Team Aniston

By Television • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Television

MeZine finally comes out on the side of Team Aniston, based almost entirely on the fact that if we see one more Angelina Jolie interview, we’re going to throw our fancy flatscreens out the window.

We’re sick to death of Angelina Jolie’s self-satisfied tats and her smarmy “I don’t trust anyone but Brad, but maybe not Brad. Yes, Brad. Maybe” interviews. We’re so over her cynical philanthropy and multi-national child collecting that we have become flag-waving, zone dieting, hair-style copying Jennifer Aniston fans. We might even rent “Rumor Has It,” but that might be going too far.

Angelina is certainly a compelling figure. She’s stunning and has a first class acting career, but she’s also the chick who wore a vial of her husband’s blood around her neck and kissed her brother in an un-brotherly fashion at an awards show. Her “ew” factor is high, but until now we disregarded it because she’s gorgeous and everyone loves a freak.

Then she stole Jen’s husband.

To be honest, we were never huge Jennifer Aniston fans. Yes, we’ve seen every episode of Friends and secretly loved that Ross and Rachel finally got together again. One of her films is in our Netfix queue, but really just because Clive Owen is in it. But no one messes with our celebrities marriages and gets away with it. We still haven’t forgiven Julia Roberts for stealing her cameraman husband from someone else. But we never really liked Julia anyway.

So put us firmly in the Team Aniston camp. We wouldn’t care that deeply, but we just heard some clips from the Angelina interviews and were stunned by her audacity. Imagine: someone steals your husband (ouch) then has interviews about what a great father and partner he is (double ouch) then tells the media –not you–that she would really really love to talk to you about it one-on-one because she is that big a person (please-take-this-knife-from-my-back kind of ouch). This reeks of narcissism and, we think, a cynical manipulation ploy. Our nostrils are recoiling from it and, if you think about it, that’s pretty tough to do.

We don’t think the Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt coupling is the next big romance. We give it a few years before Brad’s friends finally pull him aside and tell him they think Ange is a shrew and for Brad to please grow a pair.

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