The above photo arrives courtesy of the June issue of Interview Magazine and features (from left to right) Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine (wife of Harmony), and Vanessa Hudgens in their bikini uniforms for Spring Breakers. I’m going to be perfectly honest here and just say that this movie sounds like a terrible idea for most parties involved. Of course, it sounds like a great idea for the movie’s director and writer (or is it auteur?), Harmony Korine — who is best known for writing the controversial Kids and whose last feature film directorial effort was called Trash Humpers — because he got to spend spring break this year filming former Disney girls in bikinis while they frolicked alongside thousands of actual spring breakers in St. Petersburg, Florida. Likewise, this movie was an undoubtedly wonderful experience for James Franco, who got to dress up like K-Fed, hang out with Selena and Vanessa in bikinis, and call it AAART. Of course, I’m not concerned about Vanessa, who has plans of her own for surviving Hollywood.

Selena Gomez is another matter altogether. Other than dating Justin Bieber, the girl has a spotless record without a wisp of scandal. In fact, Selena herself is so aware of her own halo that she signed onto Spring Breakers in an effort to shed her Disney shell. Now she’s also told Interview that this movie — which includes Selena & Co. robbing a bank while wearing bikinis, getting bailed out of jail by K-Fed Franco, and doing lots of drugs in the aftermath — is part of her plan to become a serious actress. Here are some excerpts from Selena and the rest of the Spring Breakers cast and crew, which just happens to include …. Heidi Bivens? This is getting so weird:

Harmony Korine, director/writer: “When I wrote the script, I started thinking about girls in bikinis with guns, wearing ski masks. I was like, ‘Where would you see that?’ And the idea of spring break came to me. I just started imagining girls on spring break robbing places. I liked the idea of the film as a social experiment. It was like there were two movies–the actual movie, and then the one that the media, paparazzi, and the people tweeting photos were also creating.”

James Franco, K-Fed imitator: “When Harmony told me who he was going to cast, I thought it was perfect for so many reasons. The young actresses are so excited to do a movie like this with someone like Harmony. They were so eager and enthusiastic to be a part of it.”

Selena Gomez, Disney chick: “I was getting kind of repetitive in terms of the roles I was picking, and I really wanted to do something that was completely different. It was a mark thing for me–like, ‘This is what I want to be doing.’ I want to be taking myself seriously as an actress, and this was definitely a stretch. I mean, I’d never smoked a cigarette before in my entire life. It was really funny–they had to show me how to do it.”

Ashley Benson, actress: “Harmony wanted to break us all out of the good-girl mold. For Selena, Vanessa, and me, our audience is all in their teens or younger, so they’re not even going to be able to see this when it comes out–it’s not appropriate.”

Heidi Bivens, costume designer: “I had to keep in mind where these girls are from: a small town in the South. What they were wearing at school had to be stuff they could find where they were living. And then when they come to spring break, it changes, because they’re able to shop in St. Petersburg. The most challenging for me were the ski masks that the girls wear. They’re supposed to glow fluorescent, but there aren’t any ski masks I could find that were the color we needed in the daylight and that would glow under black light, so I had to start experimenting with dyes. I probably went through 20 different dyes to find the right one.”

[From Interview]

Should I be surprised that Heidi Bivens is the costume designer on this movie? I guess not because even cinematic bikinis don’t just appear out of nowhere. Bikinis and ski masks. Aces.

Back to Selena though and her desire to branch out from “The Wizards of Waverly Place,” Disney pop music, and her feature films thus far, Princess Protection Program and Monte Carlo, both of which were so sugar-coated that I spontaneously developed a few cavities while (unwillingly) watching them. If Selena really wanted to spread her proverbial wings as an actress, couldn’t she at least have gone for a gritty little indie drama that didn’t feature her boobs and butt ahead of her potential talent? Spring Breakers looks like many things, but it does not look like a means to becoming a “serious actress.” For what it’s worth, Selena has also accepted a cameo role in an upcoming Eli Roth-produced film (Aftershock) as well.

