David Arquette is reportedly not happy with the time his wife Courteney Cox has been spending with her hot co-star Brian Van Holt on and off the set of her new show Cougartown. The racy show is about a recent divorcee who is reentering the dating world. David Arquette is known for his own wandering eye, and some speculate that Courteney is using her friendship with Van Holt as a way to get back at her husband and get him to understand how she feels when he makes moves on other women.

“Courteney and Brian have clicked since day one of filming the pilot, and she’s using their on-and off-screen chemistry to push David’s buttons. She’s getting back at him for his wandering eye, and also reminding him she’s still got her mojo.”

The raven-haired actress and “House of Wax” star Brian raised eyebrows Saturday, March 28, when they arrived at The Other Room, a Venice, Calif., watering hole.

“They showed up together and then were joined at the bar by a few other friends,” revealed the insider.

“David was nowhere in sight while Courteney and Brian were flirting with each other and laughing all night.

“Brian even introduced Courteney to some of his friends who happened to be in the bar. They were acting like a happy couple out on the town.”…

David and Courteney have worked through previous problems in couples therapy, and though the have agreed to adopt a second baby, Courteney’s workaholic ways are rubbing David the wrong way.

“He is miffed at what he perceives to be Courteney giving her career priority over family,” said another source.

“And he feels she is making matters worse by getting close to Brian,” added the source. “David now realizes how jealous and insecure Courteney felt when he was buzzing around with other girls.”

The devoted mom and wife is by no means giving up on her marriage, noted the source. “But Courteney’s blossoming friendship with Brian has tuned out to be a serious wake-up call for him to shape up and pay attention to his beautiful wife.”

[from National Enquirer April 20, 2009 print ed.]

If this is true, the “make David jealous” strategy might be effective, but it’s probably not the healthiest approach to a relationship. Their marriage has always seemed relatively normal to me - there is rarely buzz about trouble in their relationship. And even when there are rumors, it’s usually given in a “they’re going through a rough patch” sort of way. Especially if they’re planning on adopting another child, their marriage has to be pretty stable.

You can’t blame Courteney from loving the attention from a young co-star, however. She was recently mistaken for Janice Dickinson - a mistake that would make anyone feel a little starved for reassurance about their “mojo.”

Here’s Courteney on the set of “Cougartown” on 3/27/09. Credit: Fame Pictures. Brian Van Holdt is shown at the premiere of House of Wax on 4/26/2005. Credit: PRPhotos

According to the National Enquirer and multiple gossip sites, Courtney Cox and David Arquette are “desperate” for another child, whether by IVF or adoption. Courtney gave birth to daughter Coco in 2004, and it seems Courtney is feeling broody for another set of little feet to join the Cox-Arquette clan.

Courteney Cox is reportedly planning on adopting with husband David Arquette in a bid to save their marriage. The couple - who recently spent the holidays with Jennifer Aniston in Mexico - are said to be eager to adopt after several failed attempts conceive a second child.

A source tells the National Enquirer, “David wants a sibling for Coco, but Courteney’s reached a point where she feels it’s hopeless to keep trying to get pregnant.

“They love each other very much, but with Courteney’s intense work schedule and her resisting adoption, David started acting out, going out nights without her.

“But now that Courteney’s given the Okay to adopting a brother or sister for Coco, David has agreed to scale back on nights out and be more accommodating to Jennifer Aniston when she’s on the scene. “It’s a win-win scenario for Courteney and David.”

Courteney struggled to fall pregnant before she and David finally concieved four-year-old Coco.

[From Entertainmentwise

If they want to go for IVF or adoption, it makes no difference to me. I like celebrity gossip as much as the next person, but I draw the line at judging other women’s reproductive systems. Courtney has always been vocal about her difficulties in conceiving- she and David tried for years before she got pregnant with Coco. I would completely understand how Courtney wouldn’t want to go on that merry-go-round of fertility treatments, hormones, etc with IVF. So I wouldn’t be surprised if they do end up adopting. The only thing I find slightly amusing about this whole report is how Jennifer Aniston’s well-being is somehow a factor in the Cox-Arquette family planning. *zipping mouth about that one*

Courteney Cox and David Arquette are shown at the premiere of The Butler’s In Love on 6/23/08. Credit: Bauergriffinonline

Courtney Cox has given an interview, promoting nothing in particular, although her new show Cougar Town is currently in production. She’s given some great sound bites about her personal life to the Daily Mail.

