Yesterday we ran a story about some convoluted and frankly dumb comments that Jennifer Aniston made on the red carpet in response to the mini-scandal over Bill O’Reilly disagreeing with a statement she made on single motherhood. I worded the title kind of vaguely, though, and I think a lot of people assumed the story was old as it didn’t get a lot of comments. (As would a story that was titled, say “Aniston makes dumb rambling comments about Bill O’Reilly,” which is basically what she did. I didn’t want people to yell at me though.)
Last night Aniston was on Chelsea Lately. Handler is a buddy of Aniston’s and I’ve noticed that whenever she’s interviewed by someone she knows and/or is comfortable with she does fine and just rolls with the punches. Otherwise she can give kind of halting interviews. She had a lot of fun with Chelsea and together they discussed some of the silly recent rumors we’ve heard about Aniston from the tabloids. I’ve included links to the stories they’re covering in the quoted text below. (Handler’s quotes are in bold.)
You’ve been pregnant like 8 or 9 times this year [in the tabloids]
I think the best was ‘Yes comma, I am having a baby’ [Ed note: that was in OK! and it was an exclamation point not a comma]You go out to dinner with somebody and then you’re penetrating, or then like you had your trainer living with you so then you’re a lesbian.
Hey that was an original one at least.So your trainer was living with you?
No!Because my pilates trainer lives with me and everytime somebody makes fun of me I go ‘Jennifer Aniston lives with her trainer.”
No! That’s sweet!…Then there was a story about us, that we go work out together at Crunch in West Hollywood, then we have “vodka fueled” fiestas
[Laughs] Why don’t we ever do that?We will.
Yes, we were going to go out on the town and you decided we were going to go find men togetherWe were going to go out together and then you blew me off saying you were on a set in Hawaii filming a movie…
What, no “reunion” or “back in touch with Brad” stories? Those are probably bunk too. Aniston also explained how she created her self-named perfume. She said she worked with professionals and smelled different scents for hours at a time until “you’re high as a kite.” When Chelsea asked if Jennifer brought anything in as examples of smells she liked, she said “yeah, I brought like a candle, and a hair serum and a lotion.”
“Cause I read in a magazine you brought a dirty sneaker.”
“Who wrote that is stupid.”
It was a fun interview and I enjoy Aniston when she’s just chatting and isn’t trying to explain some point that’s lost to her. It’s not surprising to hear that so many of the stories about her are false. She only bothers to debunk them when someone asks her or her publicist, but at least she isn’t on Twitter telling us her every move like some celebrities.
The Switch is out this weekend.
In other Aniston news, Kaiser pointed me to these very busted-looking photos of Aniston [via D-Listed], said to be her unretouched Bazaar shoot. She’s normally very pretty, but this light just makes her look awful. I’ll say something nice – she’s not Botoxed to hell at least.
Update: Here are some photos of Aniston outside Good Morning America today. Credit: Fame Pictures
Video via ONTD
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oh, those wedges. those wedges. 🙁
O-M-G…I can’t stand Chelesa Lately so I am not gonna watch that clip. I hope Lately forever stays on E!, hate that skank.
OMG Those busted ass pictures are busted as hell OMG!!!!!! I never thought Jen was that fugly. I mean really!?!??! As busted as I have seen her look I never knew to what extent they retouched her or how makeup saves her. OMG. Jen does look decent in the first pic but damn its like a trainwreck from there. Damn. LOL OMG MK kills me with his description of one of Anistons pic. Jen kinda does look like a junkie in that one shot where she is looking at the camera. LOL
I love her.
I can’t help it – I just love her.
Men, men, men, manly men…..
I thought she sounded drunk last night on Chelsea Lately, and I also think she may have turned a corner in her looks- both last night and in the trailers for her new movie, she looks rough. Her body is still as awesome as ever though.
She is noticeably looser with interviewers she’s more comfortable with.
Those pics are not good, but just another example of how re-touched ads are.