Photos courtesy of Interview Mag

It feels like all of the tabloids got the same memo this week: “Trouble in Paradise: The JustJen Edition”. OK! Mag got the ball rolling with a report we discussed yesterday – Jennifer Aniston is reported “jealous” and “clingy” because Justin Theroux was seen out with two ladies for a “bidness” meeting. Oh, and Justin sometimes disappears for hours at a time and he refuses to account for his whereabouts, something like that. Well, this week’s Enquirer adds to the “Aniston’s jelly” story with a healthy dose of “Justin has secretly been in contact with his ex, Heidi Bivens.” Considering Aniston might have/probably met Heidi back in November of last year, it seems like the Heidi situation has already been diffused (perhaps with a payoff for her silence?). But still… it wouldn’t surprise me if Justin still spoke to Heidi regularly:

JENNIFER ANISTON unleashed her fury by calling JUSTIN THEROUX a cheater after learning he was still carrying on with his ex-girlfriend Heidi Bivens, say sources. Jen, 43, exploded when she discovered that her beau was secretly communicating with Heidi, the beautiful costume designer he’d been dating for 14 years before dumping her to hook up with Jen.

“In Jennifer’s book, what Justin did was cheating – he was going behind her back to maintain ties with his ex,” revealed a close source. “She was furious and read him the riot act, plunging their relationship into crisis.”

For months, Justin, 40, had been “calling, texting and e-mailing Heidi without Jen’s knowledge,” confirmed another insider. “They stayed in touch very sporadically at first, but now they’re talking all the time. He’ll e-mail, text or call – when Jen’s not around, of course – and they talk about everything. He asks Heidi’s advice about his career and even discusses his love life with her.”

“For Jen, it’s the ultimate betrayal. Justin has a lot of explaining to do to regain her trust, and it may be too late already. She’d livid with him for disrespecting her so blatantly. She had no idea he was still in touch with Heidi until recently, when she caught him texting her from their Hollywood home. He tried to shrug it off by saying it was no big deal, but Jen can’t believe he would do it behind her back, and it make her wonder what else he’s hiding from her. She understandably feels very threatened by Heidi.”

Heidi was behind Jennifer’s sudden change of mind about moving to New York last year, the source assed. Jennifer blamed the “fish bowl” of the paparazzi attention, but the insider says the real reason behind her move was that she didn’t want Justin living in the same city as Heidi, who has places on both coasts but mainly lives in NYC.

“Jen blamed the paparazzi in New York, but there’s even more of them in LA,” noted the insider. “The real reason she moved was because she wants Justin as far away from Heidi as possible.”

Jennifer’s rep denies the couple is stressed over Heidi, but as The ENQUIRER reported on Jan. 20, witnesses saw the pair bickering in public at Hollywood’s trendy Tower Bar, and sources say Aniston’s controlling tendencies are the root of their troubles.

Meanwhile, sources say Justin remains guilt-ridden about ditching Heidi to pursue Jennifer. “Heidi will always have a place in Justin’s heart, and although he’s moved on with Jen, he misses Heidi’s advice and friendship. I’m sure Justin knew how hurtful it would be for Jen, which is why he didn’t bring it up until she found out about it.”

[From The National Enquirer, print and online editions]

Ah, that’s an interesting theory for why Aniston is no longer interested in living in NYC. My theory was “bait and switch” – now that Jen scored Justin, there was no need to pretend that she was down with his New York hipster life. But the idea that Aniston just wanted to avoid Heidi, and wanted Justin to avoid Heidi? Makes sense – especially since Heidi’s friends made it clear that Heidi wasn’t happy about JustJen being in her city.

