It sure did raise some eyebrows when Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer broke up yet again, just weeks after looking so happy and lovey-dovey at the Academy Awards. Back in February John said that he had “a really good time” at the Oscars, sources are now reporting otherwise. Apparently, the whole thing was a sham and the couple had already called it quits a few days before the event.
And now, the Oscar for “Best Phony Couple” goes to…(drum roll)…Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer, who masqueraded at the Academy Awards as a loving couple – despite their top-secret bustup only days before – just because insecure Jen suddenly panicked over confronting sexy ex Brad Pitt and Hubba Hubba Angelina Jolie without a devoted hunk of man candy dangling at her arm.
As The Enquirer reported, Cougar Jen – finally fed up with John’s roving eye, his acquisition of a house 40 minutes away from hers, and his let’s-take-it-nice-and-easy ‘tude towards marriage as Jen’s bio clock ticked like a time bomb – phoned him and coldly broke off their woe-mance without major fireworks or tears.
But then later, after chilling a bit, horrified Jen suddenly remembered a major date she’d forgotten in all the emotion. Tracking John down, she gasped: “Omigod! What about the Oscars! You’ll still go with me to the Oscars…won’t you?”
Luckily, the singer hadn’t blabbed about the breakup to anyone -and, knowing she’d hate solo-ing it down the red carpet under Angelina’s baleful glare – he gallantly told Jen, “Hey, I wouldn’t let you down. I’d be happy to escort you.”
[From The National Enquirer print version, April 13, 2009]
Wow! That’s some pretty shoddily-written fiction right there. If the “pity date” was solely intended to ease Jennifer’s red carpet anxieties, then why didn’t they walk the red carpet? It’s just another phoney baloney story aimed at reviving what’s left of the long dead horse that is the BrangelinAniston tabloid frenzy. I always knew that John and Jen would not last, but I didn’t think the romance was a fake. At least, not on Jennifer’s end. What would John Mayer have to gain by showing up a the Oscars? He’s not even an actor.
Will the tabloids ever stop with the Brangelina/aniston stuff? I can’t imagine after all these years of the same thing still sellling. I mean besides the loons using it for voodoo?
Um, I think he’d have a lot to gain by going to the Oscars… He’s made it pretty clear that he’s interested in it, doesn’t he have a variety show coming out soon?
Plus, attention is attention to this attention whore, right?
I would hardly call JA a cougar. She isn’t that old?
I have serious doubts that he could keep a secret for that length of time.
I don’t know if this is true or not. I mean I am not a Jen fan. I don’t like when stories about Brad/Angie are taken as truth. so.. I did wonder about Johns account of the Oscars on Ryan S. radio show. If you heard it then you will know what I mean. John’s behavior on the show fits in with this story. He did not sound like a boyfriend going to an event with his girlfriend. He sounded like a guy going out with a woman as a favor. He himself said he was their for moral support. Which was funny. I mean Jen said she is over Brad. with another man so why would she need all this support. Secondly, he made a comment about going for her to intro him to people. He said she was so sweet to him. He never said anything that sounded at all like a man in love or a man in deep lust. I remember also the vaca pics. When they were photographed kissing. She was into it, he did not seem so much. I don’t know if their relationship was a fake or not. I just go back to what John said the first time they broke up, and what she was saying about him. Their words seemed like two people in different relationships.
I’m with Ash.
I believe she was asked NOT to walk the red carpet as the producers wanted to keep some of the presenters as surprises, only Mayer blabbed about going, so everyone knew anyway. It makes sense in that he said he was there to support her (and the lyrics of his new song support this assertion). She was there for one reason, to upstage her EX and his mate IMO, and couldn’t look as desperate as she really is by going stag.
Ugh…I’m officially over the word Cougar. For anybody.
I did think it was kind of weird that they broke up soon after the Oscars but I don’t think they actually broke up before.
I’m so sick of Aniston’s biological clock ticking. I think if she really wanted a baby she would have one by now. She wouldn’t have wasted her time on a fling with John Mayer. I think that she’s just having fun and letting lose.
That dress is gorgeous except for that wide stripe going across the belly, it makes her look bloated. And we all know she doesn’t have the slightest pudge.
Can we not just agree that this is unadulterated bullshit? And that the Jen/John hook-up was a PRomance? And that they both got what they wanted out it it? And that the contract is now officially at an end? Please? PLEASE?!!
“Luckily, the singer hadn’t blabbed about the breakup to anyone”
That gives the story away, we all know John Mayer would have live blogged the break-up.
