Obviously, a lot of people are still talking about Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston attending the Critics Choice Awards on Thursday night. It was the first time (apparently?) that they’d been in the same room since the 2009 Oscars. And it came literally ten years after Brad Pitt and Jennifer announced their split. And we’re still talking about it, of course. Gossip of the decade! On Friday, I read this epic story at Us Weekly about how Angelina and Jennifer carefully avoided each other the whole night at the Critics Choice. Event organizers put their tables far apart, and neither ventured into the other one’s “section”. You can read the Us Weekly piece here.
I’m not surprised that Jennifer and Angelina carefully avoided each other, just because both women seem to have some clear feelings about each other, even after all this time. But! Jennifer told Entertainment Tonight on Friday that she’s really tired of the Jen vs Angie debate at this point. This is what she said to ET:
“It’s just tiresome and old. It’s like an old leather shoe. Let’s buy a new pair of shiny shoes. I think that’s slowly coming to an end. I really do. I mean, that movie is so beautiful and wonderful and she did such a gorgeous job. I think that it’s time people stop with that petty B.S. and just start celebrating great work and stop with the petty kind of silliness.”
You can see the video clip here at ET. I think this is an interesting olive branch offer from Jennifer. I’d like to believe she’s sincere. But I’ll believe it when she calls off Chelsea Handler, you know? Even though I think Jennifer was the architect of the ‘Jen vs Angelina’ stories in the first few years, I do think the storyline sort of got away from her and she really didn’t expect to STILL be answering these questions ten years later. Also: Jennifer saw Unbroken? Huh.
Here’s something else interesting: I didn’t know Jennifer would doing press on Friday. According to the Los Angeles Times’ Gold Derby editor Tom O’Neil, Jennifer had rented out some rooms at the Four Seasons to do a one-woman “junket” following the Oscar nominations announcement. O’Neil said that when Aniston missed out on a nomination, she canceled the junket at the last minute. Or did she? It seems like she kept part of her schedule, right? In addition to ET, she also spoke to HuffPo about being snubbed for an Oscar nom – go here to read. She said she got lots of messages from shocked friends and “I found it quite endearing and flattering that I had so many people rooting for me. It was almost just as good to be No. 1 snubbed than to be nominated.” Okay. Well, I like that she kept part of press schedule. That shows her professionalism.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
good jen true time for pple to move on
It was time to move on a decade ago. She sure waited long enough.
I don’t think her PR was handled well at the beginning of this triangle, but I don’t think she had to move on a decade ago. The divorce was too fresh at the time. I would have fired the Humane dude for helping her do her press though.
Did she give that memo to Huvane? Not to mention Handler?
Sure some ppl won’t let it go, but almost every single flare up of this story comes from some pr approved outlet rag.
Let’s not fool around. No one has benefitted more from keeping their story alive than Aniston.
2 good things though. She’s saying this and creating distance.
And she’s wearing color!!! I love that suit!
She has warmed herself with the ongoing firestorm. She has used it to her advantage in every possible way. Seriously, she would look like more of an idiot now, if she didn’t tell everyone to move on.
I have a theory….it came to me when I was watching Turner Classic Movies and saw Carrie Fisher do a tribute to her mother where Fisher referenced her father and his leaving the family (for Liz Taylor). That was 50+ years ago but if you ask people about Eddie Fisher or Debbie Reynolds I guarantee it is one of the first things they mention.
Up until this past year the whole Bermuda Triangle has worked well for Jen. But I think as she got into real Oscar campaign territory she realized this whole Brad Angie thing was making it impossible for people to divorce (pun intended) her from the gossip. I have a feeling she got a taste of being taken seriously and realized continuing to field questions about Angelina Jolie was going to take that kind if career nowhere.
So yes I think she’s sincere because she wants a serious career and that doesn’t involve fielding questions about Angelina Jolie for the next 50 years and having people worry or wonder every time they’re going to be In a room together.
You might be on to something here.
And I also believe it might start to bug Jennifer that while Angelina speaks about world problems and meets the Pope, she is only associated with tabloid stories about her pregnancy, engagement or that old love-triangle
Let’s not forget the Queen, that made Angie ” a Dame” .
This I agree with 110%.
She’s aged out of rom-coms and if she wants to be taken seriously she has to shed all the tabloid aspects of her life.
Maxine and Luca – you nailed it. I think this too.
I agree completely and I don’t think this is coming from Huvane; I think this advice came from Lisa Taback, her Oscar strategist. I can’t see Huvane finally acknowledging that his ten-year campaign has been an abject failure as far as getting people to take Aniston seriously as an actress. He turned her into a tabloid caricature and may have done incalculable harm to her career.
Agreed. And yes Janet, there is no way in heaven that Huvane will ever give up his campaign to promote Jen while especially denigrating the JPs. No way, not ever. I do think its Lisa’s advice, and we saw what her advice achieved. An interview dragging up a dead guy and a lot of backlash. This imo is just to take the heat off that. But all of these ‘consultants’/agent are doing her far more harm than good.
@Janet – wow, it’s like you read my mind! that’s exactly what I was thinking. This is such a 180 from the usual Huvane strategy, it had to come from Lisa Tabeck. I’m not convinced yet that it’s sincere. We’ll see if the deluge of Huvane – driven tabloid stories – ‘will Jen ever find love?’ ‘is Justin the One?’ ‘A baby for Jen!’ – starts to dry up; if so, we’ll know she means it. At least Tabeck did something to earn that million!
@WTBW: I’d be very surprised if it was Taback’s idea to drag her deceased ex into it. That smells much more like Huvane playing the pity card as usual, and I bet Taback had a sh*tfit when she heard about it. She’s savvy enough to know that playing for sympathy never won anyone an Oscar.
I wonder if Aniston will fire Huvane and hire Taback as her publicist?
What makes me crazy about all this is WHY is it ONLY JA/AJ constantly pitted (pardon the pun!) against each other. It was Brad who “cheated” (whether before or after the actual separation is speculation), yet he’s frequently left out of the mix of venom against either woman.
Personally, I feel that the person who took the vow is the one responsible. He/She is the one that “broke” the relationship, regardless of any “help” he/she may’ve had with another partner. I’m kind of feeling Pitt *likes* these articles of two women still *fighting* over him after a decade, true or not.
+ 1,000,000. I said this yesterday. I don’t think she or Huvane thought it was possible to almost buy award nods with cold hard cash and Aniston enablement by team Jen holdovers. If they did, they would have done it a long time ago. As you state, once she gt to the party, she realizes if she ever wants to think about making a return trip, this cold shouldering and grudge holding and having bestie PR stable-mates attack your nemesis…makes it uncomfortable for everyone..and in case she hasn’t noticed, the industry, and award bodies love both Brad and Angelina – they have closets full of hardware, she doesn’t….yet another reason to not create a ‘war,’ and ‘cat fight.’ But a lightbulb went off recently when she got ignored by Oscar and when Brad wasn’t about to share air with her in the room at the CC awards….she knows if these shows have to choose, aint no way are they going with her and the little hipster poseur, over Brangelina – and she’s trying to make amends publicly and *for her own benefit* of course.
Janet, Luca, Max, ephinany
Agree with you all. This is a new strategy and it could work very well.
Huvane started to appear like Handler does. A friend that gets really protective and aggressive on behalf of their friend. Huvanes last hissy fit pr statement might have been the final nail.
Brilliant.
I like juicy sweet celeb gossip but this whole Aniston vs Brangelina BS was getting on my nerves and this was neither of the parties’ fault, it was merely created by the so-called entertainment media. Well said Ms Aniston, I hope people will just STFU about it and leave these two ladies alone. Let us discuss about whether Cumberbatch is hot or not!
I agree. I think both of these women want to put this to rest, but the media and their fans won’t let it die.
She;s the one who keeps bringking it up whenever the media forgets abut her for a second. stfu and eveyrone’s gonna stop talking abouit it. Angelina never mentions it cause she hause other things to talk about. Like women’s rights, war and rape.
It’s amazing how people think Jen controls all of this. Give me a break. She answers because she’s asked not because she brings it up. Jen has been in tons of movies since the break up and doesn’t need it for the publicity. ( not to mention BRAD has also talked about it years and years later – but justify that right? ) It’s funny how when a tabloid talks about Jen -oh it must be true or Jen put it out there but when is about angie – it’s oh evil tabloids! Very hypocrital. No one knows for sure what these two women think , certainly no one on CB. Its always the same thing here – so if you want to talk about old it’s the comments. Angie and Jen are both living their highly blessed lives and I’m sure get a good laughs about the fans who go crazy and believe false truths. Hahahaha
Tifygodess I think its amazing many people don’t know that Jen has full editorial approval of print interviews, so pre-approves what questions are asked. She is the Jennifer aniston. She has FULL control. She can refuse to answer questions. She can say no comment. Actually, her publicist gives the media a list of no-go areas. Do you notice that Angelina is never asked these questions? Its because she has put her foot down and made clear that she will not answer those questions. So she doesn’t get answered. Jen has brought up Brad in almost every interview she has done in 9 years. Angelina has never said a word about her and Brad has only spoken about Jen/marriage twice in 9 years. Yet Jen brought it up herself as recently as last month. Bottom line is that Jen and her publicist Huvane veto questions before the interview is started. That is what a publicist does. If she didn’t want to answer, she wouldn’t. Just like Angelina and brad.
@ Tifygodess24: Celebs dictate the questions asked of them, especially stars as big as Aniston. Stars provide a list of topics or questions that are off-limits. I think that’s why Jolie never gets asked the same questions. Aniston should have turned off these questions ages ago. I think that’s why people think that she perpetuates some of the drama. I personally think the questions demean her, so I’m surprised that she hasn’t made them forbidden a long time ago.
The best reason for Jen to leave Angie alone in my mind, is that Brad is father to a crew of children, and he loves their mother. Quit the poison for the sake of the children! It’s monstrous what harm they have inflicted upon each other.
I think that their feud would fade out of the conversation, if they started being nice to each other. Angie’s pretty mad about some of the beating that she has taken from Jen’s PR: Jen did make a move in the right direction when she complimented Angie. If all the bitterness were to disappear, I believe everyone would let out a sigh of relief. Both women know how to be kind and generous: let them act as if their are grown-up women, and forgive each other… for the sake of Brad and Angie’s large family – for the children…practice mercy.
@Wulfpup, who wrote: “I think that their feud would fade out of the conversation, if they started being nice to each other. Angie’s pretty mad about some of the beating that she has taken from Jen’s PR: Jen did make a move in the right direction when she complimented Angie. If all the bitterness were to disappear, I believe everyone would let out a sigh of relief. Both women know how to be kind and generous: let them act as if their are grown-up women, and forgive each other… for the sake of Brad and Angie’s large family – for the children…practice mercy.”
What in the world would they have to forgive ’each other’ about? People get divorced in Hollywood all the time and there is never any talk of both women needing to ’forgive’ each other. Have you ever heard talk of Kathryn Bigelow and Linda Hamilton needing to ’forgive’ each other because James Cameron was married to one when he met the other?
The uniqueness of the Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie situation is the Jennifer Aniston made a conscious decision in 2005 to use the event–and thereby the undying love/support she had from the ’Rachel Green self-identifying’ mini-van Moms–as a PR vehicle for her career and marketability. Do you remember the comments back then? They were filled with “The same thing happened to ’me’!!” over and over again. When the Jolie-Pitts had their children the comments were “They’re just rubbing Jen’s nose in i!” There are still people today who post that Jen and Brad were still married–before Jen filed for divorce–when Angie became pregnant with Shiloh.
Jennifer could have nipped this all in the bud back then, but instead she conducted live and print interviews where she talked about ’missing sensitivity chips’ and ’finally being able to buy comfortable furniture’ and ’I never said I didn’t want children I did, I do, I will’! Even though Jen herself got involved with someone (Vince Vaughn) 4 months after she filed for divorce, months later she was still doing televised “you’ll survive this, girl!” interviews like the one on “Oprah,” where they toasted her ’brave fortitude’ with champagne.
