Another day, another ten million stories about how Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston just weren’t into each other. There are two outlets breaking consistent stories about JustJen, and they are People Magazine (naturally) and Page Six, the gossip page of the New York Post. But what of Us Weekly, the outlet now owned by AMI, the same gossip empire that owns the National Enquirer? Does Us Weekly still get legit scoops on celebrities like Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston? Or are they just following everybody else’s coverage? Here’s one Us Weekly story where, shock of shocks, a source claims Justin was never really down for marriage:
Long before Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux tied the knot (and ultimately split), he was perfectly happy with the status of their relationship. In fact, a source tells Us Weekly that the actor wouldn’t have minded if they never walked down the aisle at all.
“He had reservations at the time because they still hadn’t figured out where they were going to live as a couple. Justin was absolutely head over heels in love with Jen — and probably always will be — but marriage was never important to him,” the insider says of Theroux, who was previously in a 14-year relationship with costume designer Heidi Bivens. “Marriage was always just a piece of paper to Justin, and he didn’t need it.”
But Aniston did. “Constant scrutiny of Jen’s personal life, including whether she would ever find her happily ever after, played a huge role in her marriage to Justin,” the source tells Us. “It was obvious Jen needed more than an engagement or to be life partners with Justin. He didn’t want to lose her, so they got married.”
True or false: Justin was, at one time, “head over heels” with Jennifer? I think he appreciated her, perhaps even adored her, or adored what she was doing for his profile and career. It was an ego boost for him, to be with America’s Sweetheart. But I don’t understand the idea of casting Justin and Jennifer as each other’s true loves or anything. As for Justin not needing the “piece of paper” – he might not have even gotten that, if what they’re saying about the marriage not being legal is right. Us Weekly also had this story:
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux led separate lives before calling it quits — so much so that they kept bedrooms on opposite ends of their Bel Air estate, a source tells Us Weekly exclusively.
“When Justin was in Los Angeles and staying with Jen, he would typically spend most of his time in the guest house of the mansion,” the insider says. “He would play music, hang out and, in the final months of their marriage, would end up sleeping in the guest house.”
The former Friends star, 49, “believed that spending time apart was healthy for any relationship,” the source tells Us, noting that the Leftovers alum, 46, was a bit more “concerned” about the idea. That said, the insider adds, “He just felt more comfortable [in the guest house] than in the main house with Jen.”
Do you believe this? Eh. Jennifer should have detailed that to Architectural Digest: “This is the guest house, with oak plank floors, which my husband enjoys because this is where he sleeps when he comes for a visit once every two months.” I mean… surely there was a guest bedroom in that Bel Air mansion? In any case, yeah… once again, this marriage was on its last leg as far back as last summer.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Recently Separated Couple Spent Final Months of Relationship Sleeping Separately….shocker.
Sorry but after reading all the news about them in the last couple of days I believe this was nothing more but a sham relationship/marriage.
ditto. they never were a match at all. she was maybe tired of being seen as the poor girl who no one wanted
@Adriana I wholeheartedly agree with you. This was obviously a sham marriage and just a business arrangement with mutual benefits for both of them. And it simply ran it’s course. Shame to them both!
Totally agree-faux romance/marriage
Uh… that is freakin’ weird. They were barely in the same town and when they were he couldn’t be near her in the house? Either this was always totally contractual or her people are really literally trying to distance her from something he was involved in. Total speculation: maybe one of the tabloids is sitting on images of him using drugs in a home setting?
According to the blinds he is a drug addict and habitual cheater from the gate.
Lol it’s very bizarre. They’re painting a picture not even of two people fighting, just two people who didn’t interact at all.
Don’t ANYONE FORGET…he’s artsy fartsy edgy wedgy. AFEW people art in guest houses.
Because I love Celebitchy I will keep on clicking on these stories but ENOUGH. Their divorce narrative is getting out of control and no one believes Justin is that edgy.
I know, right? If people knew some of what goes on in my marriage, they’d probably be so judgy. Yet my marriage isn’t a sham or a business arrangement, it’s just tough sometimes. Thank goodness mine isn’t reported on excessively and exhaustively, or at all really. I can’t imagine.
