Everyone thought that the blurry far away pictures of Jennifer Aniston and Orlando Bloom in swimwear in Mexico meant that Aniston’s love life must be on the upswing. It turns out that while they may have been swimming in the same vicinty, they weren’t on a romantic vacation together. Aniston and Bloom were attending the wedding of someone who works in their management company. Natalie Portman, Laura Linney, and Kate Bosworth were also there so it wasn’t exactly a lovematch:

Sure, the blurry shots show little more than the single stars soaking up harmful UV rays in the same general patio area, but that was enough to touch off talk of an A-list hookup.

Alas, it looks like there’s no need to christen Jen, 38, and Orlando, 30, with an annoying nickname (Blaniston? Jorlando?) anytime soon.

“This is 100 percent not true,” Bloom’s spokeswoman pooh-poohs to MSN Entertainment of the love connection chatter.

According to the rep, the pretty pair was south of the border with their shared manager, Aleen Keshishian, to witness a vow-swap, a story confirmed by Aniston’s mouthpiece.

.”They were both in Mexico along with many others to attend a wedding of a friend who works at the management company where … [they] are represented,” he tells us.

The “many others” on hand for the destination nuptials reportedly included Natalie Portman, Laura Linney, Zoe Saldana and Orlando’s repeat ex, Kate Bosworth.

[Entertainment.MSN.com via ONTD]

Bloom was quietly dating his Pirate’s co-star, Naomie Harris, this summer and it’s possible they’re still together. Aniston was linked briefly with her He’s Just Not That Into You costar, Bradley Cooper, but Cooper is said to be Cameron Diaz’s latest conquest now.

Star reports that Cooper hurt Aniston’s feelings “when she found out he was hosting ’singles parties’ and not inviting her.” If that upset her, she’s got to be more than a little miffed to see that he’s carrying on a high profile romance with Diaz.

Still, a woman doesn’t need a guy to be happy or fulfilled, and it’s got to be thrilling to hang out on the beach with a shirtless Orlando Bloom even if that porn stache isn’t going anywhere near your body. You know I’m thinking about that. *sigh*

Here’s a better picture of a shirtless Bloom:

Angelina Jolie has (perhaps indirectly) influenced Brad Pitt to get additional tattoos, travel more, get involved in charity work, and become a doting father. It seems she’s now influenced him to give way too much information in interviews, too. Never one to hold back incriminating information about sexual proclivities or psychological failings, Angelina is known for giving quotes that will haunt her until the day she dies. Now Brad Pitt is giving us TMI and is trying to explain how he made sure that Jennifer Aniston was ok with it before he gave in to the seductive wiles of Angelina.

He’s trying to let us all know that he and Jennifer were at a standstill in their marriage and made a mutual decision to end it before he let Angelina do more than whisper sweet nothings to him over the phone and hold his hand in public. Don’t the guys always say that their marriages sucked before they cheated? Maybe he didn’t actually “have sexual relations with that woman” before he left Aniston proper, but he’s a fool to remind us about it.

In a new interview with V magazine, Brad Pitt claims he maintains a “deep friendship” with his ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston, 38, and defends how he ended their four-and-a-half year marriage in January 2005. Among his bombshells: that he stifled his attraction to Angelina Jolie, 32, until after he and Aniston had ended the relationship.

“The most important thing about that time was for Jen and me to figure out if – how do I put it? – if we didn’t want to go on without any outside influence,” he tells the magazine of the last days of his marriage, which were marked by media reports of an affair with his Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar.

“Is this where we got off? Have we taken this as far as we wanted to go?” He concludes, “Those questions had to be answered before an attraction to Angie could be answered.”

Asked if he still approves of how he handled the split, Pitt, 43, saying that protecting all parties involved was most important to him, replies, “I don’t know how better to have handled it…The thing guiding me then was you don’t know how many days you have, and you need life to be everything you need it to be.”

[From US Weekly]

Angelina has said quite a lot in defense of her hookup with Brad on the set of Mr. of Mrs. Smith. She said that it wasn’t that exciting because they were friends first and then gradually it turned into something more:

“And it took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realize that it might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe…Not as exciting as what a lot of people would like to believe. We spent a lot of time contemplating and thinking and talking about what we both wanted in life and realized that we wanted very, very similar things.”