On her marriage:
Courteney is one of the few celebrities I’ve met who is candid about her relationship, admitting their nine-year marriage has had its rocky patches. ‘Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?

‘I get shocked by people getting divorced all the time, that’s why I choose to work on it. Therapy helps us,’ she says, twirling her fingers around a long lock of hair. ‘It’s so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work. I suppose you can work it out by talking to each other – I would just prefer to have a referee, it reminds us why we’re together.’

Courteney’s own parents divorced when she was a child. ‘Before my dad died, he said one of his big regrets was that he hadn’t worked on their marriage enough. I don’t know what the future’s going to hold, but divorce isn’t really an option.’

Isn’t it difficult working together? ‘It seems like it would be the worst thing in the world but we manage to handle it really well. We argue, but never about work. We love being together.’

On Jennifer Aniston:
What makes her friendship with Jennifer Aniston so enduring? ‘We’ve known each other nearly 15 years now, we grew up together emotionally. I lost my father, Jen got divorced, and I had a baby. We’ve been through huge life changes together. I can be myself around her.

‘We never judge each other, we support each other, but we’re honest with each other too. I feel lucky to have her.’

Courteney won’t comment on her friend’s love life. ‘I want for Jen whatever she wants; she’s really happy at the moment, so I don’t have to worry about her.’

On beauty:
Courteney is even willing to put the record straight on internet rumours about plastic surgery. Now 44, she looks younger, but there are lines around the eyes. ‘I’ve done Botox,’ she admits, ‘and there were times when I thought, “That was nice”, but I had one bad experience when I wasn’t able to move my face for two or three months.’

Will she do it again? ‘I don’t know,’ is her candid reply. ‘I’m sure I’ll be tempted when I get older, but you see too many people who look really strange.’

She adds that David, who’s seven years younger, doesn’t think she needs any improvement. ‘He loves the ageing process; he thinks it’s beautiful. Right now, I don’t do Botox – or anything except this,’ she says, pointing to a cabinet of creams and serums by Kinerase, the American skincare company for which she’s spokesperson.

On parenthood:
‘I can’t imagine life without a child; I don’t even remember what it was like four years ago. Coco is everything to me,’ she says.

‘We did a lot of in vitro fertilisation, and it was tough. But we’d waited a few years before trying, and in retrospect I would say: don’t wait as long as I did, especially if you want more than one child.’

Mail on Sunday

Courtney has said in the past that she has done botox and been unsatisfied with the results, feeling that as an actress she needs to be able to move her face. Nicole Kidman did not get that memo.

Courtney also says that she’d love another child, but if it ‘doesn’t work’, she’ll adopt. She adds that while she wants to buy one really great present for Coco, David ‘wants to buy her 900 presents’. Usually David gets his way. This is how it often happens in our house, where we try to keep Christmas and birthdays low key but you just can’t resist those cute toys.

Courtney to me always seems like the most successful of the Friends stars, because although Jennifer Aniston’s movies earn good box office, I feel like her personal life has distracted from her success. Courtney seems to have walked away from Friends and found a great life with her family if not necessarily with her work. She also looks fabulous for 44, cosmetically enhanced or not.

Courteney Cox is shown at the premiere of Bedtime Stories on 12/18/08. Credit: WENN.com/Fayes Vision

The National Enquirer’s cover story this week that reads “Divorce Drama: Courteney Cox’s husband caught with beauty” isn’t quite as damning to David Arquette as you would assume reading the headline. He was caught flirting with a woman at a bar while his wife was across the street. And the person who busted him was none other than Courtney’s former small screen husband, Matthew Perry. How is that for irony? Like a story we just reported about Avril Lavigne’s husband, Arquette, 37, had his arm around the woman and seemed a little too cosy with her. When Perry showed up he high tailed it out of there though.

“David was standing at the bar when he spotted a stunning young woman sitting at a nearby table,” the eyewitness recalls. “He practically stared holes through her from across the room before casually strolling over to chat.”

The two talked, but the attractive woman brushed him off. David walked back to the bar, where he quickly latched onto another woman, a beautiful brunette, said the eyewitness.

“Unlike David’s first target, this woman - who appeared to be in her early 20s - seemed flattered by his flirting,” the source confided.

“After they talked for a while, “David eased his arm around her and they got caught up in an intense conversation. At one point, David grabbed her face in his hands so they were practically nose to nose. It almost looked like he was going in for a kiss!”

But [his] flirting came to a screeching halt when Matthew Perry tapped him on the shoulder, said the eyewitness.

