Another movie for Jennifer Aniston means another rumour of a supposed romance with a co-star. Just weeks after declaring Jen was happily ensconced with Hollywood's golden boy du jour, Bradley Cooper, the mags have turned their attention to her latest burly co-star, Scot Gerard Butler.

And if the rumours are to be believed Aniston is having quite the highland fling.

"She's crazy about Gerard Butler," they Weekly reports a ‘pal' of the actress as saying. "Beside him, all the other guys she's been seeing seem wimpy. She thinks he's hot, hot hot."

Aniston is looking great on the set of the pair's movie The Bounty, in which a bounty hunter (Butler) is on the hunt for his news reporter ex-wife (Aniston). Does it sound like something you'd flock to see at the cinema? It's only in production, but already I think I'd give it a miss.

Almost 40-year-old Butler is a uni graduate, and supposedly charms plenty of women with his Scottish accent. He's got quite a reputation as a womanizer, but then so did John Mayer.

"He makes her feel young and sexy. She laughs at his jokes and acts like a schoolgirl around him. Gerard is a real hunk of a man who looks like he could single-handedly clear out a bar so she feels confident being by his side."

Single-handedly clear out a bar? Does that mean he looks like a bouncer? Or that he could clear a large area with a massive fart? I'm confused.

The actress' friends are understandably protective of their pal, and have been notoriously hard to please when it's come to Jen's love life in the past. According to them Vince Vaughn "looked like an untidy barrel at times."

Er, right!

"British model Paul Sculfor was too dull and singer John Mayer was too flaky. But they approve of Gerard."

It's all good publicity for him and their film, whether or not it's true.

The Woman's Day tries to get a Jen vs Angie angle on the whole Butler business, saying that the actor has previously ‘got raunchy with Angelina.' Their characters in Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life made out. And ‘off-screen he praised her parenting skills.' Hardly sounds like a romance for the ages.

Perhaps Wait-y Katie isn't keen to be so wait-y after all?

Woman's Day leads this week with the royal significant other and her plans to "meet the Queen for a private luncheon next week which will determine her future as a royal."

The 27-year-old is reportedly getting ‘increasingly broody' and keen to plough forth with plans for marriage and motherhood with Prince William.

The upcoming one on one lunch at the Queen's Scottish summer pad, Balmoral, is apparently "the clearest signal yet that Her Majesty believes Kate is more likely than ever to become a fully-fledged member of The Firm."

The mag reckons the couple's already started planning the $20m ‘wedding of the century.' A bit of speculation since the century has 91 more years to go, no? Presumably they won't be asking her uncle Gary Goldsmith, who was just busted by the News of the World supplying drugs and arranging work for hookers from his home on Ibiza.

P Diddy and Kanye West are reported by the Day as contenders for the royal guest list. Imagine! "They are both on the list along with Mischa Barton, Naomi Campbell and of course their close circle of friends."

Possibly not Mischa Barton after her substance related meltdown late last week. I can't imagine Naomi Campbell attending anyone's wedding. She'd be so enraged she wasn't the centre of attention she'd be beating people down with her mobile left and right.

And apparently a four month long honeymoon is in the pipeline! Nice for some. She must really need to get a break from that part-time job she has working for her parents.

Naturally when it comes to families, there's always someone who wants to steal the thunder. Take a bow, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. Charles and Camilla, apparently, "are said to be concerned a wedding between the youngsters will steal the spotlight from them and their ascent to the throne."

Oh sod off, you two.

Let's not forget about my favourite prince, Harry, the larrikin of the bunch. William may be inheriting the throne, but the Day reports that he's been giving his older brother plenty of stick about inheriting the royal hairline to boot.

"After years of putting up with ‘ginger' jokes from Wills, it seems royal bloodnut Prince Harry is reveling in his brother's receding thatch," says the mag.

"It's disappearing faster than the Brazilian rainforest," quips Harry.

There's plenty of stuff written about Michael Jackson in all the mags, and if you're interested it would probably pay to pick them up. Murder theories, general mayhem, custody battles- you know, the usual.

What jumped out at me was the NW's report of Michael's eerie warning to Britney Spears, with whom he'd apparently been in regular contact since March. He told the star in a phone call not long before he died "Don't end up like me."

"When Michael suddenly died, Britney must have almost lost it. She must think Michael knew he was going to die an early death and that he was trying to save her from the same fate."

The tragic superstar told Brit to go with her instincts and retire after her current tour to focus on raising her two sons.

The mag reckons he also encouraged Britney to reunite with first love Justin Timberlake, telling the singer JT was her ‘soul mate' and that only he could ‘provide her with long-time happiness."

No disrespect, but I don't think anyone will be jumping to take romantic advice from Michael Jackson.

The same mag reports that Timberlake's two year romance with actress Jessica Biel is getting set to crash and burn, with a pal telling the mag "All his friends think she is really annoying. She's needy and is always keeping tabs on him."

Has Britney given agent boyfriend Jason Trawick a makeover to turn him into Brad Pitt? There's definitely a difference between Jason's current blonde, artfully stubbled look and his look of old. Jason's definitely now more arm candy than run of the mill employee.

"Six months ago Jason looked like a typical office schlub. He had a gut, grey hair and wore khaki Dockers pants and button-down shirts."