[January, 2007 issue of Vogue via IDLYITW]

The thing is, that was two and a half years ago, we’ve all moved on, and through Angelina they’ve already said that they weren’t hitting the sheets before Brad left Jen. Why bring it up again? There’s really no need, and it’s got to be painful for Aniston to keep hearing it in the press. Brad shouldn’t talk about it anymore, and should just move on with his life. I know people are harping on it and there are some that will never forgive them for what happened, but to me it’s old news and Brad should know better than to dig that shit up again.

While earlier rumors had the Jolie-Pitts settling in Berlin, it’s looks like they’ll be in NY for a while. Maddox, 6, has enrolled at the Lycee Francais de New York on the Upper East Side. Lessons are given in French. Brad Pitt and Maddox were seen at the Yankees’ game on Tuesday night along with director Spike Lee and his son.

Brad and Angelina are shown at the Venice Film Festival on 9/4/07, thanks to PRPhotos.

Jennifer Aniston has been linked with her costar Bradley Cooper after the two had dinner together. They’re going to work on the film He’s Just Not That Into You, which has not started filming yet, and had dinner at Bradley’s house after being asked to meet by producer Drew Barrymore. Bradley is single, and his wife divorced him last year five months into their marriage.

Star Magazine is saying these two are a couple, but I think all they know is that they had dinner together and that Bradley is single too. That’s enough to declare them a couple, but I say it sounds like a “get to know you” business dinner considering that they’re about work on a film together.

They’re playing up the fact that Both Brad and Jen have exes named - Brad and Jen:

Star has learned that Jen, 38, recently enjoyed a romantic dinner with the handsome hottie [Bradley Cooper] who’s just 32 and newly single…

Actress Jennifer Esposito filed for divorce [from Bradley] last May, a mere five months after they wed. “He was devastated, says a friend. “But that’s all in the past now. He’s Jen’s new Brad, and she’s his new Jen!”

The cozy costars et at Bradley’s Brentwood, CA, home, thanks to mutual friend and matchmaker Drew Barrymore. A coproducer of He’s Just Not That Into You, Drew desperately wanted Jen to do the film. But the former Friends star was reluctant to sign on.

“Drew pushed, and Jen finally agreed to meet with Bradley,” says the source. “Jen wanted it quiet and low-key, so he invited her to his house, and it was great. Brad lit some candles and made dinner. He’s a good cook. They made a good connection. She loved his house, loved his dogs and most importantly, loved talking to him.”

[From Star Magazine print edition, September 3, 2007]

The way they describe it, Drew Barrymore wanted Jen to meet with Bradley so she’d agree to do the film, not to set them up. If single Aniston has dinner with anyone the tabloids are all over it, and this is no exception. Add the fact that the guy is single and also had dogs and they’re practically married by tabloid standards.

Still, Aniston met Vince Vaughn on set and could possibly fall in love with another costar. In Hollywood it happens all the time, and Aniston has both benefited and been famously screwed over by the phenomenon. Maybe this time it will work out in her favor again. Bradley Cooper is super cute and doesn’t seem like a player like her last boyfriend, British model Paul Sculfor. If there is anything going on there he seems like a good choice for Jen.

Bradley Cooper is shown at the Failure To Launch premiere on 3/8/06. Aniston is clutching her award at the People’s Choice Awards on 1/9/07. Thanks to PRPhotos.

That title is actually misleading, because the story is based on a supposed insider quote found at FemaleFirst, meaning it could be total bullshit made up by anyone, but Aniston is supposedly over her Rachel character and unwilling to do a “Friends” movie:

A source said: “There have been whispers of a ‘Friends’ movie for a while now, especially with the ‘Sex and the City’ film finally getting the go-ahead.

“But it can’t happen without Jen and she thinks ‘Friends’ has had it’s time and she should move on with her film career.

“I think if they were given a chance the rest of the cast would probably go for it but Jen sees playing Rachel again - even in a film - as going back, not moving forward.

