The latest US Weekly has a whole photo spread that shows that Jennifer Aniston is still rocking the same hair, makeup, accessories and fashion choices after over a decade. They include side by side photos from 1997-99 and 2009-10 that show that Aniston hasn’t changed her look much. I don’t know, I just think she has a classic look that doesn’t go out of style and that she favors solid colors and simple styling. She has mixed it up a little with her fashion choices lately, but it wouldn’t kill her to do something different with her hair. I was thinking – “well Aniston did have that messy tousled hair on The Late Show,” but then I found a premiere photo that showed her with similar hair in the late 90s. There’s only so much you can do with long hair parted in the middle. If anything the photo comparisons show that Aniston hasn’t aged much and that she’s still as gorgeous if not better looking now as she was 10 years ago. We should all be as lucky. Here are some photos I found that illustrate US’ point. They’re not the same pictures used in the magazine.

Hair and Makeup: late 90s (This photo is not dated by the photo agency, but it’s probably circa 1998/99.)

Hair and Makeup: 2010

Hair and Makeup: 2000

Hair and Makeup: 2010

Hair, Makeup and Styling, 2002

Hair, Makeup and Styling, 2010

Same Outfit: 1999

Same Outfit: 2009 (Note: These pictures are more striking when you see the full view of her 2009 outfit. She’s also wearing black flip flops.)

In the article, US points out that Aniston loves little black dresses, her scarf (here’s a picture of her with one in 2001), her toe ring, which she’s been seen wearing in 1999 and 2009, and of course her hair. They also point out that she has similar body language with Gerard Butler as she had with her ex Brad Pitt on the red carpet. And Aniston is known as a creature of habit. She vacations to the same place in Mexico practically every year and eats the same thing for lunch every day. Here’s their explanation of that:

So set in her ways
Sunday dinners with Courteney Cox, annual trips to Cabo: Aniston’s behavior is pretty predictable.

Her diet: “I ate the same [Cobb] salad every day for 10 years,” she confessed of her Friends days. Since then, little has changed. She always orders the McCarthy salad at the Beverly Hills Hotel and the butter-lettucce salad with chicken at L.A.’s Sunset Tower.

Romantic Getaways: She cruised the River Seine in Paris with Pitt in 2004 and again with former boyfriend Vince Vaughn in 2006. On March 27, she made it a hat trick on a Seine sail with Butler.

Hatred of technology: “I’m computer-illiterate,” the Blackberry phobe has said. Noted ex John Mayer in a recent interview: “Her success came before TMZ and Twitter… She’s still hoping it goes back to 1998.”

[From US Weekly, print edition, April 19, 2010]

I’m one of those people who tries to mix it up and doesn’t like to go to the same places and do the same things. I don’t like getting in a rut and I get bored with the same things. My hair is different than it was 10 years ago, but I probably dress in the same kind of comfortable preppy style. There are plenty of people like Aniston who find what works for them and stick with it and there’s nothing wrong with that. She looks incredible and she doesn’t look dated at all. It’s not like she’s still rocking 90s mall hair with poofy bangs.

Seriously, ladies and gentlemen, stop buying these trashy tabloids. First off, most of good tabloid stories come online, so we’ll cover the stuff for free so you don’t have to spend your money. Second of all, by buying these rags, you perpetuate stories like this week’s In Touch Weekly. Apparently, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were “caught kissing”. By whom? Ah, by this mysterious “former bodyguard” named “Bill”. As someone pointed out in last week’s In Touch post - where “Bill” told us about Angelina Jolie “abusing” her children – “Bill” might be a pseudonym for GerBILL. Excellent.

So, the basic story that “Bill” lays out for is much like every other In Touch story about how Brad and Jen are going to reunite any minute now, just wait for it….

In an exclusive interview, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s former bodyguard reveals that since Brad and his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston reconnected at the 2009 Academy Awards, they have hooked up four times — three times in LA and once in New York — and even recently shared a passionate kiss.

“I know that he still loves her,” the ex-bodyguard Bill, who for security reasons chooses only to be identified by his first name, tells In Touch.