Thanks for saying that. Marriage is hard for so many people and not just because of drugs, cheating, etc. Just living with someone everyday and sharing household power with them.
Please he is such a poser. He grew up in an affluent family. His father was an attorney and I think his mother used to write for Parent Magazine or was an editor. You could say he had more money than Jenn did while he was growing up. No he is not as “edgy” as he wants to be.
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if this was just a PR relationship. It helped him with his career and she wasn’t lonely, poor Jen anymore.
So, actually everything many Celebitches wrote in the last few months on the weirdness of their relationship, the fact that they were never on the same coast or alone (remember the group honeymoon?), their body language that screams more buddies than lovers was… 100% true.
Ohhhhhhhh so Jen’s neediness pushed Justedge over the erhm edge?
I’ll show myself out.
LOL. It’s wrong and bad of me to get so much glee from this ridiculous marriage/divorce. He’s edgy cuz he has black hair and a motor sicle. and he writes and strums his geetar in the back yard (snaps fingers instead of clapping)
Lol! 😅
Yay! You used Justedge, I’m so pleased 🙂
thanks for the laff, Alexandra!
Sounds like he was her beard.
I’ve always thought that he was her beard. She had Chelsea Handler living with her and it was said that she was the one in the guest house. Seems that the opposite is true.
There was a blind item few years ago. Not sure how much is true – it was the time when Jen and Justin had some problems. The blind said that one day Justin and Chelsea got drunk together, one thing led to another and they hooked up. Don’t remember what was said in the blind how Jen found out, but apparently she was mad at both of them and her friendship with Chelsea cooled off. However it did say that she forgave Justin in the end to keep up appearances. The story got stuck in my head because I thought it was just too funny!
When was Handler living with her? I can’t find ANYTHING relating to that.
Perhaps, she was his merkin?
LOL, this might be my favorite comment of the day.
She’s not gay, just a hardcore narcissist. Such as you find when you throw a rock in her circles. The kind that gets turned on by how turned on others are by them and can’t form genuine (such as empathetic) connections with others because it’s always about them.
Not a fan of the Lord of Hot Topic, but I can imagine whatever Theroux’s needs or wants became totally irrelevant in the relationship after the bloom was off the rose.
She gave him well enough time for his career to take off and it didn’t. ‘Girl on the Train’ and ‘The Leftovers’ were supposed to put him on the map and didn’t. He ill advisedly took a fun cameo in “Star Wars” when his visibility isn’t there yet for the gag to work.
Can’t imagine she was at all pleased when #MeToo roared and Terry Richardson, Theroux’s BFF, was finally blacklisted from all his major employers, like Conde Nast.
Theroux should have renounced Richardson then and there. Instead, he clung stubbornly to his NY scene.
Can’t imagine she was thrilled when Theroux was called out by his neighbor for being a bad dog owner.
Very bad optics, considering Jen is a dog whisperer.
To a power player like Jen, Theroux had a shot at the big leagues under her aegis and he blew it.
So she’s shedding him like one of his Edgelord jackets and moving on.
Time will tell if CAA and JA’s manager retain him.
He’s already canceling appearances and was seen fleeing NY in an SUV stuffed with possessions.
Huvane still has not denied or corrected the rumors of the non-existent marriage license. If it was a confidential marriage, somebody from her camp would have said.
Instead, the pablum coming from her side of the camp is that JT was head over heels in love with Jen and would always be. That sets her up to be the one that got away, the unforgettable one that JT will never get over. Sound familiar? Same line was used after the Mayer break up. Part of the “Beautiful Jennifer Aniston” branding.
If JT manages to wrest any part of the break up narrative from the Aniston PR machine, I say good for him, only because Hollyweird mudslinging is entertaining.
(And it’s only entertaining because clearly there’s no real love lost here.)
In the end, I doubt his acting career will be salvageable.
She will make sure of that if he continues to leak.
She will use this break up and her stoic recovery to good advantage, to help promote the Apple show and Smart Water and Aveeno and whatever else. We aren’t going to see post Pitt tears and a broken heart, this time, but a determined and fully independent woman who doesn’t need a man to make her happy.
All pure speculation, of course, but this is a gossip site after all.
Interesting take.
I agree with most of this but I don’t think he’ll take any big career hit.
