US Weekly hasn’t been the kindest to Jennifer Aniston in the past. (They also rip on Angelina Jolie, so it’s not like they’re taking sides.) I’m thinking of the stories they’ve run that Aniston only dates men who raise her profile and that she was copying Angelina by daring to wear a gown with a high leg slit to an event. In this latest US Weekly story, Aniston is supposedly hoping to be set up with some kind of rich businessman instead of the industry types she usually dates. It sounds like a good idea, but also a familiar one. We’ve heard the millionaire matchmaker say that Aniston needs a powerful business type guy and just last week Brangelina author Ian Halperin claimed Jen had paid over $100k for the services of an elite matchmaker. (Not that I think that’s true at all. If Halperin says it, it’s more likely to be made up.)
Jennifer Aniston, 40, is through with famous men, says an insider, who notes that the actress was left “really messed up and heartbroken” by singer John Mayer.
“She wants to be set up with a wealthy businessman, not a celebrity,” the insider says in the new issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now.
Though her rep says Aniston “does not place restrictions on the people who may come into her life,” the insider says pals like Courteney Cox are hoping she’ll settle with an “older, mature man.”
Still, one pal doubts the resolution will stick: “She always ends up drifting back to actors and musicians. Her friends want a normal guy, but she’s drawn to the attention.”
[From US Weekly]
Kaiser and I were talking about whether this post could have been spin from Aniston’s camp at all. I think it’s too snarky toward her and has that kind of “Aniston is desperate for a man” slant that we’ve heard so often. Kaiser agrees, but counters that “her media team [could have been] counting on Gerard Butler keeping it in his pants for a month (HAHA), and [are] trying out a different strategy.” I don’t know. The media will focus on the long-dead triangle whenever they’re given a chance. It doesn’t matter if one of them has something to promote or not. The Bounty Hunter is out on March 10. Will Aniston have a date for the premiere and does she care or not?
I hate these type of reports, because they actually make me feel a little bad for her- and in no universe should I be feeling badly for a rich, beautiful, famous actress whose only tragedy in life is a divorce six years in the past and bad taste in men.
whatever, maybe its time for her to start dating the ladies
LOL @ Bite me comment
Sheesh! Another one trying to get the stank of Gerard Butler off her. Hey, Gerry is good for spin specialists–an actress dates Gerry, then HAS to hire a spin specialist to get rid of the smell. A win win win situation: Gerry gets (laid) publicity, a new publicist gets hired, and the actress gets more space in the tabs. Gerard Butler is good for Hollywood.
Aniston wants to date a rich business man? What a coincidence – me too!
In general it seems like many of the really solid, long term relationships in Hollywood often involve one partner who’s not famous or not in the biz. Probably less drama that way. But at the same time, probably hard to date anyone in the public eye, unless you’re used to it yourself.
Halperin’s claims seem to always be BS, but are funny to read.
The only side US Weekly is on is whatever adds to the bank account that week.
I agree Bite Me, she should give the ladies a try lol
Too bad the old 80’s dating show ‘Love Connection’ with your host, Chuck Woolery, isn’t around anymore.
Afghan Hound Aniston wants to date herself. Or, perhaps her best friend, ‘Botox Cox’, can come up with a male member of the Arquette clan.
WTF?! I thought she was taking Brad back! All the tabloids said so! You mean they were lying? No way!
On the real, though — I always thought she would do better with a business exec type, who wouldn’t always feel he was being compared to Brad Pitt. Nobody wants to be constantly compared to an ex.
Her biggest problem, IMO, will be finding somebody who doesn’t mind John Mayer’s sloppy seconds.
The latest photo of Jen just in!
http://retrieverman.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/afghan-hound.jpg
Hmmm…I wonder if the lovely Kaiser will let bad boy Johnnie Rotten post this?
WOOF!
Just this once, Johnnie!
Jesus, Aniston & the Afghan Hound have THE SAME HAIR.
the photo is awesome, and I like Carrie’s comment. I still like Aniston though. Even to this day I think of what it must have felt like to see a photo spread in W magazine, of your (barely) ex-husband/love of your life playing house with the devil’s spawn…. much less have the entire world glued to the news of your loss for years. Devastatingly Heartbreaking.
johnnie rotten stop it, you are killing me over here and that dog doesh ave nice hair
Kaiser, I bow before your gossipy greatness, and kiss the hand of the one who entertains me on a daily basis.