In fact, there was one date that Bill says brought them closer than ever — and since then, their relationship has heated up even more. Brad and Jen arranged a secret meeting at the trails off of Western Canyon Road in Beverly Hills on December 9, Bill says.

At 3:30p.m., Jen pulled up to the location in her Bentley, and Brad arrived on his motorcycle. After Brad climbed into Jen’s passenger seat, “They were very cozy, clearly embracing,” Bill reveals for the first time. “Several times, Brad and Jen were hugging and kissing.”

After talking and nuzzling for about 30 to 40 minutes, Bill, who was on “paparazzi watch,” advised the pair that they should leave, as photographers were spotted just a few miles away. “Jennifer left first, flashing Brad a quick peace sign and a smile,” says Bill. “Brad jogged back to his motorcycle, drove off and went for an hour bike ride.”

[From In Touch Weekly]

“After talking and nuzzling” – seriously? Because they’re thirteen years old? I’d like to think that if either Brad or Angelina are screwing around, they’re doing it to get straight up laid, not to “talk and nuzzle” like little girls. For the love of…! Anyway, who do you think Jennifer Aniston is really bangin’? Gerard Butler? Brad? Courteney Cox? I could make a case for Courteney, actually. And it would be a better case than In Touch Weekly and GerBILL make.

You might get the wrong impression with this week’s OK Magazine cover, “CONFIRMED: Finally, A Baby For Jen”. It comes complete with Jennifer acknowledging her abdomen by touch and what looks like a comfortable 2 pound food baby, with Gerard Butler standing beside her, gazing at the food baby like a proud papa. Or is he looking at her boobs? I can’t tell. Anyway, OK Mag is very sorry to give you the wrong impression with their blatantly misleading headline, but Aniston is not pregnant. OK even acknowledges as much in the cover story excerpt online:

Through five cities, in five countries, over three weeks, Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler have been on a whirlwind tour promoting The Bounty Hunter. Fans in every city have been amazed by Jen’s gorgeous looks and stunning style, but it wasn’t until Jen and Gerard’s March 30 stop in Madrid that fans started buzzing about something else: the gleam in Jen’s eye, her easy, confident glow and her hand resting on her not-so-flat tummy. Do all signs, at last, point to pregnancy?

“Jen very much wants to have a baby girl,” a source close to the star tells OK!. “She had a heart-to-heart with friends and relatives and admitted this is the year she’s going to become a mom.”

So who’s on deck to play dad?

“Jen adores Gerry and thinks he’d make a perfect father,” an insider tells OK!.

[From OK! Magazine]

Oh, so she’s just thinking about getting pregnant. So what was “CONFIRMED” again? Yeah. And besides that, I don’t want to get mean about my future husband Gerard, but his features would not look good on a girl. He’s the kind of guy who should aim for sons, you know? Maybe he’ll get a son with his new girlfriend/hookup, that French woman he’s bangin’, Lisa Cholewa. And there’s a little problem with choosing Gerard as your baby-daddy in general – he’s a slut. Big time.

By the way, even though I’m not Aniston’s fan girl, I think the “finally” was a cheap shot. I also think it’s indicative of how many of her real fan girls think – that at long last, Aniston “finally” wants to have a baby, when clearly, she has other priorities. Which is totally fine – she wants to be an actress, she likes her life as-is and baby-free (as do I). But I really do think many of her fans are waiting for her to fulfill her “destiny” as a baby-maker or whatever.

Speaking of her other priorities, here’s Jennifer on the LA set of Just Go With It yesterday:

OK Magazine cover courtesy of CoverAwards.

Epic! Jennifer Aniston might have finally named that perfume that she’s going to launch. According to Life & Style Magazine, Aniston has decided on “Lola V”. Are we saying it like “Lola Vee” or “Lola the Fifth”? I don’t know, but both would be equally bizarre in my opinion. I kind of don’t believe it. Everyone knows that Jennifer Lopez is the one with the “Lola” fixation.