Oh, and that’s not all from “JustJen’s Trouble In Paradise”! In Touch Weekly has a little story about Jennifer driving Justin “nuts” as she decorates their new Bel Air mansion. Jen is “completely focused on a total interior remodel of the home” (probably to make it look a Ron Burgundy shag-pad?), and every time Justin tries to “inject his opinions,” Jennifer tells him no. A source says, “She is detail-obsessed and knows what she wants – and it’s not what he wants.” She wants a warm and cozy house where Justin is the second coming of Brad Pitt because he loves everything clean and modern. The source says, “Jen hated that the first time and there’s no way she is turning back the clock.” If you go back and look at how Aniston remodeled her old Beverly Hills house, you’ll see her design style. She likes things dark and womb-like. Lots of reds and purples and dark wood panels. It’s not my style – I find it really oppressive. But I also don’t like the hyper-modernist stuff that Justin and Brad like. Maybe a happy medium for JustJen?

Oh, and JustJen were at the Marmont last night. People Mag managed to have a glowing report here.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

The last we heard from Heidi Bivens, it was being alleged in British and American tabloids that she and Jennifer Aniston had finally had a sit-down meeting. The details of the meeting were particularly hilarious – “sources” claimed that Jennifer wept as she played the pity party card once again, explaining how Angelina Jolie homewrecked her marriage and that was why she (Jennifer) could never break up another relationship. Except that it’s pretty well established that Jennifer’s affair with Justin Theroux began when he was still very much living with Heidi Bivens. Anyway, I don’t know if the meeting really took place (Heidi’s mom made is seem like it might have), but I do know that Heidi has been pretty classy about the way she’s conducted herself, post-Theroux. She’s only made a handful of comments, and when there’s any tabloid reporting on her, it’s of the “Heidi just wishes she didn’t have to see her ex and his girlfriend all over the place” variety.

So it’s definitely news when an outlet actually gets a real quote from Heidi. And it’s even better news when Heidi takes a moment to praise… ANGELINA!! Hahaha. Justin Theroux’s ex is Team Jolie. Of course.

No surprise here: Heidi Bivens is on Team Angelina! The pretty celeb stylist was thrust into the spotlight last spring when Justin Theroux abruptly ended their 14-year relationship (they lived together) and embarked on a high-profile romance with Wanderlust costar Jennifer Aniston.

Bivens made a rare red carpet appearance recently at the premiere of the film Here at the CORE: Club in NYC — and had high praise for Angelina Jolie, who’s been with Aniston’s ex-husband Brad Pitt for seven years.

“I was super-impressed by Angelina’s dress for the Golden Globes,” Bivens told Us Weekly of the superstar’s jaw-dropping look at the Jan. 15 awards fest in Beverly Hills. With Pitt at her side, the actress and In the Land of Blood and Honey director, 36, stunned in a champagne satin one-shoulder Atelier Versace gown with a hint of red at the neckline.

With her naturally brunette hair in a blonde bob, Bivens wore a black ballerina sweater and black dress at the premiere, and also praised the Globes looks of Natalie Portman (“stunning!”), Laura Dern (“she’s a dear friend…she knows what works for her body) and Tilda Swinton (“she always looks like a million bucks!”).

When asked about her increased profile in the press thanks to her 40-year-old ex’s talked-about love life, Bivens demurred to comment. “There’s nothing to say,” she told Us. “I’m very content being behind the scenes and I hope to continue to do good work that people know me for and that it’s about the work.”

Insiders told Us that Aniston, 42, pursued Theroux in fall 2010 on the set of Wanderlust despite his long-term relationship with Bivens. “Jen wanted Justin and it didn’t matter that he was already with someone,” a source said.

Added a Bivens insider last spring: “It sucks when your ex dates the most famous woman in the world so soon after a breakup.”

[From Us Weekly]

It sounds like Heidi is a pretty low-key person, but I’m happy to see that she feels free enough to chat about styling and dresses with Us Weekly. Heidi is a stylist and costume designer – wouldn’t it be interesting to see her style Angelina Jolie? Jolie needs to fire her stylist anyway. Dear Heidi: please put her in something other than a sack dress.