@minx, yes, pure speculation on my part. His career will depend on the health of his networks and relationships. The problem is he has established he hates Hollywood, and is a bit of an iconoclast, but he doesn’t have near enough star power to get away with biting the hand that feeds him. My fantasy is that he pulls a Louis Theroux and exposes all he’s learned from being an insider. I would no longer poke fun at his edginess if he did that because that would be a real punk move. 🙂
Very plausible. *nodding*
I have thought Jen was gay for years, and kept my thoughts to myself. Who has CH living anywhere with them? CH is not funny at all & a racist. Jen is Not the girl next door.
I have been saying this from the very beginning. This was just a business deal relationship that now has run it course.
What an odd relationship. She had him living in the shed. Did she at least let him in the house for special occasions? 😉
Can we quit with the ill-fitting suit jackets and skinny black ties, please? Thank you.
I think they faked it to appease the public and because Brad moved on with Angelina, started a family, got married and never looked back.
Don’t forget about what John Mayer did to her. Getting dumped twice by the same guy wasn’t a good look.
That is what made me question her judgment. To go back to him after he smack talked her publicly was sheer stupidity.
So true. Seems she was so desperate to married this edgy artsy jort wearing bloke
Jort….I just love that word.
Justin is so eager to paint her as drab and needy and unbelievable. Its almost as if he’s trying to control public narrative on her before she drops domes major dirt on why it ended or why they fell apart. I wonder if all of his countless reminders of being “edgy” is an act of defence again something that’s to come.
Anyway, I see things differently from most people. I never believed in this marriage in that I think he used her and the poor Jen persona to get himself ahead. I think he proposed to her knowing she would see this as a possibility to stop the “poor Jen” thing and maybe even actually make it work. But of course it couldn’t.
I think he has had a plan from the start and stupidly she played into it thinking it might turn out for the better. Its like the “she’s marrying me for a green card but I think this might actually turn into something” narrative.
For her sake I’m glad he’s gone. I don’t know how any woman can stand his “forever young” mentality when he very clearly isn’t. Whatever he’s doing to his face and hair to progress that illusion needs to stop, its a terrible look.
I do remember the number he did to his ex Heidi. Together for 14 years and nothing.
Many of the men she dated have said she is boring. Boring. Boring. Stuck in the 90s. Boring. He isn’t the first, likely won’t be the last. Some spin the idea that her life is wonderful, but if you’ve been in therapy for 30 years? You have issues. Whatever veneer is put on top (the veneer that earns her money), it remains a veneer. Cracks under heat and pressure.
She has Huvane the Huckster spinning for her, keeping the Poor Jen narrative alive because it keeps the minivan majority buying her water and eye drops. If she wanted to change the narrative, she’d direct her employee Huvane to change it. She benefits financially from the spin, so it continues.
These two had a relationship, both got PR benefit from it, now it is over. It isn’t all the fault of one party or the other.
But didn’t John Mayer intimate that Jennifer was dull and needy as well?
It’s kinda interesting that Huvane says nothing to the rumors that they’re maybe not legally married.
I think it was a legal marriage, just a strange one. In California, they have a Confidential Marriage, which means the license is not publicly available or recorded with the county clerk. Plus, you can get a license in any County, not just the one you live in. So they could have gone to Santa Barbara County for example, to get their license which could be why L.A. County doesn’t have a record of it.
But since the rumor has been out there for the past 3 days, you would think that her publicist would have put it to rest by producing a copy of the certificate by now. Anyway you want to look at it, it’s a PR disaster.
I think that the day that one of the two of them file for divorce, that rumour will be put to rest. Dancing to the tune of a gossip website is for rank amateurs.
Why? It’s not like a rumor being out there is going to affect the legal reality.
What’s weird is that her team seems to be taking a hands off approach to any PR. Every article that’s come out so far seems to be sourced from his friends. Even legit outlets are reporting that his friends are the ones who are talking, not hers.
https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/jennifer-aniston-justin-theroux-break-up-gossip.html
Maybe she’s just going to let him hang himself. He’s going with the “best defense is a good offense” approach and she’s just letting him fight himself on the field.
KBB, especially after her last high profile break up…maybe she’s just going to keep her camp/team quiet this time.
