After several months of breathless tabloid coverage about how Brad is totally “thisclose” to leaving Angelina and run back to the waiting arms of Jennifer Aniston, it’s a rare pleasure to see a little bit of equally fake “Angelina is getting back at Brad” coverage. This comes from The National Enquirer (via Showbiz Spy), and they’ve finally got out of their uncool Bermuda Triangle rut and decided to make it a quadrangle for fun. This week’s added participant is none other than Angelina’s second ex-husband, Billy Bob Thornton.

According to sources, Angelina was totally pissed about the Aniston drama, so she decided to get even, “giving Brad a dose of his own medicine by getting hot and heavy with Billy Bob.” Unfortunately, the sources stop short of saying that Angelina and Billy Bob have actually met up for a revival of their infamous Velcro-wall-blood-vial-sex-in-the-limo ho-down. The most Angelina and Billy have done thus far is some kind of phone sex that included Angelina naked in a bathtub, a glass of wine, a phone and Brad walking in on her. The best part is when the source talks about how Angelina is sick of Brad’s “mind games”. Ha!

Angelina Jolie is furious that partner Brad Pitt is back in contact with his wife ex-wife Jennifer Aniston — so she’s been hooking up with her ex-husband, Billy Bob Thornton!

Amid claims Pitt and Aniston liaised at a New York hotel, the Changeling actress has apparently been having “steamy sessions” with Thornton, who she divorced in 2003 after three years of marriage.

“Angelina was beside herself with rage over Brad’s latest date with Jen, which left her humiliated and feeling like a laughing stock,” an insider told American tabloid the National Enquirer. “She has been giving Brad a dose of his own medicine by getting hot and heavy with Billy Bob.”

“Brad recently walked in on Angie, naked in the bathtub, drinking wine and in deep intimate conversation with Billy Bob on the phone!”

“That was the last straw for Brad. And worse still, when he asked Angie to hang up because he needed to talk to her about something important regarding one of their kids, she completely ignored him and kept on talking to Billy Bob for another half hour. Brad was ticked!”

Jolie and Thornton apparently speak on a regular basis. And, when they do, they “talk for hour after hour about the old days, turning each other on with the sizzling reminders of the great sex life they had together, how much she misses him — and how bored she is with Brad’s mind games.”

“It drives Brad nuts that Angie is still talking to Billy Bob,” the source adds. “By meeting up again with Jennifer behind her back, Brad has started a full-scale war with Angelina.”

“She’s determined to get even with Brad for his insensitive behavior — and sees her relationship with Billy Bob as the perfect revenge.”

[From The National Enquirer via Showbiz Spy]

When I think back to Billy Bob and Angelina’s crazy marriage, I’m always struck by the idea that Billy Bob really messed with Angelina’s already fragile mind. It’s to her credit that she cleaned herself up so well during and after the marriage. If Angelina is backsliding in her relationship with Brad, I could see how reconnecting with Billy might be a convenient way for her to self-destruct. Both Angelina and Billy have said that they still talk, and it even seems like Billy might be a little hung-up on her. Still, I hope Angelina has come to the realization at long last that Billy is kind of a dickhead, and she’s better off without him in her life.

Whatever happened to her first husband, Jonny Lee Miller, though? There were so few rumors about them after they split up, but I’ve always thought Angelina was still nailing that to the wall for years after their divorce. As she should - Jonny was the best, I adore him still. I even thought there was probably some overlap between her old-school hotel-hookups with Jonny and the beginning of her relationship with Brad. That’s who the tabloids should fabricate some scandal with.

Note by Celebitchy: Angelina is shown at an event for World Refugee Day on Thursday. Starpulse has video of her speech and she gets welled up talking about the refugees she’s met. Credit: WENN.com

Last night, Jennifer Aniston and Bradley Cooper were spotted exiting a restaurant in New York, having most likely enjoyed a nice dinner together at the Italian joint Il Cantinori. People is describing the dinner as “cozy” and the setting as “romantic”. As far as confirmed dates that we have actually proof of, I think this might be Jennifer’s first date since she and John Mayer broke up in March.