“When David turned around and saw Matt, the look on his face was priceless!” said the source.

“David pretended like he and his companion were complete strangers, and he practically left skid marks on the floor making a break for the door!”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, October 13, 2008]

What is with these married famous guys flirting with other women at bars? Do they think they won’t get caught or that it’s somehow ok because they’re not taking them home or to a hotel? Comparatively it’s pretty harmless but it’s still not a good sign for their relationship. Courteney, 44, was said to be across the street dining at Il Sole with friends at the time.

Courteney told Marie Claire in a recent interview that she’s very much in love with her husband, but that it hasn’t always gone so well for them. She said “I’m so in love with David right now, I’m starting to really appreciate how ‘there’ he is for me. But in any relationship, there are times that you’re disconnected. You can see how relationships end if you don’t work through it.” And they can also end if one person is cheating. Courteney and David have been married for nine years and I hope this story is false or overblown and that they’re doing fine.

David Arquette is shown out with his four year-old daughter, Coco, on 8/2/08. He is also shown with Courteney on 6/23/08. Credit: Fame Pictures

David Arquette looks cute, right? Good color, appropriate outfit and apparently he’s been on Courtney Cox’s Deal-A-No-Meal Plan. He’s also doing good by helping promote the USDA’s summer lunch program for kids:

David Arquette says when he looks at the faces of other kids, he sees his own daughter. He saw a bunch of kids yesterday at the Boys and Girls Club in the Los Angeles seaside community of Venice. He hung out with them and helped serve lunch to them. It was to publicize the USDA’s free summer lunch program for kids. Arquette says he’s involved because “there are hungry Americans” and lot of them “don’t know where their next meal is coming from.”

[AP via WSYX6.com]

I myself was a low income child growing up and was lucky enough to be a part of the Big Brothers of Greater Los Angeles program. Thank you Mr. Arquette for taking the time to raise awareness of such amazing programs and important issues AND looking super cute while doing it.

If you want to catch David on the big screen, he can be seen along with Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler and Elisabeth Shue in Hamlet 2! Join me at The Outfest Screening, or see it when it hits theaters August 22nd!

David Arquette is shown at the Venice Boys and Girls Club on 7/2/08, thanks to WENN photographer Kavi.

Courteney Cox confirmed at a charity event on Sunday that her FX show Dirt has been canceled and has not been picked up for a third season. I was surprised that it had a second season, because it was poorly reviewed and even a much talked about on-screen kiss at the end of the first season, between Cox’s character, tabloid editor Lucy Spiller, and a rival editor played by Jennifer Aniston couldn’t manage to boost ratings. Cox and her husband, David Arquette, produced the series together and she says they have plenty of projects in the works for the future:

Courteney Cox Arquette, akin to her Dirt alter ego, offered up some scoop at Sunday’s “A Time for Heroes” Celebrity Carnival, benefiting the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation: Her FX series is folding. “It just got canceled,” she shared when asked about the prospect of a Season 3 pickup. (Season 2 was cut short by the WGA strike.)

Cox, however, seemed optimistic about the future. She and hubby David, with whom she produced Dirt, have their own shingle, and as such, “We’re developing all kinds of stuff right now,” she said. “We’ll producing more stuff together, for sure.”

[From TV Guide.com via We Smirch]

Cox and Arquette made $23 million from the sale of their Malibu home last August, so they should have plenty of money to live on and use for business ventures.

According to IMDB, Cox’s sole upcoming film is Bedtime Stories, a family film that stars Adam Sandler and is out at the end of this year.

If Cox gets desperate to act, she can always ask good friend Jennifer Aniston to cast her in a movie. Aniston recently created her own production company and has at least six films in the works.

Courteney Cox and David Arquette are shown at “Time for Heroes celebrity carnival to benefit The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatic Aids Foundation” on 6/8/08, thanks to WENN.

John Mayer is photographed hugging another woman at Courtney Cox’s house

John Mayer has met the parents. But since Jennifer Aniston doesn’t really talk to her parents (or her mother anyway), Mayer met Jen’s equivalent: BFF Courteney Cox and husband David Arquette. As was reportedly the plan according to Mike Walker of the National Enquirer, Cox had Mayer and Aniston over for dinner, as her way of welcoming him into their group of friends/officially evaluating him.