There’re others sources saying there’s not a guest house in Jennifer property, lo other information but no one knows what happened
For all the people calling it a sham marriage/fake relationship, if it were that, it wouldn’t have ended like this, with his sources running to every outlet to say he dumped her or that he had reservations about getting married. Huvane would have never allowed something like that. A PR relationship would have ended with better PR.
If Theroux was using her to advance his career, he’s going to amazed to find out how quickly that career can end up right back where it started. CAA is pretty powerful in that respect.
I think it was real, but they just grew apart because they like different coasts and couldn’t make that work in the end. Also, according some other outlets the house doesn’t even have a guest house.
I agree with you, a voice of reason. There doesn’t always have to be an elaborate scenario why they married and why they split. Sometimes it can be as simple as it is, East Coast, West Coast, but that is not salacious enough to keep those looking for more satisfied.
Thank you. There’s a lot of thinly-veiled misogyny on this thread.
Oh and also quite a ton of outright misogyny too. What in the world is provoking this level of vitriol over a divorce of two people you’ve never met?
It really feels like Theroux is trying to gaslight her. And there will be people on gossips sites who will happily cheer him on. All because she dared to have a publicist just like every other famous person in Hollywood.
@ArtShark he is definitely up to something nefarious. I have a few theories but no one really knows what goes on behind closed doors. He may actually be like the character he played on SATC.
It’s so odd to me the people who think JA and her life are so boring… if I find someone a snooze fest, I don’t read stories about them or comment on them. There’s something more to it than that.
Jennifer Aniston doesn’t have the power to destroy his career. If she had that kind of power she would be getting more choice roles as well as being able to get movies and such green lit on her name alone. And that show with Reese was about Reese’s power. Theroux has had way more acting opportunities than Aniston. His career will be just fine. He was never expected to be some big leading man. But he will do character parts. If he is good he will get hired again.
Think it was always more a PR relationship. I think they generally cared for one another but they enormously benefited from it being a Relationship/Marriage. I still truly think she bought her own engagement ring. My first thought at the time, now definitely think she bought the ring.
I remember that people joked back then that Jennifer had to buy her own engagement ring.
Lmao. I will never forget that gaudy, cloudy ring she bought herself.
Jen likes simple jewelry. That ring was never bought by her because she didn’t like it. She even said pretty much it wasn’t what she would usually wear. Jen has better taste than that ring. That’s a Justin move giving her that cheap-looking, gaudy ring. No taste. All he saw was big, so thought it would impress.
Jayna, all she cared about was the stone had to be bigger than Angie’s. She got her wish. It looked like something from a gumball machine but hey, it was bigger.
She’d have bought herself a much nicer diamond. Her ring has “hipster going for something not so mainstream” written all over it. If she wants to have it recut so it doesn’t have that great big window that makes it look dead, I could pass along a couple of recommendations.
Hipster dude didn’t do his homework on that one. He went size and colour and ignored the most important… cut. Plus, it looks “cloudy” because it probably has strong fluorescence in daylight. You get a big discount on badly cut diamonds with strong fluorescence.
Hipster = pretentious poverty. LMAO
He ignored Clarity also, which is even more important than Cut. That stone looked like a big piece of cheap quartz.
@Carmen: Strong to very strong fluorescence will make a diamond look hazy in daylight. What I’m seeing in pictures is that effect. The “looks like a piece of quartz” thing is the crappy cut. The only thing a diamond (unless it’s a coloured diamond) really has going for it is it’s ability to throw light around. And the for that is completely wasted when it’s cut badly because it ends up looking like a piece of glass or as you say, quartz.
The funny thing is that he clearly had bought into the “has to be a diamond” marketing BS. It obviously never occured to Mr. Hipster-I-want-to-be-edgy-and-different that there are other way more interesting/funky/cool gemstones that would have been suitable for an engagement ring, beautiful and well within his price range for a perfect stone, if only his thinking hadn’t been so mainstream. Instead, he seems to have gone the jewellery store equivalent of dumpster diving for what everybody has been conditioned to think “what an engagement ring needs to be”.
