This day has been heavy on the Butler gossip, and I’m okay with that. Remember those rumors from late last year that everyone’s favorite Spartan was rubbing shields with Jennifer Aniston at the Toronto film festival? Well, rumors are flying again that the two might be seeing each other on a regular basis:

According to sources, the duo has been meeting up at the former Friends star’s New York apartment.

“She said that in their film meetings, the chemistry was intense and physical,” the Sun quoted a source close to Jennifer…

I know a lot of people feel bad for Jennifer because of her “unlucky in love” schtick, but there’s only so much sympathy you can give someone who just keeps making such bad dating choices. Most of you have at least one friend like that– or I should say had one friend like that– who dates jerk after jerk and wonders why things don’t ever work out for her.
Gerard is known for being something of a player– which is fine if you’re just looking for a little post-relationship rebound fling– but another source says that Aniston is “smitten” and looking to develop a serious relationship with him.

I’d been hearing buzzing for awhile now that Jennifer Aniston was with John Mayer more for the publicity shots than anything else, but I didn’t want to believe it! I wanted Jennifer to find true love!

Alas, it was not to be.

They’ve broken up, yet again.

“They had some disagreements and decided to not continue to see each other,” says one source. “Jen is moving on with her life like she always does. She seems happy.”

A second source says Mayer broke up with Aniston after she returned from Europe.

Hmmm, so did John dump Jen? Or the other way around? Were they both just in it for the Oscar date???

Okay, I’m just kidding.  Sort of.

Now, it’s totally just a widely-reported rumor at this point, but it’s a rumor I believe:  Jennifer Aniston got dumped by John Mayer when she returned from her European Marley & Me tour.  It’s classic commitment-phobe behavior; they took it to the next level and he freaked out.  And really, doesn’t this picture just say it all?  Sure, a few pictures of them on Oscar night showed more reciprocal affection, but seriously, most of them were of Jen looking like one of those clip-on plush Koala toys you put on your pencil in 1984.  Does anyone remember those?

I guess we’ll just have to stay tuned on this one.  John Mayer is working on an album right now and Aniston is set to start filming her sure-fire flop, The Baster.  And yes, I am predicting its failure based solely on the name of the flick.  How very shallow.

Surely you remember, it was only two weeks ago, that Jennifer Aniston didn’t want to discuss her marriage with Brad Pitt?  You know, the marriage that ended years ago.

Now Jen is doing promo work for Marley & Me in the UK and talked with Hello! magazine:

You were with Brad Pitt for seven years – and married for five. It must have been very intense, in the public eye? [sic]
“It was. But I don’t regret any of that time with Brad and I’m not here to beat myself up about it. They were seven very intense years together, and it was a beautiful and complicated relationship. I will love Brad for the rest of my life – you can’t take away good memories. I really do hope that we’ll be good friends again at some point. You can survive anything – human endurance is unbelievable. But yes, it’s sad coming to the end of something special. You try to avoid all the pain but that somehow causes even more. I’m a human being, have human experiences.”

I know Jen says that humans are durable and can survive anything but I really do not know if I can overcome one more fucking interview about her marriage that lasted four and a half years, has been over for four years, and is still the only topic she has to talk about.

“I don’t owe anybody my side of the story.There are no sides! There is no bad guy and there is no good guy.  There are no villains and there is no heroine in this story.”

Jennifer Aniston in April’s issue of Elle UK discussing how she isn’t going to talk about her split from Brad.  Which I find ironic since I feel like she is always talking about her “husband.”

Advice to Jen?  If you don’t feel that you owe anyone your side of the story, stop sharing your side of the story with everyone.

Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer made their first public appearance as a couple at the Oscars last weekend, and People magazine points out that the two have been dating for a whole year now!

Where does the time go??? It feels like just yesterday John was out and about making Jessica Simpson’s life a living hell. I’m getting so old.

“At some point, you feel comfortable and say, ‘This is the choice I want to make,’” Mayer told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM morning radio show Wednesday, referring to the couple’s decision to “out” themselves.

What do you guys think? Is this thing for real? Is John Mayer finally ready to settle down?

I know this story comes from The Enquirer, but I have a feeling it’s true.  Or I’m just projecting and hope it’s true.  Though Drew’s sweet potato face (not to be confused with sweet, potato face) on those Cover Girl ads annoys me, she can’t stand John Mayer.  That is a stance I can support.

Drew Barrymore is begging Jennifer Aniston to dump John Mayer, telling her: “You can do better!” says a friend of the actresses.

The two beauties – recent co-stars in the hit He’s Just Not That Into You – had a recent heart-to-heart talk about the commitment-phobic rocker, pals say, with Drew urging Jen to keep looking because John’s using her to boost his career.

“Drew told Jen she could do way better and she’d be a fool to settle for him,” a close pal told The ENQUIRER.

“The first time Jen introduced twice-divorced Drew to John, they clashed,” added the source.

“They bickered for so long that Jen had to step in and change the subject.”

Over the past 10 months, Drew has heard all of Jen’s horror stories about 31-year-old John’s roving eye, how he blabs about his love life and how he refuses to discuss marriage or children, added the source.

When quizzed recently about what dating advice she gives to girlfriends, Drew revealed: “Don’t coddle your friends, help them grow. Stop repeating those bad patterns. If he doesn’t make you feel good, get out!”

“And even though Jen is crazy in love with John, I think a part of her is worried that Drew may be right.”