Appearing on Chelsea Handler’s show after each ’Angelina Jolie is a C%%T! Oh and her little kids, too!’ performance with a gleeful grin on her face didn’t exactly put the ’Triangle’ to rest. Her reaction to Brad’s “Parade” interview didn’t either. We didn’t start hearing noises from Jen about ’putting this whole triangle thing to rest’ until after she got together with Justin Theroux … and that was only because of the manner in which she got together with Justin Theroux.
@Tifygodess24
It’s amazing how you can consume all this media without knowing anything about the stuff that goes behind the curtain.
@Emma
Beautiful.
I agree. Getting so old. I can’t read anything about her without AJs name coming up. Then I read the comments and her fans rip Jennifer apart. Angelina most likely is sick and tired of hearing all this also and doesn’t want this. This isn’t high school, let it go for crying out loud. Angelina doesn’t need you standing on her side a decade later. She’s happy with her family and career
Yeah right – more like the Jennifer the queen of PR manipulations Aniston is at play.
Last few weeks her reputation amongst the public has nosedived. Hundreds of people called her names for using a dead man for her Oscar campaign, several people tweeted about her continuously using Brad for publicity, her buying her way to nominations and her campaign has been called one of the most desperate and ruthless campaigns ever.
The Oscar bloggers who were bought by her are now turning their back on her because they lost their credibility.
Her last 3 movies are all big flops and Cake will be on that list as well. She has no movies in the pipe (none has been announced).
Then at the critics awards – her so called showbusiness friends like Reese, Patricia Arquette all went to talk to Angelina and not her.
Infact Jennifer might have finally realised that this one sided vendetta she started with Angelina – has harmed her more than it has harmed Angelina.
Jennifer’s career is non existent and her desperation for awards has given her a bad reputation. Several hollywood players are openly mocking her, people are questioning her relationship with Justin etc.
While Angelina’s career is going from strength to strength, she is going to start her 4th major studio feature, only female actress to get a movie pass 750m globally, her power within hollywood is growing daily, her fanbase around the world is growing by the day.
So what does Jennifer do? She goes back to her same old pity party and talks about Angelina. Reminding people that she was supposedly cheated on so deserves the pity. Trying to make people think she is graceful and classy.
Well her whole image is unraveling and it will explode soon. People just don’t believe her anymore because she has lied too many times. Now if Heidi will just give a wonderful interview telling the truth about Jennifer and how she wrecked her relationship with Justin – that will be the tip of the iceberg.
PS: if she stops talking about Brad and Angelina, gets her pitbull Chelsea to shut up, gets her other bought people to stop attaching the JPs – then I will believe she is sincere.
PPS: but having said that – this will be my last post about comparing these two. I will take the step of doing that since it is unfair to compare these two – they are at different leagues. This will be my good deed for the gossip world this year.
@Maya…Spot on ! Call me jaded but I do not think that JA is sincere. This is her trying to salvage something from the wreckage of her awards campaigning gone awry.
Yep, I’m going to wait and see before I believe she is sincere.
Jennifer is full of it.
Agreed, Maya. Also Angelina offered an olive branch first when she said she would meet with Jen if Jen wanted to. Jen poo-pooed that. Now after all these years, why now? I honestly think its damage control to push the widow story out of the press. This woman does nothing unless it benefits herself. The timing is suspicious. I do not believe or trust anything she says. Forgot to add that if Jen makes a public apology to Angelina and Brad, and their children for the war and vendetta she set in motion against them, for her fans’ behaviour and for the things she had Chelsea say, then I could believe her. But she’d have to admit her behaviour towards that family was horrible and admit she was never a victim. I don’t see her doing any of that.
I have no real feeling about Angelina or Jen in terms of their talent or love live so I rarely comment. I do however think is unfair to blame Jennifer for not wanting to meet with Angelina after the divorce and I do not think it was her place to offer an olive branch. To me it reeks of insensitivity.
@Icerose, you do know that jennifer wanted to meet heidi bivens after she broke up her 14 year realationship with Justin? heidis mother confirmed that. i bet she wanted to offer her money to shut her mouth. insensitivity?
If angelina wanted to meet jen, it only shows that angelina was not affraid. which means she had nothing to hide. but i do understand jennifer, it was probably too early for her. and i know women like Jennifer, they are the girls who are cute but not really pretty, they work their a$$ off to look good, these woman hate real beautys. she comes of like that.
First of all, a clarification: Angelina never ‘offered,’ to meet with Jennifer, Angelina gave one of the most tactful, diplomatic and sincere interviews Ive ever read, a significant time after Aniston’s sobbing ‘tell all,’ to Vanity Fair. She was gracious, and kind in my opinion. She didn’t even mention Aniston’s name in her interview, It was the interviewer said, and I paraphrase: would you be open to sitting down with her? Angie said that’s not my place, but if she wanted to, I would welcome that. What did Aniston do 4 years after her split with Brad Pitt, laughed about shooting Angelina with a shotgun over the offer of a sit down, called her uncool for even talking about how she and Brad became platonic friends on set, used that opportunity to announce she was so proud if Brad, and was proud of him, while starting a new grudge and catfight with Angelina (hating Brad wasn’t working for her in the court of unlicensed opinion), not too long after that, she snidely insulted Angie again in a GQ just a few months later – when asked to comment on Angelina, she took a while day to get back to the reporter and then shaded her again, and said ‘consider the source,’ implying negativity and distrust…of JUST angelina, ..brad, at least in front of her ‘team,’ and public was deemed forgiven. Mind you all of this is occurring going on FIVE YEARS after the split. She’s a hypocrite. I don’t believe a word she’s saying.
But Maya, tell us how you really feel..
Anyway, I think good for her. I guess I am one of the rare hybrids that likes them both. In fact, I like the whole triangle. I cannot wait for the day the photo op with her and Brange or justjen and Brange!
I don’t mind the triangle. I slightly prefer Jen to Angelina (both thirsty for fame, Jen is less hypocritical about it) but I don’t really care that much about either of them. I think it is nice of Jen to offer an olive branch. What she said was spot on. I mean it has been ten years. They both moved on with their lives and I think they are both happy with their respective partners and lifestyles. I actually haven’t head in a looong time anything about Angie from Chelsea Handler.
I actually never took side when the divorce happened. I sympathised with Jennifer because she was going through a divorce while at the same time I dont believe Brad cheated and that he got separated first before taking the next step with Angelina. M
It’s only after 2010 I started to notice just how manipulative Jennifer really is. The way she constantly gave interviews after interviews about Brad and Angelina before 2010. Then she went quiet and had her friends like Chelsea attack Angelina and her children for years, and also have her costars like Jason Bateman say things like Brad made a mistake to leave Jennifer for Angelina (this was said last year) etc.
More than anything – I stopped feeling pity for Jennifer when she wrecked Justin’s 14 year relationship with Heidi without any remorse. She behaved a lot worse than Angelina and Brad, she published pictures of her being with Justin 1 week before Heidi moved out. Again if she really was cheated on – she would never have done she same thing to another woman.
Maya – Yep! I felt bad for Jen for years. I cringed a little at her “scorned woman” narrative but gave her a pass because I figured that having to see the perfection that is Brad & Angie’s life plastered on every magazine must be like having your heart repeatedly ripped out of your chest and stomped on. And then I read something about her being one of the richest women in Hollywood, repeatedly flipping houses, sometimes even at a loss . . . and I realized she was totally milking it. Not just that, but wasting her money and fame on totally frivolous pursuits. Just. She could literally spend her life doing anything she wants. She has a world of jet-setting philanthropist men she could mingle with, but she chases every dbag in Hollywood trying to recreate some 90s fantasy. Sympathy.Gone.
Not the first romantic triangle in Hollywood and certainly won’t be the last. The whole “Team Jen” and “Team Angie” thing is tedious at this point… Jen is the “girl next door” and Angie is the “magical man stealer”. I’ve always liked Angie and I will more than likely continue to like her. I found Jen to be exhausting when she was on “Friends” long before the whole marriage to Brad happened mainly because she is hustling just as much as anyone else in Hollywood but pretends otherwise. And if I remember my ancient gossip correctly, their marriage was on the rocks for a long time before Brad ever did Mr. and Mrs. Smith. IF he cheated on Jen I’m still not giving him a free pass but I don’t believe he did. I think he met Angie, had feelings for her, took Jen on a group vacation to break the news that he wanted a divorce then went after Angie. I have yet to see or hear any “proof” that they cheated. (If anyone here has some proof, I’d be curious to hear about it.) I think it’s far more damning that Jen lies about the timeline of her dating Justin and his breaking up with Heidi. I think she’s always twisted the media’s views of her being a victim to her advantage while at the same time playing the same game with Justin. It destroys her credibility. I’m curious if Justin/Jen had to pay Heidi to keep quiet about their breakup or if she simply doesn’t talk about it because she’s classy like that? In any case, it makes Jen’s words ring hollow.
Ginger – you sum up my feelings pretty much to a T.
I’ve never understood Anistons appeal – as far back as when she was on Friends, and I always thought she was massively over rated and I find her irritating (rather like Cumberbatch). My dislike for her has always had nothing to do with a stupid media driven feud with AJ, although all of the stuff post divorce hasn’t helped my opinion of her.
It is possible to dislike someone and it have nothing to do with either woman being married/once married to the same person.
Calm down gurl. Last few weeks her reputation amongst the public has skyrocketed in my opinion. Lets be realistic here. I think she is classy and handled that question with grace. BTW Jennifer doesn’t give a sh#t about it anymore, Angelina doesn’t give a sh#t about it anymore, Brad doesn’t give a sh#t about it anymore. Why do we do? It was great ten years for tabloids and gossip blogs but it’s time to say goodbye to Anistobrangelia.
I totally agree with you Maya. I was thinking JA was trying to change the conversation from talking about a dead BF of 20 years ago to talking about her forgiving Angelina, and being the bigger person. I will believe it when CH stop slamming Angelina and her children.
The cynic in me thought the same thing – changing the subject from the dead boyfriend “who was totally the one” mess. The timing just seems off. It’s very possible that, even though she had a hand in creating (or at least benefiting from the triangle over the years), it’s starting to hurt her (professionally) or she’s just sick of the way she’s viewed. It’ll be interesting to see how her story-line changes in the coming months.
I do wonder what would happen if they did greet each other at an award show or something? Would the media and fans just let it go? I have a feeling that the new storyline would be “Jen pregnant with Brad’s baby. Angelina wants to adopt the baby. Brad gets the best of both worlds.” Meh, I suck at making up headlines, but I doubt the triangle will die anytime soon.
As I mentioned earlier, I’m convinced the lost BF of her 20’s, and the olive branch to Jolie were done on the advice of her “Oscar strategist” Lisa Tabeck. Aniston is too old for the rom-com circuit, and Tabeck probably convinced her if she wants to be taken seriously, then she needs to get out of the Triangle! The mention of her deceased love was clumsy, but it was her attempt to draw attention away from her relationship with Brad, as if her marriage was just “filler” for the true love of her life. Now, if she’s seen as the peacemaker – particularly if the J-P’s don’t respond – it raises her credibility. Is Aniston sincere? If the stories fed to the tabloids by Huvane start to dry up, that’s an indicator that she is. Until then, I’ll take any further talk of “ending the feud” with a few grains of salt.
Yup. Jennifer is so committed to not depending on past love relationships that she brings up a dead boyfriend even though she didn’t have contact with him during his illness and ignored his wife. She’s spent all these years with her and her friend(s) harping on the imaginary love triangle with her ex-husband and now wife.
She needs to talk only about her work rather than keeping her name in the tabloids based on manufactured scandal or sensationalism.
I think that she should’ve gone a step further and promote the whole collective associated with her work, i.e. promoting the other actors associated with Cake. JMO, I think that she turned off the Academy voters because she didn’t lift one finger to throw spotlight on her costar, Adriana Barraza. I think that if she hadn’t made Cake all about Aniston, but about the subject matter, the production company and her fellow cast members, she would’ve had a better chance of getting and keeping the good PR she was seeking. Her making this movie all about her probably reminded a lot of people of her behavior during Rumor Has It (getting the director fired because of the way she was lit?). Also, there was that business when she promoted the hell out of Derailed and Rumor Has It and when they tanked, she badmouthed the movies.