The rumors about Jennifer and Bradley started back in May, when Page Six reported that the two He’s Just Not That Into You co-stars were spotted laughing, talking and flirting at a premiere. The rumors percolated for a few days before Bradley denied they were dating, saying that he’d only met Jennifer something like “three times”.

Let the rumors resume! Several weeks after Jennifer Aniston and Bradley Cooper reportedly flirted at a party for her movie Management, the pair enjoyed a cozy late-night dinner at the romantic Italian restaurant Il Cantinori in Manhattan on Thursday.

“It was a date,” says a source. “She is taking it slow. She is obviously looking for love, but is not about to rush into anything.”

When the two met up earlier this spring, pals of both dismissed romance rumors. “I am single,” Cooper, 34, the star of the box-office smash The Hangover, recently told PEOPLE, saying that he found the rumors linking himself to Aniston “flattering.”

He added that he’s looking “for humor, great personality, intelligence, inner and outer beauty” in a woman. The one must? “She has to like my dogs [Samson and Charlotte]. My dogs and I come in a package.”

That shouldn’t be a problem for Aniston, 40, a canine lover with two dogs of her own, Norman and Dolly. The actress spent most of the spring shooting the romantic comedy The Baster in New York, while also getting past her March split with John Mayer.

“Jen is moving on with her life like she always does,” says a source. “She seems happy.”

[From People]

They do have a lot in common - good hair, dogs, and now Italian food. Another weird coincidence is that Jennifer (Aniston) has an ex-husband named Bradley (Pitt) and Bradley (Cooper) has an ex-wife named Jennifer (Esposito). If one of Cooper’s dogs was named Norman, they would definitely have to get married. As it is, how cute is it that one of Bradley’s dogs is named Charlotte? That’s such a sweet name for a dog, but it’s so girly. I wonder if Bradley named her or if she was named but some long-gone ex-girlfriend.

Here’s Jennifer on the set of her movie ‘The Baster’ in Central Park on May 14th. Bradley is shown outside MTV Studios in Times Square on Wednesday. Images thanks to WENN.com .

To promote Bruno, which comes out in three weeks, Sacha Baron Cohen decided to pose for the GQ cover in the character of Bruno, the impossibly ridiculous Austrian fashionista. Bruno is sort of like Ben Stiller’s Derek Zoolander, only more hardcore and really, really gay. Huffington Post is claiming that Sacha’s naked, waxed cover pose is “the same” as Jennifer Aniston’s GQ cover shot for the January issue, but seeing the two covers side by side, they just seem eerily similar, not the same. So I feel comfortable calling this a “spoof”. If it was “the same” Bruno should have spread his legs more, and tried to mimic Aniston’s doggy-posture.

Inside the magazine, Sacha does a full-on fashion photo spread that is just… I don’t even know how to describe this stuff. A cross between awesome and creepy. I think my favorite is Bruno on the back of a motorcycle being driven by some grizzled Hell’s Angel. But all of the pictures are pretty funny. For the interview, Sacha is totally in character too. GQ plays along, and the piece is written like Bruno is some kind of style advice columnist, and these questions are being submitted to him in “Dear Bruno” style:

Dear Brüno, is it okay to “manscape” down there?
It’s more zan okay; it is most essential. Be careful if you do it yourself, though–yesterday ich tried to self-wax mein arschenhaller und glued meinself to ze bed. Manscaping ist important, but not as crucial as getting regular anal bleaching.

Dear Brüno, I am all in favor of protecting the animals, but what is reasonable? I won’t wear fur, but do I need to give up my leather jackets or shoes?
Ich vant to make it clear: Brüno ist totally against vearing fur—it’s too expensive und high-maintenance. I mean, vhy don’t giant pandas have a label on zem saying zey’re not machine vashable? Regarding shoes und jackets, if you vant to be ein Leatherboy, zat’s fine.

Dear Brüno, how can I get some “Efron hair”? Or at least some “Pattinson hair”?
Ich vouldn’t bother getting a Zac Efron hairstyle right now, cos ich am about to change mine and he’s certain to copy me again. In terms of grooming, ze only thing he hasn’t copied me with ist getting his ballensack pierced—vell, he hadn’t had it done ze last time ich saw him.

