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Angelina Jolie can be laid to rest as Jennifer Aniston, 43, has well and truly moved on by getting engaged to partner Justin Theroux.
The Friends actress and her actor/director beau sealed the deal on Friday, after the 41-year-old popped the question during his birthday celebrations.
His spokesperson confirmed to People: ‘Justin Theroux had an amazing birthday on Friday, receiving an extraordinary gift when his girlfriend, Jennifer Aniston, accepted his proposal of marriage.’ The rep said: ‘They’re great friends’ – a pun on the sitcom that made Aniston famous in the Nineties.
The engagement falls on the same weekend that Jennifer’s ex-husband Brad Pitt was rumoured to be marrying Angelina, his partner of seven years and the mother of his six children, at their French home.
Their romance was infamously shrouded in whispers that they embarked on a relationship while Brad was still married to Jennifer – having met on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith in 2004.
However, as news of the wedding has still not been confirmed and insiders are claiming that next weekend is ‘a far more likely date’, Jennifer and Justin have stolen their thunder.
The couple, who have been dating for more than a year, were first seen together in May 2011.
Jennifer and Justin both starred in Wanderlust together, a comedy flop with Paul Rudd about a modern New York couple trying to escape society by moving to a commune in Georgia.
Fans will be elated for Jennifer, as the Los Angeles native was largely considered to be unlucky-in-love.
Following her four and a half year marriage to Pitt, which saw them separate in January 2005, she endured a string of fling flops.
Aniston was seen on the arm of The Break-Up co-star Vince Vaughn soon after, before moving on to British model Paul Sculfor for a few months in 2007 and later had an on/off romance with John Mayer.
Meanwhile, Theroux fell under the microscope during his courting of Aniston – as he broke up with his long-term girlfriend of 14 years, Heidi Bivens.
In an interview with GQ Spain, she said she no longer strives for the perfect life as it’s ‘cliché’.
Asked if it bothers her that her personal life is under constant scrutiny, she said: ‘A perfect life? I think that’s sort of cliché, isn’t it?
‘Like, if you want to be happy, you should have the house, the husband, the kid… Kids are messy!’ (Agencies)