OK! Magazine Still Clinging to Brad Pitt “Still Loves” Jennifer Aniston Theory

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5:18 pm, February 4th, 2010

Refusing to leave well enough alone, OK! Magazine continues the recent barrage of “bullsplit” Brangelina buzz in a big way, declaring in a cover story that Brad Pitt still loves ex-wife Jennifer Aniston and is only staying with Angelina Jolie for the kids.

Ugh.

As Gossip Cop reported, Pitt and Jolie were together, laughing and happy at the Directors Guild of America Awards. To OK!, though, the couple’s good cheer and displays of affection were just an act. They “appeared to be the very picture of romantic bliss,” the weekly claims, but it was all “a well-orchestrated illusion.”

How does OK! know?

Brangelina biographer Ian Halperin, who for months has sold books on the faulty premise that Pitt and Jolie are splitting, insists the two are “leading 100 percent separate lives.”

What’s more, according to a so-called “source” for the mag, Pitt thinks leaving Aniston was a “terrible mistake” and has told his friends, “I’m still in love with Jen.” OK! then trots out as an example of his continued infatuation the “warm conversation” Pitt and Aniston shared at the Hope For Haiti Now telethon… a conversation that never took place, as Gossip Cop reported.

But this fictional “reunion” “only doused more kerosene on Brad’s already burning torch,” reports the mag. He would “do anything to have his old life back,” but won’t “turn his back” on the children he has with Jolie, says their “source.” Aniston, meanwhile, might not take Pitt back, because even if she “hasn’t quite moved on” (and the mag suggests that she has, to Gerard Butler), she’s “no longer playing the role of wounded victim” and happy not to have the drama Pitt has in his life.

Uh huh.

Let’s review.

OK! says Pitt is desperate to leave Jolie, but won’t because of the kids, and that Aniston probably won’t take him back, anyway. All of which is a very convenient “out” for the magazine should Pitt not, you know, leave his relationship for his ex-wife.

The evidence offered for Pitt and Aniston “spending more time” together? A conversation that never happened, and that would have been extraordinarily public even if it had.

And the explanation for what everyone in the world did see, Pitt and Jolie being perfectly happy together at an awards show? Well OK! says that was all an act.

Gossip Cop wonders how long the tabloids can tie themselves into knots trying to prove the “bullsplit” Brangelina stories before they pull a muscle.

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