“She wants to earn respect as a movie actress in her own right and take on more serious roles to stretch her acting ability.”

[Female First via Gossip Rocks]

Unlike Sex and the City, I would actually go see a Friends movie, because despite how annoying Aniston might seem to many of you now I always found her character and the other Friends endearing and funny. I didn’t watch it all the time, but you know they could make the movie pretty entertaining and you don’t have to be a die-hard fan to see it.

I doubt she said this though. It’s a pretty decent assumption considering how she’s been managing her career, but she probably never told anyone this that would actually blab to Female First or whatever non-sourced magazine or rag they got it from.

Here is Aniston in a damn good mood rubbing her shawl all over her face while out to dinner in NY recently. What’s that all about? Thanks to Splash News for these pictures.

Even though Jennifer Aniston had supposedly broken up with model Paul Sculfor, sources are saying that the two are still together, and Jennifer is actually considering moving to England with him – to aid his homesickness.

The Friends star is claimed to be happy with a move across the Atlantic to aid her homesick boyfriend.

A source commented: “Jennifer loves the UK and London - especially now that, with her relationship with Paul, she has a reason to be there.

“Paul has been missing home and Jennifer is tired of Los Angeles so it seems only logical they give it a go.”

They added: “Paul has a place in the UK but they plan to look for something together in London soon.”

[From Digital Spy]

Somehow I don’t think Jennifer is stupid enough to do that just yet. She seems uber – if not over – bonded with best friend Courtney Cox, and apparently has a pretty tight circle of friends in Los Angeles. The article also claims that Aniston and Sculfor never broke up, and that Sculfor actually just went home to London for two weeks.

This woman has a history of picking men that don’t want to commit to her. She was engaged to Tate Donovan, married for five years, only to be left for Angelina Jolie (though of course Brad refutes that), then spent how many years clowning around with Vince Vaughn, who everyone knew she was too good for, and he still wouldn’t commit to her. Sometimes you just look at someone and can see they’re empty, and Paul Sculfor is one of those guys. Maybe it’s the vacant model stare, but there’s just a lack of substance there. I hope she finds someone decent who treats her well. Actually, I still hope she finds Ross, but I’m a loser that way.

This is a cute commercial. I think it’s Dutch. Can you guys let me know and has anyone seen it on television?

There’s a rumor that Aniston wants to adopt, and that she’s looking for an American kid despite Oprah urging her to adopt an African infant. The source is Britain’s Grazia magazine which makes up a lot of shit, so I doubt it’s true. The last thing Aniston would want to do is follow in Angelina’s footsteps.

Thanks to SmitHappens for finding this. [via]

Update: readers in Singapore and Australia say that this commercial is old and has been around for at least a couple of years.

Jennifer Aniston was noticeably absent at last night’s Golden Globes. Everyone was wondering if she would show up and how she would handle it if she ran into Brad and Angelina. At least she can revel in the fact that her rival Angelina couldn’t even manage to act happy on the red carpet.

I didn’t see Jen’s good friend Courteney Cox there, either. Now the news is that Aniston is going to make a guest appearance on Cox’s critically-panned new FX series, Dirt:

Former Friends costars Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox are going to share the small screen once again – but this time the pals will play rivals on Cox’s new FX drama, Dirt.

Aniston will appear on the show’s March 27 finale as Tina Harrod, a rival magazine editor to Cox’s character, Lucy Spiller.

“We’re shooting this Thursday – I can’t wait,” Cox told PEOPLE on Monday. “We’ll have a ball. We’re just going to have fun.”

This appearance will mark the first time the friends will have been on a show together since Friends went off the air in 2004.

From most accounts, Dirt is a rather humorless show, and people speculate that it will be cancelled soon. Cox herself doesn’t seem too enthused with it, and didn’t do that well in a promotional session for the series at the Television Critics Association. It might not be the best idea for Aniston to make an appearance on what could be the last episode.

Update: Thanks to Kellie and Diva for pointing out that Courteney Cox was a presenter at the Golden Globes. I should have watched the whole thing, but there’s just too much going on at our house this week.