Oooh Johnnie, you are a bad boy. And to make matters worse, you are absolutely right about the resemblance between her and the hound, WOOF, WOOF!!
She looks beautiful. I hope she finds what she’s looking for.
Jen really needs to start lowering her standards. I know she she dated John Mayer, but maybe she should go lower, to my level.
Well, it might be a great idea for her to date a “rich businessman” but, what rich businessman would want to date her? I mean, she’s almost 41 and she has, according to the ragmags, slept with every actor in Hollywood!! What rich businessman would want to be a sloppy 15th??
Seriously though, most rich businessmen want either a young (very beautiful) woman to be his arm candy OR a slightly older (beautiful) woman (30s) who is as smart as he is, has a great career and is ready to start a family. I don’t see a place for Jennifer in that scenario. Of course, she could find a rich businessman of about 60 who is ready to retire and wants to do nothing but go to premieres, awards shows and the opening of the latest hotel. Good luck with finding him, Jen!!
“whatever, maybe its time for her to start dating the ladies”
and make a porn movie out of it! Marney and me… coming soon!
@juiceinla: Aniston is on record as saying Brad Pitt was never the love of her life. She said that while she was still married to him. That may be one of the reasons she is no longer married to him.
I am so sick of that hair!!!
“according to the ragmags”
are those the same ragmags that no one believes?
and yet, you believe that part because it goes along with your opinion on her ALLEGED desire to date a guy like this.
SHOCKER. (unless of course, you were joking…in which case, bravo.)
Honestly before wanting another man, any man, she should dump those voicemail messages she keeps on listenning and get rid of any traces of past relationships.
I am sorry, but even a douchebag like Mayer doesn’t deserve to live in the footsteps of an ex when he is with her.
Noone, men or women will give you the time of the day for so long if you still acknowledge that you listen to the old messages of your ex while you are into that new relationship with a new love.
Frankly what couple functions this way ? NONE !!!
It’s common sense. Until Aniston will understand that basic mental function that trigger the feeling of love and be ready to get rid of the past by getting rid of all he symbolic traces and objects that romantically attach her to that past she deliberatly revive day after day, living in the souvenirs of what was once her life, then and only then, she will let a decent man come into her life, find her heart instead of just her bed. Maybe then she will say that she finally found the love of her life.
Until then she can tell with her hand on her heart that she has moved on, she will keep on lying to herself and will one day discovered that life doesn’t wait for noone and that she has emprisonned herself in an emotional prison wasting opportunities with decent guys.
When that will happen, she will become like those old bitter women full of regrets because it is so easy to live in the victimization state than to take control, move on and risk again but yet with a chance of being rewarded.
It’ high time to get rid once and for all of all her past by any means necessary. That’s the only route to be totally free to love 100 % someone else and manage and grant the deserve place in your life to your new love who will love you in return within the same proportion.
She is not there yet. Time to accept it and do whatever it takes to get there.
Lainey nails it again
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She’s in the right neighbourhood
Jennifer Aniston, SO private, has opened the doors of her multi mullion dollar home to Architectural Digest after spending 2.5 years and many more millions renovating it. Click here to read all about the luxe features including her bridge over the koi pond. Yeah, she would TOTALLY be your friend. If you lived in Malibu.
Which is the perfect neighbourhood for her to meet her next man. According to Us Weekly, Jen has been asking her network to set her up with a billionaire:
“She wants to be set up with a wealthy businessman, not a celebrity.”
How very Sarah Larson of you. Get in line behind Denise Richards.
Our girl next door doesn’t want a carpenter? Our girl next door wants someone rich? What?
Well, maybe just for now. Another source tells the magazine that Jen “always ends up drifting back to actors and musicians. Her friends want a normal guy, but she’s drawn to the attention.”
I love it when celebrities open the doors to their houses and let you inside conveniently when they’re trying to sell movies. One month later they slam the door in your face and tell you to stop invading their personal space.
There are plenty of reasons why an enormously wealthy woman doesn’t want, nor could realistically date, a “normal” guy. It’s unfair but it works better when the woman is in the “normal” position.
Most men have a high sense of “manly pride”, if you will, so they wouldn’t be comfortable dating someone who made so much more money than them.
@Yeah–Okay: Thanks for the laugh! I think Lainey nailed it.
Elite matchmaker, huh? Wonder what it’s like to be one.