WHEN WOULD THEY HAVE HAD TIME TO BREAK UP BEFORE THE OSCARS WHEN A FEW DAYS BEFORE IT THEY WERE ON VACTION TOGETHER AFTER HER BIRTHDAY PARTY? AND IT WAS THE NEXT DAY AFTER THE VACTION WHILE HE WAS IN NY FOR THE ARMANI STORE OPENING THAT HE REVEALED HE WAS GOING TO THE OSCARS(SO IS NE SAYING THEY BROKE UP IN THE SPACE OF THE HR IT TOOK HIM TO LEAVE BAHAMAS AND FLY TO NY FOR THE STORE OPENING AND THEN THEY GO BACK TOETHER LOL) AND I REMEMBER A MUSICIAN FRIEND OF HIS SAYING ON TWITTER HE HAD TO GIVE JOHN BACK HIS BAND BECASUE HE WANTED TO RECORD A SONG FOR HER…
AM A MAYER FAN SO I DO KEEP UP WITH HIM ON HIS FAN FORUMS AND THEY ARE PICTURES OF BOTH JEN AND JOHN AND A GROUP OF JOHN’S FRIEND IN A BOWLING ALLEY FOR ONE OF JOHN’S FRIEND BIRTHDAY PARTY AND PEOPLE MAGAZINE REPORTED THE WHOLE GROUP WHEN BACK TO JENNIFER’S HOUSE TO CONTINUE THE PARTY; THAT DOESNT SOUND LIKE A BROKEN UP COUPLE TO ME
I really do try and take the crap you read in tabloids with a grain of salt — but Jennifer Aniston took John Mayer back after he told the entire world that he dumped her, so I’ve kind of lost all sympathy for her! I don’t believe she’s still in love with Brad, but I do think she’s very insecure, and the thought of turning 40 just after watching Brad and Angie celebrate their Oscar nominations was too much for her to handle alone.
I prefer Angie to Jen, but even I can see that this story is phony. What utter rubbish.
Firstly, John doesn’t strike me as the type that would do a woman, much less one that dumped him, any favours.
Secondly, I don’t think he will accept being used by a woman to make an ex jealous (this is a guy that broke up with her the first time because he ‘didn’t want to waste her time or his”.
Thirdly, he would have leaked the breakup to the tabloids immediately after it happened.
Also, I recall John voting ‘yes’ in a poll about him and Jen being a great couple. This was after the Oscars. What guy would openly vote ‘yes’ in poll about him in a woman that has already broken up with him?
Lastly, Jen wouldn’t talk about how much she ‘adores and loves’ John during the Oscars if she knew it was an arranged date. Surely she knows how stupid she would look to the world by professing ‘love’ for John only for them to continently break up after the Oscars.
I co-sign w/ CB. I don’t think it was a phony date. Sure they could have broken up prior to the Oscars, but I think it shows a cool side to John to want to be her date for the Oscars anyway.
I still feel that George Clooney and his ex from last year holds the Oscar for Best Phony Couple. I think Jennifer and John were legit. I’m still hoping for an Anniston – Clooney hook up, but I know that will never happen.
It’s all Jen’s fault.
Edit: continently = conveniently
They looks pretty easygoing in those pics to have just gone through a break up.
and she could not have found another date for the oscars, don’t buy it. Need some proof.
If Jen didn’t want to see Brad and Angelina together, she should have stayed home.
Agree, Granger, Geronimo & Jeane.
It was all a fraud, but nobody’s the victim here.
I am so tired of the media making up stories out of thin air..I also didn’t think it would last, but I thought it was real..I think they had fun for a while, and now its over..whats the big deal????
I don’t think he can help it, Jeane. I think he is in the final stages of famewhoreitis, where his fingers operate the keypad completely independent from his brain.
If she wanted to upstage the Brange, she should’ve brought Gerard Butler so some equally hot piece.
I think the article is an insult to women…as if there is something inherently wrong with an older woman dating a younger man, meanwhile nobody says anything if a much older man dates a very young woman. This double-standard (based on looks and fertility) is beyond outdated. The guy may as well have said she should be at home in the kitchen cooking dinner for her man!!!
Moreover, I think the timing of this big revelation (right after the “Heartbreak Warfare” song on YouTube) is pretty suspicious.
I think the (so-called) writer heard the song and extrapolated the article from that.
It seems to me as if the media is full of pricks that have nothing better to do – cos this story is old news. What’s the point of analyzing all of this?
It’s simple.
Jen can’t stop talking about Brad.
John Mayor is an attention whore in his prime.
And now they’ve broken up.
It doesn’t sound so interesting when you break it down like that. And come on, The National freaking Enquirer? Why would anyone believe rubbish from a rag like that?
I TOTALLY believe it! I remember right after the Oscars, when he was first asked why he went to the Oscars, and his response was “to give her some moral support.” I thought, “That answer doesn’t bode well for them!” It sounded like he went out of pity for her, not because he wanted to go, or because he liked her. Hmmm…I’m not surprised at ALL!
He admitted he’s bi-sexual. He’s
obviously a serial relationship killer. Fabulous. He can just jump from one bed to the next. No matter to him I’m sure.
Mayer is really an open book–he was excited to go to the Oscars and wanted to support Jennifer as she stood in front of her ex with the whole world watching. But on his blog he said he planned to disappear after the Oscars because he wanted to get back to work writing songs and recording a new album. Before that he’d been partying with Jennifer for weeks, with her birthday bashes, their vacation, etc.