Point blank, Aniston isn’t a team player, whereas Brad and Angelina are, which could attest to why their careers are still on the up, whereas Aniston is at a crossroads.
Have you noticed that none of the of the other people in the movie have lifted a finger to promote it? It’s been marketed as Aniston’s movie and they have been totally shut out.
@maya!!!👏👏👏
Everything JA does has a very calculated reason to it…she is tooooo much a control freak to not do so.
This is what she wanted to do when talking about jolie
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DY23JYgxXgI
Maya, Maya, Maya. Girl you are so spot on! You have said everything I wanted to say. Angie didn’t start this so-called “misunderstanding”. Jen started it and when it worked to her advantage, why she just couldn’t give a good thing up. And you’re right! Angie offered to meet with Jen. But would Jen? No. That would be too much like right. I’d also like to hear Heidi’s take on the Justin/Jen romance. I believe Brad never cheated with Angie. Confirmed by both Jen and her BFF at the time, Courtney. He was honorable and told Jen he had feeling towards Angie. What kind of woman tells her husband to go and “get her out of your system but stay married to me”. Ridiculous. I also agree with the comment about Jason Bateman who constantly, out of the blue, would comment about Brad leaving “sweet, beautiful Jen” for someone like Angie. This from a woman who took only 2% blame for the failure of her marriage. Give me a break! It would have been nice if Jen would have evolved and learned to talk about things other than her diet, tanning, yoga, and hair. Also her Living Proof line which was supposedly used to help her hair. Well how would we know? The weaves are constantly in. And I guess she’d tell you living proof makes her weaves look this nice. I don’t believe Jen is over this. She’ll go to her grave holding this grudge. But she’ll try and be smarter about it. She’s looking so good now because she’s telling everyone to let go of this. Nice to hear, but none of this would have been if Jen hadn’t started it in the first place and kept it going with her “What Angie did is so uncool”. It would have been nice to hear about other people in the film, but it was all about her. And the lies about her plastic surgeries. Nothing done except surgery for her “deviated septum.” Yeah, right! Nuff said on this woman. Just my opinion. A leopard doesn’t change its spots and Jen isn’t changing her. Just being more crafty as her career is slowly sinking.
Maya and GoOnGirl! you both speak the truth and laid it out well.
Nothing to add. This was brilliant.
This comment is a bit mean and childish IMO. Both women have talents, both women have faults. So it took JA some time to get over a marriage, even if it did take her 10 years I know people who have been divorced for 8 years and their hatred of each other still seems so raw. If she needs to feel validated somehow by the public siding with her let her if it helps, as you say Jolie doesn’t really acknowledge it, she gets on with her business and even has the privilege of Reece Witherspon talking to her at an awards ceremony *eye roll*.
Ten years to get over a marriage when she took up with Vince Vaughn right away? Not to mention all the other guys she took up with and slept with, including Mayer who dumped her twice?
And to hell with the harm it does to Angelina and Brad as their characters are assassinated and they are smeared, their reputation destroyed, and even their children used by Jen’s bestie as a weapon. To hell with who it harms with Jen and her campaign, what she wants she gets, she is entitled to smear a family and create a vendetta against a family, because SHE needs time, and SHE needs the validation. Again, always about what Jen needs, never about anyone else that may suffer because of her self-indulgence.
GoOnGirl! and WhereTheWindBlows–
Wha?… I believe you two are implying that Jen needs to grow up and take responsibility for the demise of her marriage… UNLIKE the advice from IHeartGossip to encourage pity parties, “Team Jen” endorsements from silly little friends and those that still identify as part of her Goddess Circle.
Jen’s woman-child behavior during her post-divorce years have been criticized and loaded with one glaring hypocrisy to the next. How do you go from talking about a dead boyfriend of 20 years ago to talking about your ex’s wife,… all while you are engaged to be married ?
@maya
Jennifer Lawrence’s Catching Fire has also passed that mark. Actually it’s over $850M worldwide.
Not to diminish AJ’s achievement, but just to point out she is not the ONLY female actress whose film passed $750M.
Correct. I do like that after about 4 years away from the screen, Jolie still attracted viewers and Maleficent is in the top ten grossing movies for 2014.
@Mia …not to mention hunger games is a franchise. If that was the bellweather, Kristen Stewart would get first look on everything too. Call me when Jlaw has a huge original box office hit under her own steam.
So you were at the CCA’s? You know a lot about the event.
Wow-my opinion- you spend waaaaaaaay too much thought on people that you don’t even know. Go live your life and stop obsessing about this.
Beachgirl, as far as I can see, for some people, this IS their life!
Exactly! It’s scary isn’t it? People remember 7-8 year old interviews even now?
Onthefly…they keep links handy of various print interviews, talk show appearances, articles on the subject…so that they are able to produce it very quickly to respond to anything that they see as erroneous about Jolie or the Triangle timeline.
I often hear the Twilight Zone theme playing in my head while I read some of the posts.
I agree. The story is old. The people who are Team Jen or Team Angie boggle my mind. Team for what? Childish trying to elevate one over the other. The split heard round the world was over ten years ago.
+1
You know, I proudly wear the mantle of “Number One Brangeloonie” in the North American division of the world wide club but … I could not care less about the so-called feud. I agree with you–it’s so old. It’s dumb. It’s boring.
A real Brangeloonie who loves Dame Angie should feel nothing but benevolence towards Jen. I’m not a fan of Jen’s but she hasn’t done anything to me personally and my life goes along as it goes with no input from her, so … why get all frizzled about her? Those who get genuinely outraged about her kind of puzzle me…why the vitriol?
And as for my humorous dorkiness regarding my title–hey, I’ve earned this title!–I really do adore Dame Angie. But I don’t know her, probably will never see her in person, and am not invested in her as a real, living person. She’s a beautiful actress and an interesting person but we’re not buddies. I just can’t see getting all lathered up over her history with Jennifer Aniston, I really can’t…
IDK…people who get incredibly emotionally invested over public figures need to mellow out and redirect the focus. And the narrative re: The Feud needs to be put out to pasture and left there, my God.
Great comment Frida_K.
Thank you for a much-needed shout-out to reason, Frida_K.
you keep on being your bad-azz Number One Brangeloonie self, girl.
Oh well
Yes, maybe she should get her BFF Handler to do the same! The things C.Handler has said about Angelina and the JP children are disgusting, and Jen approved it all. Now she wants to act like she played zero part keeping the “feud” in the press?
Why did she not say this a decade ago??? Oh, she did not have an Oscar role then.
Now she wants people to talk about her work, not her tabloid life.
Exactly. If Jen is serious, she will apologise for the hell she put the JPs through and will have Chelsea apologize too. If Chelsea won’t, then Jen should apologize for her.
“The he’ll she’s put the JP family through”? Don’t you think that’s a pretty extreme interpretation? We’re talking about a few offhand comments here and there in the press over the course of a decade.
I know in less than 5 minutes there will be an onslaught of how this is hypocrisy, she did this, and how untalented she is, and didn’t deserve an Oscar anyway, and Chelsea Handler is operating under her voodoo, blah blah.
1. I don’t control my friends. CH is a known loose cannon
2. I like her, I think this was gutsy and it took the high road, aka the road less traveled.
3. I still like AJ too
4. Turn the page already.
Jen sure could have told Handler to stop if she wanted to. If Handler was a true friend that is & not just one who she shares PR with. It is a business relationship, so of course Handler talks bad about AJ.
Aniston approved all Handler’s comments, do not be so naive to think she was not okay with them.
The voice of reason-kiddo.
Standing ovation. And you’re right – the onslaught has already started – it’s all her fault, she’s so untalented, Angelina is a goddess, Jennifer is slime – THESE are the people who keep this boring story alive, while blaming Jennifer for it. I like them both, and it’s way, way past time to move on.
Thank you. It’s clear what’s driving this never-ending saga. It’s written ALL OVER this page. I’s as if there was a call for dissertations on the subject, based on the length and repetitive nature of the doctorate applicants.
Obviously, PEOPLE are invested in this narrative or some counter narrative. THEY are dedicated to keeping it alive.
exactly! I bet neither of them care anymore but their crazy fans insist on carrying this feud on and on and on. (for the record I said CRAZY fans – I don’t mind their respective fans just the crazy ones)
Indeed!
Well you better hit some other sites and talk to her fanbase. You know the ones that are calling Angie names and blaming her. But you all never seem to say that. It is always the Brange fans that get the label of being overly invested. Some of you know exactly what is being said but act as if you have blinders on and don’t acknowledge that there is nastiness all around.
PREACH, Lisa2!!!
I’ll try again. Maybe my post was too long. It is very clear that Jen hired Chelsea to do her dirty work for her. Very clear. As to this so-called ‘truce’ for a feud that was always one-sided anyway, One has to acknowledge that it is very suspicious timing. I honestly don’t think I’m or anyone else is being a crazy fan by simply pointing out that Jen has had a really bad week and there are stories that she would like to get off the front pages. The most obvious being her exploiting a dead man for an Oscar campaign. That’s just a logical conclusion.
So what? Let it go, take the high road, avoid her “BS” and articles then. I can see occasionally getting pissed and writing a comment. But the persistence and presence on Aniston posts from her detractors IS BEYOND DEDICATION, bordering on pathological. The more you post, the more YOU feed the beast.
That goes the same way for Angelina detractors yet for some reason they don’t get called out. And lets be honest by us even posting on here we are ALL feeding the beast.
Good grief. What does it even matter if Chelsea Handler makes some obnoxious statements?
Great post.
This is why I Heart Kiddo. Succinct and spot on, my friend! JA was professuional. She complimented AJ. she answered the question without wallowing or snarking and she moved on. AJ is too busy being awesome fo this stuff, and it seems like JA wants to move on.
I heart u2.
How long…how long must we sing this song,
How long…how long?
Clever, as usual.
ETA: I am retracting the ‘bordering on’ part. The border has clearly been breached, at this point.
Posters Without Borders, coming soon to a triangle near you…
The Triangle of Doom has been hashed, re-hashed, post-hashed, and hash-browned. There is nothing new to add. But I’d like to know more about that bid to get an Oscar nomination. Jen came on hard and appeared to be making all the right moves… but obviously it didnt pan out. The general consensus on the movie was that it wasn’t good but that she was pretty good. So did it turn people off when they actually saw the movie? Did they not like her campaign? Or does it prove that a movie cannot sustain Oscar buzz that’s been artificially created – without the natural momentum of real excitement over the movie or performance, it’s not going to collect the votes? She put on a valiant attempt and hustled like the rent is due tomorrow.
I think two factors were in play: 1) her campaign went too far and she came off as seeming desperate for an Oscar to “validate” her somehow, and 2) she simply was not as good as the other actresses in contention.
My personal theory (which I hope doesnt sound too mean): her performance just wasnt that good. She gladhanded, she had a lot of connections, but I think that the movie itself and her performance in it just werent that impressive – and it doesnt matter how many Academy members see the movie if they don’t think it’s good enough. After all, the buzz about her performance was entirely created by Aniston’s team – it felt a bit like the emperor’s new clothes.
@ Kiddo Agree 100% with what you said in your first post, let’s turn the page already, people!
I like both Angelina and Jennifer. Angelina because she is an exceptionally beautiful, intelligent, and engaged human being. Jennifer because she is cute, seems very friendly and funny and has shown a lot of staying power. Both are also very strategic about getting and keeping fame, which I maybe like less, but which comes with the game.
@kiddo – is dead on. My friends would tell me to F off if I ever tried to tell them what they could or couldn’t do. Hahahaha. Love it
No one is saying that Tifygodess. You don’t seem to understand that we are talking about a friend blabbing about her friend’s private life. No one ha the right to do that, letalone a friend! A friend respects boundaries and doesn’t talk about you to others. Otherwise, they are not a real friend, right? If that person was talking about you and your private life, you have every right to tell them to knock it off. Its not a matter of your friends telling you to F off, since they are the ones talking publicly about your private life, you’re the one that has the right to tell them to F off if they don’t stop talking about your private life. I’m not sure how you think that the friend who is betraying you has the right to, and would have the temerity to tell you to F off? Seems back to front to me. If they were your friend they’d respect your wishes. Period. If they have no respect for you or your personal life, they are not your real friend. Period.
