During her appearance on Oprah, Jennifer Aniston proudly showed off an Obama cake she made on election night and brought with her to a party at Courteney Cox and David Arquette’s house. It was a round cake decorated with Obama’s logo. Aniston said she made it from a Duncan Hines mix and it just took three steps. According to her boyfriend, it was even easier than she claimed because he helped but didn’t get any credit:
He says, “Jen and I made that cake together…She didn’t really give me any credit for that cake. I was the architect on that cake. I put a lot of my time in designing that cake.
“I was a good man…shared the process. From mixing to frosting…(and she) took all the credit.”
The rocker jokes that Jen’s cake claims have sent the couple to counselling.
He tells U.S. news show Extra, “There’s some trouble but we’re getting over it…We’re having therapy everyday in Brentwood…and we’re figuring this out because that was my time to shine on Oprah.”
[From Entertainment Wise]
I know he was just joking around but he seems like such a jerk to me, like he’s trying to get coverage by bringing it up and really does care that she didn’t thank him for helping. Mayer jumped on the hood of a car and spread his legs for the paps last week. As much as he tries to be funny he just ends up looking desperate a lot of the time.
This week’s Star Magazine claims that Jennifer Aniston and her best friend Courteney Cox are fighting because Courteney doesn’t approve of Mayer and “doesn’t understand what Jen sees in him.” It’s Star, so it could be totally made up, but given Mayer’s behavior you could see how there’s probably an element of truth in it.
John Mayer is shown at the Grammy Nominations on 12/3/08. Header image credit: WENN. Image below credit: PRPhotos
“he just ends up looking desperate a lot of the time” 😆 So what does Pity Party look like for going back for seconds? Oh, right. A “feminist”!
I wish that he would disappear – no talent, no class, and hopefully pretty soon no Jen (I’m praying she’ll come to her senses and find someone who deserves her)!
Actually I thought this was very funny. I didn’t see it in the least as desperate. But that is just me. The fact that they spent time baking a cake and decorating it is also very cute. I mean millions of dollars, traveling all over the world but they spend an afternoon baking and decorating together. Pretty sweet. I am not sure about John Mayer but lately have come to like him more and more. I do love his music always have. How he talked about his father and stuff in the last concert was really sweet. I know that Jen adores him and that is great. And yeah the Star is in no way reliable so I would really even quote them. The stuff that magazine comes up with is just – well crazy.
Lets see how John does. I think that he is acutally a good person who has struggled with fame and is working his way through it. THe fame thatcame when he started dating Jen was huge and at first he did not handle it well but is doing better now. I think that there is a great man in there that Jen is willing to beat on and things will go well for them. Time will tell.
and also? his cool, trendy sleeves don’t make him less of a pussy – i’m 5’2 , 110 pounds & i could kick his ass.
What’s the big deal, it’s a crappy cake 🙄
Is it just me or does anyone else see his quotes as a lame dig at Brad Pitt and his involvement with Make it Right housing?
“I was the architect on that cake. I put a lot of my time in designing that cake.”
“I was a good man…shared the process…”
Kinda like a jab at Brad for taking the credit but essentially doing nothing??
Is this just a lame attempt at a dig?
Zoe, I didn’t even think about that. You could be right about the “architect” comment – but for Dark Dick (or anyone else) to compare a Duncan Hines cake to an organization that will house 100 families is very petty. Yup, sounds like Mayer. I guess he’s Petty Party.
Zoe – I don’t think so. I think that people should probably quit trying to connect Jen and her current partner to Brad/Angie. I am sure that Brad is not on John’s mind at all. John although mnay hate him is a respected artisit who that night was nominated for 5 grammays. He has friends, his music, and now Jen. Remember he is 16 years younger than Brad and cocky. I am sure that he in no way thinks about or feels threatened by Brad. Just because someone mentions the word architect does not mean they are thinking of Brad. I am sure that you know but Brad is not an architect. John is a young man whose star is rising. This was a joke – John isn’t your run of the mill man – he has a weird sense of humor and some don’t appreciate it. But obviously Jen does so it really doesn’t matter to us. Let’s see how it goes. I do believe that when John decides to settle down he will be a good husband/father. Is Jen the one who can do it?
That cake IS crappy. Look at it! If that was my handiwork, I’d be denying all knowledge. 😯
Edit: Looks like the Quality Control Cake Patrol are out in force! 8)
With you there, Daisy! Very amateurish and kindergartenish cake. I don’t think I’d try to take credit for it, I’d probably claim the cat decorated it.
And I don’t for the life of me see how baking a cake together is a jab at Brad Pitt.
