As you might have suspected would happen, Life & Style’s report that Jennifer Aniston refused to shoot a Marie Claire cover with all four of her co-stars is being shot down by her publicist Stephen Huvane.
The tabloid’s report fingered unexplained bad blood between Aniston and He???s Just not That Into You co-star Jennifer Conelly as the reason why Aniston refused to do the magazine cover if Connelly was on there too (though Aniston was supposedly fine with shooting alongside Drew Barrymore and Ginnifer Goodwin, who are also in the film, but only if she was front and center).
Immediately, Huvane was playing defense, insisting the reports are “absolutely absurd” and that “there is no drama whatsoever.”
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Please join us in wishing a Happy Big Fat Gay Wedding to uber-flack Stephen Huvane and his new husband artist Steven Janssen. (Yes, that’s two Stephens, for those keeping track.) If you non-celebrity media types don’t immediately recognize Huvane’s name, this should help you: He was the publicist just threatening Today with yanking clients like Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kirsten Dunst after the NBC show invited Us Weekly’s Janice Min for an Ann Curry gabfest about Aniston’s supposed (confirmed!) engagement to Vince Vaughn. You know, the story where Aniston – in the utmost unlikelihood for a celeb – went to such lengths as going directly to People to deny the story.
Yeah, that Stephen Huvane (the man also behind Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore’s prank publicity wedding and part of the fighting force trying to keep Jennifer Aniston’s topless weed smoking photos out of the public eye). On Saturday he invited about sixty guests — who were instructed to show up at Demi and Ashton’s Beverly Hills home. But that was just a security tactic; the real wedding took place down the street at the home of Stephen’s brother Kevin (as in the CAA agent behind Aniston, Jake Gyllenhall, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman).
As you can tell from this clusterfuck of interconnected Hollywood smarm, the guest list read like an Oscar after-party: Aniston (there with a girlfriend), Dunst, Demi and Ashton, etc.
“It was a chance for both the families to come together and to show them they were in a committed relationship,” we hear from one of the guests. While there was no live band, three open bars kept guests liquored up. Though perhaps too liquored up? Some were wondering how Huvane could be getting married when he’s been spotted with at least three guys in the past year alone. Ouch.
So where are all the photos from such a star studded event? Well, the photo agencies decided to take a pass. Not enough value in aerial shots of the festivities, as it’s hard to zoom in on Kirsten Dunst’ nostrils from up there.
We hope this is not just Page Six teasing us with extremely exciting gossip, because, well, this news is pretty much getting us through our Monday. Remember when Janice Min went on the Today show, blabbing about how Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn were engaged? And how Jen’s publicist Stephen Huvane was none too pleased by what he claims were “false rumors?”
Well Janice has finally managed to do something we will forever be grateful for. She has managed to get Huvane to swear we will never look at Kirsten Dunst’s mug on NBC between 7 and 10 am.
Huvane has branded the story a complete fabrication. He’s said to have told the “Today” suits he’s pulling his hottest clients – including Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Demi Moore and Kirsten Dunst – from the show indefinitely.
Do you hear that? Do you hear the sound of little angels playing mini trumpets? “Indefinitely.” Such a beautiful word. Especially in the context of “you are safe from the greasy-haired ragamuffin.”
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