Michael K at Dlisted of course had brilliant suggestions for how to interpret “Lola V”. Michael K writes: “Is that the formal name for LOLvag? Maybe it’s short for Lonely Vagina. Or maybe just maybe, Jennifer named her perfume after Gerard Butler’s c-nty ass dog Lolita. If that’s the case, then I’m okay with the name. Anything named after a bitch who don’t play is fine by me.” LOL-VADGE! Is it too mean to suggest we call Aniston LOL-VADGE from here on out? But the Gerard Butler (and his little dog too) angle is interesting? Many people are beginning to wonder just exactly what is up with the Butler and the LOL-vadge. Us Weekly put a flirty, sexy angle on their relationship and that now-infamous finger-up-the-ass incident:

No butts about it: Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler are more than friends. On March 27, after the Bounty Hunter costars joined Sony execs in Paris for a two-hour cruise down the Seine (just like the one she took with ex Vince Vaughn in 2006!) the Scotsman, 40, flagrantly groped Aniston’s fanny.

“To put it bluntly, Gerard put his finger where the sun doesn’t shine!” a witness tells [US Weekly's] Hot Stuff.

Though Butler has said he and Aniston, 41, are “just friends,” a pal of his insists the duo – who stayed in separate hotels while promoting their flick in France – have been “hooking up for a while.”

They slept together on her February birthday trip to Mexico, another source confirms. And though an Aniston insider says “she’d like it to be more, they’re friends with benefits.”

[From US Weekly, print edition, April 12, 2010]

I’ll buy that they’re friends with benefits. I’ll also buy that LOL-vadge wants more than that, and Gerard is all “Whoa, slow down, I’ve got lots of ladies/hookers on the side!” After all, he did go trolling for strange as soon as he hit Madrid. Of course he did – he was in a city full of lovely, dark-skinned ladies with long dark hair and long legs (aka, his type). And although Us Weekly put a flirty vibe on the ass-fingering, the National Enquirer was less pleased, quoting sources who claim that the whole incident was inappropriate, disrespectful, demeaning, crude, crass and offensive. Seriously, the Enquirer got a bunch of old ladies who are clutching their pearls over this. Honestly, I’m down the middle on this one. I didn’t think it was horrible or crude, I thought he was probably just joking around with her, trying to get her to loosen up or something.

UPDATE: Us Weekly confirms that the name of Aniston’s perfume is actually “Lola Vie” which apparently means “laughing at life” in French. Oh noes, she did in French?!? It’s a signal to Brad!

UPDATE #2: Gerard also spoke about the ass-finger incident when he was on a radio show today. He told “Johnjay and Rich” that he’s “a bit of a bad boy… by the way, I’m still not sure my hand was really on her butt. I think that’s just the way the camera was angled. I actually haven’t seen [the photo].” He also once again denied that he was “dating” Aniston, saying: “If I was going out with Jennifer, I’d be more than happy to say I’m going out with Jennifer — it’s just not true.” And now Aniston’s “rep” is getting involved (probably Huvane) – the dude told Us Weekly, “the ‘friends with benefits’ label is crude and incorrect. They were not flirty in Paris.” Oh, snap. So both of them just hit it and quit it, apparently.

Aniston & Butler promoting ‘Bounty Hunter’ this week in Europe. Credit: WENN.

Jennifer Aniston is the cover girl for the May issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK, and HuffPo has some of the interview excerpts. First, what do you think of the cover shot? It’s striking and interesting, but the whole artsy color wash seems better suited to an inside-the-magazine photo shoot but not for a cover shot. Just my opinion. But it does stand out. Here are the excerpts:

Jennifer Aniston has summarized her secret for looking good. The “Bounty Hunter” star is on the cover of the UK Harper’s Bazaar – on sale this week – and inside, responding to her thoughts on Botox (which she says she has avoided) she says she could never give up wine or dairy and, “My advice: just stop eating sh-t every day.”

She also talks about her “rebirth” five years after her split from Brad Pitt and the failure of “Derailed.” Below are quotes from the press release.