Dear Brüno, how would you define “Obama style”?
Firstly, ich vant to say zat I find Obama an inspiration—it gives me great hope zat, after years of struggle, someone can at last get to ze White House, despite being incredibly hot. On ze other hand, it’s slightly disappointing that he needed zat beard, Michelle, to help him—but vone shtep at a time. In terms of his style, he perfectly bridges Serious und Sexy…Oval Office und Oval Orifice.

Dear Brüno, my wedding is approaching and I am desperate to impress my bride. What is appropriate groom’s attire for a Labor Day nuptial?
If Brüno vas about to be married to a voman, I’d be vearing a noose.

Dear Brüno, who are the other best-dressed world leaders of all time?
JFK. Obama. Castro. Timberlake.

Dear Brüno, what do you sleep in?
In reality, ich sleep in a seaweed body wrap under a Zac Posen Navy-Cut Nightshirt. In mein dreams, ich sleep naked in a giant reed basket drifting slowly down ze Nile, cradled in ze arms of Daniel Radcliffe.

Dear Brüno, the United States military is constantly trying to update its battle gear in the field. Are there ways you would modify the current uniform?
In mein country it’s verboten for ze soldiers to shtup each other—as ein result, to keep ze cravings at bay, over 80 percent of ze Austrian army vear Dickorette patches as part of zeir uniform. Army uniforms have to change; camo zese days ist ein total nicht nicht. I mean come on, it hasn’t been on ze runvays for over fourteen seasons now! For spring-summer 2010, ich vould put ze U.S. Army in bright pastels und slogan T-shirts, stuff like “Soldier Boy” or “Shoot Me from Behind.”

[From GQ]

Okay, I’m definitely going to start using “mein arschenhaller” in my everyday life. I hope that doesn’t become like Borat’s “ve-ery nice!” And I’m still giggling about “cradled in ze arms of Daniel Radcliffe.” Daniel will probably like that joke. He’s smart enough and funny enough to get it. But Zac Efron’s going to pissed that Bruno claims he’s copying!

Something’s brewing in entertainment journalism. I’m starting to think that one of the favorite pastimes of journalists is to ask random celebrities what they think of Jennifer Aniston and her love life. It really seemed that way when Fox News asked Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger for her opinion on Aniston, and now People Magazine has done it with Bette Midler.

Bette had a lot to say about Aniston. She says that Vince Vaughn was probably Aniston’s best choice in the past few years, saying “He’s hilarious, he’s good-looking. I mean, I thought he had it all.” Alas, Vince is currently being a big fat momma’s boy. So what about John Mayer? “Well, he’s a good-looking guy,” Midler hedges. Midler’s advice to Aniston is actually reminiscent of Patti Stanger’s advice. Don’t date actors, get out there and shake things up, et cetera. The funniest part comes at the end when Bette suggests Aniston go on JDate:

While it may have been a good 40 years since Bette Midler last sang “Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match” in Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof, the Divine Miss M is now ready to play matchmaker herself – to Jennifer Aniston.

“She needs an exciting guy, like a race-car driver,” Midler, whose Las Vegas revue The Showgirl Must Go On marks its 100th show on June 7, told PEOPLE about Aniston. “I think she needs somebody who cherishes her, but also somebody who’s going to give her a run for her money.”

Still in full matchmaker mode, Midler, 63, said, “She should find somebody who is really hot, who’s not in show business. Somebody with a lot of money, and she should live the large life and forget about these a–holes. She’s a great girl. She’s got everything going for her.”

As for the Friends star’s romantic past, Midler said she had had high hopes for Aniston and Vince Vaughn who dated from 2005 to 2006. “I actually thought Vince Vaughn was great,” she said. “He’s hilarious, he’s good-looking. I mean, I thought he had it all.” But adds Midler, “I don’t really know them, but I like them, I like to watch them, I enjoy them.”

And what about another Aniston ex, John Mayer? “Well, he’s a good-looking guy,” Midler says of the musician, whose on-and-off relationship with Aniston ended earlier this year. “I’ve got to say, I watched it for awhile, but I have no opinion. I just read a few of the blogs.”