"Britney is totally infatuated with Brad," says the NW. "Now she's trying to turn Jason into her definition of what her dream man should look like."

Brit Brit signed Trawick up for six months worth of personal training sessions and a no expense spared food delivery service.

Nothing says I love you like being put on a diet, right?

And on the subject of Brad, the NW reports art world insiders are taking the mick out of the superstar's taste in art.

Brad recently making headlines for paying $1.2 million for a painting by German artist Neo Rauch, and now "insiders are laughing over just how much they can bleed from the celebrity art lover."

Sure people's taste in art is subjective in the first place, and a million dollars is loose change to Brad Pitt.

You want the secrets of Demi Moore's banging 46-year-old body? You won't have to make a deal with the devil or sell your first born child. The Woman's Day has them.

Cue shots of the star and husband Ashton Kutcher frolicking the sea on holiday in the Bahamas. She does look fantastic, and the Day reckons it can't all be put down to the hundreds of thousands of dollars Moore's spent on plastic surgery over the years.

NI reports amongst the considerable list of Demi's procedures: lipo on her hips, thighs and stomach, a boob job, brow lifts, knee lifts, and chemical peels. Plus an anti-ageing treatment where leeches suck her blood. You know, the usual.

The Day also quotes "reports in Cosmopolitan magazine that Demi has a predilection for drinking milk laced with her own urine."

I knew there must be a witches' brew involved in there somewhere!

When preparing for a role, Demi's six day a week workout routine involves a 4am bike ride, two hours of yoga, a run on the treadmill, and afternoon of kickboxing AND stretches, lunges and squats.

Okay, maybe she deserves that body.

Mel Gibson's soon to be ex-wife Robyn has found a new fella, but apparently what's good for the gander is not good for the goose.

"Mel has made it clear he feels mothers should not have boyfriends! Mel had the nerve to call Robyn and actually proclaim that mothers shouldn't date."

Meanwhile his girlfriend will soon be a mother, but apparently it's ok for her!

Pig.

New Idea leads this week with the gobshite of gastronomy, Gordon Ramsay, who's apparently begging wife Tana not to leave him.

He has had the annus horribilis, no? Financial problems, dire business dealings, personal life shaken with tales of tawdry love affairs...then there was the story of meals at his gastropubs being ready made off site and delivered, prompting the UK newspaper headline ‘Coq au Van.'

Tensions were apparent on the couple's recent holiday to Hamilton Island in Queensland, and word is Ramsay's long-suffering wife is getting fed up with his public shenanigans.

‘Tana adores Gordon but she has solid principles and can't condone her husband's bad behaviour."

The Weekly leads this week with the transformation of Princess Beatrice. She was savaged in the media last year, particularly in her homeland, for being snapped sporting an unflattering bikini on holiday. Fast forward 14 months and 20-year-old Bea has an amazing new figure.

The flame-haired princess has had the last laugh, being snapped with a slim, toned body out and about in the British summer in a variety of colourful, cute, flattering frocks.

"It was such an unflattering bikini," she said at the time of the controversy. "I've got one that is much nicer, so I could have kicked myself for wearing it. I thought people were a bit mean, although I know that comes with the territory."

Please give them the royal finger, Beatrice.

With the help of her mother's years of experience as a spokeswoman for Weight Watchers, Beatrice cuts out the bread, booze, sweets and fried foods when she wants to shift the pounds.

"It's not easy for me - I've always loved things like French fries, chocolate and cola. But if I want to grow up, not out, it has to be done!"

To fight the flab, Beatrice's cousin Zara Phillips has a nutritionist as part of her equestrian team. The Queen, Princess Anne and Prince Phillip ride for fitness. Charles and Camilla ‘shake a mean leg' on the dance floor. And Prince Andrew just doesn't care.

"He's more concerned with pulling his weight than controlling it."

Hee.

The NW's ‘Shock New Bodies' section this week features ‘before' and ‘after' photos of former OC star Mischa Barton, published before the actress was involuntarily committed to a Los Angeles psychiatric hospital on Friday (NZ time).

The bloat around her face which has crept on over the past five months is quite astonishing, swallowing her entire bone structure - and while the actress has claimed it was due to an operation on her wisdom teeth, pals are saying it's her love of the good life which is to blame.

"Mischa loves to go out. She's earned herself quite a name as a drinker and a hardcore party girl - and this is among a group of people who pretty much party for a living."

Latest word is Barton is staying on in the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre beyond the 72 hours a 5150 hold can keep her for.

The Woman's Day's got too cute pictures of one of my favourite actresses, Helena Bonham Carter, out with gorgeous daughter Nell in west London sporting mummy and me bloomers. Nell is so cute, I'll even overlook the Crocs. Madonna's new daughter Mercy is snapped having the time of her life with brothers David and Rocco at a Parisian funfair in the NI. And All Black hard man Rodney So'oialo shows his softer side with wife Marilyn and cute daughters Tiana and Peyton in a Weekly article against using force to discipline kids. And if that's not enough on the offspring front, there's pics of Jools Oliver out in Primrose Hill with three month old daughter Petal.

And just when you thought Scarlett Johansson couldn't look better, you'll see her new ads for Spanish clothing company Mango in the Weekly. Muy caliente!

And that's all from the mags this week!

 

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