By the way, Wanderlust comes out in less than a month, which means lots of attention for Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux and their relationship. Will Heidi choose that moment to really talk about what happened in her 14-year-relationship with Justin?

Photos courtesy of WENN, Pacific Coast News.

Two weeks ago, the British tabloids had an interesting story about Jennifer Aniston’s “secret meeting” with Justin Theroux’s ex, Heidi Bivens. I thought the report was likely false, but now Star Magazine has a story that’s very similar to the British version, AND Star got somewhat of a confirmation from Heidi’s mom that the meeting went down. Now, a I’ve said time and time again – there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that Aniston and Theroux began seeing each other before Justin’s relationship with Heidi was over. Heidi moved out of the apartment she shared with Justin in early June. Justin and Jennifer started getting photographed regularly together in May, and reports of their coupledom exist for months before that. Anyway, this alleged meeting between Bivens and Aniston took place in NYC, and the report oozed with sympathy for Aniston, because homewrecking Justin’s relationship was so hard on HER, and she just wanted Heidi to know that there were no hard feelings, apparently. Here are some new details and a few new quotes that I wanted to excerpt:

Jennifer Aniston took action after she heard Justin Theroux trying to comfort her crying ex on the phone, according to a report, and with Justin’s blessing, Aniston’s meeting with Heidi Bivens, 35, was set up in a suite at The Mercer hotel in Manhattan.

During the meeting, tears were reportedly shed as Jen and Heidi opened up to each other, and afterward, the source adds, “It was like Jen had killed two birds with one stone. She tried to put Heidi’s mind at ease, and in doing so, she did the same for herself.”

It’s clear that there is still some soul-searching going on in the immediate aftermath, especially where Heidi is concerned. When asked about her daughter’s meeting with Jen, Marilyn Bivens, Heidi’s mom, told Star exclusively, “It’s a very complicated time for all of us.”

A friend of Heidi’s adds, “She’s admitted that something ‘big’ has happened, but otherwise, she’s keeping quiet about it – even to pals she normally confides in.”

As for Jen, “She’s really hoping that there will be no more hard feelings between Heidi and herself,” says the source. “It was important for her to tell Heidi that she knows the pain of being cheated on – and that she’s never to that to another woman.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

I think it’s less likely that Aniston “opened up” about how she did not actually homewreck Heidi’s 14-year relationship with Justin, and Aniston more likely offered Heidi something to keep her mouth shut. Right? While Heidi strikes me as a class act, what with her lack of a public pity party and her general reticence, Heidi has said before that she would only discuss what went down if and when Justin and Jennifer began discussing it. My theory is that Aniston and her team considered Heidi a possible (sympathetic) bombshell, waiting to explode. So this meeting was a stop-gap measure, and likely an offer of payment for Heidi’s pain and suffering. After all, Heidi is the one who had to leave the apartment, the home that she had built with Justin, and by some accounts, Heidi isn’t doing that well financially. Considering Jennifer is shelling out money right and left for her boyfriend, I don’t think Jennifer would blink an eye as paying off his ex too. Just my opinion.

Here are some new photos of Heidi for earlier last weekend. I think this girl is so pretty.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News & WENN.

I think it’s been pretty well established that Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux began seeing each other before he officially broke things off with Heidi Bivens, his girlfriend of 14 years. Heidi (through her publicist) announced that she had “just” moved out of the NYC apartment she and Justin shared in early June – but Aniston and Theroux were being spotted together for more than a month before that. Plus, there’s the Terry Richardson hair conspiracy (Richardson might have photographed Aniston and Theroux together, being loved up, in the Spring) and anecdotal evidence to suggest that Theroux and Aniston’s affair began when they were working together on Wanderlust in 2010. In my mind, there’s as much evidence to suggest that Jennifer Aniston is as much a “homewrecker” as Angelina Jolie.

