Instead of going into any further thoughts that I have about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s engagement, I just wanted to tell you my mother’s take. She’s not a Brangeloonie – she likes Brad and Angelina okay, but she thinks they have “issues.” I gave her the low-down on the ring and all of the gossip about the engagement, and her thoughts were: 1) Brad better have given her a huge rock, because she’s already had his babies and the rock should have grown in proportion with each kid; 2) They won’t have any more biological kids because Angelina’s body can’t take any more, but they’ll adopt again after they marry; 3) They’ll definitely get married overseas, probably in France or “…like, Thailand or something…” my mother said vaguely. I love how everyone has an opinion, a theory, an angle – and I don’t think my mom is far off the mark.

So in lieu of actual news about Brad and Angelina’s wedding plans, we get all of the stuff that’s left in the gossip vacuum. Every site is running “Brangelina through the years” pieces, like everyone hasn’t analyzed every piece of their relationship to death already. And of course, people want to know how Jennifer Aniston is reacting to the news, “Seven Years After Brad!” (That will be the People Magazine cover, just you watch!) To Aniston’s credit, she has not issued any public statements, nor has she stepped out for a convenient photo op with Justin this weekend. So Hollywood Life just had to make up a story about her:

No hurt feelings in this engagement! Jennifer Aniston couldn’t be happier for Brad and Angelina, sources tell HollywoodLife.com exclusively.

It sounds like there will finally be a happy ending to what seemed like a neverending Jen, Brad and Angelina love triangle!

Jennifer Aniston, 43, is so happy for her ex-husband’s engagement, a source tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively. In fact, she credits Angelina for her newfound happiness with current boyfriend Justin Theroux.

“Jennifer is happy for Brad and Angelina. She is so in love with Justin, that she is really grateful how things turned out,” a source tells us. “In a strange way if it weren’t for Angelina, Jennifer would not have connected with Justin in a romantic way. Jennifer is in a really wonderful place right now. I wouldn’t be surprised if she even went to their wedding.”

[From Hollywood Life]

I do think Aniston is in a pretty good place right now, and she’s probably the happiest she’s been in years now that she’s all loved-up with Justin Theroux. Justin came to play. Justin joined CAA. Justin is all about having a famous girlfriend who pays for everything. And Justin is fine with being Shane Warne’d like Jennifer’s personal Ken doll. So… God bless. I hope both couples are fine.

One last thing – GLAAD issued a statement about Brad and Angelina’s engagement too. Brad famously said in 2006 that he and Angelina wouldn’t marry until everyone could. Now people are all “OMG, Hypocrisy!” Well, GLAAD’s spokesperson Rich Ferraro says, “We congratulate them on their engagement, and thank them for continuing to speak out about the inequality that so many gay and lesbian couples face today. No loving and committed couple should be denied the happiness, joy and legal protections that come with marriage.”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I’m pretty sure (positive, actually) that Marie Claire Australia is using a photo shoot that we’ve seen before. Do you mind if I don’t care enough to look it up? I know I’ve seen this Jennifer Aniston cover shot before, and recently. Maybe InStyle or Allure or something. Oh, it’s from an old Elle Magazine photo shoot. But! From what I can see, the interview is new. Jennifer talks about her boyfriend Justin Theroux and how she’s always on guard and stuff. Here are some excerpts:

On her boyfriend Justin Theroux: “He’s a protector, for sure. He’s just a good human being, and so funny.”

On being secluded while filming Wanderlust: “All of a sudden I began decompressing. It’s weird, but it felt like living a normal life; almost like having your anonymity back. Nobody bothered us and we were protected as a group. There were no paparazzi and no secret, tricky little cell phone pictures being taken. I realized how paranoid and guarded and not trusting – walled-in – I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armor that I kind of have, protective armor. It’s not for my friends or family, but for being outside in the world, always on guard.”

On not wanting to be so guarded: “I’ve really made a conscious effort to not wall myself up like that again. I built those walls pretty high in the past. I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you’re so protected and isolated.”

