Private ire

AFTER A YEAR that began with the bombshell announcement of her separation from Brad Pitt, sparking a global tabloid frenzy that saw every detail of her private life and personal anguish pored over in excruciating fashion, it is easy to empathise with Jennifer Aniston when she talks about her wish for 2006. 'I just want it to be here,' she says. 'I can't wait for it. I bow to 2005. But I will welcome 2006. Even if I don't know what the hell's going to happen.'

The love triangle involving Aniston, Pitt and Angelina Jolie was the grand-daddy of tabloid soap operas this year, the closest thing to the collapse of a royal marriage that celebrity-obsessed America has witnessed in recent times. And although the ink on her divorce to Pitt has been dry for three months, the public's appetite for news about Aniston remains as insatiable as ever, fed by an increasingly aggressive paparazzi pack. The day before Aniston arrives to meet foreign press to discuss her latest film, Rumor Has It ..., the National Enquirer's front page headline screams: 'Jen Out of Control!', speculating that her 'wild and crazy' friendship with actor Vince Vaughn is putting her life at risk.

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