Sage, I think what might make most men uncomfortable is 1) being constantly compared to Brad Pitt, 2) getting John Mayer’s leftovers, and 3) dating a woman who gives off a palpable odor of desperation. Any one could be a deal-breaker, all three together are lethal.
@Cheyenne:
“WTF?! I thought she was taking Brad back! All the tabloids said so! You mean they were lying? No way!”
Very funny stuff!! Thanks for the sarcasm and the chuckle!
I always thought Jen would be better suited for a non-celebrity guy….She looks fantastic for her age….smart move on her part (if all this is even true)
NNN-
Bravo. Right on and very well said.
I, too, hate to see a woman lose again and again. I still believe John Mayer was the worst relationship in which she chose to get involved. Anyway, she can still have a lovely lovelife if she lets the past go COMPLETELY so that the new love can see for what he is supposed to see- Not as someone’s ex, not as the scorned woman, not as the woman wronged, not as the victim. It is nearly impossible to attract a new man with this type of scent on you.
It’s plain cruel to call a woman a man’s “leftovers”. Just plain cruel. And unnecessary.
You don’t know her personally, only her tabloid image which is skewed as you very well know. Unless the tabs are always right about everyone else as well? Didn’t think so.
How do you know she “gives off a palpable odor of desperation”? Have you ever met her? Have you ever spoken to her? Have you ever even been in the same room with her?
The only logical and probable issue she probably runs into is the men she dates being compared to Brad Pitt. But any man who is worth something wouldn’t be worried or concerned with who a woman has dated in the past.
@nnn: Oh wow, I forgot about those old voice tapes. If she still has them, then she is NOT ready to move on. Can you imagine if she got a new guy and he came home one night and found her listening to those tapes?
I don’t think that Jennifer plays with US anymore after that cover that Vince had proposed and Jen went to People and said it was not true. And, if we are honest the whole Jen/Gerald thing there really wasn’t a thing at all. Jen and Gerry were never seen together except on set or at the awards. They never even tried to pretend they were together – it is just that the press was so desperate for Jen to be with someone that anytime she goes within a few feet of someone they put them together.
I think that Jen could really care less about Gerry and Gerry could really care less about Jen. Just promoting a movie. I also think that generally Jen is caring less about the press these days. You rarely see her in candid photos at all anymore. Just when she is filming or at awards. I think to that she used to try to make things look the way she wanted them to by making sure that candids were taken – by not for months now. I really think that she has moved beyond that now.
Once a magazine gives a celebrity a certain type of character they never leave it. Jen and Jessica are sad and lonely. Johnny Depp is hot. etc. what will ever happen to the tabloid industry if Jen ever marries. What will they write about?
Sounds like her publicist has been reading the comments on this board. Wasn’t there someone about a week ago just saying that she needed a rich businessman?
Wow, what a peel, nose job, bleached hair and a slight chin reduction can do for an ugly one.
lainey is an ass, far removed from American culture, 2x’s and you can tell she grew up poor w/parents who probably ignored her as a child and worked in the family business at all hours. No thank you!
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ – I find Jennifer Aniston so very boring. She comes accross as a Nag and John said that he was done dating women with “daddy issues” – kinda paints a portrait of Aniston.
That’s a good idea to find good guy. Both brad and john are so bud guys, because they played jen and dumped her. They are so selfish guys for Jen. There are more good guys in the world. Get that kind of man and get marry soon, then you can have a baby. Just try to get marry who you and your friends thinks that’s your guy.
I think lainey is great. I think she is funny and Canada is not that removed from American culture. What does that have to do with anything anyway.
I too am SO SO tired of her hair and the perpetual tan and her boring wardrobe. Not to mention those awful romcoms. She needs to go in a whole other direction with her image. If she would embrace her inner bad ass and come out owning her life then I might actually like her.
BTW-41 is not too old to meet a rich businessman. She is famous and better looking than a lot of 20 year olds so I don’t think her age means a thing. She needs to channel her inner Salma as well and bag a billionaire.
@nnn: Oh wow, I forgot about those old voice tapes. If she still has them, then she is NOT ready to move on. Can you imagine if she got a new guy and he came home one night and found her listening to those tapes?
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She has them and she listens to them. She said that months ago.
What really shoked me is that when saying so, she had a revealing lapsus. She said that she still has and listen to the voicemail messages of her exes including those of her HSUBAND. Not ex husband but “Husband”.
That litlle sentence alone explains everything and that ALONE reeks DESPERATION to the CORE.