Susan, I usually don’t correct other people’s spelling or syntax errors, but I have to point out one in your first comment… “that Jen is willing to beat on” has me laughing pretty hard. If anyone is defending a woman who people at times refer to as “Maniston” perhaps her fans could take special precautions from making her sound like she beats off. 😆
Keep trying to stay relevent.
@Kaiser – 😆
@Daisy – yep, it’s an offshoot of the BADettes organization, we make sure all cakes are professional quality.
Come on Zoe & Kaiser! I know you’re hardcore for the Brange but to link any of John’s comments to Brad… eh, you’re stretching now! And I think John isn’t so much desperate for attention as he is just playing with his surroundings. I have a couple of his live concert CDs and he does the same thing with the crowd. It’s probably just part of his personality to make wry jokes and comments, tease, play, kid around, etc. It sucks that his jokes don’t translate into writing (seriously! haha!) but I get how that could happen. The Brangie/Aniston war is over… may we all lay down our weapons and part ways now??
Yes you guys are quite something. THe spelling thing was well – bad. Wondering though why when Brad had a post yesterday hardly anyone posted it was just boring. I personally didn’t because well Brad just is not that interesting to me anymore. But you guys are such fans. I know why. Jen is actually way more interesting. If Jen had not been in the picture no one would have really cared less about Brad/Angie. This is obvious because the more they move aways from each other. i.e. Jen with JOhn and her new interviews so many posts all over. But just Brad/Angie posts about them and their family (nothing to do with Jen) no one cares about anymore. Very interesting. You guys could not stop posting on Jen if your life depended on it. She is really an interesting person. Regardless of what she does she brings with her alot of talk.
😀 Kaiser, laughing along with you 😀
Can’t cook or act in films, she must be good at something ❓
Syko, I would rather stick needles in my eyes than bake, but shit even I could do better than that, dear god.
Susan, you are so wrong, I’m not even going to go into it all.
I’m not a fan of ANY of these people. But if I had to be a fan of one, it’d be Angelina, with Jennifer running somewhere between Mr. Rogers and Gumby.
Courtney Cox doesn’t approve? I remember when she hooked up with David Arquette, I surely didn’t get that one either and didn’t see “what she saw in him”. But, he turned out to be a pretty good husband and father, from all accounts. Time will tell with Mayer.
Ech, those tat sleeves!
Is this seriously what the world is coming to? A tussle over an ugly ass fracking cake makes headlines? Jesus wept….
No but really? That tat sleeve under a t-shirt???
This is just such a ridiculous story, I can’t even believe I’ve made two posts on it.
I need to go and read some Nietzsche 😕
Haha – too funny that Mayer feels the need to publicly point out the cake was his idea! They both are so insecure and narcissistic, they deserve each other and nothing more.
nah, he’s joking all right, it’s just a lame kind of joke.
And I still think his “architect” comments are a litte swipe at Brad.
Seems like the kind of “inside” joke he and JA would get a kick out of.
Yeah…that was a joke.
Are you familiar with the term? It’s what people do when they take time off from being sanctimonious. Part of this particular joke is that the cake is not very well-made. And also that it’s silly to talk about poorly-made Obama cakes in the first place. Self-deprecating humor. A few of you might want to take some notes.
Member of neither “team”. Still think he’s a major tool.
What happened to him shutting up this time? Famewhore.
As for JA taking him back reminds of an 80ish self help book — Smart women, foolish choices.
Daisy – 😆 What *is* she good at? Ummm… talking about her hair? Sunbathing? Eating chicken salad?
WOW..you Brangie fans are ridiculous..you should stay on JJ, they love you over there…Jen is living her life, she can choose to be with whoever she wants..Shes a beautiful woman, and if she loves John, so what???You guys make such a big deal out of everything related to Jennifer. Get a life
“One mile to every inch of
Your skin like porcelain
One pair of candy lips and
Your bubblegum tongue”
😯 Those are the stellar lyrics from John Mayer’s fantastic work of art– “Your Body Is a Wonderland”.
Grammys don’t mean ANYTHING, Susan.
By the way, I’m for neither couple. Not a fan of any one of them. But John Mayer is extra awful in many different ways.
MB Travis – Oh dear. You might need to take a few humour notes yourself. I think we all managed to get that it was a joke.
We just find the cake, crappy as it is, more entertaining and interesting to talk about than the cake-makers.
John Mayer is a respected artist? On what planet? 😯
he is such an attention whore
pathetic
It’s very wholesome that Jen-John has gotten into cake baking. John has a whole bunch of cake photos on his website now. Sounds like they are having a lot of fun with it.
