US Weekly claims to have an exclusive that Vince Vaughn broke up with Jennifer Aniston before he left to film in London. This seems like old news to me, because didn’t Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn break up over a month ago after news of their non-engagement came out?

US also claimed to have an exclusive in mid-August that Jen and Vince were engaged (I had to reuse the parody cover I made at the time), and stood by their story when Jen and Vince’s people vehemently denied it. They made it look like the two were actually photographed together by Photoshopping them together on a bench. They were only seen together at a tennis match while promoting their movie and in some grainy pictures out to dinner. They refused to pose together on the red carpet and drew hisses from German photographers when they remained apart at the Berlin premiere of “The Break Up.”

Now US says that Vince and Jen were engaged, but that it was the nail in their relationship coffin and that everything was downhill from there:

That’s just a teaser article and Us will have more details in its upcoming issue.

Back in early May it was said that Jen begged Vince not to take the role that would keep him filming in London for months, and that it led to a huge fight:

Back in college I had a terrible boyfriend who told me not to take the semester abroad that I was already approved for. I was supposed to be in Manchester, England at the height of the Madchester music scene when the world-famous “Hacienda” night club was open. It would have been a fabulous time. I was a dope and listened to the guy. He cheated on me within two months.

My point is that if you’re not married you should explore and live your life. If your relationship isn’t solid it’s not going to survive no matter what you do. Jen asked Vince to stay because she couldn’t keep him anyway. He was never willing to acknowledge that they were together, and acted like she was his buddy in interviews. I really doubt that they were engaged or that it even lasted this long.

Jennifer Aniston swears up and down that she’s not engaged to Vince Vaughn. Us Weekly stands by its story that she is engaged and cites a bunch of stories that celebrities denied but ended up being true. The first commentor notes that it’s pretty convenient selective reasoning on their part. Of course there are hits and misses in the messy, often-fabricated world of celebrity gossip.

Perez Hilton claims to know from an insider that Aniston was actually engaged to Vaughn and that US was right, but now she’s totally dumped while Vaughn is partying in Vegas and hitting on chicks. That sounds like a plausible explanation for Aniston’s vehement denial:

There you go. It looks like everyone is right, Us and Aniston. Is it surprising that Vaughn and Aniston broke up? They didn’t even want to be photographed together.

Here is Aniston running into Kate Hudson at the airport and giving her some bad divorce advice. [via]

Courteney Cox says that Jennifer Aniston is a great friend that she can rely on in a crisis:

Cox recently revealed that she had some trouble in her marriage to funnyman David Arquette and that they wisely sought counseling to straighten it out.

She also adamantly denies that Aniston is engaged to Vaughn:

I bet Vaughn and Aniston are broken up already. Either that or they’re fighting constantly. Neither of them look happy together in the rare paparrazi photos that come out.

Star reports that Aniston and Vaughn are having trouble because Aniston doesn’t want kids, but that’s probably just speculation.

Here’s some pictures of sourpuss Aniston sunbathing on her deck. [via]