Brad Backtracks on Jen Comments Again and Again

Plus, Chelsea Handler disses Angelina Jolie ... again

(NEWSER) - Is Jennifer Aniston determined to get hitched before ex-hubby Brad Pitt? Maybe so, if TMZ is to be believed: Sources tell the gossip site Aniston was in Crete recently, looking at the Elounda Beach Hotel for a possible summer wedding. She specifically mentioned July, hotel sources claim; Aniston's father was born in Crete. Meanwhile, Aniston's loyal buddy Chelsea Handler slammed Angelina Jolie yet again in a More interview picked up by the New York Post . More»

Jennifer Lopez buys Casper Smart a truck, and more

(NEWSER) - While your friends are all giving you $20 gift cards on your birthday, celebrities are giving each other $250,000 cars and entire vineyards. Celebuzz rounds up 18 of the most insane celebrity gifts ever given:

• Jennifer Lopez: J.Lo is the latest, this weekend giving her 25-year-old new boyfriend, backup dancer Casper Smart, a customized white Dodge Ram truck.
• Justin Bieber: He's snagged an electric car that costs more than $100,000 from his manager, a $200,000 Lamborghini Spyder from Diddy, and a Range Rover from Usher. And he can't really drive that well .
• Katy Perry: Bought then-hubby Russell Brand a trip to space for $200,000.

Today's weird story comes to you courtesy of Maureen Dowd

(NEWSER) - New York’s Vulture blog pulls this priceless tidbit from yesterday’s New York Times Magazine tribute to Hollywood super-agent Sue Mengers: In her piece remembering Mengers, who died this year, Maureen Dowd recalls the time that Mengers gave some advice to Jennifer Aniston after Brad Pitt left her for Angelina Jolie. Writes Dowd, “Mengers told me that she advised her beloved Jen to ask Brad for some of his sperm.” Writes Vulture’s Kyle Buchanan, “Maureen Dowd, the editors from Star and the National Enquirer are surely giving you the slow clap this week.” (Click to see the holiday card Aniston and her boyfriend sent this year.) More»

That probably won't calm the angry members of Team Aniston, however

(NEWSER) - Brad Pitt’s really stepped in it now, riling up Team Jen afresh with his comments in the new issue of Parade . You see, back in the ‘90s, he “wasn’t living an interesting life,” he tells the magazine. “I think that my marriage had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t.” It also didn’t help that he was “trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony … sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out. It started feeling pathetic,” he says. More»

New book gives behind-the-scenes breakup details

(NEWSER) - It's been six years, but apparently there's still an appetite out there for the scandalous details of the Brad Pitt-Jennifer Aniston divorce, as evidenced by a new book that goes behind the scenes. Mr. and Mrs. Smith producer Arnon Milchan, with whom Pitt briefly lived after splitting with Aniston, says that Jen didn't believe the Angelina Jolie-related rumors at first. "She started asking around but no one would tell her anything because they were loyal to Brad, so she asked him point blank. He denied it." When he later admitted his feelings over a 2005 New Year's Eve trip, she tossed him out of their Beverly Hills mansion, the Daily Mail reports. More»