But in her fans’ minds, Aniston will always be the perpetual victim, the perpetual (virginal) good girl, the innocent. And the British tabloid Grazia is playing into that – according to this completely unreliable story, Aniston met with Heidi Bivens “in a bid to set the record straight.”

After several unsuccessful relationships, it looks like Jennifer Aniston has finally found love with Justin Theroux. But their has been ongoing ambiguity over when exactly their relationship started and when the actor split from long-term love Heidi Bivens.

In a bid to set the record straight, Aniston, 42, had an emotional meeting with Bivens, 35, in a New York hotel last week.

Upset at being portrayed as a ‘homewrecker’, the former Friends star assured the costume designer she never got together with Theroux until he was single, according to this week’s Grazia magazine.

A source told the magazine: ‘Jen has always been sympathetic to Heidi because he’s heard from Justin just how devastated she is about their break-up. But Jen has always been adamant that their relationships did not cross over.’

With Theroux absent, the two women reportedly met at the Mercer Hotel on November 6, and talked over a glass of wine.

The source added: ‘Jen told Heidi that she understands what a painful time she has been going through and explained that she wanted her to know, hand on heart, that she would never steal another woman’s man. Heidi apparently got quite tearful during the meeting, as it was understandably a lot of take in.’

Aniston and Theroux met on the set of new film Wanderlust last autumn, but weren’t romantically linked until late May this year.

Bivens confirmed in a statement via her publicist in mid-June that she had ‘just moved out of their home last week’ after 14 years with Theroux.

The costume designer moved out of the couple’s New York home a week after Aniston and Theroux were first photographed together at the MTV Movie Awards after-party.

In recent months, the new couple have become inseparable and are living together in a $6million New York apartment.

[From The Mail]

Poor Heidi. Not only does she get cheated on and then dumped by her skinny-jeans-wearing hipster douche boyfriend, but then she has to sit through a “meeting” in which her ex’s homewrecking girlfriend gets hammered and yammers on and on about the timeline of her relationship with Justin. Who are you going to believe, Heidi? Jennifer Aniston or your lying eyes?

Apparently, Heidi has said in the past few months that she will only tell her side of the story if Jennifer and Justin start talking about it publicly. The Wanderlust publicity tour might get interesting… who will be brave enough to ask Jennifer Aniston, “Soooo, when exactly did you and Justin start? How does it feel to be a homewrecker? Is your pity party finally over?”

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News and WENN.

Throughout this whole Jennifer Aniston-Justin Theroux “romance (from behind) for the ages,” Justin’s ex-girlfriend Heidi Bivens has stayed quiet. The closest she came to telling her story is when one of her “friends” went to Page Six in June to confirm that Heidi and Justin had just broken up after 14 years together – putting the date of their official breakup as the second week of June.

Now, Justin and Jennifer had been seen together in public several times before the second week of June, and as one of Aniston’s Five coworkers said in an interview to People, Justin was hanging around the Five set and being introduced as Jennifer’s “boyfriend” back in April. There’s also the hair conspiracy with the first batch of Terry Richardson photos, as well as unnamed-source-driven stories in Us Weekly, claiming that Justin and Jennifer had an affair last year while they worked on Wanderlust. So… I don’t know, I think it’s pretty clear that Jennifer and Justin started (at some point) BEFORE he had ended things with Heidi, and definitely before Heidi moved out of the NYC apartment they shared.

And now another “friend” of Heidi’s has gone to the press to talk about how much Heidi hates Jennifer and Justin’s New York lovefest:

Justin Theroux’s ex would like Manhattan all to herself!

New York City stylist Heidi Bivens — whom Theroux left after 14 years to take up with Jennifer Aniston, sources say — “has stopped talking to Justin,” a pal tells the new issue of Us Weekly (out now).