Great post Kiddo – I’m glad I didn’t give up on the comments before I got to yours.
Never forget she thought the idea of shooting AJ with a GUN was hilarious. So violent that Jen…….
“Tellingly, the actress also referred to a cartoon depicting her pointing a gun at the Changeling star as one of the funniest things she had ever seen.”
She has ZERO class.
Proof about how her Dead ex sent her Justin. Nevermind that he has a whole family to care about.
Not forgetting Jen had a great big smile when she came out when Handlers was telling abusive jokes about Angelina and the kids. of course Jen wants people to let go , oh look I see pigs flying by.
@bree – Never forget she thought the idea of shooting AJ with a GUN was hilarious. So violent that Jen…….
“Tellingly, the actress also referred to a cartoon depicting her pointing a gun at the Changeling star as one of the funniest things she had ever seen.”
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Exactly. That’s why I think this whole ‘let’s move on’ mantra from Aniston is BS. I doubt very much if she had received an Oscar nomination that she would have made this gesture.
Let’s not forget after talking about Angie, the kids and calling them names, then Chelsea tells Brad to go back to his wife ( Jennifer). Then Chelsea adds Brad was a good dad and was only staying with Angie because of the kids. Now that is to much to say about someone’s relationship.
I would have love to be a fly on the wall, when Brad and Angie got married.
Jen’s fans choose to forget all that.
AJ has a life to lead. She moved on. JA has a life to lead, she moved on. There is history between the two, and not a pleasant history. No one lived it but the three of them. They worked it out in their own way. Why can’t anyone let it be over? Yes, AJ and Pitt had an affair. It was ALL over the media how they fell in love. AJ made her comments about it. Pitt made his. But it is over. Why anyone would hold a grudge now makes no sense. JA has also made comments in the press. Tell me, why can you forgive AJ and Pitt for their affair, but not forgive JA for her reaction to a situation she did not ask for? Forgiveness should be for everyone. Let them move on. Let yourselves move on. I think these two women would be so interesting as friends.
Absolutely to all of it!
Elle Kaye neither Brad nor Angelina said they fell in love or had an affair. There was no affair, even Jen and courteney said this. There was no affair so there is nothing to forgive Brad and Angelina for they did nothing wrong.
Editing my original comment to simply say… nothing.
What’s the point?
I feel like Mugatu.
Your version of the story reeks of victimhood, and THIS is what rubs a lot of us the wrong way…
Brad has made it to 10 years NOT being seen or PRESENT in the same room with Aniston unless his wife is present. Any man that describes his life with you as a dead end DOES NOT WANT YOU.
The marriage ended because Brad wanted out and was looking for a way out. That you believe that Angelina derailed the crumbling marriage of Brad and Aniston is delusional at best. Do you really think Brad would be married to Aniston today, especially given the fact that Aniston JUST told the world that the boyfriend she had 20 years ago was the one for her?
Brad’s feelings for Jen permanently changed and no longer wanted her as his wife. Period point blank. If he wanted to fight for his marriage he would have but he did not. HIS CHOICE.
She wants to deflect the backlash. She wants the public to ignore her widow’s heartfelt statement. Hence, what better way to do that but by using one of the most famous women in the world. That’s her hidden agenda. She thought it’s hidden BUT it’s NOT.
You know in every story, there is always more than one version especially if one of the parties involved has penchant for lying.
Just remember, there is a big difference between the TRUTH and Aniston’s story.
Aniston’s latest PR strategy re saying good things about AJ…..is just very obvious that’s it’s all about PERCEPTION …. REPUTATION…DEFLECTION ……PROTECTION …. & most of all DESPERATION.
Does her team really think that the public believe her intention???
Does she really think the people are stupid & vulnerable enough to just trust what she is saying??
Is she really that stupid enough to think that way??
True, people change & maybe she has changed BUT as proven by her actuations (past & present) & words, it’s unbelievable to suddenly be soft to AJ.
In other words, she has NO CREDIBILITY & because of this, people are just CYNICAL. It takes more than just pronouncements to believe her.
Hear! Hear! And the congregation says “Amen”.
Look who’s talking (Aniston)!!!
Now, she is singing a different tune about AJ. All she did for 10 years was to put AJ in a bad light (directly or indirectly), using her friends, manager, publicist & paid press/critics/bloggers/posters etc. to trash AJ. It’s too late to “praise” AJ to make it seem that she has no hard feelings for AJ. Ticky knows what she did & what’s she’s doing in relation to the wife of BP. She is a very manipulative human being & she will utilize everything in her power (if she really has) just to put AJ down. That’s the vibe I am getting about Aniston. I could not trust this woman. Maybe if she would make statements that she was sorry for what she did to AJ & state CLEARLY that AJ did nothing wrong to her & she had nothing to do to whatever happened to her previous marriage to BP, then maybe I would feel differently (but with reservations). Now, she is suddenly saying good words about AJ because she knows, despite the negative things she set up for AJ, people are paying respect to AJ, not just celebrities but different kinds of people especially the prominent ones & just to name a few: Pope Francis, Queen Elizabeth, Obama, Clinton, etc. Maybe she realized that no matter how much she manipulates people to say negative things about AJ, the public is still fascinated, respect & love her. There is nothing she can do to put her down. Maybe she is acknowledging the power, the clout, the “everything” of AJ….. or maybe because this is another strategy of Aniston. That’s why I don’t trust her.
LOL Karma is biting her in the azz ,every bad thing the Jenhens wished on Angie is happening to Jen. They wanted Angie black balled, we find out Jennifer had problems getting roles. They wanted Angie career to end, it is not looking to good for Jennifer. They wanted Brad and Angie to break up, none of Jennifer’s relationships worked out.
When Angie wanted to get married she told Brad, when ,where and the time. Jennifer can not get Justin to marry her. Jennifer has done a lot of dirt and has hurt a lot of people, now she is paying her due to KARMA.
Agreed, Kendra. I honestly see it that way, too. A lot of (not all) Jen’s were saying Ange and Brad would split up, karma will get them, etc. What I think is that a lot of these fans didn’t bank on karma having a mind of its own, and perhaps knowing a LOT more about Jennifer than they do. I do recall when the sony leak came out last month on some sites a lot of Jen fans were going ballistic with excitement and hubris (don’t know if that’s the term, whatever) rubbing Angelina fans in it saying they ‘knew’ karma would get her, when all it was, was one email. That’s all. One email. Big deal. It certainly didn’t harm her at the box office. But they were so sure it ‘proved’ something and were really gloating. so what do they say now, when the shoe is the other foot.
I’m not religious but I am spiritual and I believe strongly in a karmic universe. I don’t think Angelina fans have anything to worry about, and nor Angelina. She is a good decent person, a lovely down to earth, classy, dignified and respectable person. I feel that karma has rewarded her over the years, and it still is. As for Jennifer, I am certain the karmic universe sees it similar to how I and many others see it. That is Jennifer is getting her own karmic dues in one form or another, for how she has treated Brad and the mother of his children, how she has treated others like her ex room mate and now this poor widow and their children. And lastly, for how she treated Heidi. You don’t step all over people to get what you want, without having to pay the karma piper.
I think it’s a smart move and she should have done it years ago but whatever. It’s good that she did it now.
I’m laughing that people don’t get that she did this on purpose she wanted to make a statement on Angie and ET would never ask her unless they were given the OK from her PR. She realizes a huge reason no one takes her seriously as an actress is this feud and she’s the only one that could actually end it by throwing out an olive branch. So people prepare yourself for her next campaign and if she is actually working with decent director or script she will win.
+1.
There is nothing this woman does that is off the cuff. This statement was given on purpose. Do you remember what the British Vogue editor said about her and her team demanding copy approval over everything? I also think part of the reason for her oh so magnanimous statement was, she saw first-hand that her Hollywood peers were flocking to Angelina at the Critics Awards. Brad was not in attendance (a wise decision by the Jolie-Pitts) and the excuse that he was the one drawing people to her table could not be justified.
Maybe she is depending on the brange to continue to say nothing to the press. That could only work in Jen’s favour.
Bless her for speaking the truth.
Also, I don’t think she was the architect to the media’s depiction of her being the scorned woman, she simply utilized the role ascribed to her and got PR out of it–I can’t knock her hustle.
As for Chelsea Handler, she’s a grown woman, what can Jennifer do? I have friends who would go hard for me with the quickness even if I told them not to, it would have been nice had Jennifer said publicly she didn’t agree with Handler’s crude and disrespectful comments, BUT she’s not obligated to do so.
I’m glad she praised Angie’s work: I’ve yet to see her film but any time I see women supporting each other vs being pitted against one another, I’m happy.
Jennifer could have easily stopped Handler. Instead she kept going on her show & encouraging Handler.
Not a coincidence that Handler’s most nasty remarks came after she & Jen became BFF.
They were not even friends in 2005, so why in the world is Handler so obsessed with Angelina & the break up???? The answer is Jen.
Why was Chelsea even going hard for Jennifer, YEARS later, when they weren’t even friends when the breakup happened? Her bestie helped to keep the “vs” mess going.
That is the thing people overlook. Why get all pissed by a breakup that happened years before you and the person became friendly. If Courteney who was there has never done anything like this then why Handler.
No Jennifer can’t control what her friend says, but she could have said.. in public “This has nothing to do with me and I don’t support women attacking other women.. She said nothing. And when there were stories of her distancing herself from Handler she made sure to stand by her and show her support loud and clear.
As I said before this is calculated. She praised Brad’s film when they were both released years ago at the same time. This is no different. All for PR and all for the way it makes her look. I just don’t buy it.. I think it is to show the powers that be to look at her differently. She said she has lost roles because of these stories.. so that is the end game.
She is an AMPAS member so she got a screener I’m sure.
She rented out a venue for a press junket to talk about her Oscar Nomination. She didn’t get it and cancelled it. She gave all the pundits that were writing all those Oscar buzz articles extra time. That guy at GD said so. That is a bit much. Who does that. Even he said he has never seen a sole actor give a press junket for themselves. So yes not getting a nomination hit hard. She really thought she had it. And there is Marion who didn’t do any upfront promoting. I think if you think the bloggers have anything to do with getting a nomination then NO.. besides even the people that were supporting her were saying that the film was not good. So the academy may have felt that her doing a not bad job in a bad movie was not awards worthy.
the thing with Angie and bringing her up is calculated. I don’t care what anyone says. It was calculated and once again she is using them for her PR. Now we get.. Jen is the bigger person and that puts the spotlight on Angelina to say something in response. And why does she have to. She is able to do interview after interview without talking about Jennifer. And there is no feud. You have to engage someone to have a feud. These people have no connection. There are people in Hollywood that have never met each other. So they don’t need to have a relationship.
I guess her new thing is to bring up people from her past.. her ex boyfriend.. the diner she worked at, Brad, and now Angie.. I think this whole fake triangle is hurting her more than she thought career wise. She should have thought of that a long long time ago. And it would have been nice if this was the stance she took after Chelsea called Angie that C word.. but she was silent then.
And no you don’t control what your friends say.. but silence can be considered support. But as I said at that time it was serving her well.
And to the people saying Team this or that.. I have seen so many comments from her fans attacking Angie after this.. bringing up the same old things and calling Angie foul names saying Jen is better and Angie should do this or that.. so no this does not change anything.
100000000000000000+ AGREE
Totally agree.
Spot on, if Jennifer did not have a movie coming out, it would look a little better. If Jennifer’s mouth is moving, she is not telling the truth.