Mayer has a weird sense of humor that I like. He would qualify as a “respected artist” by virtue of the Grammy nominations.
Susan I agree it would be nice to talk about Jennifer without mentioning Brad or Angie.
i saw J Mayer perform with B B King and it was great.
as for the cake,,i bet it was good…………..
Sadly, Grammy nominations have nothing to do with quality songwriting/musicianship. John Mayer is a perfect example of this phenomenon.
People just HAD to turn this into an AJ/Badette/Pity Party thread.
Grammy’s mean nothing? Do the Oscars? The grammy’s are the music industry’s biggest celebration of music and an award is like an Oscar. They mean alot. You may hate John but his guitar playing is some of the best in the world. I realize that you guys have huge hate for Jen. But it is really going a bit far to say the grammy’s mean nothing to make Jen and John look bad. The rude comments here are really unbelievable. Sometimes I think that you guys need to take some time off the net and think about what kind of a person you are. Disliking someone because are “talking about hair? Sunbathing? Eating chicken salad?
I know that all the people who hate Jen are Brad/Angie fans. I am not sure why. Brad seems happy and Angie seems happy. Jen seems happy. I really think it is time that you Angie/Brad fans gave this hate up. You are really obessed with Jen it is not healthy. I know that Brad and Angie are really boring without her – but try to just for one day not think about Jen.
I would really love on Jen sites to discuss Jen without all the hate. Jen is a fascinating person. I loved her on friends. I think Marley and Me is going to be a great movie. YOu guys really need to move on. Let it go. Jen has a new life now and is loving it. She is in love, has friends, money, a job she loves. Brad and Angie really have nothing to do with her. I don’t understand why all the hate.
*Gag* He looks like something growing on the side of a tree trunk.
Susan: “I really think it is time that you Angie/Brad fans gave this hate up. You are really obessed with Jen it is not healthy.”
Ummm… You’re the only person on any of these JA/AJ/BP threads who writes numerous posts, at three paragraphs each. Who’s obsessed????
I have to agree with Susan on Mayer’s guitar playing – much as I just don’t rate the guy, I saw him get up and jam live and MAN does he know his way around a guitar. He really is a badass player.
And he does have a wackadoodle sense of humor – isn’t he the one that wore a Borat style swimsuit to hold his junk earlier this year? Ech, that tat sleeve and now a vision of camel toe to the balls.. someone tear my eyes out!!
Milli fucking Vanilli won a Grammy. The end.
If they were doing any baking together, I bet my dogs it was cake.
Mayer is a ginormous douchbag. Jen can do WAY better.
Kill me now! Jen and John bore me to tears. Big whup she can make a Duncan Hines cake. Lame.
“She really is an interesting person.”
Interesting how? If I had her resources I’d be traveling all over the world learning new things and seeing a whole lot of exotic places. Her world begins in Rodeo Drive and ends in Malibu. Instead of just sending checks to Saint Jude’s Children’s Hospital once in a while, she could actually be there doing hands-on work with the children. There are so many really interesting things she could be doing, but her activities seem to be confined to shopping, walking the dogs, laying around the pool and blow-drying her hair. What’s interesting about that?
I agree Susan. Mayer is a good guitar player. But he sold out lyric wise, just to make pop songs that would sell. No respectable music artists are honored in the Grammys. Acts like Britney Spears, etc. can win Grammys? What does that really say about them? And the fact that other musical categories such a jazz, classical, experimental, etc. are heavily underrepresented says something about the Grammys as well.
Oh and you think Marley and Me is a good movie? Let’s just agree that we have very different tastes.
@Geronimo – just being my usual snitty self. No harm intended to the anti-cake among us. 😉
Alright alright, since everyone decided to break the code of silence on JA/BP/AJ etc… I am forced to confess that although my comment has nothing to do with this boring thread, I had a wonderul dream that Brad Pitt was my boyfriend! As old as he is looking lately, he is still hot. That Meyers guy is just fugly. Not my type 🙄
@MB Travis – only anti-bad cake! 8)
I agree with Zoe. The jab was to Brad who just this week was on the Today show touting how pleased he was with those homes in New Orleans that he designed. LOL. I dont recall Ann Curry bringing on the real people behind that project. Now I get John’s joke.
Thanks Zoe.
I love jennifer Aniston…but john mayer gush!
Still don’t like him – and it has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with Jen, Angie or Brad.
He said it best himself with his t-shirt that said I’m a douche.
