Here we go again. After her split with John Mayer put an end to tabloid talk of pregnancy, Jennifer Aniston yet again finds herself the subject of baby rumors. According to Star magazine, the 40-year-old actress has approached a California agency and begun the paperwork process to adopt a baby boy.
“She doesn’t want to wait,” a friend reportedly told the tabloid. “Her best friends all have kids, and Jen sees how much motherhood changed their lives for the best. She’s dying to have that!”
Supposedly, the former “Friends” star has already planned a $250,000 nursery (just how did they arrive at that figure, we wonder?) and selected a nanny. And, perhaps in a deliberate contrast with archnemesis Angelina Jolie’s global brood, Jen supposedly wants an American child.
Pal Sheryl Crow, herself the adoptive mother of a son, is mentoring Jennifer through the experience, says another source: “Sheryl is walking her through the process step by step.”
Uh-huh. We’re pretty sure it’s Star, not Jen herself, that’s desperate for her to have a baby.
Jon Minus Kate?
Scandal! Infidelity rumors have plagued “Jon and Kate Plus 8” dad Jon Gosselin before — and now Us magazine claims to have caught him late-night clubbing with a woman who is definitely not wife Kate.
The dad of eight reportedly “could barely walk” as he left the Legends nightclub near his family’s Pennsylvania home at 2 a.m. — and wasn’t wearing his wedding band. (Kate, meanwhile, was on the West Coast, promoting her new book.)
Jon was spotted getting into the passenger seat of his car with an unidentified woman whom he allegedly addressed as “babe.” When cameras began going off, he reportedly “panicked, urging his female friend to ‘get in the car!’ before speeding off hastily — without even turning on the headlights.”
In response to the claims, the Gosselin patriarch e-mailed the tabloid to say, “I went to Legends to speak to the owner. A friend of mine wanted to check out my car, so I let her drive it to her car. Yes, I have female friends — but that is all she is.”
What really shocks us about this story is that a father of eight would have the time and energy to go out clubbing until 2 a.m.!
Mel’s New Gal
Mel Gibson must be pretty confident that his divorce will be an amicable one. Despite half of his estimated $900 million fortune being on the line, since estranged wife Robyn reportedly never signed a pre-nup, the “Braveheart” star made a red-carpet appearance with his girlfriend, Russian singer Oksana Grigorieva. The duo were photographed holding hands and smiling at an L.A. screening of the new “Wolverine” film.
“They came in quietly and as under-the-radar as they could and they were pretty low-key,” a source relayed to People magazine. “Mel seemed very comfortable.”
“Mel has been single for almost three years, and it’s nice to see him getting out and enjoying himself,” the actor-director’s rep told the magazine. (He and his wife, who filed for divorce two weeks ago, quietly separated shortly after his infamous 2006 DUI bust.)
For someone who’s a famously staunch Catholic, Mel sure seems to be taking this divorce thing quite well.
Divorce Penn-ding
Guess the second time around was no better than the first. Sean Penn has once again filed for legal separation from Robin Wright Penn, his wife since 1996.
The Oscar-winning actor filed papers Friday, Extra! reported. The couple, parents of two, had originally split up in 2007, but then tried to give their union another go.
Hey, Madonna is single again too. Wouldn’t it be wild if she and Sean got back together?
Kitty Raymond is an entertainment writer and astrologer. She welcomes feedback at [email protected].