You know, a few hours ago I saw a story from ET on facebook about the Aniston ‘snub’ and I counted 4 people at that point were saying TEAM ANISTON always! So happy Jolie didn’t get a nomination either, yada yada TEM JEN!! I think I put a dent in my desk with the head banging. And see, that’s the sort of stuff that provokes Jolie fans. A lot of Jen’s fans just will not let go, no matter what, of that Team Jen mentality. Someone even said that Angelina must have voted against Jen because Angelina is insecure. I mean, what the? I just….can’t. And they’re sad but at ok with Jen not getting a nom only since Angelina didn’t, either. Its what keeps it going. But that stuff is never brought up only what Angelina fans do in retaliation.
Why didn’t she come out and say this when her bestie was going on her tirades? It was old and petty then too.
Yes she doesn’t control her friend, but all she had to do was say I love ya girl, but that is so old please move on. Nice and simple.
She did not have Cake, you know her Oscar winning role (hahahahah), coming out then. Sad but true.
She also never mentioned this dead ex sending her Justin until Cake came out.
She is a piece of work.
She is certainly something, alright.
Exactly- AND the FACT that Chelsea said far more horrible things about Angie, Brad and their kids as soon as Jen invited her to her birthday party and signed with the same PR* as Jen is VERY suspicious. Before that, Chelsea said far worse things about Jennifer than Angie- even did segments on what a big old loser at love Jen was on her tv show- it’s all on tape for all to see/hear.
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*i.e., besties- 40 something women trying to be 13?!
I would love for this nonsense to die down, it’s all just so much negativity. But some people are still way too invested in it, and it’s still selling tabloids.
Yeah, just look at the tirades on here that go on forever. It’s such a bore.
Yeah because they are pointing out the truth. Don’t read if it is a bore. But looking on the Angie threads I see some of the people so disgusted by the “triangle” never shy about saying something negative there.
Not to mention really sad at this point.
It’s quite bizarre, you know? People post these crazy journal entries with links and footnotes and timelines. These are actors. Who all cheated on their spouses or cheated with a married person at one point or another. You will never be friends with them. If they met you, they would find this level of analysis and vitriol off-putting/scary. Move on.
@Lisa2
GNAT got to you huh? She’s right you know and I don’t think that many people actually read it anymore. Not in full anyways as it’s the same each time. They know the ones who write on JA’s posts so it’s easy to know when to skim or skip.
I never see the same long diatribes on AJ threads of people who dislike her btw so it’s not like you can use that to justify the JA diatribes.
@ lisa2 “Yeah because they are pointing out the truth” I don’t agree with this but I do agree with this, ” But looking on the Angie threads I see some of the people so disgusted by the “triangle” never shy about saying something negative there”.
@ Artemis It takes one sentence to be just as snarky and mean as someone writing a novel.
NO no one “got to me’..
I’m just someone that writes detailed post.. and it is always amusing to me to see how condescending some of you are. And how hypocritical. I think is takes more words to make a fair point than the quick post that some make to be negative and to try to spin this in one direction.
@Dana.. ITAWY it doesn’t take a lot of words to be nasty. But that is their fall back and some of these posters seriously think they are so clever that their underlying intent is missed. NOT by me.. never by me
I’m not going to engage except to say that I think there are Angelinsa fans every bit as boring and obsessed as Jennifer fans. I never meant to imply otherwise. I like both of them, but they bring out the worst in people.
Yes look at the people on here and fans on other gossip outlets like People, D Listed, Just Jared, and Female First. The list can go on, for all the people that feed into the triangle. Brad and Angelina will have grand kids and it will still being going on.
Amen. Just reading this thread I am gobsmacked at how people insist on continuing to fan the flames, some of these posts read like fire and brimstone sermons. Exhausting.
I think she finally realizes that the whole Jen vs Angie feud hurt her Oscar chances, because really, other than the “who will get nominated between the two” and the whole “will there be a red carpet showdown” no one was really talking about anything else. No one really has seen her movie. Its not a blockbuster. Its not that critically acclaimed. The only thing people wanted to talk about Jen Anistion were her tabloid dramas, not her career. I think the lightbulb finally turned on in her head.
Yep and about time too!
What? No more triangle for the gossip world? The world must be ending.
Kidding aside, JA was the one who fed the fuel to the tabloids after her 2008 Vogue interview. She was the one who called the other party ‘uncool’. Probably she needed the closure which she could not obtain from Pitt. She had to get one from Angelina too.
I never felt like the Jolie engaged. And it made Aniston look bitter. For sometime now she has encouraged stories which seemed to show she was over it (like sending the flowers).
She s also trying to change her narrative in the media. She s now a feminist, a serious actress, in love with the ‘one’ and a person who took the high road by ‘forgiving’ Jolie.
Hope the Jolie fans back off now. They were the ones giving Aniston relevance, even more than her own fans. And I feel such vitriol towards her only served to portray her as an underdog and people flocking to support her.
But if Jolie was really involved in the feud (despite everything appears to be contrary to it) she will be PISSED because aniston comes out smelling flowers with this. But i feel jolie only must be either not caring enough or feeling relieved for death of the triangle.
If Jen wanted closure she could have accepted Angelina’s offer to meet a year after the split happened. But Jen was all ‘uh uh, no way!’ So I don’t believe she ever wanted closure. I don’t think Jolie fans were giving Jen relevance, I’ve noticed many times Jen’s fans brought Angelina into from out of no where. The topic could be gardening or Jen and Justin having chickens, and they’d find some way to drag Angelina into it. Even with the recent Oscar nominations, ET had an article about Jen being supposedly snubbed. At least 4 posters said things like I’m so glad Jolie didn’t get a nomination either. I have noticed on other sites that Angelina fans don’t start in until Jen fans bring Angelina into it. Then only do Angelina fans respond. I think it is Jen fans constantly linking her to Angelina that has kept Jen relevant.
And reading the comments on here, I do not think Jen comes out smelling like flowers at all. Because people appear to see what a desperate stunt it is. I think at this point, every time Jen talks about Angelina and Brad she comes off looking bad. I think this has back fired on her just as bringing up the dead guy has. This was damage control for that, but no one is buying that she is sincere. Instead of talking about Angelina, yet again, she should have used that interview to apologize to the widow. That would have shown bravery and integrity.
I can’t blame Jen for not wanting to meet with Angie less than two years after the divorce. I do think this board is much more supportive of Angie than other boards so it doesn’t really represent what is out there. I believe Jen has had a large hand in promoting the triangle since I seldom read stories about Angie where she is asked/talks about Jen but it seems every interview Jen has brings up the triangle. However, at the end of the day, I also think the whole thing is old but reading the comments is endlessly amusing to me.
Jen, you need a fact checker on staff to keep your stories straight. Please don’t tell us that your beauty secrets include getting plenty of restful sleep when you tell Dr. Oz that you don’t actually get any restful sleep. Do you really drink Smartwater and use Aveeno?
I liked Cake.
Especially chocolate, right?
Yeah, not buying it. She and her puppet master Huvane needed something to keep her in the headlines after she didn’t get a nomination. She’s too old for the pregnancy stories now.
Too old for pregnancy stories, but STILL says she will be the one to tell us when she is pregnant!!!
“When I’m pregnant and married, I will let you know.’ Not a tabloid publication. Not Bulls–t Times or Crapass Bulls–t Times Weekly. They will not be telling you. And by the way, stop stealing my thunder! Let me have the fun of telling that story.”
Does she not realize she will soon be 46? How much longer can she tell us she will tell us when she is pregnant.
Yeah I was suprised she said”When I get pregnant… ” in. the current InStyle Magazine. Mainstream media had stop asking about her and pregnany when she went on GMA or Today Show saying the one question that she finds frustrating is the question about having kids.She should have ignored the tabloid BS.
Jen could still adopt. But yeah after 45, friends and family stopped asking us when we were having a baby. Its been pure bliss at the holidays since then, go getting old! That is the one thing I feel sympathy for Jen. I wish the media would stop asking her, it’s no one’s business if she ever has a kid or the reasons why she decided not to.
They would stop asking her if she would just say ” I will not be having kids” or “Kids are not for me”. Not a big deal & problem solved. She could shut the questions down so fast, if she wanted to.
@ june
but she shouldn’t have to say if she wants kids or not. it’s nobody’s business. whatever she says about kids, she’s gonna get criticized. I don’t want kids. so i if say I don’t, then I get the Oh you’re selfish or you’d be such a great mom. people are so invested in my mutha ficking womb. sometimes i want to tell them to buzz off. i shouldn’t have to explain to people/coworkers/customers the state of my womb and justify why i don’t want kids. and it would be times a million for her. you might not care if she doesn’t want kids but plenty of other people will. thank god i’m almost 40 now, so when people ask if i have kids, i say no and leave it at that. hopefully, they think i have fertility problems. it is amazing how people when they find out you don’t want kids, have to effing convert you to their kid team.
i wonder if maybe she has fertility problems? that would explain why she doesn’t confirm or deny . It would be painful to admit to the public that you’re infertile. and if she says she just doesn’t want them, she’ll get hammered too. no matter what the truth is, she’s not gonna win. so i don’t blame her for not confirming or denying her desire to have kids. men actors don’t go through this, why should she have to tell the world her business?
Nah, I think it’s the Oscar Caimpagn lady that tried to change her image from poor scorned woman to strong forgiving feminist. I don’t think talking about the dead ex that has wife and children was part of the Oscar Caimpagn ladies strategy but everything she says about Brange was. Aniston said the fake feud has cost her jobs so if she is serious about being a serious actor she had to do it. She had to be the one to finally end the “feud” because it was always one sided… In public anyway. I mean, Angelina tried to extend the olive branch years ago and that was the end of it coming from her … She said nothing else about the woman after that one time.
I think that is a very astute observation, Beep.
Can I hop into this discussion?
On the Friday before the GGs, ABC’s World News Now had a representative from Rotten Tomatoes handicapping the potential winners. The dude representing RT predicted that Aniston would win and said that it was the possible reason why Angelina wasn’t nominated/invited. The female anchor (I can’t remember her name) was kinda vocal about how suspicious/unfair that was to Angelina.
Maybe some of the undecided Oscar voters are nightowls/early risers are like me and didn’t like the perception that they would ostracize a previous Oscar winner in favor of someone who is campaigning less on her performance and more on her 10 year old personal baggage. Plus, there could have been some members who weren’t happy that Aniston was put up as a member when it is usually offered to nominees/Oscar winners. Plus, Angelina seems to be well-liked by the elder members of the Academy, since she didn’t limit herself professionally. Hell, last year, Bruce Dern, the father of the ‘scorned’ Laura, was very complimentary of Angelina, even going to the ceremony where she got her Herscholt (mind you, he was in contention for Nebraska). I think she earned a lot of respect for her determination to get Unbroken made, and while it didn’t make the cut, in terms of nominations, it was still an impressive feat and consistent with her character.
The Academy is dealing with the public side-eye due to the lack of diversity. I’m sure they don’t want that issue coupled with an inconsistent actress who may have done a decent job (at long last) dictating how the Academy deals with another actress who is pushing herself professionally on a much more consistent basis, especially over junior high matters.
I don’t know what she is talking about. She started it in the first place.
But now that she finally realized it’s no longer working for her, she wants to let it go.
She & her pr team started this feud. Does she not remember her interviews where she whined?
Everyone knows that I am a true Brangelooonie!!!!! But, I have to defend Jen a little bit here. When Brad first left her for Angie (and he DID leave her because of Angie, whether there was an affair or not), I’m sure, if that was me, I would have been hurt and bitter, too. So, I can understand Jen not singing praises for Angie and Brad, at the beginning. However, she should have shut her mouth about them, after, say, a year! But she did find that she got more publicity, the more she talked about Brad and Angie. And, if my husband had left me and I had to see their lives splashed before my face in print every day, I probably wouldn’t be happy. I still say, she should have kept quiet about the Jolie=Pitts after a year. I do tend to think (in my conspiracy driven mind) that Jen said this recent stuff about moving on and Angie’s film was beautiful, to counter the bad pr she got from mentioning her dead love and his wife’s facebook posting.
I agree but when do we stop feeling sorry for Aniston? Justin and Jennifer did exactly the same thing to Heidi Bivens but that was swept under the rug.