So my guess is that Jennifer did the breaking up. She had him by her side for her big 40th birthday and a hot date for the Oscars, so it was time to say sayonara when it was all over.
It was a natural time for them to make a break: She was going to New York to film a movie and he was going to hole up in his house in L.A. and record songs.
But they sure looked like a couple on that “last date” at the Oscars. Weird.
gee… since when is being single “desperate”? why does Jen need a man to validate her existence? are we still in the 1950s? sure seems like it.
A cougar??
Please, she’s 40.
And he’s a headcase. Done.
That second photo, she’s saying…
“You got that photo, right? I was here with him, okay?”
“Luckily, the singer hadn’t blabbed about the breakup to anyone”
Haha, yeah right.
it was all for PR, same as her relationship with Vince Vaughan. Neither of these couples ever looked like anything but publicity stills.
She sounds like damaged goods, which is sad. She should be thrilled with her life. She is v v cute, rich, famous and has all that on little to no talent.[not the cute part, the fame & riches]
I agree with Flourpot-there’s no way he could have kept his trap shut about this. In the least he’d have written a song about it called Oscar, and it would already be climbing the charts!
Sometimes the National Enquirer do get it right. Look at their story about John Edwards and his mistress.
I believe John and Jen’s Oscar date and the relationship was a sham. John is capable of keeping his mouth close. Jen was positive that John would not dump her and talk to the media again by saying “that man will not do that again” for a reason.
I believe their second get back together was all contract and John have been able to keep quiet about it because it was all about him getting attention at the Oscar’s for his TV show so he had a lot to gain.
That whole relationship was a phony contract. What’s so funny, I believe Jen and her pr team will have to call John up again to use him. I believe John will gladly be used long as they are paying him and I believe Jen and her pr team pay good.
Why would she have been saying to him – in earshot of the journos – “I love everything about you” at the Oscars if this was just a fake date and she knew that they’d be announcing their break up shortly after? Makes no sense. Plus I totally agree with everyone above who said that there is no way that MayerMouth could have kept the break up a secret for several days. Just wouldn’t happen! I don’t buy this story at all.
When did you guys get to know Mayer so well? you know what he will do and not do. Very strange.
40 years old?
Well and truly a Cougar Ash 1000%.
The amount of guys she goes thru, seems to tell me, she’s either hard work, or just a person that over anylises the fuckin’ shit out of everything. She was also the ONLY Friends castmate, to have had a sexual relationship, with all of the main male characters. There’s a reason why she’s single.
so she had a melt down about going to the Oscars panic then call Mayer to save her so she don’t walk some where by herself. Jen has to be mentally Ill. Why didn’t she stay home because she looked like a blundering idiot and she sure didn’t up stage no one. It’s time for Jen to step away for awhile. She is looking real stupid these days.
Who told her to wear that dress? I think she wanted to start pregnancy rumors but just came out looking like a bloated old woman. Jen should have just stayed home because she sat for evil purpose and it backed fired on her.
Jen gets a bad rap no matter what she does. If she showed up alone, the comments would be “Look, she’s so pitiful she can’t get a date” Some of you folks are just nasty.
And someone comments that she’s a loser because she hasn’t changed her hairstyle? I mean did you really type that? Anyone that nitpicky and bitchy is a major loser.
Just let the events speak for themselves.
Jen & Jon were seen together at the Oscars. After that the split. Obviously she was too chicken to go ALONE and he was using her for more publicity.
Everything about this broad has been half azz from the start. The only reason why this chick stayed even relevant is because of being Mrs. Pitt, since Brad left and has moved on, everything about this woman reeks of a person who most like has been a “has been” and a hot azz mess!!! This Hollywood Motion Picture hook-up rink should be exposed for what it actually is…..TomKat, Jen and I can list probably a whole bunch of Mo-Po fake relationship shams!!!!! I honestly wish she would go somewhere and really get a real life for herself…..get artificially inseminated, adopt a baby or find somekind of true meaning with her boring azz life…GEESH!!! No wonder why Brad hit the eject button and Mayer is just a hot damned bi-polor bastard to boot!!!!
Leave the poor woman alone!
I am so sick on the Aniston bashing.
I dont know what she ever did that was so wrong to deserve the kind of rubbish people write about her. To be honest, I dont know how she copes with it. I dont think I could.
How is she ever to meet someone and have a good relationship when the rest of the world keeps throwing he ex in her face. That is enough to make any man run.
Enough is enough.
I just saw the OPRAH episode aired today where Aniston was relaying the quote about Angelina being “UNCOOL”.
OMG, I felt really sick. She is so Fake. And I can’t imagine Oprah taking such a bias view for agreeing to set this up for Aniston. The questions were so planned and the answers given were so rehearsed to make Aniston seem Happy,Unbitter and Just.
***Please feel free to comment if you disagree with me.
I would have gone, just to see all the pomp and circumstance. Jen had a wonderful set up, gorgeous husband, money, youth, success ~ she could have had a kid then, but chose not to. She is not worried about her clock.
He has a large noggin’. I mean that literally and metaphorically.
I’m B O R E D.