On shooting a topless scene for the film: “There are always nerves when you shoot a scene like that. But the adrenaline takes you through it and then you have the girls come in and cover you up immediately. I got very comfortable with seeing nude people, pretty much immediately. It was bizarre to know that these were actually nudists – because there’s a nudist colony in Clarkesville – and how comfortable they are being nude.”

On keeping in good health: “I think being happy and smiling and laughing a lot helps. I work out, I drink a lot of water. And yoga is still very important. I love it. If I don’t do it then my spirit sort of goes.”

[Via Just Jared and Celebrity Gossip]

I rolled my eyes at the “walling herself up” comments, but not the Justin Theroux stuff. Sure, her privacy does get invaded all the time, and that really, really sucks for her. But she also arranges some of those “candid” photo shoots that she’s complaining about – remember all of those shots of her and John Mayer? Remember all of the conveniently-timed outings over the years? As for the Justin-as-protector stuff… I think Jennifer is just like that as a person, and she’s especially like that with men – always looking for a protector, always ensconced in her victimhood and her own fragility. It’s not some epic thing – a lot of women are like that, in my opinion.

By the way, the editor of Vogue UK gave a very interesting interview recently, and she mentioned why we’ve never seen Aniston on the cover of Vogue UK, and why we never will. Interestingly enough, the last time Aniston was on Vogue US was the “Angelina is uncool” incident, where Aniston said those words in an interview, then she threw Vogue under the bus for printing her on-the-record interview. Basically, she’s not going to be on American Vogue again any time soon either. Which is why an outlet like Marie Claire Australia managed to get this exclusive interview.

Photos courtesy of Marie Claire AUS and Terry’s Diary.

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux are still together. And they had a date night on Wednesday – a double date night! Who were JustJen’s couple-friends? Chelsea Handler and Andre Balazs (they’re back together, you know)? Courteney Cox and [random Cougartown costar]? Who was it? Why, it was Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. And they were conveniently pap’d coming out of the restaurant too! You can see the photos here at X17. Imagine that.

Talk about a power-foursome! While Jennifer Aniston has been keeping a low-profile and spending time getting her new Los Angeles home move-in ready, the actress and her beau of nearly one year, Justin Theroux, hit the town Wednesday night for dinner with Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson.

The group dined at trendy westside eatery Katsuya Brentwood, staying for over two hours. “They all appeared to be really enjoying each other’s company and sat at a private booth,” says a source. “It was a fun sake and sushi double-date between two super power couples.”

As for Aniston, 43, and Theroux, 40, who have been the subject of recent wedding chatter, “Jen and Justin are both doing great,” says a source. “They have both been working on upcoming movie projects.”

[From People]

I didn’t really know that any of these people knew each other. I’m kind of disappointed in Rita and Tom – usually, they’re socializing with Ron Howard and his wife or Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw. It feels like JustJen are trying to social-climb, rather than “a fun sake and sushi double-date between two super power couples.” Too obvious, Huvane. I don’t think anyone refers to (or even thinks of) Justin and Jennifer as a “power couple” (much less a “super power couple” – LOL) Especially considering their last film earned a whopping $6.6 million on its opening weekend. Tom Hanks makes that much in a few minutes of voiceover work. In his pajamas.

In other JustJen news, The Enquirer has a lengthy story about their alleged wedding plans. Allegedly, the wedding is planned for this summer in Greece, specifically the island of Crete. Aniston wants her goddaughter Coco Arquette to be the flower girl, and Chelsea Handler will be the cocaine-soaked maid of (dis)honor. Aniston wants it to be intimate – just friends and family, except for her mother, of course, whom Aniston refuses to invite. Blah, blah. This isn’t happening. But it does remind me of one connection that Aniston has with Rita Wilson – they’re both Greek girls. But that seems like a weird basis for a “super power couple” friendship, right?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Way back when Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt were married, they occasionally mingled their business interests. One of those occasions was when they formed a production company together called Plan B. After their 2005 divorce, Aniston got custody of their mega-mansion (which she sold) and Brad got custody of Plan B. Plan B had early financial successes, and Brad has turned it into a interesting venture, producing smaller, more “offbeat” productions than giant blockbusters. Incidentally, one of Plan B’s latest films is Twelve Years a Slave, which will be directed by Steve McQueen (Shame) and star Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt and Chiwetel Ejiofor. I mean, come on!