On her love of British comedy:
“I so love the British sense of humour – I was obsessed with Benny Hill and Monty Python as a child. Oh my god, and I am so hooked on Ricky Gervais.”

On her fans being upset by her racy roles:
“With Derailed [a dark action thriller opposite Clive Owen], I loved being racy. Love it…But people couldn’t cope with me being involved in rape and murder.”

On her rebirth:
“The last five years have been about spring cleaning for me. Now it’s time for my rebirth. I love trying new things. I can’t just be put in a box.”

On the power of women:
“I grew up admiring strong women like journalist Barbara Walters and super-agent Sue Mengers, who represented Ali McGraw. But now look where we’ve got to as women. We’ve had a woman run for President. There is nothing like our power.”

On botox:
“I could do it, and I mean these lines are getting deeper every day, but when I tell you what’s happened to me – these lines are just about living. Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don’t starve myself in an extremist way. You’re not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I’d be devastated. My advice: just stop eating shit every day.”

On her fellow Hollywood leading ladies:
“I love what Drew Barrymore is doing with directing. It’s so much about a rebirth for her, and I love it when people are living in the now, like her. I hate it when people look back and regret what they haven’t got. That’s how I feel about my own life now. And my God, let’s talk about how much I love Demi Moore as well. What kind of Kool-Aid is she drinking?”

[Harper’s Bazaar interview excerpts courtesy of HuffPo]

Um… Demi Moore is drinking the “Kool-Aid” known as “a really good surgeon who does work incrementally so she doesn’t walk around with a new face all of a sudden even though we can all see that Demi does in fact have a new face.” I mean, are there people out there in the world who really look at Demi and say “100% natural”? Or is Aniston just kissing her friend’s ass?

Regarding the other stuff… I love Ricky Gervais too, he’s awesome, and yes, it is amazing how much better you feel and look when you “stop eating sh-t” and actually drink a ton of water and exercise regularly. I rolled my eyes at “The last five years have been about spring cleaning for me” line, but whatever. I hope she does try new things.

Oh, and SPOILER – as someone who actually sat through Derailed (apparently Aniston didn’t read the script for the film she appeared in), there was no rape. There was a pretend rape, but really her character was having sex with her “boyfriend” and pretending to be raped. She was a con artist. And people didn’t like the movie because it was a horrible, terribly miscast movie. Clive Owen as a poor schlub who can‘t catch a break? Uh, no. Vincent Cassel as a gangster operating in Chicago? Uh, no. Jennifer Aniston as a femme fatale? Uh, no. It was like they cast that movie by picking names out of a hat.

Bazaar images courtesy of HuffPo.

Oh, no. This is my least favorite dress of the entire Bounty Hunter promotional tour. I would even prefer to see that hot pink Lacroix mullet dress over this one. This is what Jennifer decided to wear for the big Bounty Hunter premiere in Madrid. This looks… really cheap. Like something Miley Cyrus would wear – and not even to a premiere or something, this is the kind of dress Miley would wear just out and about in LA. At first the length looks appropriate, but if look at the detailing, you can see that most of the bottom half is a see-through black gauze ruffle.

I feel like I just saw this dress somewhere else… where? Oh, yes. This dress looks a lot like a strapless version of the dress Lindsay Lohan was wearing the other night when her feet were covered in powder. It’s like a dress Lohan would wear, only someone tacked on the gauze ruffle. Why does Jennifer do this? She has a few good or great fashion moments (like the white sheath or the solid beige beaded one-shoulder), and then she puts on a dress that’s reminiscent of chicks named Lohan and Miley. Yikes.

And as for those rumors about Jennifer boning Gerard, Jennifer would like us to know something:

She did cover up her feet though. I like these shoes a lot.

Jennifer and Gerard in Madrid on March 30, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Yes, I know, there are a lot of Jennifer Aniston posts the past few days. But she’s on the European tour for Bounty Hunter, and she keeps wearing interesting/noteworthy/discussion-worthy outfits. For last night’s premiere in Berlin, she donned a beige, beaded one-shoulder cocktail dress that I found questionable (just for the color, the design itself was fine). On Sunday, it was the much-discussed hot pink Lacroix that many fashion experts hated. In between premieres, Aniston and Gerard Butler have been doing photocalls, and this is what Aniston chose for the Madrid photocall – a stunning white sheath dress that hugs her body really well.