@ beep, it’s different in Heidi’s case. They were together for 14 years and not married. There is a difference, imo. I didn’t feel sorry for aniston for brad leaving jen and i don’t feel sorry for heidi for justin leaving her. s&it happens to everyone. it’s part of life. i think to a lot of people, not being married means less committment in their mind. so married outweighs not married. not saying that’s right, but that’s the perception in a lot of people’s minds. plus heidi and justin were together for 14 years, we don’t know if it was good, bad, etc. i mean they could have been about to break up anyway. if you’re in a good relationship, you don’t get with someone else. but of course, the scorned woman is going to portray it like their relationship was great. but obviously, they weren’t that close if he went out and cheated on her. jmo, there were prob issues in their relationship (j and heidi) and instead of addressing it, he cheated and left her for someone else. yes, wrong, but hey, heidi’s better off. cause apparently he wasn’t that committed to her. she might have been to him but it was not reciprocated. so he did her a favor, imo.
Aniston went on to date douches, one after the other, while the world (and her PR) continued to tell stories like 5 years after Brad, and yelling to the ocean.
If she was in a having fun stage, she should have stick to that and stop the complaining and shut her CH BFF, but she still milked it instead, like with the uncool comment and Brad’s voice messages, etc.
She was getting publicity, and she exploited it.
Wrong decision if she wanted to become a respected serious actress, IMO.
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Just like the movies she chose to do, he wants to be serious, but after a decade of tired romcoms and raunchy films, she suddenly makes one indie and tries to exploit it to the end of time instead os seeing it as a stepping stone (which it is). And now she is complaining that she was snubbed? Please.
But I see signs of evolution in her public persona, finally.
Oh, Snowflake, do not dismiss a long relationship because they were not married or because we did not know if it was good or bad. It was their relationship and it is bad enough that she was out with him in late April when he was already with Aniston (she presented him as her boyfriend somewhere), that is humiliating, and she had to leave the apartment in haste, worse.
But yes, as you said, at the end she is better without this poser.
I do not feel bad for Aniston, either. They both were better without each other.
I feel bad for those families with children, or people who lie to their partners, or those who take their money, real state and / or become deadbeats.
MrsBPitt, I disagree that Brad left her FOR Angelina, sure, maybe nice guy that Brad is, he would have extricated himself more slowly had it not been for falling in love with Angelina….but having been a Brad fan, I know that a couple years before, when Angie wasn’t even on the scene he was being scolded by Oprah for saying in an interview that he and Aniston ‘might not make it,’ she asked him if he ‘had been in the doghouse for saying that,’ and he said ‘no.’ He went on to say ‘when we stop growing, so does the relationship or the relationship dies,’ and then talked about how they had embarked on an experiment together. Aniston even admitted they had had two separations before ultimately splitting in Jan 2005. It’s well know they were separated for 6 months in 2003-2004, and then 3 months…trying to figure things out. The pics of them the one time Aniston visited Malta when he was making Troy, showed both of them looking sad and miserable. Brad had left the marriage years before Angelina even came on the scene.
Jennifer CREATED this triangle to get press attention and sympathy AND kept it alive- ALL ON HER OWN for ten years. It was tiresome when she created it and now it is outrageous that she’s pretends it is the media’s fault. Jennifer has spent MILLIONS over ten years waging a war against Angelina (& Brad & their children) and Brad & Angie never even stepped onto the battlefield- they had far better things to do with their money rather than to pay it liars & spin doctors. Is Jennifer sincere? Her horrible track record says no way. Calling someone out in the media to end a feud that you started on your own & carefully nurtured while and they never even participated in seems very self-serving and not even close to apologizing (what Jennifer SHOULD be doing)/forgiving. Quite frankly, Angelina has never done anything wrong to Jennifer, so there is nothing to forgive.
Personally, I think Jen is just bitter. My father left my mother for her best friend, but my mom moved on, found a great guy and married him. My mom doesn’t talk smack, or get her friends to talk trash about her ex bestie. She moved on and took the high road, so I have a personal example of how to act classy when your husband leaves you for another woman, which Jen didn’t do in my estimation. Grown up, mature women supposedly involved in a “wonderful” relationship with a guy your dead ex-boyfriend sent you, then why would you continually talk about your ex-husband’s new wife? Not buying the latest PR stuff.
And let’s be honest… he didn’t leave her for Angelina.
Even if he did cheat with her and then decide to get divorced — and that’s still a big whopping “if” in my book; why people take it as gospel is beyond me — strong and happy marriages don’t end because a sexy woman walked into the picture. When a man or woman leaves their spouse to shack up with someone else, it’s more of an excuse and an “out” than anything else. If you’re still in love with your spouse and fully committed, you either (a) ignore your attraction or (b) come clean about it, or try to move past it. This “homewrecker” BS is tired and misogynistic. The person who took the vows is the ONLY one responsible for the affair; the third party doesn’t deserve even a quarter of the blame for any subsequent divorce.
That said… I’m shocked and impressed by this interview. But the cynic in me believes that she realized her decade-old PR strategy stopped working, and now she wants to be a feminist icon instead.
that whole second paragraph, yes!!!! THIS!!^^^
WOW BRTTNEY! (applause) and H, Kudos to your mom, I know people still bent over bitterness and blaming, your mom is a strong woman.
I disagree. The person who took the vows isn’t the only person responsible for the affair. I’d never cheat with someone who was married, even if I didn’t know the person they were married to.
My dad left my mother for another woman- at least, that was the initial story she told. According to my half brother and half sister, who were teenagers at the time, my dad did cheat, but he begged for my mother’s forgiveness, but she refused to do it. He left, married the other woman, that marriage ended in the most disastrous way possible. She continued to disparage him, attempting to turn us younger kids against him. Her polluted thinking and need for revenge/having the final word compromised my personal safety (other brother molested me for years and she didn’t tell my dad because it could’ve resulted in either me or the brother going to live with my dad).
I used to cut her some slack because this went down in the 70s and the stigma she may have suffered due to the divorce, but she didn’t deserve a blank check to make ridiculously poor decisions in the name of a nonexistent war between she and my dad.
Now if Aniston is thoroughly ready to let this go, then good. She should let her friends in on this decision, not have them backhand her ex and his wife. Hell, they should have dummied up years ago. It’s possible to be complimentary of Aniston without shading Pitt and/or Jolie.
That’s terrible. It all comes down to not hating your ex more than you love your kids. My side of the family hates my ex and if they had their way we’d in a never ending state of conflict. But there’s no way I’m going to subject my kids to that sort of toxic BS.
I think both actresses are barely passable, but seriously: this is really hard to believe. This is what kept Jennifer’s name in the presses for the last ten years. Suddenly, she wants it to go away? I don’t buy it.
Wow, I’m proud of her. It sound like she’s finally gotten to the point where she realized that if there was infidelity, the person who deserves the majority of the blame is the one who was married to her, not the ‘other woman’.
Of course, I’m sure being the ‘other woman’ herself helped her get to that place of zen.
Well if this is true, 20 years in therapy has paid off, money well spent.
And she waited a decade to say this? She is something else.
She approved the question, however she should just stick to talking about her own business.
did jennifer aniston really planned a press conference for an Oscar nomination?lol,huvane is jst too much. from what I read on other sites about CCA on friday,it seems everyone want a piece of la jolie,popsugar called her an unofficial social table of the event,pete hammond(deadline)who was sitting on aniston’s table said he couldn’t get to jolie’s table bcos it was so crowded with critics tryng to take selfie with her,maybe aniston want to be able to take selfie with her someday too(sarcasm). I don’t know if she is sincere about this but why now?
LOL, Jennifer really did plan a press conference to accept her Oscar nom, lol.
Yes, she did. She was so full of herself. It reminds me of the term “pride goes before a fall”. She really got ahead of herself. Anyway if I was an actor I would never plan ahead because I wouldn’t want to jinx it. Don’t plan, you’ll probably get a nomination and win the award. Do too much planning, you won’t even get a nomination. Better to wing it. I’m superstitious like that. I think Huvane doing all that Oscar buzz and paying to get tabloids to call her a contender harmed her because it really built her up so much to where she CLEARLY thought she would be getting a nomination. I have to admit that after the way she dragged that poor woman’s husband into it, I was ever so glad she didn’t get it, just on principle. I think the earth has karmic laws that sometimes do come into play, but that’s just me.
Sorry, don’t believe you Jennifer.
why should she call off chelsie ? chelsie is an adult she’s responsible for what comes out of her mouth + can we know criticize jolie without being called jenhens ?
Why SHOULDN’T she call off Chelsea? If they are friends then friends should be open and honest and not disrespect the other or talk about the other’s love life in public without consent. The only reason Jen won’t do so is because she hired Handler to do exactly what she does.
chelsie has been bashing jolie way before she got with brad so it has nothing to do with jen , and even if it does i don’t think she should call her off on anything .
That’s b.s. hilda, it’s a lie that Chelsea spews, to make her attacks not look like the orchestrated hit arranged by Huvane for Aniston that it is. I’m ashamed to admit this, but I watched Handler in the early days, she’d make jokes and do skits based on the triangle, and Jennifer Aniston came out MUCH worse, and was hit harde by Handler than Jolie ever was. I recall a sketch Handler did, where an Aniston character was a dating game contestant, she had 3 losers vying to date her (like a plumber, a sanitation man, and an ex con – all ugly) and they all rejected HER. Then another time she had an Angelina character and Aniston fighting in a bathroom, Aniston was the aggressor who went after J, SJ won the fight by squirting brst milk in her eye. It was stuff like that, that made me realize immediately, that upon signing with Aniston’s bestie pr flack Huvane in 2008-2009, one if the qualifiers was that she stop demeaning Jennifer, and start attacking Angelina. It happened like clockwork. handler signed, showed up on a thanksgiving Mexico trip with her brand new pal, and dropped the vicious vile Angie attack within a week. She’d present some award to Aniston a week after that…acting as if they’d been friends for ages, when they had just met the previous month.
Well Jen’s silence when it comes to Handler says enough. Her silence shows support & approval. Handler calls Angelina a c**t, Jen takes her to Cabo!!!!
Why would Handler, who was not even friends with aniston in 2005 by the way, appear to be soooooooo personally offended by that divorce. She is just so angry about it, and Jen is the reason for that. They share a pr team.
That is very true.
And hilda that is not true at all. Yes, Chelsea bashed Jolie, but nowhere NEAR as much as she bashed Jen at the time. She called Jen a loser who *can’t keep a man*. All of a sudden, she is under Huvane’s control, and she does a 180. She stops attacking Jen but ramps up the attacks on Angelina. Her and Jen spend thanksgiving together and on the return Jen launches into her most vicious attack on Angelina. I was intensely personal, not like her usual monologues. It was extremely, passionately hateful. And it even extended to innocent children. So it is more than clear that it has EVERYTHING to do with Jen, and any self-respecting woman would call her off because a self-respecting woman wouldn’t want her friends discussing HER private life in public….UNLESS it suited her for Chelsea to do this.
A lot of people seem to be friends with Handler. I was surprised Sandra Bullock is. I think the people she’s friends with just let her do her thing (although I don’t think anyone could really tell her or any other friend what to do). I’ve just noticed Handler has a lot of friends I wouldn’t suspect of being friendly with her, so I think that’s how the entertainment industry works (you do your thing, I do my thing, and nobody can tell the other what to do professionally even if certain things intersect).
thank you perplexed
Let me ask you this – has Chelsea ever attacked Sandra’s ex husband who cheated with multiple women?
No because Sandra never got her friends to talk about her personal life.
Jennifer could easily have done the same thing – tell her friends to stop name dropping the JPs. But we all know she won’t because unlike Sandra who is strong and talented – Jennifer is always the sympathy seeker and is only in the gossip because of the triangle. M
Plus is not just Chelsea Jennifer bought, there is Howard Stern, Jason Bateman etc. there is a pattern with Jennifer regarding this.