She’s adorable and seems like a fun person to have as a friend. As far as the “busted” photos go, they’re not that bad. Who hasn’t taken an unflattering shot?
sigh, when she isn’t botoxed to hell she looks rough, when she gets some she looks frozen and unnatural…sigh, there is no winning with the celeb blogs.
wait, those are ‘busted’ shots? Man, if only I could look that pretty scrunching up my face on the beach.
Also, thank god it seems like her face actually has lines on it. And she can move it around. Seems as if she’s laid of the ‘tox.
I love, love, love that blue dress she is wearing!! I love the color so much, it is just great!! Wonder where I could get one for myself.
The charm fades after a while. She’s just getting older and there’s nothing new.
Maybe she and Grampy George Clooney could get together and tour with a vaudeville act. Or do Mame.
I love that her face is natural, and while looking sorta busted to us because we primarily see celebs looking impeccable, I kinda like seeing them looking unretouched and just themelves all the way. Even if it is Anniston.
I like Jen. And I agree with joes and aenflex. Everyone has had bad pics taken. To be honest, if I had perfect makeup and lighting, I’d look great in pics too but I don’t so I look lousy! lol
Aniston certainly doesn’t look any worse in those photos than any other 40-year-old I know. In fact, it’s a nice reminder — for me, anyway — that she doesn’t look any BETTER than any other 40-year-old, either! Just goes to show what expert make-up, professional lighting, and photoshop really do for someone.
photoshopping and botox do wonders
Her movie comes out on Friday and I’m wondering how well it will do because the other three new movies look like crap!! If an Aniston movie doesn’t do well against this crap then there is no hope for her. I’m really interested to see what happens, not to laugh or point fingers or anything but just to judge what her career is like at the moment. Of course, along with the crap will be the holdover movies like “Expendables” and “Eat Pray Love” to contend with. So, it should be interesting box office this weekend.
I thought JA sounded drunk last night on Chelsea. She sounded kinda like she was slurring her words. Ok maybe drunk is a bit dramatic. A bit buzzed, perhaps.
I thought it was sort of cute when she made that comment about “I don’t look like that in Cabo”. It seemed to me that she was acknowledging the fact that she gets ‘shopped. That feels really down to earth to me. But then I am a big fan so I could just be hoping that’s what she meant and not that the backdrop was shopped. 🙂
She may have been a little tipsy, but she was cute and funny. No harm there.
I don’t find her at all busted. She looks happy and vibrant.
I’m so sick of this whining from her.
She’s a horrible actress who is wildly famous and wickedly rich and all she does is whine about all the tabloid coverage of her life.
The reason all these interviews focus around all this noise is so that they can avoid talking about her terrible movies.
STFU ALREADY you stupid privileged bitch.
She is soo unfortunant looking, not ageing well at all, she looks to be 55 years old,, and god, the woman will do anything for attention
Jen kinda does look like a junkie in that one shot where she is looking at the camera. LOL
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I must agree, she really ruined herself with all the boozing and drugs
I love Chelsea-I’ve read all her books and I was laughing so hard, I had people coming up to me on the beach trying to figure out that I was reading so they could go get it.
I like JA, people hate her so much, I don’t see why. SHE’s not the one whining about her ex and his new piece or the media. People ask her a question and she answers it to be polite, then everyone goes crazy telling her to move on or get over it. She seems like a laid back fun person. She’s an actress, not curing cancer. I don’t expect her to be super intelligent-just like I wouldn’t expect that from any celebrity.
@mslewis apparantley her movie is supposed to open very low barely making into the top 10 due to distribution problems.
Wasn’t Love Angelina kicked off Dlisted? I didn’t even realize that was possible until I heard about her banishment. I mean, one would have to take crazy to a new level to be to be chased off that site. Don’t get me wrong, I love MK, but damn.
@ Majosha
LOL!!! @ the term banishment.
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@ Majosha: Seriously?? How in the hell DO you get kicked off that site? I never comment on there because some of those commenters are a little mental. This is the only site I comment on because it has good mediators and I like the regulars.