Anyway, a few years after The Divorce, Aniston went ahead and began another production company called Echo Films. As far as I can see, Aniston hasn’t done much with Echo, although she’s been listed at a producer on some of her own films – Management, The Switch (I ended up liking that movie), and the Lifetime project Five. I’m not sure if she did those under the Echo umbrella, or what…? So, long story short, Aniston wants to start another production company. Maybe. With Justin Theroux! Because she not only wants to have his baby, she wants their business interests to co-mingle.

Not only do Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux have babies on the brain, they’re also seriously talking business too.

“She’s planning to set up a production company with him,” an insider reveals exclusively to OK!.

After her 2005 divorce from Brad Pitt, Aniston dropped out of their joint production company, Plan B, leaving Brad the sole owner.

“Giving up Plan B was something she always regretted,” the insider says. “But with Justin, she feels she has a second chance. He has a number of scripts written, and Jen’s really pushing to get them made because she’s a huge fan of his work.”

As for babies, “Ideally, she wants to be pregnant as soon as possible, but if it doesn’t happen by next year, they’re going to adopt,” the insider tells OK! “Jen has always been very open to the idea. Plus, it seems these days so many people in her circle are opting to do it that it’s got her thinking of it more and more.”

In fact, even if Jen does conceive, she and Justin may still adopt. “The fact is, she wants to have more than one child and now she’s in her 40s that’s becoming less likely,” adds the insider. “She wants her baby to have at least one sibling.”

Also… “Jen is seriously considering a stage musical based on Friends,” the insider says. “She’s met with some big Broadway producers. Nothing is set in stone, but Jen is really excited about the possibility of it!”

[From OK! Magazine, print edition]

The Friends musical sounds extremely stupid and it’s probably not even a thing, right? As for the babies… well, God bless. If Justin and Jen are both on board, I wish them all of the baby-making and adoptin’ bliss they can manage. But the production company? That bothers me a little bit. If any of that is true (which God knows, it could be), why is Aniston acting like she’s Theroux’s career savior (“Jen’s really pushing to get them made because she’s a huge fan of his work”), like she’s going to produce his genius scripts because she’s the only one who understands? As much as I tease The Shane Warne-ing of Justin Theroux, I do have to give him some credit – he’s an established screenwriter. He’s in-demand. Hollywood heavyweights want to work with him. He’s not some struggling screenwriter who needs to have his girlfriend produce his scripts.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

The last time we discussed JustJen (Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux), it was last week’s tabloid onslaught – all of the tabs seemed to claim that Justin and Jennifer were having some relationship problems, but everyone had a different idea about what the root of the problem was. Perhaps it was Justin’s cozy “bidness” meeting with two women? Perhaps it was his ongoing friendship with his ex, Heidi Bivens? Perhaps it was Jennifer ignoring Justin’s clean, modern style sensibilities as she began to transform their new Bel Air mansion into a 1970s shag-pad? Us Weekly has some evidence to back up that last one. Apparently, Aniston is sparing no expense for the refurbishment of their gigantic Bel Air mansion. And it really does seem like she’s picking everything out:

Jennifer Aniston’s future sure looks bright! A source tells Hot Stuff that during a March 5 visit to NYC, “Jen picked out $20,000 worth of lights” at B4 It Was Cool, a high-end vintage lighting store, for her new 8,5000-square-foot, $21 million mansion in Bel Air.

And just 10 days later in West Hollywood, she and beau Justin Theroux browsed specialty furniture at the exclusive Melrose Project. While the actress, 43, decides on décor, construction is under way on the house.

“It needs several months of work, both interior and exterior,” says a source. Yet the move can’t come soon enough for the star and Theroux, who have already outgrown their tiny Hollywood Hills rental.

“They’re anxious to get out,” says the insider. “Their puppy needs more space, and Jen has been worried that the dog’s been messing up the place!”