Susan: I’ve disliked Mayer’s “music” for ages, and it has nothing to do with the women he dates. And as Granger so rightly pointed out, you’re the one hammering out the multi-paragraph posts, so if there IS any obsessive behavior going on, it’s most definitely on your part.
“Mayer is a ginormous douchbag. Jen can do WAY better.”
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Evidently she can’t. They all keep dumping her.
I think she just needs to find a guy who isn’t in the entertainment industry
@Bodhi — totally agree with this. Maybe a business exec, or if the guy is in the entertainment industry, maybe a producer, a director, a cameraman, etc. But definitely not an actor, and he should be an older guy who is secure in who and what he is so he can deal with her insecurities. As long as she dates actors, every guy she’s with will feel he’s being measured up against Brad Pitt, and that’s one more reason why they inevitably dump her.
He’s a nerd who lucked out and still can’t believe it. 😐
John Mayer is a fantastic guitar player. He’s a bit odd, but that is really just anyone who is really artistic.
To Cheyenne and Kaiser and Zoe: He told a joke that had zero to do with Brad. You are stretching so far to find some connection from Jen to your patron saints that it’s pathetic.
And by the way, I don’t post much, but I do read the comments and you (mostly Kaiser and Cheyenne) comment more than Susan does, just in little snippets, typically throughout the day. And Susan is the pathetic one?
(And before you rant about how I’m obsessing about you three, it’s mostly because I’m at work all day and I work at a library so I don’t have much to do).
he’s so gorgeous and so sexy i love his music, i don’t know what she did to trap him he’s way too young for her he deserves someone his own age he’s so hot.
Granger:
December 6th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Ummm… You’re the only person on any of these JA/AJ/BP threads who writes numerous posts, at three paragraphs each. Who’s obsessed????
OI!!! I resemble that remark! 😆 Brevity may not be a sin – but it’s against my religion 😉
NotBlonde – you’ve nothing to do in the library? Wow, one of the very few I know that have enough staff so. Every other librarian I know is kept plenty busy – you should be very grateful.
And as for the cake – I have to comment on one term. They made the cake, they didn’t bake it. If it’s a packet mix, all they have to do is throw some liquid at it and stir. It’s convenient, but it’s not baking.
And I bet that icing that John “slaved over” came from a packet too.
Amen Not Blonde – my thoughts exactly, but I get tired of saying it. Some of these folks have a negative rebuttal to every single positive post.
I have to admit to my jealousy of you though… you work in a library?! I’d spend my days reading and people watching! 😉
Quibbling over her baking methods and expertise? Tut tut, Mairead Lawson-Smith. She probably spent days reading the instructions on the back of that cake packet…
Lawson-Smith?!?!?!! Lawson-Diamond-Saachi thankyouverymuch! 😛 (Unless you mean Peter Lawson-Smith? Interesting guy, but not sure about him rustling up a carpaccio of quail on a bed of black viatnemese noodles with a Coca-cola reduction
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You’re right though, geronimo, getting the Smart-Water to *just* the right temperature is a skill in itself.
RAN – people-watching is all very well and good in a library; it’s the people-interacting that you have to dread 😆 There is a library-studies Masters in the University of Aberystwyth in Wales, but the librarians of my aquaintance have kept suspiciously quiet about the “Gawping at Strangers” class. Sneaky sods. 😉
Lol! Nigella & Delia, hence Mairead Lawson-Smith, casting aspersions on the Aniston-Mayer cake-making (as distinct from cake-baking) skills!
Aaaaah now I getcha. Mind you, given the fact that I have very limited patience, don’t you think Mairead Craddock would be more apt? 😯
But be fair – you lot were making mincemeat out of their made-cake-decorating “skillz”. So neagh!!! 😛
NotBlonde – CB is my favorite gossip website, and I comment probably on half of all the threads. I’m not like *some* commenters who go looking for only the Jolie-Pitt-Pity Party threads so they can unleash some of their insanity.
*coughcoughSusanYourselfKimcoughcough*
By the way, NotBlonde, did you have anything to say about the thread, or did you just come on here to whine and start a fight?
The cake must contain the key to his newly installed chastity belt.
I said John Mayer was a good guitarist and was a bit odd.
How’s that for not reading?
And I have commented on other threads, you probably don’t see them since you’re too busy on the Brad/Jen/Angelina posts trying to start fights by making unnecessarily nasty comments about a person you don’t personally know and will likely never personally know.
NotBlonde sayz: “…by making unnecessarily nasty comments about a person you don’t personally know and will likely never personally know.”
Do you not understand the process of commenting on a celebrity gossip site? Stop whining, for the love of god.
