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The Jennifer Aniston Dating Game: Fun Like 'Go Fish' Or Depressing And Endless Like 'Monopoly'?
Posted by Molly Friedman at 8:35 AM on April 29, 2008
When news that Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer got together for a "touchy, feely" lunch date and dinner in Miami over the weekend broke, the entire community of celebrity observers and glossy magazine readers let out a big ol' collective yawn. Aniston has been linked to (and we're roughly estimating here) seven hundred or so possible paramours since her split with Brad Pitt, and Mayer has pulled what Liz Phair would call the all-too-common "fuck and run" on so many starlets that he earned Us's "Cad of the Year" award. But just because the gossip is yawnworthy doesn't mean there isn't a larger issue here: mainly, is Aniston really dating or trying to date all these guys-of-the-month, or is this charade her publicist's idea of spinning her post-divorce life into an unglamorous version of Sex And The City?
Regarding the Aniston/Mayer date in question, an OK! source described the pair as "very close and in deep conversation," while a pervier onlooker told Us, "they were very affectionate, definitely touchy, feely." Which is yucky, considering Mayer most recently touched and felt The Blogger Whose Name We Do Not Mention. But more importantly, Jen has been rumoured to go on dates and flirt with co-stars Aaron Eckhart, Owen Wilson and, last we heard, Orlando Bloom. None of these rumours have ever gone the way of a Reese/Jake trajectory from "yeah, right" to one year relationship and still chugging along. How are we to interpret her behaviour? Is she proving single women can date around and just have fun without worrying about that whole "settling down" thing? Or is this a PR-conceived strategy to make sure the public knows she's still a very wanted woman, and far from the teary mess Vanity Fair memorably cast her as just after her divorce? Lastly, should we just put a ban on any and all Jennifer Aniston Is Dating So-And-So stories in the future?
[Photo credits: Wireimage, FilmMagic, Daily Mail]
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
yoyo
Posted May 1, 2008 12:56 PM
Does the fact that John Mayer needs to get the story off kissing Perez Hilton and on to anything and Jen's PR guys stunt with Orlando Bloom getting shot down by Bloom's REAL girlfriend or the fact that all 3 of these losers are repped by CAA -- known for manipulating client images and the press. It doesn't help that Jen and Bloom have.her-career-faster-than-the-speed-o-light publicist. Nothing is going to help Anniston and Bloom because they seriously are not film-worthy actors, but Mayer has talent --as a guitarist and as a songwriter. -- too bad he really wants to be known as a clown!
Triska
Posted May 3, 2008 12:07 AM
Ah well, that's only the second time in less than a year that her publicist pull such badly disguised publicity trick. Last time it was... last June with the English guy (what's his name yet? Sculfor, right?). Anyway she should probably know that both her popularity and her public image are spiraling down a little more each time, thanks to the stupid conceptions of her PR of what publicity should be? If she knows that and is still willing to go on that way, so be it.
Curious that nobody mentioned that both the sudden Sculfor surge and now the Mayer one correspond to the beginning of a Smartwater campaign with her. But that's probably not related at all [irony].
Jennifer is someone that I personally respect as a human being but being fed up crap after crap after crap by her publicist doesn't help to maintain the good mood. And this time it's an all time low because even her fans have difficulty to swallow the Aniston/Mayer thing. Comments are going from "Weird combination" to "Seriously?" passing by "WTF?". And I guess that Mayer's fans are going through the same "we're puzzled" process. Time for the publicist to remember the number one rule: never ever get the fan base confused lest you're willing to do a lot of damage control after that.
But well there, the damage is already done. The question is not to know if she will lose some more popularity and public image because that's already a sure thing considering the overwhelmingly bad reaction across the web but just how much she can save. First good idea in order to do that would be to switch PR, or at least to start to listen to her own intuition and not to his crappy advices.
OldTowneTavern
Posted 3:53 AM 29/4/08
@D Day: Yes, that's the second part of the print. The black and white birds turn into the technicolored opening to The Partridge Family, which then turns into Jolie walking with her kids from a convenience store. It's bound to wind up in the new Broad wing of the LA County Museum.
OldTowneTavern
DannielynSpears
Posted 3:48 AM 29/4/08
Yeah... But how's Jen doing?
DannielynSpears
D Day
Posted 3:41 AM 29/4/08
Wait, you mean Rachel was married to that dude with all the kids and the UN ambassador girlfriend? Whoa.
D Day
OldTowneTavern
Posted 3:34 AM 29/4/08
The press really has turned her into the Escher print of dating. I'm sure somewhere out there, there's a photo of Aaron Eckhart escorting her down the aisle to meet Brad... then they all turn into black and white birds.
OldTowneTavern
spanktastic
Posted 3:12 AM 29/4/08
Someone needs to nail her soon so we can stop hearing about it.
spanktastic
PaisleyPajamas
Posted 3:04 AM 29/4/08
All I know is, every single girl in L.A. should have her matchmaking connections. T'aint fair, I tell you!
PaisleyPajamas
JudgeFudge
Posted 2:55 AM 29/4/08
Aniston Flings of the Future: Zach Braff, Jaquin Phoenix, Shia LeBouf, Jason Segal, the guy in Zooey Deschanel's band, Simon Pegg, Hayden Christansen Harold, Dane Cook, Kumar, Jason Statham, the winner of Top Chef season 4, Mark McGrath, Ira Glass, Ryan Philipe, Cody from the Suite Life of Zach and Cody (give it a couple of years), Brett Ratner, Jet Li, Marlon and Keenen Ivory Wayans.
JudgeFudge
TurdBlossom
Posted 4:39 AM 29/4/08
I smell a contrived romance to combat those bi rumours started by the BWNWDNM.
TurdBlossom
sookie
Posted 9:15 AM 1/5/08
@TurdBlossom: yes
sookie