[From Us Weekly, print edition]

On one side, I feel like whoever is paying for the house and the furnishings (Aniston) gets to decide on the style. On the other side, I don’t really like Aniston’s interior design sensibilities, and I would like to see her make a concerted effort to blend her darker, more “comfortable,” 1970s-influenced style with Justin’s cleaner, modern style. It doesn’t have to be all of nothing, you know. Also: ten bucks says that those lighting fixtures were from the 1970s.

In other JustJen news, In Touch Weekly (via Jezebel) claims this week that Aniston is “so desperate” to be a mom that she’s “mothering” Justin by “controlling his social life, fixing his hair, directing his career, and dictating his style.” Basically, we’re supposed to just blame Aniston for The Shane Warne-ing of Justin Theroux.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, PR Photos, Pacific Coast News.

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.

This week’s Life & Style has a cover story about Jennifer Aniston and how she’ll be having a “wedding AND a baby” this year. The wedding is presumably with Justin Theroux, and Justin will obviously be the baby daddy. I read some highlights of the story on Jezebel, and it doesn’t really contain any new information other than speculation by “eyewitnesses” claiming that Jennifer “looked pregnant” towards the end of last month. There’s also something about Jennifer seeing a fertility specialist, but God knows. People are always talking about her womb, the speculation of which she has actively encouraged over the years, although now she thinks we’re all “very narrow-minded” to take her at her word. So who knows? Maybe she’s pregnant. Maybe she’s trying. Maybe she doesn’t care.

Anyway, OK! Magazine has a story that I found slightly interesting, only because this isn’t the kind of story Aniston wants to encourage, and thus, this kind of speculation rarely gets reported. OK! Mag claims that Aniston “went berserk” after someone told her that Justin was cuddled up with two ladies at the Marmont! Commence the pity party, y’all.

Jennifer Aniston’s romance with Justin Theroux looked like the real thing – he seemed like a keeper. But now Jennifer is furious over his Feb. 29 flirtations at the Chateau Marmont – so much so, that the pair briefly broke up.

“Someone told Jen they’d seen Justin looking very cozy with two young women,” a close pal of the actress tells OK! “Jen went berserk. Justin insisted he’d just been discussing movie projects. But it flared up into a vicious fight.”

The couple has patched things up – for now – but Jen’s hurt remains, all the more because the Marmont is one of their special haunts: just two weeks earlier, Justin had thrown her a 43rd birthday bash on the roof.

In fact, Jen had been growing suspicious even before this episode.

“Justin is forever slipping out and not saying where he is going,” the pal says. Another friend confides that Jen has “always been clingy. But she’s been cheated on before… who can blame her?”

“Justin is feeling hen-pecked,” an insider tells OK!, adding that the couple are also at odds as to where to live. Justin wants to stay in NYC while Jen hopes to keep Beverly Hills as her base. And Justin hates that Jen chain-smokes.

“This grosses him out because her hair smalls and so do her clothes,”the insider tells OK! “But Jen will not stop smoking for anything or anyone.”

Despite the tensions, Jen was hoping Justin would propose, perhaps on her birthday, February 11.

“But that came and went and she is starting to feel used,” says the pal. “Friends wonder if they can really make it work longterm… Jen and Justin really do love each other so they certainly want to turn it around.”

[From OK! Magazine, print edition]

I think that Aniston would have every reason to be HIGH ALERT for Justin’s potential infidelity, much like LeAnn Rimes is with Eddie Cibrian. There was overlap between Justin’s relationship with Heidi Bivens and his affair with Aniston, and maybe Jennifer thinks - “Hey, he could do that to me too.”