I think Chelsea Handler attacks Angelina because it brings HER press. Chelsea also has a stake in whether people talk about her comedy or not considering she also has a career in the entertainment industry. If Chelsea were to make fun of Jesse James, who would disagree with her? We all agree he’s a shady tool. And does anyone really care enough about Jesse James to get up in arms if she makes fun of him? I mean, please, we’re talking about Jesse James here. Except for when he did his wacko fake apology tour, he’s faded from the limelight (if he ever was in it to begin with).
The idea that Chelsea is doing all of this JUST FOR Aniston seems wholly stupid and incredibly naive to me. Handler wants to grab headlines and make her money with her stupid comedy however way she can. The woman gets paid to make stupid and crude jokes and promote herself. To think she’s doing all of this just so she can remain besties with Aniston rather than take care of her own career and finances strikes me as incredibly weird. If making fun of Angelina or posting gross nude selfies on Instagram were to suddenly hurt her bank account, I’m sure she’d stop doing it in a hot minute. The woman has her own entertainment career to think of, and I’m sure she’s looking out for number one (as they all do in that industry). She’s not going to dash her own career just so Aniston can get the last word. Chelsea Handler doesn’t strike me as the type of person to sacrifice her career, either to help someone else out or to make someone else feel better.
Purplexed, you would only have a point if Chelsea was as deeply vicious and personal towards other celebrities. But she isn’t. That’s the key to it all, its only Angelina. Its not anyone else or anyone else’s children, it is ONLY Angelina and her children.
@Maya – Yup. Jennifer could have told Chelsea to drop the subject if she wanted to remain friends and if Jennifer was truly serious about not depending on this gossip to keep name in the tabloids.
What is Jennifer known for besides “Friends” and this imaginary love triangle?
I’ve seen her show. From what I can tell, she’s generally pretty crude. That’s her brand of humor and that’s how she makes money (I don’t agree with it, but that’s the way her humour apparently is). She’s also made racist jokes, so I have a hard time believing Angelina is the only one who is the target of her vicious wrath.
I also don’t think she’s gifted the way someone like Conan O’Brien or David Letterman is, so her humour goes towards the low blow and most obvious target. She’s not witty like Johnny Carson. She’s crude — that’s who she is, and that’s how her sense of humour leans, and that’s how she makes her money. She doesn’t appear to have any other talents to rely on — not even looks if you go by what is required in Hollywood. Ultimately, I think it is a fair observation to make that she’s going to care more about her own career than anything else because you’d have to be a dunce-cap to choose a career in Hollywood and not care how your own career winds up working out in such a fickle and crazy industry.
@ hilda weren’t you the one saying Angelina just wanted “new boobs” the other day?
That’s so nice. Maybe Angie can give Jen a role in one of her movies.
Lol. I was a thinking along those lines myself!
did she call herself “No 1 snubbed”?
she sees herself as the perpetual victim?
I like both Ang and Jen’s movies. I admire Angelina for the work she does and how she proof positive changed her life around, for herself and her children.
She claims some people told her they cried when they heard she wasn’t nominated.
Really? Cried?
I want to give her the benefit of the doubt but she said something similar years ago on Oprah.About the breakup being”thousand years ago and old news”.
We will see
She will be on Ellen and Access Hollywood Monday .I will take a wait and see attitude.
I laughed at that comment Jen made “No. 1 snubbed”! lol What makes her think that the Academy even had her on their short list? Just because she had been up for other awards, does not mean the Academy had her on any list!
I do think Jake Gyllenhal should have been nominated instead of Bradley Cooper. I saw both movies and Jake was fantastic. BCoop was fine, but Jake was much better!
Did she ever mentioned the other actors/actresses in her film? has she acknowledged and praised them in any form?
I only have heard me, me, me , I, I, I.
SERIOUSLY.
And this particular year, too… the rich, well-connected, constantly-in-the-press white woman is the one who was treated the worst by her peers? Try Ava DuVernay. Try David Oyelowo.
That comment shows what a narcissist she really is.
Yeah, she’s the self-labeled victim yet again.
That bugged me, too. Considering this is the first time she was even considered in the running, that seemed really arrogant. I like her as a comedic actress, but I find the whole “I didn’t wear make-up, I need an Oscar” thing terribly tiring.
PPure and simple: Jennifermade this statement to to deflect from to statement she made about the dead boyfriend. Jennifer is full of crap. And that .bs about shocked friends calling. Bwahhhhaaa!
I think she had to, the backlash was fast and bad.
Either way, it is a tiny step in the right direction, Huvane’s stomach probably is still upset that he has to move on from his usual schtick. I hope he tells his client CH to move on, too.
Sincere or not, her point is true. It’s pathetic that she and Angelina Jolie are still constantly being pitted against each other by fans and the media 10 years later on everything. Will this still be going on 10 more years from now? But it hasn’t just been fans and the media perpetuating the feud the whole time- the fact that Jen and her ‘friend’ Chealsea Handler have contributed to this doesn’t make things anything better. I agree with the point that Jen can’t control what Chelsea says; for all we know Chelsea wasn’t put up to or paid to make those comments but just decided to make them in an effort to suck up to Jen and garner media attention for herself, but it also could have stemmed from nasty conversations Jen and Chelsea had about Angelina in private. Jennifer could have publicly voiced disapproval of Chelsea’s comments if she wanted to.
As a side note about Chelsea Handler’s comments on Angelina Jolie, it’s always a dumb move for famous women to make those kinds of comments about other famous women. Not only because slut-shaming is wrong, and because when public figures do this to other famous women it opens those women up to more online abuse from others and gives other misogynists yet another opportunity to vent their misogyny, but when you’re famous and you say things like that about another woman, it kind of leaves an opening for others to look at your own history and judge you for everything you’ve done in the sexuality and dating department. It happens every time.
Chelsea’s comments about Angelina are problematic because they go beyond joking. It’d be one thing if Chelsea made some jokes about Angelina wanting to steal all of the third world babies that she could, or made some “homewrecking”/maneater joke about Angelina–something that speaks to how the public viewed her i.e. what is the first thing you think of when you hear “Angelina Jolie”…..but calling her a “c-nt”, “demon”, “evil”, bringing her up in personal interviews (like w/Rolling Stone, saying she had a dream that Jennifer was going back to Brad, or saying on Howard Stern that Brad only stays with Angelina–the nightmare–because he made all those kids with her), and calling her kids names i.e. monkey and eskimo….that’s offensive, personally offensive and gets real creepy. Especially since Chelsea is going on and on and on about Angelina, and Angelina hasn’t said two words about her. And she did it for four years.
I don’t think Jennifer can control her friends. But she can control who she is friends with, and who she is seen with. If she didn’t want to be associated with Chelsea’s remarks, she could’ve stopped publicly hanging out with her, or stopped going on her show. I just find it creepy and odd that someone who became friends with Jennifer is so publicly obsessed with her divorce that happened five years before they met.
Each time I see a JenHen defend this woman I shake my head. It is very difficult to defend a “harmless” person who is narcissistic, vindictive and holds grudges. Now that same person wants to let it go because she saw before her very eyes how well-liked and admired Angelina was received at the CCA event, with Hollywood’s best flocking and crowding Angelina’s table, even though she did not win awards that night.
Our posts are long because the evidence and examples of Aniston’s hypocrisy and lies are NUMEROUS.
And just like you and MANY others, we do not mind pointing out or reposting her contradictory statements and actions because they are usually recent and frequent. All one needs to do is listen to her live and print interviews. “Harmless” Aniston puts her foot in her mouth almost every time she speaks.
The triangle will never die because of the media and fans from each side and yes I said fans from EACH side, because Jennifer fans are just as crazy about Angelina & her family & vice versa. Get over it people.
Tell me who your friends are I tell you the type of person you really are. My mother used to say that. Who does jen surround herself with ratched individuals example: ch who spewed such hateful things. This individual who likes to post naked pictures of her self. A known booze hound and a racists. Need I say more. Maybe Brad realize he wanted someone who can challenge him intellectually and for him to grow as a human being. I don’t think it was just jolie beauty he was attracted to maybe he like what she stand along with her convictions.
Aniston created this triangle all by herself- Jolie did nothing to her and certainly didn’t fuel it for ten years like Aniston did. Now it’s all the media’s fault- un huh.
Do you think that Hollywood has moved on. There’s a new girl in town and her name is, “Jennifer Lawrence”. Jennifer Aniston is getting older and in Hollywood that’s not allowed. Hollywood is sexist, and youth obsession. I wonder what Jennifer thinks of Jennifer Lawrence, getting an Oscar? Is Jennifer Lawrence the new it girl?
Gosh, good for you, Jen. Now please stop talking about this! Seriously how many posts have had this title or something similar during this award season? I lost count already.
Well, what ever reason caused Jen to say this, I am very happy to hear it. Living in the shadow of this triangle had it’s benefits for Jen in the past. Recognizing that it’s probably holding her back, now, personally AND professionally is a positive development, regardless of the reason. It’s risky as well, in that she’s also telling some of her most ardent supporters that THEY have become tiresome. They probably don’t represent any Box Office, so it’s not a loss, but those fans will feel abandoned in their attacks on the Brangelina in Jen’s defence.
I’m really good with dropping the comparison and letting both women be themselves.
As for Chelsea? She’s responsible for herself going forward. A change on this particular subject is not going to affect my profound disinterest with her either way.
BTW, I can’t shade Jen in the least for waging an Awards Campaign. that’s just business and she really did make a great run for it.
It was the attention-seeking, superficial benefits of Brangelina coat-tailing and the manufactured, PR driven triangle that increased her popularity- AND RELEVANCE- after the show Friends ended. Triangle my *ss– she was more like an unwanted and uninvited guest. Did anyone see JLo stalk Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s courtship, marriage, career, and family life? Brad’s life intentions and actions have been purposeful, consistent and obvious. And these are character traits that Aniston does not possess.
There is nothing classy being perceived as a tick.
Funny how no one “let it go” when there are stories about Angie. go look at the GG site when Angie didn’t get a nod. or that Rudin Sony thing.. I see a lot of familiar names on those sites.. Gloating and saying a lot of things that they are shaking a finger at the JP fans about.. But that was fine right.. because Angelina was getting her Karma and the world was paying her back.
LOL.. so yes. let’s all let it go until there is another story slamming Angie and see how that goes then. See if the same names here are there calling foul and stop the hate.
You know they will be, nothing negative is ever supposed to be said about Jennifer even if it is the truth.
I don’t believe her. There’s some hidden agenda again. If she wanted to say something positive about AJ film why hadn’t she done it a few weeks ago when asked about the Sony hacking story. It was a perfect opportunity to say ‘no comment about the story… but I think she’s made an amazing job on ‘Unbroken’ …”
Why wait till now?
Well, because NOW her Oscar campaign turned out a failure, people are mocking her about it, and her ex-boyfriend’s widow has spoken and what’s the better way to distract media’s attention than to speak about AJ.
I don’t believe for a minute that she saw Angie’s film. It doesn’t sound like the kind of movie she’d want to see in the first place.
Agreed, as if she would have seen it, yeah right. sure. She couldn’t even understand it or the concept, for one.
Did she ever say she saw it? I don’t think so. As for her not “understanding the concept,” that’s a stretch. Guy gets shot down and is imprisoned and tortured. I get that you hate Aniston but your insistence on twisting every little thing into something evil is almost comical. She could say the sky is blue and people would find a reason to contradict and ridicule it.
What do you meant it’s not the type of movie she’d want to see? It’s not like it’s some indie that only a certain type of person would see. It was a widely distributed commercial success. Do you think Aniston only goes to see bad comedies or something?
As part of the Academy, she probably got a screener like everyone else did.
I have no idea if she’s being sincere (and I’m not sure if I even care, simply because it’s not possible to get inside the heads of any of these people to really know what they’re thinking — it’s naive to think we can actually know how any of them really are), but I think this was a good move, and if the Oscar strategist lady was responsible for this, then I think Aniston should hire her to be her full-time publicist and fire the Huvane guy, who seems kind of stinky at doling out PR advice.
I also don’t care if her statement was “sincere.” Her sincerity isn’t my concern. Personal epiphany or cynical PR move, it’s a positive development.