Nobody can keep and acknowledge listening to old messages of exes and pretend that they are ready to move on or are 100 % into the new relationship while they listen and romancize about the voicemail of past love.
Nobody can therefore be stunned that it never seems to work for the next relationship when your heart and your mind is still in the PAST and you romantize more about what you have lived at that time forgetting to live the present with your present love.
Lainey is really really rude. Not so much to men but mostly women. Talks horribly about Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Gardner, Jessica Biel, etc. Loves George Clooney, Matt Damon, etc. Doesn’t matter what a star does she is like the tabloids – always the same slant on them. Five years ago she was saying the exact same thing about the exact same celebrities. You know what she is going to say before you even open the post. That is what I like about celebitchy – not always talking exactly the same about every star and pigeon holing them. Sometimes here at celebrithy you hate them sometimes love them. I like that. Lainey never changes – very boring after awhile.
“She needs to embrace her inner badass” and own her life? What? I think that she is a kind and considerate person – this whole bad ass stuff – what is she suppose to do? Like ride a motorbike, or climb a mountain or something? What exactly would someone do to show their badass. Own her life. Let me think she runs a production company, makes millions, has alot of great friends, isn’t scared to be single. How else do you own your life? I don’t understand why some people think that celebrities have to change their lives, hair or fashion sense just to make fans happy? That is what gets stars in trouble trying so hard to impress or make new fans and they become who they really are not. i respect the celebrites who wear the same clothes and keep their hair the same and don’t care what people think. That is when celebrities start to lose it when they become something they are not. And I don’t think that Jen really wants the kind of fans that need her to change to like her. She is who she is and has millions of fans already. Why change to get a few dozen more?
@ Sage: If you want a man’s POV on the subject, check this out:
http://www.spike.com/blog/top-7-reasons-no-man/78116
Chey: Spiketv’s blog? As a source of good journalism/what men actually think/something to actually take seriously? Really?
Sagie, dear, I didn’t say ALL men’s POV, I said A man’s POV. But it wouldn’t surprise me if his POV is shared by a lot of guys.
I’ve asked before and will ask again: If Aniston is all that and a bag of chips, why does she keep getting dumped? And why is it that the minute her name is linked with some guy in the tabloid, the guy or his rep is all over the place denying it? I dunno. You tell me.
Totally OT but I didn’t know Lainey is Chinese. She immigrated from Hong Kong with her family and she is running the Olympic Torch tonight. Go Lainey!
Chey, thanks for that link. Really funny and so true!! It’s sort of repeats what I said above . . . no rich businessman would want Jennifer Aniston when he can have any beautiful YOUNG woman in L.A. Only a businessman who wants to get free publicity the easy way would date her.
Well if this story is true and wealth wa sher first prerequisite good luck honey your already looking for the wrong traits. HOw about a man who is stable. sober, doesnt cheat. How sad money would be her first concern. Yes i get she is rich and she doesnt have to date a slacker but he has to be rich? pathetic
MYOB – so true but she still aint hot =(
OMFG, I found this on some guy’s blog about Aniston wanting to snag a rich businessman. It’s mean, but dang, it’s hilarious:
“For her sake, I really hope this works out, because at this point her only other option is stuffing sawdust in whatever she can sneak out of the morgue.”
Chey: I didn’t say ALL men, either.
I have no idea why she doesn’t keep boyfriends very long. No one knows. I don’t know her and I don’t know anyone who has dated her.
I know plenty of chicks in my life who don’t really date for various reasons.
My aunt, for instance, got married, had children, got a divorce and never dated again. Ever. And that was her personal choice. She told us that she had her kids and that was all she needed.
I have a “cousin” (close family friend) who is in her mid-fifties. She got married in her 20s, got divorced, dated around a bit, and now she just doesn’t bother. She says it’s because men annoy the hell out of her and she’s happier on her own.
My mom has friends who were married and now aren’t and are happier for it. She has friends who have never been married and are happy.
I also know girls my age who don’t date or keep boys around because they are focusing on school or career development.
Perhaps she just likes her career and that’s her focus. Perhaps she’s insane. Perhaps she’s needy and desperate and pathetic and a loser.
But we’ll never know because we don’t know her.
Assuming makes an a** out of you and me.
No, Jen can’t start dating the ladies – then everyone will accuse her of copying Angelina. *eyeroll*
I like Lainey – she hates the same things I hate. 🙂