As for the smoking part of the story – Aniston declared that she had quit smoking last October, but then she was photographed smoking on her 43rd birthday at the Marmont. My guess is that she actually quit smoking for a few months, and decided to celebrate with a victory cig, and now she’s back in a smoking cycle.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

After complaining about her brief move to New York City, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux came back to the fishbowl last week. Only they didn’t stay at one of Aniston’s condos or apartments – they stayed at the Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca. These are photos of JustJen leaving the hotel – according to The Mail, their visit lasted less than a week, and it involved lots of shopping. Of course! Now it’s probably back to LA for them, I’m guessing. Because the New York bait-and-switch is over, and Aniston no longer has to pretend to be a hip New Yorker. Still, it’s nice for her to visit New York, which is where Justin feels more comfortable (or so he’s claimed). Incidentally, the British tabloids are reporting that Jennifer has issued Justin an ultimatum. She wants to get married by the end of the year!! Of course, that’s what they said last year too.

Jennifer Aniston has vowed to be married by the end of the year. The 43-year-old actress – who has been dating Justin Theroux, 40 , since they met on the set of Wanderlust two years ago – has told friends the actor is ‘the one’ and has even joked that she has issued him with an ultimatum to have asked her to marry him by the time the year draws to a close.

Meanwhile, the star explained the couple’s new dog Sophie, a boxer-pitbull cross, is a ‘test run’ for having children.

Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper quotes Jennifer as telling a friend: ‘I’ll be married by the end of the year. We’re constantly laughing. Now we’ve got our new baby things are getting serious. We have new responsibilities. She’s like a test run for kids, I guess … although hopefully kids are easier to house-train.’

The actress is said to have added: ‘Justin and I argue over who takes the dog out and who disciplines her, but that’s about it. Things are fabulous. I’m happy. If he’s not got down on one knee, or we’re mot married, by the end of the year, it’s over!’

Jennifer – who divorced Brad Pitt in 2005 and then went on to have doomed relationships with Vince Vaughn and John Mayer – has also told pals she has ‘never been so happy.’

A friend added: ‘Jennifer has never been so happy romantically. She and Justin have discussed their long-term future and both agreed that they love the idea of settling down. The onus is now on Justin to pop the question.’

The former Friends star is beginning to open up about her relationship, despite remaining resolutely tight-lipped at the beginning of their union. She even felt relaxed enough to even joke about how romantic boyfriend Justin Theroux in an interview to promote Wanderlust.

‘He’s just the most cold, icy, fishy kind of a guy,’ she laughed on Good Morning America. ‘I’m trying to warm him up but you know…’

The actress then agreed with interviewer Lara Spencer when she proclaimed that Theroux was ‘really cute and great in this movie.’

‘He is really cute,’ she said. ‘He is great – he’s a great actor.’

[From The Mail]

Eh, even though this report is either A) entirely made up or B) an innocuous plant by Huvane, I’ve said it before – I wouldn’t be surprised if Justin and Jennifer get married. This is the most comfortable she’s been in a relationship in a long, long time. And Justin has proven that he’s willing to be made over by his girl, which bodes well for his future with Aniston. He’s Shane Warne to her Liz Hurley. They can get mani-pedis together and go shopping and play with the dog and it’s all fine.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

For months, the most recent photos we had of Justin Theroux were from last September and October. It was obvious at that point that he was getting a makeover from his girlfriend – gone was the burly, unkempt beard, gone was decade-old hipster uniform. I do think the change was gradual – Jennifer encouraged him to dress better, while still holding on to his leather jacket, his motorcycle boots and his skinny jeans. And then when it came time for the Wanderlust promotional tour, suddenly Justin was barely recognizable – suddenly he was Shane Warne’d. He was hyper-groomed, fake-tanned, teeth-whitened and curiously bangs’d. Jennifer remade him like Justin was her personal Ken doll. And he seemed happy with the transformation too, judging from his appearance on Ellen – he played it all up, and he seems genuinely game for “The Jen and Justin Show”. So what does it all mean?

He was at the Hollywood Walk of Fame to watch his girlfriend get her star, but as a clean-shaven, suit-wearing Justin Theroux beamed alongside Jennifer Aniston’s father, it was his shocking transformation that took center stage.

“He even looked glowy – like he’d just had a facial,” marvels an onlooker of the onetime bearded hipster, who only months ago was known for avoiding the spotlight like the plague.

After moping about the attention at first, Justin has clearly embraced Jen’s Hollywood liftstyle. Plugging their film Wanderlust, the actor – who’d never been on a talk show before – has laughed it up with Jimmy Kimmel and even break-danced on Ellen.