My guess for the designer (I could totally be wrong): Narciso Rodriguez. Great tailoring, great color for her tan and her honey-brown/blonde hair. And I swear, her hair is getting blonder throughout this European tour. This is my favorite outfit that she’s worn in a while. Aniston has the features and the figure for clean lines, great tailoring and colors that “pop”. Unlike some of the other outfits she’s worn, I expect this one to be beloved universally.

As for my beloved, the ass-groper Gerard, I don’t think all of the travel has been agreeing with him. Or maybe he’s just exhausted from of all of the ass-play. Or he could be jonzing for some strange. That’s what LaineyGossip thinks (of course, she refers to him as Spittle): “Spittle meanwhile needs a jolt. Of something. Forced to be on his best behavior for days, to put his douche on hold, he hasn’t slathered himself all over a random in much too long… Gerry’s itching to go home.” More like he just needs a good nap. With some hookers.

‘Bounty Hunter’ photocall in Madrid on March 30, 2010. Credit: WENN.

On Sunday, Jennifer wore a hot pink Lacroix mullet dress to the Paris premiere of Bounty Hunter. Although the dress was widely panned in the media, I didn’t flat-out hate the dress, I just thought it had some design problems (problem: it made Aniston look like she had a big ol’ gut). Well, Jennifer went back to short and tight for the Berlin premiere of Bounty Hunter last night, and as you can see, she truly has a great figure. But the color? Ugh. I talked about this during all of the Oscar fashion posts – what the hell is going on with all of these beige/taupe/nude trends? Very few women have the coloring to pull it off, and even in that select group of ladies, why would you want to go the nude/beige route?

Now, does Jennifer have the coloring to wear this nude/beige shade? Kind of. It doesn’t wash her out because her hair is so light and she’s so tan. But wouldn’t this dress have been better in that Lacroix shade of hot pink? Or a rich blue or purple, or even an emerald green? What the hell does Aniston have against jewel tones?

Sidenote: seeing those photos of Gerard Butler with his finger up Aniston’s ass has totally warped me. I swear Jennifer seems to be holding herself differently. As if… there was some ass play. You know? Like she’s a little sore?

Jennifer and Gerard at the Berlin premiere of Bounty Hunter on March 29, 2010. Credit: WENN.

That was fast! Just last night was the Paris premiere of Bounty Hunter, and Gerard and Jennifer are already in Berlin. This is some whirlwind European promotion. Anyway, I love what Jennifer is wearing to this Berlin photo call. Great cut on the grey pencil skirt, beautiful casual white sweater. She should dress like this all of the time. Much better than the hot pink Lacroix scrunchie-mullet dress. And since the skirt is so tight, it’s probably harder for Gerard to jam up a finger up there. Of course, he could always just go up the skirt.

Meanwhile, Gerard scored a big box office victory over the weekend – but it wasn’t with Bounty Hunter, which dropped to fourth place with a $12.4 million take, and continuously dismal reviews. No, Gerard won big with How To Train Your Dragon, the animated film Butler did voice work for. Dragon won the weekend with $43 million, a pretty good take. Gerard recently spoke about how “overexposed” he feels, and what a relief it was to do a cartoon:

GERARD Butler finds it “weird” seeing his face on billboards and buses.

The actor — who stars opposite Jennifer Aniston in recent box office flop The Bounty Hunter – says he feels a little overexposed, which is why his role in animated movie How To Train Your Dragon is his perfect next project.

“I do admit that it’s gotten a little weird seeing my mug everywhere,” says Gerard. “I have my face on posters and buses and I don’t need it on everything. It’s been a pleasure to go behind the scenes and be just the voice of a character. It’s good to lie low for a while.”

Gerard, 40, recently admitted he feels like an “outsider” in Hollywood.

