^thanks, Gail!
Also, here's a new article,
source: ONTD
LOLOLOL @ "I like to focus on me and my tabloid career." She has a wicked funny sense of humor.
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Maybe it was a joke. Or perhaps Jennifer Aniston was having a dig at her ex-hubby, Brad Pitt and his new flame, Angelina Jolie.
Aniston was sitting at a press conference in Los Angeles to promote her new comedy,
The Break-Up, when a reporter asked if she was interested in using her celebrity to tackle any of the world's important issues.
Pitt and Jolie, in between giving birth to daughter Shiloh Nouvel, have been vocal about Africa, AIDS and refugees.
So, was Aniston interested in any global issues? How about the war in Iraq or global warming?
"No," Aniston replied. "I'm not interested in any of that."
"I like to just focus on me and my tabloid career."
Her deadpan answer, dripping with sarcasm, scored plenty of laughs.
Aniston went on to say she had plenty of interests, but opted not to reveal them at the press conference.
This poster girl of the tabloids does not give up too much about herself these days, something Australian journalists will learn when she arrives next week in Sydney to promote
The Break-Up.
"I have a lot of other interests," Aniston, 37, said defensively. "But, I don't need to tell you all my interests, but there's a lot."
One campaign she probably would not mind leading is a ban on tabloids.
They ran stories about troubles in her marriage to Pitt for months before the star couple officially announced on January 7 last year that they were separating after more than four years of marriage.
The split then sent the tabloids into another frenzy as they chronicled Pitt's relationship with his
Mr and Mrs Smith co-star, Jolie, and Aniston's apparent romance with Vince Vaughan, her co-star in
The Break-Up.
No comment on romance rumours
Aniston and Vaughan have managed to neither confirm or deny a romance, despite plenty of sightings of the two together.
"There's a lot happening in the world," Aniston said. "It's one of the things I always say is these tabloids are just distracting people from the issues and the things that are happening in the world."
"Read a newspaper. Read about what's going on in the world. It's quite embarrassing to be the centre of all of those trash magazines when there is so much going on that needs people's attention."
"But I also think its a way for people to distract themselves from all of it. It's just like having junk food."
In
The Break-Up Aniston plays Brooke, who splits with her boyfriend Gary (Vaughan). They share an apartment, but both refuse to leave it, resulting in a campaign of mental warfare.
It was a different story for Aniston and Pitt when they called it quits.
The $US25 million Beverly Hills mansion the pair meticulously renovated sat empty for months after their break-up, with Aniston and Pitt moving to separate homes in Malibu while the home went on the market.
Pitt and Jolie have also made the impoverished southern African nation of Namibia their home for the birth of their daughter and Aniston could be on the move too.
Vaughan has just bought a house in Chicago, the mid-west US city where he was raised and
The Break-Up was shot, and Aniston has said plenty of nice things about the place.
She has also hinted about moving back to where she was raised, New York.
"This industry is so concentrated here (in LA)," Aniston said. "It's hard to feel like a normal person and just to be able to get out amongst the people."
"That's what I love about New York City. You are are around all walks of life. You don't feel like you're a piece of chum."
As for men and relationships, Aniston says the differences between men and women are what make relationships "interesting".
Just when her audience thinks she might be offering another sarcastic joke, she says she is serious.
"Truthfully," Aniston adds.
The former star of the long-running sitcom Friends has obviously picked up a few relationship tips from the breakdown of her marriage to Pitt.
"Men and women are different," Aniston explained. "You either accept it and (if you do) then you can walk through it a lot easier."