“He seemed happy to be there,” shares a witness.

But while Jen is no doubt happy too, she should know that Justin may have ulterior motives. Since they hooked up, Theroux has been signed by Jen’s agents at CAA, and his asking price has gone up from $10 million per movie. Hope it’s not fame – instead of Jen – that is his true love.

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

I love how In Touch Weekly is like, “Jennifer probably doesn’t know this, but Justin totally signed on to CAA and now his asking price has gone up!” Please. THAT was part of their deal. That’s part of the deal when you sign on to be Aniston’s boyfriend – you’re signing on to be managed (and micro-managed) by CAA. As for the asking price – while that’s been wildly reported before, I doubt it still holds. Not after his bangsy, orange appearance during the Wanderlust promotion, and not after Wanderlust opened with… $6.6 million. Your asking price can’t be more than opening weekend. Rough.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

Jennifer Aniston was on The Tonight Show last night. Um, she slurred a bit, so I can’t talk about this being a “sober” appearance. Girl loves to get her drink on. But she did keep the conversation light – she and Leno obviously prepped her stories beforehand. The dog stories are always winners, although I’m not sure about admitting that she named her new puppy, Sophie, after Sophie’s Choice. She named her dog after a story about a mother choosing between her children during the Holocaust. I’m not touching that one, okay? Aniston told Leno, “Sophie came up to us, and that was sort of a big indicator of they choose you. We were there for three hours, and I’m telling you, I was almost walking out with three puppies. It’s so hard. That’s why we named her Sophie, because it was Sophie’s Choice. I was crying — it was so hard.” She even brought a photo of Sophie too. Just watch the video.

Aniston also discussed her BFF Chelsea Handler, but she messed up her defense of Chelsea. Leno was basically saying Chelsea is a drunken party girl, and Aniston started to say, “That’s just her personality- I mean, that’s her public persona.” This second video is pretty much an cross-promotional advertisement for Chelsea Lately.

In other JustJen news, Justin Theroux is ringing the “I was bullied too, y’all” bell. Although… okay, I just re-read this story. Justin didn’t use the word “bullied” - Us Weekly did in their headline. Carry on!

Don’t mess with Justin Theroux! The Wanderlust actor, 40, opened up about his rough upbringing in Washington, DC during his first-ever late-night TV appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday.

“The school was in the center of our neighborhood,” said Theroux, who admitted to being kicked out of two schools as a teen. “It was a very boy-heavy, Lord of the Flies environment. There were a lot of Irish families in the neighborhood and they all had like 13 kids. There was a lot of competition amongst the boys in general.”

“If you got into a fight with one of these boys, one who’s your age, then you would have to rely on your older brother to beat up that boy. The Sullivan boys you could not beat up. There were too many.”

When Theroux was 10-years-old, his father returned home from a business trip in Holland with a pair of wooden shoes. “I thought for some reason everyone in school was just going to adore the shoes,” Theroux said.

“Once I got to school, I bumped into this kid, David Sullivan, and he saw me, and he saw the wooden shoes, and he was like, ‘Oh, I will have to punch you now.’ It was almost like he felt bad, like, ‘I have to hand out a beat down for everyone else. The rules are the rules,’” said Theroux, currently dating his Wanderlust costar Jennifer Aniston. “I looked at my brother and he was like, ‘You’re on your own. I warned you.’”

As Sullivan “brought [Theroux] down to the pavement,” the future actor and screenwriter “realized I actually only had one means of defending myself, which was the actual wooden shoes themselves.”

“I took the shoe off, and as hard as I could, I remember clobbering him in the head,” Theroux said. “His head split, he sort of reared back and he started to cry.”

[From Us Weekly]

Is that a story of bullying, or is that a story of the one time Justin got into a fight? I think there’s a difference. Bullying, to me, is a campaign of hatred, taunting, and physical and emotional abuse, not a one-off altercation about shoes in which said shoes become a equalizing weapon of destruction. Maybe I’m wrong.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.