works, but I won’t believe it until I hear confirmation from a reliable source. “Friends” was a great show, though, and I would definitely go see the movie if this is true.

Images are random Friends screencaps, with some credit FriendsCafe.org

With Jennifer Aniston’s hectic schedule of filming back-to-back films and enjoying hot “revenge sex” with random Scotsmen, you may have started to wonder how Jennifer has time to be a good Goddess Circle friend. Turns out, she doesn’t have time for those bitches anymore. Too much? I thought so. The National Enquirer has a story up called “Why Jen Aniston Hates Courteney Cox’s Guts”. Juicy, right? Like, maybe it’s drug related or maybe some huge fight over chicken salad, perchance? Turns out, there is no “hating” of anyone’s “guts”. They’re just two women in their forties with different stuff going on, and they haven’t had time to hang out face-to-face in a little while. That’s why the first Goddess Circle invented phones. Or Skyping, for that matter.

Courteney Cox has ditched her longtime BFF Jennifer Aniston!

“It seems like Courteney and Jen’s close friendship has chilled in recent months, and it comes down to their lifestyles not gelling anymore,” an insider told The ENQUIRER.

“Jen is almost a workaholic who spends her free time dating and hunting for Mr. Right, while Courteney is happily married and busy juggling work and motherhood.”

Courteney’s husband David Arquette “can’t be thrilled with the idea of Courteney developing a roving eye as she cruises parties and restaurants as Jen’s wing girl.”

So Courteney and David – whose daughter Coco is 5 – are spending more time with couples who share their interests, like kids’ play dates and family dinners, said the source. That includes actress Laura Dern and rocker-husband Ben Harper, and Spider-Man Tobey Maguire and jewelry designer-wife Jen Meyer, as well as single mom Sheryl Crow, said the source.

Jennifer was noticeably absent from Courteney’s 45th birthday celebration at Nobu in L.A. on June 15.

“Courteney and Jen will always be friends,” said the source, “but right now they’ve drifted apart because they’re at different stages in their lives, with different priorities.”

[From National Enquirer]

We have just witnessed the not-so-popular “Jennifer Dumped Again… by her best friend” story. It comes around every so often (like two or three times a year) when tabloids get tired of running the standard configuration of Jennifer Aniston + Random Dude + Brad Pitt = Confusion/Jealousy/Lust/Revenge/Babies. The last time this story was recycled was when Courteney and Brad Pitt alleged ran into each other and talked like normal adults. Apparently, Jen hates that kind of thing.

Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and David Arquette are shown out after seeing a Fleetwood Mac concert in LA on 5/28/09. Credit: WENN.com