Commenting on a celebrity gossip site does not amount to saying really nasty things about celebrities. If you want to do that, go over to Perez Hilton.
If you have nothing nice to say, especially baseless and cruel speculation, then don’t say anything at all.
*Dipping my toe in*
NotBlonde, I seem to remember you calling Zahara’s hair a “hot mess” on one thread and jumping on another commenter referring to her as a jerk.
You need to follow your own advice/blog etiquette instead of preaching to Kaiser.
Thanks, Daisy.
NotBlonde – I don’t know what to say other than “get a grip”. Obviously, my dislike of Pity Party and Mayer has bothered you to the extreme. I find them to be distasteful, pathetic frauds. My opinion. Which all of us voice daily on this site. If you can’t handle that simple, fun and often funny act of gossiping and voicing an opinion, then maybe you should be the one to leave.
daisy424: I was telling the truth. It wasn’t an opinion or an unsubstantiated, crappy thing to say. I’m an African American woman and I would never, if I had a little girl, let my child go out looking like that. I’m sorry. Her hair looked a hot mess. Angelina needs to learn how to do her child’s hair and deal with the texture. I’ve seen this with a lot of white parents with adopted black children and I just want to shake them and say, just go to a black salon and ask around.
And that woman was being jerk for whatever it was she was being a jerk about…I forget now.
Read back some of Kaiser’s comments about Jennifer Aniston. Just take a gander at some of the Jennifer Aniston posts and read what she says about this woman who has literally done nothing to her. It’s just unnecessarily cruel. I call people out on being unnecessarily rude and cruel. Saying that baby’s hair was a mess was true, not rude or cruel. If you were black, you’d know.
Kaiser: yes, your unsubstantiated hate for Jennifer Aniston bothers me. Not to the point where I would go so far as to email you or try to talk you into liking them, that I couldn’t give a donkey’s butt about.
It’s just making horrible, cruel claims about her personality/judgment/diet/choices that is bizarre to me. Jennifer Aniston is bo-ring. She doesn’t do anything to really to raise anyone’s ire. The only reason why she’s in the news now is because of her movie. All I see are pictures of her in Mexico, chillin. Do you have some kind of deep inner issues with her or something? Because to me, it would seem that she wouldn’t be worth the time and effort to go off on in every, single, solitary post.
This is one of the few times in my life that I can actually relate to Courtney Cox. How do you tell your best friend that she’s dating a douchebag?
Daisy – Perhaps we should do another refresher course about opinions versus facts. 😆
NotBlonde – Enough. Get a grip. Stop whining. Follow your own advice.
Jaundice: If she’s truly in love, you don’t. Many years ago, I tried to convince a good friend not to marry a guy who was an asshole to the core. She got really pissed at me for putting her man down, and it nearly ruined the friendship. If someone’s positive their partner is all that and then some, no one is going to convince them otherwise. They just have to find out the hard way.
Jesus, y’all need to get a grip. Not all of you, but seriously. I have no idea why grown adults need to go around chatising others for what they say about random celebrities who will never read their comments. Get over it. Or go cry somewhere else. Like Popsugar. Why are you sticking up for them? They’d never do it for you. If you knew the real them, you’d probably never want to stick up for them again.
Yeah Codz – I’ve made peace with the fact that he’s a semipermanent fixture at our social gatherings and in her everyday conversation, and I just have to smile and bite my tongue. He’s still dull, dry and majorly douchie, but he’s not worth losing my Bestest over.
At least he treats her decently. . . most of the time. He seems to mention a few trigger words that sets her off if we’ve been smoking or drinking, so that’s fun for me to deal with. I hate being forced into a position where I have to defend his douchiness in order to calm her down and make the party palatable.
I guess I should count my blessings that my Bestest isn’t dating John Mayer. Sure, I might actually stay awake/have fun at a party if she was dating JM, but the frat-boy antics and desperate bids for attention get a little draining, especially if he’s over 30.
@ Notblonde “…Saying that baby’s hair was a mess was true, not rude or cruel. If you were black, you’d know”.
Along your line of reasoning, it’s then okay for me to call another child’s hair a ‘hot mess’ with the same curly, unruly, frizzy hair type I have, simply because I know how to make it look good? I still disagree. Kids should be off limits no matter what their genetics.
As far as Kaiser’s PP fest with JA, Jen’s a big girl she can take it, unlike Zahara.
@Kaiser, you’re right.
Sorry for the huge review, but I’m really loving the new Zune, and hope this, as well as the excellent reviews some other people have written, will help you decide if it’s the right choice for you.