Lisa 2, you are very observant and right on the money with your comment, 41.
Just realized why Jen is talking about Angelina and the Triangle of Doom. She’s up for a SAG award. After the Critics Choice Awards and seeing how freaking popular and liked Angelina is among their peers, she had to extend this olive branch. I doubt it’ll work as I predict Julianne will win the SAG, on her way to the Oscars, but A for effort.
Well noone is talking about the dead ex boyfriend’s wife anymore.
I watched Nightline and the host praised Aniston for letting go of the feud.
Mission Accomplished
So is Jennifer turning what she had planned as an Oscar nomination victory press tour in to an Oscar snub bravery junket aka No. 1 Oscar snubbed?
Clearly, Selma was the #1 Oscar snub.
Clearly. As someone said on Twitter, Selma is the only Best Picture nominee that was created out of thin air. No director, actors, or screenplay had a hand in making it one of the best pictures of the year. None at all. So ridiculous.
I was just making fun of the term Aniston used in referring to herself as the “No. 1 Oscar snubbed”. I thought I’d play along with her delusions.
Yes, I knew that. Just saying.
Yeah, I knew you were making fun of her. It’s so ridiculous for her to say she was the #1 Snub in a year when Selma, Ava, and David were ignored.
Well, I guess in her mind she’s gotta be No. 1 something…
Are you guys serious? Did she honestly say that SHE was the “Number one snub”? You can’t be serious? Tell me she didn’t say that, that someone else called her that. I detest her enough as it is, please tell me she didn’t?
Oh God. I just scrolled up and realized I hadn’t read that part of the interview. I just read it. Oh.My.God. I, w, I just
ah, stuff it. No words. Just no words.
Yes she said it. Her words were ” Almost just as good to be # 1 snubbed than to be nominated”. I know cray, cray.
All of this over a goat.
NOPE… All this because the “goat” moved to a different pasture..and how dare he do that.
I actually think Jennifer is happy with Justin. Why is it necessary to always take childish shots at others. If she is happy and her fans are happy for her. But that doesn’t seem to be the case. Because “the goat” has to be put down to justify her life. So why is that. 10 years. If people who love her are still pissed that a man left then that speaks to them. Not the 3 people that are not in any way linked outside of that.
The media feud between Aniston and Jolie is going to outlast religion. This thread is evidence of how invested some people are in it.
Hahaha. So true, Thanks for the chuckle 🙂
judging by some of the comments on here…
…for some, it IS a religion. I knew there was a reason I stayed out of this one.
*shudders, runs back out*
Now that’s a classy woman!
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Hey, voting for SAG awards doesn’t end until Friday, Jan. 23. Plenty of time to work it. Isn’t Huvane also Julianne Moore’s rep? I hope Julianne prevails.
Wow more self serving BS from Manniston. Just shut up will you?
Who in the world believes her B.S. anymore? This triangle B.S. kept her in the presses for a long time, and of course, she had a hand in it. She even brought it up during her Oscar campaign last month. Now that the campaign is over and the triangle has REALLY grown stale, she says she’s over it. Whatever. She has a face full of lies . . . and botox. 🙂
I’m glad neither she nor Angelina were nominated for anything. They turn everything they touch into self-promotion PR blitzes. Their narcissism is off the charts, imo.
If she really wants people to back off, the two need to be seen together in more than 1 airuation, laughing and having a great time. I don’t think that will ever happen.
No, if she really wants people to believe her, she has to drop the tit-for-tat coincidentally timed media appearances and stop complaining about how she’s a media victim. She’s got the platform, she needs to change her message.
Well, who knows? It happened with Liz and Debbie, so maybe it will happen with them.
Liz and Debbie were friends before.
Jennifer and Angie have met on ONCE face to face to my knowledge. They don’t have to be friends or friendly. Just do what the rest of the world does. Just don’t talk about each other.. Jennifer and Brad don’t have a connection. NO children nor a business together.
there is no rule that you have to be friends with someone. There are Hundreds of examples of celebrities that are divorced that don’t talk nor associate nor are friends. They don’t run in the same circle. So they don’t have to be friends.
Debbie may have felt more hurt by Liz than Jennifer felt by Angie. Although Liz and Debbie were never more than casual friends through their husbands, they knew and liked each other.
I can’t get past the “old leather shoe” comparison Aniston makes.
Isn’t she mixing metaphors?
An old leather shoe is something broken in and comfy.
She’s not the brightest bulb 😗
She’s an idiot…and this is yet another thing her so called fans or the media never call her on, her sheer stupidity. She’s not aware she’s even using metaphors…like for instance: she described her writer fiancé as ‘a little hamster on a wheel,’ just writing away. Not knowing that means he’s prolific with not a lot of thought behind what he does, or it could mean he’s busy but not getting anything done. Either way: DUMB. Then she told a reporter when asked about Angelina (yeah, permission was given) that she was not ‘going to add any fuel to the fire.’ Well, she’s actually saying there is a fire to add fuel to. Not the brightest bulb, never was, demonstrates that every time she opens her mouth…but she’s to be coddled at all times.
aaaahhhh….so she has a history of mixing metaphors!
i hadn’t heard these references…
how embarassing…christ…
Aniston said something nice about Curious Case of Benjamin Button too.
http://www.celebuzz.com/2008-12-04/jennifer-aniston-thinks-brad-pitts-new-film-is-amazing/
It’s kinda sad that fans from both sides can’t move on.
She said lots of nice things about Brad in 2008 because she had suddenly started a new strategy, as her grudge war with Brad wasn’t getting her anywhere (no one hates Brad Pitt – her antics to that point just made her look pathetic and not over it) – at the same time she was lauding Brad and saying nice things, she released two interviews slamming Angelina, the uncool Vogue and GQ, then she went on Oprah and blasted her some more. That was the salvo. The catfight was on, and it hasn’t let up in the 6-7 years since.
It was a one-sided catfight because Angie never condescended to say a word in response.
My opinion is that Aniston managed this season really well. I don’t think the nomination was as important as to create the hype, she is changing her public persona now that her prime has passed. I mean, people went from “Aniston can’t act” and “Does she thinks she can get a nomination to anything?”, to “So happy she didn’t get an OSCAR nomination!” (in the worst case scenarios) and “She is a great comedy actress, who knew she’d be decent in dramas?” (in the best case scenarios).
She knows that if she wants to be taken somewhat seriously she has to finally leave the messy divorce in the past. Aniston, who was always the dumped loser living in the past, is now been percieved as the “cool aunt with a hot boyfriend” and has most probably secure a decent future in comedy or indie-ensamble films. Time will tell if she uses wisely this new oportunity.
You may be right about the acting, but I just can’t with the cool aunt, and the ‘hot’ boyfriend. Aunt, yes, but there is nothing cool about her. Dull, but not cool. Also, there is nothing remotely ‘hot’ in this galaxy or the next about Justin. He is very unfortunate looking.
Let’s see if this change of strategy translates for her getting scripts and not having to audition for parts (in competition with upcoming actresses, starlets).
P.S. It looks like my other post earlier was locked in moderation h8ll.
We’ll see. I looked at her IMDb page, and she has nothing on the acting or producing fronts for this year. She’s got the SAG awards, and then what?
In a pathetic cliche, my father left my mother for his secretary 36 years ago. And despite the fact that his new marriage ended and my father passed 10 years ago, my mother – still to this day – is bitter about it, even though she’s been remarried for the past 30 years. I think, for some people, the way a relationship ends leaves them perpetually bitter, even after they move on with someone else. Sometimes it’s the bitterness of rejection or having wasted time – I dunno. But when it comes to Jennifer, my sympathy is wiped out by the fact that she did the same thing to another woman.
Saw Cake online, she is evolved to a pretty good actress I must say!! Surprised me really.
Yeah, I think she saw Unbroken and saw Angelina in a new light. I appreciate her being honest about AJ and hope one day I get to see them say hi to each other. They are both grown a.. women, why not?
Oh please Aniston is never honest about everything. She has a public persona opposite of her private one. we are seeing her private persona lately of that a crass and potty mouth person. She says things she doesn’t mean and say things she doesn’t do. The only reason she is saying good about Angie’s movie is because it didn’t also get a nomination from the Academy. She will not say it if it was up for Oscar.
As Brad has said she is media savvy. she has her PR team to cover her ass all the time and to tell her what to say in public. She tries to be this goody goody person but it’s so obvious how bitchy and controlling she is in person.
I really think Brad purposely did not attend the Critics awards, he knows she was up to something and will not play her game.
The truth is, both Brad and Angie are tired of being used by Aniston. Not Aniston being tired of the so called feud that she and her PR team created.
two words: Heidi Bivens.
She probably has nice thoughts about JT and JA too.
Here’s something I truly do not get: if she’s so happy and in love with The Eyebrow, why is she talking about boyfriends from 20-25 years ago and the wife of an ex husband from 10 years ago?
I’m her age, happily married, and I don’t even *think* about long ago boyfriends or significant others, much less talk about them to other people.
I think that’s what’s so off about it. Like she has all this time to talk about a dead ex, she has all this time to talk about how she’s SO over the tabloid bs, she has so much time to praise Angelina’s film (when she previously refused to say anything about Angelina at all BEFORE she got flak from the widow of her dead ex), she has so much time to say how she’s over her divorce, yet she doesn’t have ANY time to talk about her current flame. Like at all. I don’t think they’re in a good place with their relationship (unless they’re both content to be each other’s rent-a-date for forever), at all. It’s so weird that he’s in NY and she’s in LA all. the. time.
And frankly, that’s the only reason I’m still somewhat interested in her, gossip-wise. I don’t like her movies (I’ve TRIED, lol, believe me, but I don’t like any of the comedic films that are out to begin with), and her getting with Justin and the kerfuffle with him and Heidi are the only things keeping me here. It’ll be interesting to see if they get married or not. Don’t get the hold up, especially since they’re rich as hell and no kids. Go get married at the beach, and then have a big party to celebrate late.
Did it ever occur to you — and to everybody else who blames Angie for pursuing Brad — that maybe it was the other way around? I don’t think she went after Brad; I think he pursued her.
I think it’s weird that the people on this site think anything Brandi does is OK! Because of Leeann & Eddie’s actions. But on the other hand you hate the victim of the “triangle” in the next story.
Whether Brad and Angie waited until after his separation to consummate their relationship or not, they very much HAD a relationship emotionally BEFORE him & J split. Wrong is wrong, period.
Leeann and Eddie- wrong is wrong.
But you all look like a bunch of hyenas picking over whomever appears weaker.
I don’t care at this point about any of the stuff that happened. It’s all old news. But you are a hypocrit to say it’s ok for Brandi, but not ok for Jennifer.
And seriously? Have you ever watched Chelsea? Asking her to stop would just give her more reason to continue.
Just remember that it was not ok for Jennifer Aniston and JT to get it on while he was still with Heidi Bivens. Not anyone is perfect.
Considering how CH kisses JA b*tt, it would make sense that she stopped hurting her friend’s image.
Why??? There is a difference. Leann and Eddie actually cheated. As it turns out, Brad and Angelina never had an affair. Emotionally or physically. So while Brandi is the wronged person in her triangle, Jen isn’t. Also, consider in the Heidi, Justin, Jen triangle, Heidi is the wronged woman and Jen is the ‘Leann’.
Why is Jennifer Aniston always talking about Angelina Jolie? I’ll be honest I clicked this article just to ask this question so feel free to point out anything I get wrong but, well, seriously what the f? I really can’t think of a single time I saw the inverse of this title i.e. “Angelina Jolie thinks Angie vs Jen feud is tiresome petty bs” Does Jennifer Aniston really just NOT have better sh!+ to talk about?? If I were her I’d really be fuming at the fact that good grief what? 10 years later? people would still be asking me about my ex and his now wife because they think I have nothing else to contribute…in an industry I have spent my entire adult life in. I’m sure she is answering what she’s given (because man I really hope SHE isn’t the one continuously bringing this subject up) but how do you just keep letting that be a thing?? Why not shut that line of questioning down???