Oh my goodness gracious, after that gorgeous rock Brad gave Angie, do you think Aniston would have settled for anything BUT a diamond? If Justin had given her an emerald (my choice) or a sapphire, she would have frog-marched him back to the store and made him exchange it.
@CARMEN: Lol… if Aniston was using Jolie’s ring as a benchmark, she’d have frog marched him back into the store anyways. I don’t much like Jolie’s ring either though, Pitt went all “I’m a designer” on it and had what are very high quality diamonds cut to angles that don’t do the stones justice either.
Emeralds, sadly most are too fragile for everyday wear in an engagement ring. But if someone is really not “mainstream” (as opposed to being fake not mainstream), there are a whole bunch of choices of coloured gems that are beautiful, that can be cut as cabochons (you get more size for your $ with those) and that anyone who is a bit of a gemstone connoisseur will recognize for what it is. The “has to be a diamond” people won’t, but isn’t being “edgy and artsy” all about expressing yourself and not caring what other people think? In my personal opinion, big diamonds are to impress other people.
No doubt they both have their faults but I don’t understand why Justin is painted as a big villain. Why?
Jenn will always be the poor victim thanks to her great PR manager Huvane. A woman who was betrayed by “heartless B & A” is never at fault – this will be her forever image.
Even Debbie Reynolds got over it. Sheesh!
Debbie Reynolds was never such a drama queen as JA.
… and Debbie Reynolds had kids.
Good question. For some reason, some people can never see JA as responsible for anything. That “poor dumped Jen” persona has clung to her for all these years. Sorry, she knew what this guy was like, whether it was a fake relationship or not. He didn’t just become a douche a week ago.
I don’t really see him as being painted as a villain other than by some commenters. Most of the articles are sort of blaming her for not spending more time in NY and calling her life in LA shallow.
He’s not a villain. There’s a lot of responses about him and snark because his team and friends keep leaking things to puff himself up as the too-cool, deep-thinking hipster that he is, too hip for Hollywood. Jen is basically staying quiet.
I really don’t think one is to blame more than the other. It’s just too easy to snark on Justin’s leaks about himself.
Jen is basically staying quiet hoping nobody asks inconvenient questions about her possibly nonexistent marriage license.
@Carmen. Why would Aniston have to answer any questions if her friends were leaking? Theroux doesn’t have to answer any questions right now either. He’s just sending his friends out to gaslight her.
I’m torn. While I see the need for a PR relationship, Howard and Beth Stern were pretty tight w them and he talked of their double dates/vacations as if it was a legit relationship, and Howard is definitely not the guy to front for a fake relationship.
Also—in the past couple of months, Beth and Howard fostered acouple of bonded kittens and a named them Jennifer and Justin and there was even an IG pic of the real Justin w the cat.
I tell this story because I think if they were faking it, they faked it for A LOT of people, not just out of the scene middle America tabloid readers.
I don’t know that I would say “fake” so much as “being together for multiple reasons”.
A sane person doesn’t think this was a fake relationship.
Uncle Terry. That is all I need to know.
Besties for years with racist Chelsea Handler. That is all I need to know.
They haven’t been friends in a while. When Chelsea’s career started nosediving she lost her CAA setup friendships.
Doesn’t matter when it ended. She was right there in the midst of racist Handler going after other people’s children, because it benefited her Poor Jen brand.
What annoys me is that Jenn is always the victim, every time it’s the guys fault that the relationship didn’t last. I bet that Jenn is a handful and she demands that the guy is with her all the time watching her do yoga, lie at the pool,…
I don’t see how anyone thinks she’s playing the victim here. She made one very neutral statement. And then we get treated to a cascade of whiny man-child pieces that are poorly disguised attempts at mansplaining how Mr. Edgy-Aging-Hipster is so above it all.
He should just keep his mouth shut and retain some semblance of not being a douchebag.
All of the quotes we’ve gotten in the last few days are coming from his people. There’s another one that was just posted on Entertainment Tonight’s site about how he’s going to lay low now after split. LOL. It seems to me that she is the one laying low while he’s blabbing all over town.
I think she learned her lesson. Don’t do these interviews about “crying to the ocean”.. “pity parties”.. but then that was all for Brad Pitt. I don’t think she will do that this time. She couldn’t handle another 10+ years of that.