“She doesn’t want to know anything about him and Jen,” the pal adds, “though she’d like a heads-up on any marriage or baby news.”

The insider adds that Bivens, 35, “wishes they’d leave NYC already. It’s hard to move on, knowing they’re in the same city.”

Theroux, 40, and Aniston, 42, arrived in NYC in mid-September. They are currently cohabiting at the Horrible Bosses star’s West Village apartment and have often been spotted looking at home good together.

[From Us Weekly]

Is it just me, or is Heidi a truly sympathetic figure in this whole mess? When Justin dumped her, Heidi really wasn’t left with much. She had to move out of the apartment they shared, she (likely) didn’t have much of a savings and Justin wasn’t legally obligated to pay her any alimony because they weren’t married… although if Heidi wanted to fight that, I’m sure she could have made a case for common-law marriage. After all, they were together for 14 years. I’m also sympathetic towards her because she hasn’t personally come out and said anything, and even on the rare occasion when her “friends” say something, they’re not doing a hatchet-job on Justin or Jennifer. It seems like Heidi is just hurt and struggling with the fact that her ex screwed around on her and is now acting like a D-Bag Supreme all around NYC, HER city. Poor girl.

Photos courtesy of Terry’s Diary, WENN.

According to this week’s Star Magazine, Jennifer Aniston’s newly de-furred boyfriend Justin Theroux is already seeing another woman behind Jen’s back! That “other woman”? His original girlfriend, Heidi Bivens, the one that Justin was with for 14 years. Is this scandalous? Is this even shocking, that two people who were together for so many years would somehow end up having a conversation after the breakup? Well, ask Jennifer Aniston. She’s always said she still talks to Brad (although her dad says she doesn’t).

Justin reaches out to ex Heidi Bivens after hearing she was spotted with another man — is Jen destined for another heartbreak?

Jennifer Aniston‘s latest romance with actor and write Justin Theroux may be over almost as quickly as it started — he is already seeing his ex Heidi Bivens again! Star reports, “Justin and Heidi secretly met on Father’s Day, and Justin spent most of their time together apologizing for acting like a cad.” Uh-oh Jen!

One person who may not be surprised by Justin’s devious ways is Jen’s best friend Courteney Cox, who apparently warned her pal about her new man.

“Courteney has begged Jen to dump Justin,” a friend tells the magazine.

Courteney may be right too! “[Justin's] already complaining how Jen is suffocating him, so suddenly he’s wondering if he broke up with Heidi too quickly.”

[From Hollywood Life]

Yeah, I just don’t see how there’s anyway that Justin could have come out of a 14-year relationship after having some kind of torrid (alleged, or not so much) affair and NOT end up apologizing to Heidi. Unless he’s just that big of jagoff – and while he might seem like a jag in general, I kind of like him more if he really went to Heidi and apologized. As for the part about Justin already feeling suffocated – er… he knew what he was signing on for. Hang in there, Justin! I have money riding on the relationship lasting through February 2012!

Meanwhile, British tabloids are claiming that Aniston has only been able to achieve a “successful relationship” with Justin because of extensive therapy to overcome her trust issues. Sure. The sources claim… hahaha… that Aniston has been doing couples’ therapy on her own. Of course.

“She’s been doing a really intensive form of couples’ therapy on her own. She’s conquered the crippling trust issues she had… [Aniston and Theroux] are so, so madly in love. He makes her feel happier than she has ever done in her whole life. Justin isn’t like the other guys she has met, he doesn’t pretend not to be into her, he tells her how much he loves her and all he asks for is honesty in return. Jen says Justin completes her and that if she hadn’t had therapy, she may have driven him away.”