Asked if perhaps Aniston should post a profile on an online dating service, Midler said with a laugh, “Oh, please, you mean JDate? Put her up on JDate and see how she does!”

[From People Magazine]

Can anyone see Aniston with a racecar driver? Like, someone from NASCAR? What would they have to talk about? I could see Aniston with some other kind of athlete (if you consider racecar drivers “athletes”, which many people do). Maybe a basketball player, or even baseball. Not football, though. For some reason I don’t think Jennifer would work with a football player. Perhaps a golfer? No, I’ve got it… a tennis player. I could totally see Jennifer with a tennis player.

Here’s Jen on the set of “The Baster” in New York City yesterday. Images thanks to WENN.com .

What do you do when your fifteen minutes of fame turns out to last only five? Well if you’re Scheana Marie Jancan (who? My point exactly) and John Mayer broke up with you (by ignoring your calls) after dating less than a month, you gab to Heat magazine about how Mayer’s still not over ex-girlfriend Jennifer Aniston. How he’s pining for her. And playing his guitar in the dark. A lot. I’m guessing there’s a solitary tear running down his cheek and probably moonlight streaming in through his window as he passionately warbles. Though Scheana didn’t get quite that specific. But close!

Thankfully she has all sorts of private knowledge about John Mayer’s deep, brooding inner turmoil.

John Mayer is still pining for on/off girlfriend Jennifer Aniston, his ex claims. Scheana Marie Jancan, who dated the musician after his most recent break-up with the actress, said he was ‘devastated’ about the split. She told Heat magazine: ‘He really didn’t think Jen would dump him - it was a complete shock to him.

‘He’s never really got over it and he still talks about her a lot. He’s been playing guitar alone at night, pining over her.’ The 24-year-old model and budding actress first met John when he was still dating the former Friends star. She met him again in April at the restaurant where she works.

Both going through break-ups at the same time, she said they ‘just chatted and started hanging out’, and described him as ‘a great guy, funny and sweet’. Despite John’s heartbreak over Jennifer, Scheana admitted that he had been ‘dating various girls’, including her, in a bid to make himself feel better.

According to reports, friends of Jennifer say John’s behaviour has strengthened her view that it was right for their relationship to end.

[From the Daily Mail]

Honestly I really doubt John Mayer is pining for Jennifer Aniston, considering the indifferent way he supposedly treated her when they were together. Though some people only want someone when they’ve lost them, so who knows. But still, the guy is such a player, and like Scheana said, he’s dating lots of girls. I doubt it’s just to make himself better; he’s simply going back to the status quo. John Mayer dates a lot of girls. That’s what he does. In fact when I think about Mayer, I think cad first and “musician” second.

It is sort of a nice thought that perhaps Mayer’s actually feeling some regret and maybe even honestly reflecting over his decisions. But he can’t have changed for the better if he’s behaving the same way he always has. He strikes me as the sort that can get a bit self-indulgent in terms of his moods. I don’t doubt that he’s playing guitar in the dark or whatever, but I’m guessing it’s more for drama’s sake than anything.

With the Jen/Angie war still raging on, it seems like public favor has slipped back into Jennifer Aniston’s hands. In a poll done by AOL-sponsored ParentDish.com, mothers voted that they would rather have Jen be trusted with their children than Angelina. Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi were number one, with Dina Lohan and Courtney Love at the bottom of the list. No surprises there.

Ellen DeGeneres and her partner Portia de Rossi — who have no children — topped a ParentDish.com poll of more than 10,000 moms that asked which star they would feel most comfortable leaving their kids with.

They nabbed 31 percent of votes, while the single Aniston came in second with 22 percent. Jolie and beau Brad Pitt — who have six kids — nabbed 18 percent of votes; Oprah Winfrey got just nine percent.

Jolie also came in at the bottom in a list of five best celebrity mothers. (Jennifer Garner topped the list, followed by first lady Michelle Obama, who tied with Reese Witherspoon.)

The worst celeb moms? Courtney Love and Dina Lohan.

The poll, which was conducted to mark Mother’s Day on Sunday, was held on AOL’s parenting website ParentDish.com between April 23-May 5.

[from Us]

The Jen/Angie feud has been waging for years, and there is no end in sight. Just today, we told you about new reports saying that Angelina was intent on sabotaging Jennifer.