Jennifer Aniston’s burgeoning romance with singer John Mayer must be getting serious - she’s introduced him to her best friend Courteney Cox. After taking their cross-State romance from Miami to New York, Aniston and Mayer made their Los Angeles debut as a couple with a laid-back romantic weekend. On Sunday, Mayer drove his new girlfriend to the beachside Malibu home of her closest pal and ex-Friends co-star Cox and her husband David Arquette for an evening dinner. Complimenting her new boyfriend’s laid back style, Aniston sported a white vest and blue cardigan with sunglasses as they enjoyed the sunny day.

Cox, 43, is said to be very protective of Aniston, who she supported following her high-profile marriage split with Brad Pitt in 2005. The Dirt actress was rumoured to have disapproved of Aniston’s last long-term boyfriend Vince Vaughn, who she dated for 18 months before splitting in December 2006.

On Saturday night, Aniston and Mayer enjoyed an intimate meal at the exclusive Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, before the tattooed rocker drove them home to the actress’ mansion in the Hollywood hills. The following day, Mayer took the steering wheel again as they rode in his Porsche Cayenne Turbo to the Cox-Arquettes’ gated beachside home, where they live with their young daughter Coco, who is Aniston’s goddaughter.

[From the Daily Mail]

According to the Enquirer, Mayer was fairly nervous about meeting Cox, and was well aware that it was Aniston’s equivalent of meeting her family. Apparently Courteney is quite the mother hen. Which is sweet, since Jen isn’t close with her family – but doesn’t help their reputation of being overly bonded/fairly co-dependent. But it’s good that Jennifer has someone looking out for her, as long as she still makes her own decision and doesn’t consider anyone’s word gold.

Jen and John seem pretty darn happy together, though it seems like everyone is still pretty worried about the match. John’s got quite the reputation as a player. But no one really knows what it is Jen wants from him. It seems like everyone assumes she wants a relationship because of the tabloids are always painting her in a “poor pathetic single Jennifer Aniston” light. She could very well be happy as a clam and just want to hang out and have some fun. And John Mayer seems pretty good for that. Just nothing more.

The paps managed to get photos of Mayer, Cox, and Arquette having dinner at their home but somehow Aniston managed to stay indoors the whole time. John is seen hugging an older woman – not Aniston - according to Splash. Images thanks to Splash.

Courteney Cox and David Arquette’s daughter, Coco, is three and a half and supposedly loves shocking her family by saying naughty words. Star Magazine reports that the tot enjoys riling up her family by saying forbidden swear words. They claim that Courtney says that she can’t get her to stop and is hoping she’ll grow out of it:

“Coco’s somehow learned to cuss like a sailor,” a source told Star. Courteney told the source that scolding Coco hasn’t helped. “Coco thinks it’s funny and goes right on swearing. Courteney’s just hoping she’ll outgrow it. She doesn’t want her saying these things to teachers or other kids!”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, March 10, 2008]

It’s Star so who knows if this is true, but she wouldn’t be the first three year-old to swear in order to get a rise out of her parents. They don’t know what the words mean and just like to get a reaction. My son loves singing “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” He doesn’t know the words beyond the first sentence, but he heard the famous ode to large butts in the movie Shark Tale and will just belt out the song during dull moments. We laugh our asses off, so that could explain why he does it.

Here are videos of little kids swearing, not always intentionally.

Little girl says she’s going to kick a monster’s ass:

Little boy mispronounces “truck”

This one is pretty bad, the girl yells “mother f’er” repeatedly. I couldn’t help but laugh, but I did feel slightly guilty about it. The mother explains in the comments that the girl heard her say it when she dropped a can on her foot and that her kid does not say this all the time:

Oh please, save your sanctimoneous [sic] drivel for someone whose child actually repeats naughty words in front of people that matter. Although it’s NOYB, she hasn’t repeated it since.

Now, where are all your chastisments for the myriad other mummies and daddies who have videos similar to mine? Thanks, have a nice day!

[Comment from user AmeriBrit68 on YouTube, who submitted the video below]

Coco and her parents are shown at the pumpkin patch with a friend on 10/6/07, thanks to Splash News. Courteney Cox and David Arquette are shown at the Dirt premiere on 2/28/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

The Huffington Post had screenshots of the celebrity Christmas cards shown on “Live with Regis and Kelly” on Friday morning, and some are quite inventive and well designed.

Paul Reubens better known as Pee Wee Herman’s card shows the fallen kid’s star with his trademark raised eyebrows expression looking like he’s about to throw a snowball.