There’s a story in this week’s Life & Style, that Vince Vaughn tried to get Jennifer Aniston to take him back when he visited her house around the holidays.

OK! Magazine ran this same news that Vaughn visited Aniston on Christmas Eve and claimed that she just wanted to show him her new Beverly Hills home. I’m going with OK’s version.

Here’s what Life & Style said:

Early afternoon, Christmas Eve. Jennifer Aniston, in her Hollywood Hills home, was looking forward to dinner with friends at LA steak house Mastro’s. But when the bell rand and Jen opened the door, she found herself face-to-face with her ex-boyfriend Vince Vaughn. It had been a while. The couple had broken up in October during Jen’s visit to London, where Vince has been filming Fred Claus, and hadn’t seen each other since. “Jen was happy to see Vince,” says an insider. “She’s never stopped caring for him.”

But if Vince’s visit was a bit out of the blue (he’d decided to jet to L.A. during a break from filming) what he rold Jen once they sat down inside was really out of left field: He wanted a second chance. “He told Jen he’d do whatever it took to win her back,” the insider adds, “even give her the baby she wants.”

Jen was touched by Vince’s sincere offer but said she’d been doing some soul-searching of her own. “Jen told him, ‘I really care about you, but this is all just too little too late,” says the insider. “But she said she hoped they could stay friends.”

[From Life & Style print edition, January 15, 2007]

I really doubt any of this is true apart from the fact that Vaughn visited Aniston on Christmas eve and stayed for an hour and a half, which is news that must come from the paparazzi crouching outside her home.

OK!’s version of events is that Vince visited Jen and they’re not more than friends:

Jen ended 2006 on an upbeat note…

Just before Christmasn, former flame Vince Vaughn visited her new $15 million Beverly Hills home. “Jen adores the house and was thrilled for Vince to see it,” a friend of the actress tells OK!

Vince, who had been in London filming the upcoing comedy Fred Claus, had returned to Los Andeles on Dec. 23 and made visiting Jen one of his top priorities. “Jen does not have a history of remaining friends with her exes but she wants that with Vince,” says Jen’s pal. “Now they’re buddies who can run into each other without it being uncomfortable. Jen certainly doesn’t have that with Brad.”

[From OK! print edition, January 15, 2007]

What to believe? Well, Life & Style is also saying that Angelina is pregnant again, so I think OK! is more accurate. Neither of these stories seem to have actual quotes from anyone who is a friend of Jen’s or some kind of “insider,” but who knows?

Life &amp: Style story from Sammie’s Effluvia. OK! story from the magazine I was duped into buying by the fake cover story that Angelina is somehow feeling guilty for saying she wanted to meet with Jennifer Aniston, which I will cover shortly.

Pictures of Vaughn in a santa hat on the set of his new movie found at Heart of News.

Jennifer Aniston and K-Fed, yes there’s no other K-Fed I could be referring to, supposedly met up unexpectedly at a club and spent the evening bonding over shots of Limoncello, the same lemon liquor that led to Danny Devito’s drunken appearance on The View. They then slipped out together through the back door. What happened next is anyone’s guess:

After hanging out with former ‘Friends’ costars, Jen made for Club Citrus with some gal pals for some laughs and what became a few too many Limoncello’s. Jen was first introduced to the high-octane cocktail in Italy by the same guy that sent his pal Danny DeVito to be on “The View” while he was in a state of mild delirium.

And what other newly exed celeb happened to be in the same place, slamming a Colt 45 while wearing a too-large-for-his-frame velour sweatsuit? None other than FedEx and his posse, all of whom went nuts when they saw Jen. My sources tell me they spent the rest of the night in a private area, making fun of their exes.

When the lights of the club finally came on, the two were seen escaping into the shadows through a back door. Citrus owner Peter Chin, always tight-lipped about his mega-star clientele, would neither confirm nor deny the story, then gave me his signature ‘wink.’

Aniston had made an appearance earlier in the night at the premiere of pal Courteney Cox’s new series for FX, Dirt, in which Cox plays a no-holds barred tabloid editor. Incidentally, Cox has said that she would be open to a Friends reunion, but said that it wasn’t in the works yet.