Both of them must be sick of it by now, but it seems like Jennifer is finally getting the upper hand. For a long time, everyone thought of Brad and Angie as saints - adopting kids from around the world and spending time and money on charities while Jen did a press tour for He’s Just Not That Into You by talking incessantly about her years-old former marriage. But it seems like the media has turned against Angelina. Whether the reports of her boob jobs and miscarriages are accurate or not doesn’t really matter - the point is that the media is trying to dig up dirt on her and Brad. For some reason they’re no longer media darlings.

Now what do you think: who would you trust with your kids?

Here’s Jennifer on the German TV show “Wetten Das…” on February 28th. Header of Angelina appearing on “The Today Show” in November and Jennifer on the set of “Marley and Me” last spring. Images thanks to WENN.com .

Jennifer Aniston seems to have several men coming and going, if you believe the tabloid reports from the past few weeks. So, really, the “Jennifer Aniston” that the tabloids have made up has men coming and going. First, Jennifer was rumored to be hooking up with Gerard Butler in New York. Then Gerard abruptly left for an Indian booty call - with the Bollywood starlet he’s been dating off and on for several months, Priyanka Chopra. After that, the rumor morphed into the old stand-by, Brad Pitt. As in, “Brad Pitt leaves Angelina, runs back to Jennifer’s waiting arms” et cetera. Some people don’t buy that, some do. Whatever.

Now it seems the “Jennifer Aniston” tabloid creation might be getting some on the sly from none other than Bradley Cooper. If you don’t know Cooper, he was in Alias, He’s Just Not That Into You, Wedding Crashers, and a dozen other films where he usually plays the supportive friend or the buddy of one of the leads. He’s being promoted lately as the next big leading man (for comedies, not dramas), which may work. Bradley went to the premiere of Jennifer’s film Management, and Aniston was seen flirting with him quite blatantly - in front of his ex-wife, Jennifer Esposito!

JENNIFER Aniston and Bradley Cooper sure did act strangely at Tuesday’s party for Aniston’s new flick, “Management,” at Table 8.

First, Cooper attempted to bypass the red carpet by wearing a hat and sunglasses. After he made it in, he and Aniston flirted up a storm while Cooper’s ex, Jennifer Esposito, angrily drank Svedka near the bar and refused to enter the main room.

“Bradley and Jennifer [Aniston] were definitely into each other,” says a partygoer. “She kept touching his chest and whispering in his ear.”

The pair left 10 minutes apart, after Cooper bizarrely changed out of a white button-down shirt into a blue one.

[From Page Six]

Though I’m not Jennifer’s biggest fan, I think it would both hilarious and apt if she ended up with a guy named “Bradley”. There are lots of jokes to be made about that, so I’ll let you guys take care of that in the comments. I was really pissed when I though Aniston was trying to get with my boyfriend Gerard Butler, but I’m rather ambivalent about Bradley Cooper. My mom’s going to get upset, though. Bradley Cooper is one of her imaginary boyfriends. She’s loved him ever since she got the Alias box set.

If you want to die of saccharine, try reading Cindy Adams’ column today - it’s all about how Jennifer Aniston and her mother have reconciled, and everything’s rosy between them. Methinks the Aniston public relations team overshot the mark with that one - it’s so obvious a plant.

Aniston is shown at the Cinema Society’s screening of “Management” on Monday in NYC. Cooper is shown at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 22nd in Manhattan. Images thanks to PR Photos.com.

In Touch’s cover story this week is a big one - Brad Pitt storms out on Angelina, and runs straight into the arms of Jennifer Aniston. In Touch is reporting that Brad and Jennifer got together on April 23rd, and they even have a location and Brad’s “confession” that he and Angelina aren’t working, and he doesn’t know what to do. Which I suppose is an allusion to Brad getting back with Jennifer?

What is the proof of all of this? Brad and Jennifer are apparently wearing “the same” necklace. In Touch claims that Jennifer gave him the “antique pendant” for his 45th birthday this past December, but they also include a picture of Jennifer wearing the same necklace. Way to re-gift, Aniston. Does this mean that Jennifer gave Brad her necklace, and he’s wearing it, or vice versa? Or does this mean that the necklace was mass-produced, and Brad and Jennifer have the same taste in jewelry? Or does it mean Brad + Jennifer = true love forever!