“I know who I am,” he said. “Outside I’m very happy but I don’t always feel like an insider, absolutely not. Even with things on the inside I often manage to hit myself in the head.

“I often have to do that with my roles. You spend a lot of time kind of pushing yourself more to the edges where you are different than were you are the same.”

[From Showbiz Spy]

Last Friday, Agent Bedhead published her career assessment of Gerard, and it wasn’t too good. She criticized him (on target, I believe) for the horrible romantic comedies and for squandering the opportunity to become the next Bruce Willis, the next action star. Of course, I do think that Gerard is a half-decent actor, and he should be doing more work like RockNRolla, Dear Frankie and 300. He should be building a career based on action, drama and ensemble films rather than try to force us to accept him as a romantic lead. Hopefully someone is sitting down with Gerard and giving him better advice.

Jennifer and Gerard in Berlin on March 29, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Here are Gerard and Jennifer at the Paris Bounty Hunter premiere last night. First off, I do like this color on Jennifer. She’s got the coloring to pull off hot pink. It’s just the weirdness of the design of this dress that bothers me. At first I was like “oh, it’s a simple column silhouette, maybe with some ‘mullet dress’ overtones”. But it’s not. It’s got some sort of weird bunching happening that makes it look like Aniston hiked it up in front and then just put a scrunchie around the extra fabric. It makes her look like she’s got a gut, and she doesn’t. I do like that she finally pulled her hair back, though. She should wear her hair back more often.

As for Gerard… he mentioned the other day on Jimmy Kimmel that he doesn’t get as many ladies when he has a beard. I have no idea why, because he looks so f-cking good with that beard. The beard makes him look younger, and it’s likely for his Coriolanus, which he’s starting as soon as the Bounty Hunter promotional tour ends. He’s being directed by Ralph Fiennes - sweet Jesus. And look how well the suit fits him! Mmm….

Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler are embracing the joie de vivre that Paris has to offer.

In town to promote The Bounty Hunter, the costars enjoyed a private river cruise on the Seine Saturday evening. Though the single stars have denied romance rumors, a source tells PEOPLE they looked as friendly and flirty as ever on their boat ride. “They were very close,” the source says. “They really warmed up the room.”

While a soft rain fell on the city, the stars and about 20 guests settled into wood-paneled grand salon on the top deck of the luxury charter yacht, ACTE III. Seated around a single long table, they dined on green salad and grilled chicken (for her) and lobster (for him). For dessert, they sipped champagne and enjoyed fresh berries.

Aniston arrived in Paris on Friday from Los Angeles, and dined that night at Ristorante La Stresa, a small exclusive eatery, where she bumped into Chinese actress Michelle Yeoh and French producer and director Luc Besson.

Butler arrived Saturday before the cruise, which took the stars past some of the City of Light’s most famous landmarks, including the Place de la Concorde, the Seine bridges and the Statue of Liberty on the Ile des Cygnes, where the boat turned and headed toward the Eiffel Tower in time for its hourly lights display.

Aniston and Butler stayed close throughout the night, the source said, “hugging and touching each other” on the cruise, which docked later at the Quai d’Orsay.

With Sunday night scheduled for a Champs-Elysées red carpet premiere of their romantic comedy, the costars will then spend several days traveling across Europe.

Next stops: Berlin and Madrid.

[From People]

Sigh… I wish I was going on a European tour to Paris, Berlin and Madrid. Instead, I was just happy that my basement didn’t flood with all of the rain. But seriously, Rain God, I am very happy about that! I don’t need to go to Paris and Madrid. Unless Gerard calls me and specifically invites me to groom his beard. Which I would do. In a heart beat.

Sidenote: TMZ has photos of Gerard and Jennifer on that Seine boat ride, and at one point they’re posing for photos and you can see Gerard with his hand on Jennifer’s ass. It’s a little more than that, actually. It looks like he’s goosing her, big-time. Like you can’t even see one finger. Lord… who knew that he liked ass-play?

Paris ‘Bounty Hunter’ premiere pics from March 28, 2010. Credit: WENN.