Angelina and Jenny fans are alittle touched, a little extreme but less frightening than the one in five Americans who think Obama is a Muslim..now that’s just wacked..
I’m a 24-yr-old female African. i live in a country called Ghana in West Africa. I like both Jennifer and Angie. they’re both beautiful in their own ways. i saw Tomb Raider when i was 15 yrs and I’ve seen many episodes of Friends. if the Media aka. Tabloids and the Blogosphere tried NOT to constantly compare these two women because of ONE man, i reckon they would go broke due to poor tab sales and low internet hits. so let’s just call the AJ/BP/JA triangle what it is and what it’s not… a money-making machine not a real life drama. Love Angelina and denise, try not to get too worked up, hating one of them cos you love the other. truth be told, i’m glad they’re still relevant in this reality-starlet-15-min-famewhore era. Here’s looking at you, Snooki!
oh, come on, she doesn’t look that bad.
“awful” and “busted” are pushing it a bit. of course the end result is photoshopped to death, but you see the pap pics from her latest movie and she doesn’t look bad, even without the photoshop.
she’s just making funny faces in a couple of those pictures (on the ONTD site) which is why she looks bad. the bottom one where she’s just looking at the camera is fine.
“SHE’s not the one whining about her ex and his new piece or the media. People ask her a question and she answers it to be polite, then everyone goes crazy telling her to move on or get over it.”
exactly, Eileen. she’s not “whining” in this interview. Handler is asking her questions and she’s answering them.
I love those untouched pics of Jen at the beach. I’m 44, and they make you realize just how much p-shopping goes on. Plus, she has zits! And wrinkles! And rough looking hair! Angelina would shank a bitch if ones of her looking like that got out. Roll with it, Jen.
I don’t really follow Aniston so I don’t get why she’s so unlikeable, the interviews I have seen her in she’s pretty animated and down to earth. She doesn’t sound pretentious or anything. And those photos I find strange because in her interviews her lines are not deeply etched, those photos it looks like someone re-touched them to make her lines ridiculously deeply etched when they are not.
Good post, Sakyiwaah!
Eileen, I liked Chelsea’s books too, they’re pretty funny. I watch her show fairly often too, but more for the other comedians she has on with her – Ross is my favorite, I think he’s hilarious.
@sakyiwaah – incredibly intelligent comment. Both women are beautiful, likeable and unique and have their place in hollywood.
@ lucy2:
Oh yeah I record every show and watch them the next day if I can’t watch that night. I LOVE Ross and Joe Coy.
I usually don’t watch award shows anymore-but I may have to make and exception for her hosting the MTV VMA’s. That should be interesting!
I think Jen looks great-sure her face is getting a bit older looking but she is 41 right? Her body is still amazing-like how many ordinary forty somethings can get away with white slim cut jeans?
I don’t understand the hate for her-sure she might very well be needy with men or whatever but jeez, give her a break..seems to me like a lot of the hate for her is just jealousy!
the untouched photos: she looks okay.
you can tell it’s bad lighting, and instead of ‘windswept hair’-it looks like bedhead or dirty-so that part didn’t work out so well for them! lol.
I WILL say: 4 things that WILL make your skin leathery/tough coating looking [almost like the collagen layer underneath the surface is a huge gap…
are:
coffee
cigs
sun
alcohol
Sooner or later, it DOES catch up with you.
My skin started to get that leathery look like Jen’s is,a nd I dropped coffee and alcohol [which i had done more regularly in the last several yeras, but prior did not do either much].
I don’t get much direct sun b/c i’m too fair to handle it, and i’ve never smoked [i’m 40 yrs old and look anywhere from late 20’s to early/mid thirties]…HUGE difference in my skin almost overnight w/o the coffee and alcohol.
I’m just sayin-for most people,it may not be worth the trade off, but for me it was. I just feel better and want to look better.
Also, like I said, my age looks vary depending on the day-i’m sure it’s the same with JA.
I think she looks great and no botox; but skin is getting leathery looking for real-so diet changes are in order to change that. Okay, this was a long post w/o much substance. sorry.
those photos aren’t that bad. she was at the beach – who among us doesn’t have squinchy faced photos at the beach? she should lay off the tanning & smoking, though, because it is starting to tell on her face.
