This may not seem like a big deal, but SmartWater spokesperson Jennifer Aniston was seen toting around a rival brand the other day and ooooooh, boy, does that piss off companies that spend millions to make sure their water is seen in the hands of stars.

Remember back in the day when Britney was shilling for Pepsi but kept Coke on her concert rider? She nearly lost her contract over that and had to sign papers saying that she wouldn’t be seen with any other soft drink. While I doubt these grainy paparazzi shots are going to get Aniston in too  much trouble, they hopefully will serve as a reminder to the star that once you sign a piece of paper saying you’ll rep a companies’ goods and take money for it, you sure as hell better make sure you hold up your end of the agreement. Big Bro is always watching, girl.

Rumors have been circulating that Jennifer Aniston is going to be hosting a talk show on Oprah’s new network, and her rep wants you to know that those rumors are completely false. Not only is Jennifer not stooping to host some lowly, pathetic cable talk show, she definitely wouldn’t do something on the advice of someone like Chelsea Handler. Aw, hell naw! Babygurl’s a star! You won’t be seeing the mug of the woman formerly known as Rachel Green hosting any sort of something something on Oprah’s bastardized cable network. Hell to the no.

The rumors started last week when someone tipped off The New York Post saying that homegirl was developing her own talk show for Oprah Winfrey Network at the advice of her girl Chelsea Handler. “She is doing this for one reason only — she absolutely wants to do it,” the source said. Well, I guess it turns out that that source was a big fat liar then, huh? Ain’t nobody putting Aniston in a premium cable corner!

OMG, OMG, OMG!  I’m hyperventilating a little bit here.  If it was Star or The Enquirer or Perez Hilton publishing this shit, I would pay it no mind.  But, gasp … sigh … sob … People is reporting that John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston are “enjoying their friendship.”  Do you know what “enjoying their friendship” means?  It means that John Mayer is enjoying Jennifer’s low self-esteem and Jennifer is enjoying her standard doormat position.  It means that in three months I will be sentenced to a life of writing “John and Jen Split!” stories.  Don’t these people understand how much their bad relationship choices affect me?

Jennifer, Jennifer, Jennifer, when will you ever learn?  This guy is just not that into you.  Weren’t you in a movie of the same name?  Gah!

Jennifer Aniston went to Chelsea Lately last night (really? I mean, Chelsea’s fine if you’re an MTV star or Ashlee Simpson plugging Melrose Place, but Aniston? Shouldn’t she be on Conan and Letterman? ANYWAY!) and since the star was quite the score for the tiny talk show, it was announced well in advance that she would be showing up to E! to tape the show. Unfortunately, I don’t think Chelsea is too used attention from the photogs because she tells Jen that the slew of paps that showed up that morning to get a glimpse of their A-list target wound up getting an unsightly photo of Chelsea instead.

Jennifer Aniston was on Ellen yesterday and treated our ear drums to a sampling of this “singing” that she’s been threatening over the past couple weeks.  It’s a movie that’s still in pre-production, but Aniston is set to star in The Goree Girls which is a story about a female prisoner band in the 1940’s.  She’ll be playing guitar and singing.

The audience went pretty wild over her voice, which I think just proves that America is very easily entertained.  Maybe she’ll become a hit singer, win a VMA and Angelina can run up on stage during her acceptance speech and start screaming, “I’m gonna let you finish, but Brad Pitt?  He’s the best husband ever!”

Jennifer Aniston announced to Fox News this week that she’s going to be taking a break from acting. Well, a small break, anyway. Aniston claims that she’s putting her acting career to the side so she can concentrate on her other passion, failing at romantic relationships producing. Although her flick with Gerard Butler, The Bounty, just wrapped, the star already has her plate full with an assortment of films she’ll be working on from the other side of the camera for her company Echo. Don’t worry, Rachel fans! Aniston will totally be back to work as an actress as soon as the new year starts, as both of her passions will be meeting when she produces and stars in The Goree Girls this January, a musical set in the 1940s about a group of female prison inmates*.

*Yes, I’m totally serious. And yes, she says she’ll be singing in the film.

Harper’s Bazaar is running an article on Jennifer Aniston in its October issue in which the actress shares her perspectives on relationships, staying together and where it all goes wrong.

The ex-wife of Brad Pitt, ex-girlfriend of Vince Vaughn and more recently of John Mayer tells the magazine that she knows what makes a relationship fail.

“I think it’s laziness,” she says. “I think a good relationship is about collaboration. I think you just need to talk to each other. Say what you need. Say what you want. That way it’s not threatening. You just need to say, ‘This is important to me.’ Don’t expect your mate to read your mind.”

And, you know, I tend to agree with a lot of what she’s saying here.  Jen also says that women who are doing all the cooking and cleaning have no right to complain.”I think that’s because it’s just instinctual as a woman to be the caretaker of your home. Women complain that men don’t do enough, but it’s your own fault.  You train your man to do nothing. You can’t blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don’t ask for it right off the bat.”  I think most women feel that they shouldn’t have to ask; the guy should just know.  It doesn’t work that way.  Ask.

For a refreshing change, the closest Jen came to talking about her husband ex-husband, Brad Pitt, was in speaking of closure.  ”I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends – from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase,”