Just good friends?
Jen denies split with Justin was over Brad
JENNIFER Aniston has denied ex-husband Brad Pitt is giving her a shoulder to cry on after the break-up of her marriage to Justin Theroux.
The Friends star, 49, has been dogged by rumours involving Brad since his 2016 split from Angelina Jolie.
Now she is single again, fans are begging them to reunite – with bookmakers slashing odds on a rekindled romance to 2-1.
Hours earlier, Jennifer and Justin, 46, had issued a statement confirming their two-year marriage was over.
They said: “This decision was mutual and lovingly made at the end of last year. We have decided to part ways as a couple but look forward to continuing our cherished friendship.”
It came after Justin stayed in New York last weekend while Jen celebrated her birthday in Malibu. He had confirmed they would not spend Valentine’s Day together either. The marriage was reportedly strained as they spent so much time apart, with Jen in LA and Justin in New York.
Website Radar Online claimed they had a huge row on December 14 about him not spending enough time in LA. A spokesman said the report was “complete fabrication”.
Jen’s publicist also described reports by In Touch magazine that Brad is being her “shoulder to cry on” as “another fabrication”.
Earlier this month, Jen spoke to Architectural Digest about her Bel Air mansion, where she married Justin in 2015. She said: “I look around at my husband and our home, and there’s nowhere else I want to be.” She is now said to be selling the £15million pad.
Meanwhile, sources told E! of his Greenwich Village home: “Justin can walk in the neighbourhood, hang at a bar without being bothered but for Jen, the paparazzi are all over her. She could never get settled in.”
Jen has also been busy, filming Dumplin’ in Atlanta, while Justin filmed The Spy Who Dumped Me in Budapest. They started dating in 2011 and reportedly signed an “ironclad” pre-nup, protecting Jen’s £142million fortune. Justin is worth a piffling £14.1million.
Jen was married to Brad from 2000 to 2005 and he met Angelina on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith in 2003.
Jen is said to still be “haunted” by their divorce. The trio feature so frequently in gossip stories that she said in 2012 her least favourite rumour about herself was “the triangle with my ex – and that there’s a feud there”. When Brad and Angelina split in 2016, he and Jen were rumoured to be back in touch and recent reports suggested they texted frequently. But a source told People: “They broke up because they had issues.” Jen was engaged to actor Tate Donovan in 1997 and has dated singer John Mayer and actors Vince Vaughn and Scot Gerard Butler. She said in 2014: “How many times can I be out there, enjoying my life, yet the narrative is ‘Poor, sorry, sad in love Jen’?” In 2016, she said rumours she was pregnant were “the perpetuation of this notion women are incomplete or unhappy if not married with children”.