It bums me out that Jen is friends with Handler the hypocrite.
No really- its true. I know i am stuck on hypocrisy today, but you don’t get to make money being judgmental and gossiping about people who do playboy spreads and then do one yourself.
Jen looks like a normal, healthy 41 year old woman. In contrast, Chelsea claims to be 35 or 36, but she looks much older than Jen.
Jen did seem a bit tipsy in the interview.
Oh SNAP-did you notice that right before JA went on with Chelsea Lately, Chelsea called Angelina evil? It was her last story with the comedian table. That was interesting.
totally would love to go out to partay with those two. . .they seem like a couple fun chicks to hang out with.
Busted? She’s scrunched up her face, in fading light, looking down at the camera with her lips pursed and her hair falling forward. Busted? How? I’m trying to figure out who’d have porcelain skin, glowing eyes and smooth hair under those circumstances. She’s 41, a self-avowed tanner and smoker. What’s busted about her face?
@ Majosha: Seriously?? How in the hell DO you get kicked off that site? I never comment on there because some of those commenters are a little mental. This is the only site I comment on because it has good mediators and I like the regulars.
@Eileen: I didn’t realize it was possible, either, until LA started posting here and someone brought it up. Yikes.
@ Sakyiwaah very good comment.
I like both of these women for very different reasons. They both bring something very different on/off screen.
I don’t expect everyone to have the same opinion as me , various opinions are fine,try remember, this is a gossip website and were all passing some time and or having some fun. It’s nothing to stress over. I don’t normally comment on AJ/JA post but they both seem to get the most hits/comments and it can be quite entertaining and insightful but it can turn into a “heated” discussion not only on this site but on other as well. I enjoy reading everyones comment no matter how varied and or simular to my own they may be.
uggggggggghhhh i cannot stand chelsea lately.
Don’t you think its funny how there have been NO rumors about Jen & Chelsea going out, but Chelsea tries to weave herself in there anyway?
Chelsea is a desperate old bag. @ LOVE ANGELINA — OMG!
Yep that pic at DListed proves what she really looks like when she isn’t covered in a ton of makeup (like on the red carpet or in a movie for example). Not a pretty face at all.
And the people who are defending her (as is your right, although why do that?), well I wonder if we are looking at the same picture. 😆
I am not a big fan of Jen Aniston, but what has she done differently because I think her face looks so much better
I can’t stand Chelsea. I used to watch her a lot. Then, she made all these stupid racist jokes and I stopped.
She also trashed Maddox, using this fake Asian voice to mock him. Even one of her guests was like, “woah, that was a little racist” but she brushed it off. She also made fun of Shiloh as transgendered and lesbian, etc.
She used to make fun of them both before she became friends with Aniston. Now, she’s really nasty towards Jolie. Calling someone evil is not even a joke==she’s just being outright nasty.
I wonder why Aniston doesn’t tell her to cool it? Why does she still want to be associated with that triangle stuff?
You wonder what they talk about when they go out together. Hmmmmm . . .
Jennifer Aniston is ugly!!! She looks like a human rat, end of story!!
I find it telling that when some people in the biz make fun of Jen, they later meet her and change their tune. I read (probably online in some gossip blog :/) that Drew Barrymore used to make fun of her with her friends, then she worked with Jen and totally loved her. I don’t know. To me, Jen seems like an easy target for hatred. She doesn’t change her style. She doesn’t make excuses for herself or have random “come to Jesus” moments in her life where she’s suddenly preaching about the rain forest or whatever. She is who she is. And she’s happy. And people hate that.
Saw the pic on d-listed. She looks like a pretty lady, sans-makeup, at the beach. She’s making a sort of “are you kidding me?” face at the photographer. I don’t think it looks bad. It’s not airbrushed (as all celeb photos are), but it actually looks better than most average people put in the same situation.
P.S.–wow. d-listed is a right nasty place.