As Brad Pitt copes with tension at home, he has been getting support from an unlikely ally — his ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston.

Friends say that in recent weeks, Brad and Jen, 40, have been talking frequently on the phone and texting each other, their conversations becoming longer and more personal as he confides in her about his current situation.

In fact, In Touch can exclusively reveal that on April 23, after Brad visited Angelina, 33, on the NYC set of Salt, he drove across town to where Jen’s film The Baster was in production — and the pair quietly met face-to-face.

“He pulled up in his black SUV,” reveals a mutual friend of the former couple, although Jen’s rep denies the story.

“He arrived on the opposite end of the set from where Jen’s trailer was, and Jen snuck into his car. They drove around New York City together, talking,” according to a friend of the former couple. “Brad confessed his feelings to Jen,” the friend says.

“He told her that he is trying to make his relationship with Angelina work, but it is failing.”

After about an hour, Brad dropped Jen off at The Greenwich Hotel and drove away. The meeting had been something they’d been organizing for weeks.

“They had to plan it meticulously so no one would find out,” the friend says. After so much time has gone by, Brad and Jen seem to have grown to value their friendship more. And he’s proving it by wearing a necklace she gave him for his 45th birthday on December 18.

“It’s an antique pendant,” a confidante shares, adding that she left it for him at the offices of his production company, Plan B. “She found it, and knew Brad would love it.”

[From In Touch Weekly]

Ugh, what is there even to say about this stuff? Maybe Brad and Jennifer did meet. They both claim to still keep in touch, but they’re never very specific about how often, or if they actually have face-to-face meetings. Is it just me, or is this report rather sad on several different levels? On face value, it’s sad that Brad is so out of sorts because Angelina is working on her first film after taking more than a year off to have and raise his children. It’s sad to think that Brad is so ambivalent about Angelina and their six children. Is Brad really so wishy-washy? Is he really so perturbed by Angelina working that he has to run to Aniston to complain and whine? On another level, the bullsh*t level, why are the tabloids so hellbent on trying to convince us that Aniston and Pitt had or have something that Brad and Angelina don’t?

Star magazine is reporting that Jennifer Aniston is in the process of adopting a baby boy. Let the Aniston v. Brangelina insanity ensue. Star claims that Aniston has wanted a baby for years, and is no longer willing to wait. And unlike her nemesis Angelina Jolie, Jennifer is sticking with the ‘go local’ movement and taking home an American baby. I can actually hear the Brangeloonies screaming through the tubes of the interweb as I write this.

After years of yearning for a baby, Jennifer Aniston is finally doing something about it: she’s taking her cue from arch-rival Angelina Jolie and adopting.

Star has learned that 40-year-old Jen has already started the paperwork with an agency in California and is planning to take home a baby boy. “She doesn’t want to wait,” says a friend.

“Her best friends all have kids, and Jen sees how much motherhood changed their lives for the best,” says the source. “She’s dying to have that!”

Jen has already started planning a $250,000 nursery at her home in Beverly Hills, and has even picked out her nanny. Unlike Angie, she wants a baby from the USA.

Jennifer is getting help from close friends including Sheryl Crow, who adopted a baby boy two years ago. “Sheryl is walking her through the process step by step,” says another insider.

[From Star]

Of course Star had to take an adversarial approach to the story with the Angelina jibes. Unlike the Enquirer, Star is rarely correct. They’re still following their old school tabloid model of “I dreamed it last night so it must be true” style investigative work. That said, it wouldn’t be crazy if Jennifer were adopting. She’s more than financially secure and perhaps at a point in her life where she’s ready to settle down and focus on a child. I honestly don’t think she’s as man desperate as the tabloids try to make her out to be. So it makes perfect sense to me that she’d want to raise a child on her own.