[From Music Rooms]

I’m already getting sleepy with the media’s constant need to turn Aniston into a victim. How many things are victimizing her this week? It’s endless. Meanwhile, OK! Magazine has a decent interview with Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger about this whole Justin & Jen sitation here – Patti thinks that Aniston has found her “One” and that they could get married.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

All of Jennifer Aniston’s past words to kind of clumsily explain her ex husband’s infidelity are coming back to her – “uncool,” “lacking a sensitivity chip,” “pity party,” I think I covered the most popular ones. We’ve heard recently that Aniston’s latest boyfriend, her upcoming costar Justin Theroux, had a longterm girlfriend and that she just moved out of the house they shared last weekend. This wasn’t just a rumor, either, the ex girlfriend’s rep confirmed it, and her mother told the press a few weeks ago that it wasn’t true that Aniston and Theroux were more than friends. So these two moved fast, they did it under the nose of Theroux’s girlfriend of 14 years, and they’re going full throttle to the press. Hence these latest photos of Aniston and Theroux wearing matching gold watches – and matching chunky gold rings on their left ring fingers. (We don’t have access to those pictures, but you can see them here, on Radar. Update! Oh snap, Radar took those photos down, but they do have a new glowing piece on Theroux’s career.) It could be a cheeky nod to the press that they’re together, but it does come off as insensitive, for lack of a better word, to Theroux’s very recent and blindsided ex.

US Weekly has a whole piece on Aniston and Theroux’s romance, and it reads suspiciously like a publicist-planted story. It’s hard to tell, though, because US hasn’t been kind to Aniston in the past and they basically admit that Aniston and Theroux were cheating together, although they downplay it. It could be an attempt to revamp her image as the wronged woman, I have no idea. It’s not like she’s been making smart PR moves lately.

After a brief on-set fling last fall, they reconnected in March. And now? “He’s living at her place in L.A.!” says an insider. “And she’s introducing him as her boyfriend…”

But an Aniston source says friends – including pal Courteney Cox – have no worries about the speedy romance: “They like him, and they like seeing her happy.”

Aniston had her eye on Theroux as soon as she met him in September on the set of Wanderlust in Georgia… She was taken by his sense of humor, says a pal, adding “He’s sweet and funny and so easy to be with.” One thing she ignore? His live-in girlfriend, costume designer Heidi Bivens, 35. “Jen went after him,” a Theroux source says, adding that she set the scene for seduction at her rented lakeside home, hosting intimate parties for the cast. “They drink and play games, and they started hooking up.” However, nervous that word would get out – or perhaps that comparisons to Angelina Jolie would be made – they soon cooled things off.

But by March, after Theroux finally split with Bivens, they reconnected in L.A….

And the whirlwind continues: Conveniently, Aniston just bought not one but two NYC apartments near Theroux’s (she’s combining a $5.9 million pad with an $1.8 million one), and a pal says he’s mulling a stay in L.A. through summer, telling Us, “He really likes Jennifer. He’s like a new man.” As for Aniston? “She’s very hopeful,” says a source. “She’s excited for a fun summer.”

[From US Weekly, print edition, June 27, 2011]

This reads like a PR piece, doesn’t it? Theroux and his girlfriend broke up in March, according to this account, even though the girlfriend’s rep kind-of said that it wasn’t over until last weekend. (It’s hard to tell as their statement is vague, but that’s heavily implied.) It’s all about how much fun they’re having and how happy they are together. They admit that Aniston was cheating, but that’s downplayed and supposedly they didn’t get serious until Theroux broke it off “in March,” but his girlfriend stayed at the house they shared for three more months anyway. Aniston just hooked a guy who is more than happy to trade up to a movie star, but who didn’t cut his longterm girlfriend loose until he was absolutely sure that he had another warm bed to roll into. Douches like that are a dime a dozen, but not to Jen. She needed someone to help her promote her latest films and this guy fit the bill. I’m sure her people convinced her to play it for all it was worth.

