Hollywood is a buzz with rumors that Jennifer Aniston is set to walk down the aisle with boyfriend Vince Vaughn. Celebrity magazines have splashed the news of Aniston’s engagement on their covers and radio talk show hosts have devoted entire shows to the rumored nuptials. The intense media coverage finally pushed the actress to speak out about the reports.
In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE Magazine Aniston sets the record straight by denying published reports that she and Vaughn are engaged. Not only did she tell the magazine that the rumor is “insane” she went on to say that “people are getting fed a lot of bull.”
“I’m not engaged and I don’t have a ring and I haven’t been proposed to,” Aniston told a PEOPLE Magazine reporter. “Normally we don’t even acknowledge these things because they’re endless, at this point, the thing that got me was that I was getting phone calls from Greece! My Aunt Mary in Greece is getting accused of lying! I mean, they’re getting angry.”
Aniston says she felt pressured to make a public statement regarding the rumors after her father called to say that he heard an announcement on CNN. “My dad calls and he says, ‘Honey, it’s on the CNN crawl,’ and I’m going, ‘Wait a second!’ When it starts to travel over into the Today show and CNN and supposedly reliable and accurate news programs, then you just go, ‘This is insane.’ People are getting fed a lot of bull.”
As for the real status of Aniston’s relationship with Vaughn, whom she met last year while filming “The Break-Up,” the actress says: “We’re having a good time.” And that’s about all she is saying. Both Aniston and Vaughn have been tight-lipped about their coupling even to the point of arriving at the same event in different vehicles and never walking the red carpet together. Aniston tells PEOPLE the only reason she is breaking her silence now is because the engagement reports were picked up by the mainstream media.
“Tabloids are going to lie all the time. You’re prepared for that. But it’s the news. And you think, ‘Well, we need to trust what our newscasters are saying when we have this horrific situation that’s actually taking place in the world, I mean, we are getting reported the truth, right? The American people need to believe (the news),” Aniston says. “Please. Get it together. So that’s all.”
If this is what it’s like not to be engaged—I can’t imagine what will transpire when (or if) she ever gets a ring. Did you believe the engagement rumors?