As to what prompted Aniston to perhaps go home with the FedEx, we can only guess it was the liquor. The whole scenario sounds like it was made up by the Limoncello marketing people, who were so grateful for Danny Devito’s on-air plug that they sent a case of the stuff to The View afterwards.

I’m not an Aniston fan, (I mean I was back when she was on Friends, but that was ages ago) but I feel sorry for the woman at this point if this news is true. She went from Brad Pitt to Vince Vaughn to K-Fed. You can just hear the rock dropping into the well.

As for whether she’s pregnant or not, that probably not true. The British newsletter that reported the dubious news two weeks ago said just last week that it was probably water retention. And wishful thinking. She’s not helping matters with outfits like this though.

Thanks to reader Borat for the tip!

Pictures from Superior Pics.

Star magazine claims that not only were Vince and Jen still together up until Thanksgiving, but that Vince cheated on Jen with a 20 year-old Texas college student he met a Budapest restaurant. I know it sounds weird, but go with it - Star even has evidence of an edited blog entry and an supposed e-mail this woman wrote her friends bragging about how she bagged Vaughn.

Star says that they told Jen’s reps this story was about to come out, and that’s when they announced the split. That doesn’t convince me that they were still together, just that Vince got with a college chick:

Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn had not split up before Thanksgiving. In fact, the former Friend tried to convince her on-again, off-again boyfriend to make the 12-hour flight from London (where he’s been filming the comedy Fred Claus) to L.A., to join Jen for the holiday. When he turned her down, she ended up alone joining best friend Courteney Cox-Arquette and hubby David Arquette.

As for Vince, he hopped a three-and-a-half-hour flight to Budapest. On Nov. 25, while dining in a local restaurant with two pals, Vince befriended three female students at a nearby table — including Laura Mallory Lane, 20, a junior at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, who was on holiday while studying abroad in Rome.

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The group proceeded to have a cocktail-fueled evening that ended with Vaughn and Lane (who goes by her middle name of Mallory) in bed together — all of it documented in an e-mail entitled, “I shacked with Vince Vaughn” that Lane sent to 22 of her Gamma sorority sisters two days later, says a source!

When the bars had closed at 2 a.m., Mallory wrote that the group ventured back to Vaughn’s hotel and Vaughn asked her to stay for another drink — which she did. “I did not feel pressured at all,” Mallory wrote.

“We talked some more (and yes, we talked about Jen), and one thing led to another and obviously we were messing around before too long. We didn’t have sex, but it was just as good :)…”

Nevertheless, it wasn’t a good thing for Jen. Star alerted Jen’s reps to our story and lo and behold the couple announced their final breakup!

I tried to google specific phrases in that woman’s blog post, and I looked for her blog using different keywords in her name and location and couldn’t find anything. It’s possible she took it down or it’s just too hard to locate. (Update: reader Jess has better google skills, here’s her blog.)

This e-mail is also kind of hackneyed and suspect. Ooh, they hung out all night and made out but didn’t have sex. Isn’t that a cliche? I mean, I know I had a few of those encounters in college but it doesn’t sound really legitimate to me.

Here’s the blog entry. All of these images are from Star and I cannot find the actual blog here’s a link to her blog
12/4 original entry mentioning Vaughn:

12/6 edited entry deleting Vaughn. It seems a little strange that there’s a double line break where that text would be, but she could have put it in there when she erased the other text:

So either:
1. This story is bogus, there is no college woman and someone made this up to make it seem like Vince and Jen were still together and to make Vince look bad
2. Vince and Jen were really together and keeping under the radar and he did cheat OR
3. Vince and Jen were not together for months as everyone suspected and Vince just hooked up with this random chick with a big mouth.

I’m voting for 3.

Update: Thanks to reader Jess’ excellent googling, we have a link to the blog in question. Here’s the post from this Monday where she deleted the line about Vince, and there is one newer post with a cute picture of her posing with her friends in Prague. (I was only there once, it was beautiful.) There are currently four comments on the Vince Vaughn post asking about her encounter with him. I’m betting she’ll take the blog down within a few days.