Courteney Cox and David Arquette’s card is bright pink on the outside with a big picture of their daughter Coco smiling and the words “Joy to the World.” The inside features a full page photo of Coco lounging on a Saint Bernard and says “And a peaceful New Year, love David, Courteney and Coco”

Tony Bennett’s card is of a winter scene the singer painted himself

Conan O’Brien’s Card has a close view of a cute cartoonish ornament of the talk show host hanging on a tree with other ornaments of the same style

Katie Holmes designed this simple bow-adorned Christmas card for the Cruise family. She was said to have had differently designed cards for friends, family and business associates and to have “kept her staff busy doing the shopping.” It sounds like she kept her staff busy making the cards too. (image and description from US Weekly)

Paris Hilton posed in what would look like a parody of herself if we didn’t know better. She wore a red wrap dress, posed in front of a cone-shaped tree with giant red velveteen bows, and clutched one of her chihuahuas, which was dressed in a little red Santa hoodie. (image found at CelebWarship)

This week’s National Enquirer features Brad and Angelina’s supposed custody battle for Shiloh on the cover along with an inset photo of Courteney Cox and David Arquette with the headline “Split: Courteney Cox’s marriage falls apart.” Just like the Brad and Angelina non-story, which we covered on Monday, the Courteney Cox and David Arquette split is a whole lot of speculation based on known facts about the couple.

Courteney is working on her show Dirt, and the Enquirer says that David must be pissed because she’s focusing on her career, and they haven’t had another baby yet. It’s also supposedly a big deal that they show up to events without each other. Courteney’s old admission that they sought therapy for their marriage is repeated several times, even though it’s a quote from last summer. All this speculation is done tabloid-style in the guise of nasty insider quotes. There hasn’t been one public fight, one staff member who blabbed, or any other detail to back up this story. It’s all “experts” and “insiders” saying they must be having trouble.

What’s more is that their vacation in Hawaii with Jennifer Aniston, in which they were seen kayaking with their daughter and having fun, is used as some kind of twisted evidence that they’re doomed, since Aniston and Pitt broke up right after a vacation with Cox and Arquette back in 2005.

In a recent effort to work on their relationship, they took a trip to Hawaii together - but it was hardly a second honeymoon because Courteney’s best friend Jennifer Aniston traveled with them!

Ironically, Jen and Brad Pitt announced their split just days after taking a tropical vacation with Courteney and David in 2005. And insiders don’t expect Courteney and David’s trip to work miracles for their relationship, either.

Long considered an odd couple because of their contrasting personalities - Courteney, 43, is a self-described perfectionist, and David, 35, is known for being laid-back and kooky - they were once believed to have one of Hollywood’s most loving marriages.

But sources say David and Courteney appeared to have grown apart in recent years - spending a substantial amount of time away from one another.

“They seem to be living separate lives,” said the insider.

While Courteney is hard at work on the second season of her TV series “Dirt” - and although David is involved in the production - she spends a lot of free time with the other cast members.

I think David wanted Courteney to shlow down after the first season ended, so they could work on getting pregnant with their second child, “but she went straight into pre-production for the second season,” added the insider.

“Courteney’s first child had to be conceived in vitro, so if she wants another, she has to really stop what she’s doing and focus on getting pregnant.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 3, 2007]

The article goes on to say that Courteney “must… feel like she just married a big kid who will never be as mature as her,” and that they “are hanging on right now, but it’s by a thread.”

Can you imagine being a celebrity and having to read shit like that? It’s the nastiest kind of gossip, stuff that declares your relationship is doomed based on your careers, your personalities, and the fact that you brought a friend along on a family vacation.

Reading those “insider” quotes makes me picture a bitter old housewife sitting in her 1970s kitchen wearing a housedress and smoking a cigarette. She’s bitching to her meek neighbor, who just hangs around for the lousy company, about all their other neighbors who are much happier than she is and don’t think about her much. Everyone knows her husband is cheating on her with his secretary, but she’s so busy focusing on other people that she’s oblivious.

Back in November Courteney said she wasn’t trying to have a sibling for Coco yet as she wanted to wait until she was old enough to help with the baby, but that they were considering another child. It doesn’t sound like she’s desperate for another one or anything. Maybe she should just give vague quotes to the press from now on instead of letting us know anything about her life, because it’s bound to be used to generate any type of story they want to. You can see how the celebrities flip out at the paparazzi. They get the pictures that are used for obnoxious stories like this one, and they’re always buzzing around like flies.

Header image is of Courteney and David at Il Sole back in May. Thanks to Splash News.