Rather than explore this mess any further, I think I’ll back up a little and impart some wisdom that someone told me ages ago about dating people you work with. I think it also applies to Hollywood. “You don’t sh*t where you eat.” With this latest romance, Aniston just got a toilet installed in her kitchen yet she keeps whipping up boxed mac and cheese and expecting the public to eat it.

In the photo above Theroux is shown on 4/26/10. Aniston is shown on 5/5/11. Credit: WENN. In the photo below Theroux is shown on 6/4/11. Credit: Fame

This photo is of Justin and his girlfriend, makeup artist Heidi Bivens, in 2008. Credit: PRPhotos

Early last week we ran a story that was all over the tabloids, about how Jennifer Aniston’s new PR-friendly boyfriend, Justin Theroux, had a longterm girlfriend who was surprised to hear through the press that he was dating Aniston. This story was supported by a quote that the girlfriend’s mother gave Radar Online about how it wasn’t true that Aniston and her daughter’s boyfriend were together, and that they were just friends who happened to be out with a group of people when the tabloids (Aniston’s rep) decided to manufacture a new romance. I wrote back then that I couldn’t verify whether Justin and his girlfriend were living together, but according to The NY Post and the girlfriend’s rep they were, they’d been together for 14 years, and the girlfriend just moved out last weekend. It’s worth noting that Theroux is now repped by CAA, the same agency that continually plants Jennifer Aniston stories in the celebrity press.

Jennifer Aniston’s romance with Justin Theroux has ended his 14-year relationship with his live-in girlfriend Heidi Bivens — who moved out of their home last weekend, Page Six has exclusively learned.

Sources tell us Hollywood costume designer Bivens “is devastated” after Theroux abruptly ended their relationship as he got close to Aniston.
Aniston, 42, and Theroux, 39, met last fall on the set of “Wanderlust,” due in October, but in recent weeks they have become inseparable.

A source told us, “Heidi is heartbroken. She was completely blindsided. She and Justin had been together for years, they had a home. Then he met Jennifer and everything changed. At first he claimed he and Jen were friends.”

A rep for Bivens confirmed to Page Six: “Heidi and Justin have been together for 14 years. They met when she was 20 years old and he 24, and yes, she just moved out of their home last weekend. She has no comment.”

When Aniston and Theroux were first spotted dining together in May, her rep insisted they were friends. But it was reported at the time that Theroux is “edgier than the guys Jen usually dates . . . she really likes him.”

In recent weeks, the pair have repeatedly been seen dining out and reportedly spending weekends together, with Hollywood sources telling us that “things are moving fast. They are practically living together.”

Despite Heidi’s heartbreak, a friend of Theroux claimed, “Things were already over between him and Heidi before he got close to Jen…”

A rep for Theroux declined to comment. A rep for Aniston didn’t get back to us.

[From The NY Post]

Back when Aniston first started seeing this otherwise taken guy, her rep planted a “friendly dinner” story in People, and then denied the story to US Weekly. I’m thinking that Theroux got word of the People story and told Aniston’s people to back off and deny it, since he didn’t want word getting back to his girlfriend.

I’ll say what I said in the past about this story – we don’t know what kind of lines Theroux fed Aniston about his relationship with his live-in girlfriend. However, I’ll add the caveat that married and attached guys have hit on me using the “we’re just together for the kids,” or “she’s just staying here until she can get on her feet” line and I haven’t ever fallen for it apart from once when I was 18. (The guy wasn’t married, he was just living with someone and then I quickly realized what was up.) It’s usually obvious when a guy is creeping. When a guy is living with someone, smart women know not to go there, or at least to keep the situation at arm’s length and wait and see. Unless they don’t really care.

Why did Aniston play it like this though? Was this a fauxmance that went to the next level, or does she always immediately let her people let the press know when she has a new lover? You think she would know by now that she should play it closer to the vest.

Justin on 4/6/11. Doesn’t his face scream “douche” to you?

Aniston is shown on 5/5/11. Credit: WENN.com. Thanks to Kira for the tip!