Don’t worry guys, Jennifer will find another man who she can marry when one of the Brangelina kids celebrates its birthday.
I’m sure she’s got them all loaded into her calendar.
So he gets the skull rings and she keeps the quartz? Getting with someone who is still living with his girlfriend (although allegedly he tasked his neighbor to do the dirty work)is the mother of all red flags if you are looking for a stable life partner.And that’s a big if.
This breakup is a snoozefest
That’s what I was thinking. Compared to the Ben Affleck mess, all of this seems kind of tame — two incompatible people who split and don’t have to speak to each other ever again since they don’t have kids.
The only interesting part is the money issue.
wow. I think some of you guys need to get away from the computer.
it’s one thing to pop on here and read a few articles and comment…but wow. You’d think some of you are personally invested in this relationship.
I especially love some of the folks who think there is something to the the fact that they married on Maddox’s birthday. That is some next level conspiracy wackiness.
Maybe Theroux’s parents intentionally made sure he was born that same week so that 44 years later he could try to upstage the kid’s birthday. LOL
Yup! We need to know when Aniston’s dogs and chickens were born because surely Ms. Jolie filed for divorce on some important date in Aniston’s life too! #TheTriangleIsDeadPeople!
LOL I have to agree. You guys know I like Angie and loathe Aniston, but saying she deliberately planned her wedding — fake or not — on Angie’s son’s birthday is way out there in the stratosphere.
I think that is exactly something Jennifer would do. Because yes she is “complicated”.
Not a sham marriage but a marriage rushed into for a lot of terrible reasons and doomed from the beginning.
Yes. Not a sham, and unfortunately the way so many marriages start and end. Couples who rush for the wrong reasons to get married don’t put in any effort to save the relationship because it was never even worth it to either of them
Agree. They should have just shacked up until they realized they were too far apart on every level to make it work.
Maybe Theroux’s a great guy who just happens to be afflicted with a severe case of resting bitch face, but he always looks so over it all in his photos. I hope life’s more engaging & fun for him than his facial expressions would indicate.
Resting Edge Face.
My god, if he really loved and respected her, he should just shut up and tell his friends to shut up. This was his mistake as much as hers. If this is edgy, I’ll take smooth.
Preemptive strike from Justin. Jen’s persona and PR prowess are huge as compared to Justin’s. So I kind of understand the situation but what I don’t understands is the seemingly lack of reaction from Jen’s camp. Her management team must be in full damage control mode but still no word? That I know of, at least. The more time it takes for them to react, more time for Justin’s camp to lead the narrative. Just wait for the divorce, should it happen.
It’s the “give him enough rope and he’ll hang himself” tactic.
Theroux might be leading the narrative, but looking like he’s gas lighting her is not a good look for him. That look won’t get any better for him if he rolls out a 25 year old girlfriend.
Maybe they’re still looking for the marriage certificate. The PR consequences if it turned out there never was a marriage certificate could be devastating.
But my dear the guest house was actually JT’s studio! Where he could make a art!
Also, how bad is Justin Theroux’s guitar playing? His New York neighbor is suing him and his wife has him living in the guest house.
Maybe “Guesthouse” is a euphemism for “Doghouse”?
Old proverb says, Wife who put hubby in dog house soon find him in cat house.
He’s kind of orange. I think his hair would work fine if he didn’t use the spray tan.
Isn’t he now slightly older to be considered edgy? I associate that word with 22 -30 year olds.
Don’t know what it is but she kinda annoys me. I don’t t think she is a sweetheart, it’s just the image her PR team managed to create.
Loli
Not sure what happened there. I meant to say Lol, I have always believed that their ‘marriage’ was for PR because of the Brangelina marriage. Now Brangelina are no longer a thing, Aniston didn’t need to remain married.
Spill it Justin. Spill it all. Just say it! Your relationship was based off of the fact that y’all wanted to play a game. I’m loving this. Justin don’t care. He’s going to let it all out.
I believe it is possible that Jen’s camp is putting out all these quotes about Justin being edgy and hating her Hollywood friends. What better way to cut him off from that crowd?
Looking at pics of them, they always seemed to mismatched and he ALWAYS seemed disengaged, checked out and looking away from her.