But she’s no J-Lo. I’d like to know how it’d even be possible to spend $250,000 on a nursery. Even in Hollywood. Even if you had the whole room coated in a layer of gold (maybe it’s antimicrobial? Dial gold soap is), I don’t think it could come to more than $150,000 max. If there’s any truth to the story, then congratulations to Jen. If there isn’t, I think she should go ahead and consider adopting, because a version of this story is going to come out every month until she does.

Here’s Jennifer on the set of “The Baster” in New York on Monday. Images thanks to WENN.com and Fame Pictures .

If Jennifer Aniston doesn’t get off Gerard Butler very, very soon, there will be scene. There will be a temper tantrum. There will be a hissy fit. There will be blood! Aniston, I drink your milkshake! I could totally kick her ass, too.

In the new In Touch Weekly, there’s an article about Gerry and Jennifer that has made me stabby. According to them, Jennifer and Gerard have developed a friendship since they first met at the Toronto Film Festival last September. At the time, there was some unfortunate reporting that Gerard had his hands on Jennifer’s thigh. Stabby. Since then, there have been on-and-off rumors that Gerard and Jennifer were going to be doing a film together - a musical, set in a prison.

Now it seems both Aniston and Gerard are looking for a little romance with each other. Jennifer is “very interested in making up for lost time with the actor” while Gerard is “very excited to see her again and wants to hook up with her again and hang out”. Friends of both Gerard and Jennifer are warning Jennifer that Gerry is a womanizer, though. Jennifer doesn’t care, because as In Touch Weekly says in a bold sub-headline, “She’s Lonely”:

It’s been less than a month sine Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer broke up - but she’s apparently already falling for another reputed womanizer. Jen, 40, recently had several secret meetings in a New York apartment with 300 star Gerard Butler, reveals a good friend of the actress.

As In Touch reported previously reported, Jen and Gerard were flirting at the Toronto International Film Festival last September where… they spent an evening “drinking champagne and talking.” At the time, Jen was with John Mayer, so she didn’t pursue things further. But now that she’s free, Jen is very interested in making up for lost time with the actor, with whom she’s planning two new movies, says the friend. “She said that in their film meetings, their chemistry was intense and physical,” the friend shares.

Gerard, 39, feels the same. “He’s very excited to see her again and wants to hook up with her again and hang out,” says one of his pals, who cautions that even though he’s “very attracted to her,” Jennifer should beware. “He’s a total player.”

She’s Lonely
At this point, Jennifer doesn’t seem to care. Shooting The Baster, a film about a single, 40-year-old woman’s desperate attempts to get pregnant, Jen’s finding that the material is cutting too close to home. “Jen’s been calling her friends and crying, saying that she can’t stand to be alone,” says a longtime pal.

The friend says that Jen can’t wait to get back to Los Angeles - and Gerard.

According to a confidante, Jen is envisioning a future together in Gerard’s native Scotland: “She has a thing about wanting to move there and get a little place in the countryside.”

But many worry that, as far as her emotions go, Jen may be traveling too far, too fast. If she doesn’t slow down, she’ll have another broken heart yet again - instead of finding the love she wants so badly.

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition April 27 2009]

How dare Aniston steal my dream of running away to Scotland with Gerard Butler! That’s actually the part of the story that is the least believable - that Jennifer would trade Malibu and Beverly Hills for a farmhouse in moors of Scotland. I would be at home in the moors (call me, Gerry!), but not Aniston. Not with her rigorous sunbathing schedule.

So is their chemistry “intense and physical”? Even though it pains me to say so, it probably is. Gerard Butler is so charming and sexy, he could have “intense and physical” chemistry with a wet noodle. And now I wish I were a wet noodle.

But there’s a part in In Touch’s report that seems to show off the “we’re just making this up as we go along” reporting: that Jennifer “can’t wait to get back to Los Angeles - and Gerard.” Gerry’s spent the last three months filming in Philadelphia, then he’s been staying in New York. This verifies the first part of the report, that the two might be meeting up in a New York apartment. But Gerry moves around a lot, and Los Angeles isn’t always his home base. So why would Jennifer be so eager to get back to LA? Oh, right. The sunbathing.

Jennifer Aniston is shown at the premiere of Management at the Toronto Film Festival on 9/7/08. Gerard Butler is shown at the Rocknrolla premiere on 9/1/08. Images thanks to WENN.com .