She said earlier this month that she was fed up with speculation about her private life.

But then Jennifer Aniston makes a statement like arriving to the premiere of her new movie Wanderlust wearing a name ring to match her beau Justin Theroux’s — on her engagement finger. Jennifer shone in a grey corseted dress as she posed at the premiere, with one of her main accessories being the gold ring bearing her Christian name.

Justin, meanwhile, wore a ring bearing his name — a sign of the pair’s commitment to each other. However, the couple’s pledge of love and fidelity might have been better if the rings were slimmer, and perhaps made of silver rather than the incredibly chunky gold rings they opted for.

Speaking recently about her relationship with Justin, Jennifer told GQ magazine: “It’s a growing, literally living thing. There’s going to be growing pains, there’s going to be awkward moments — your lanky phase, your pimpled phase.

I think that’s the beauty of a relationship. But if the road starts to (diverge) and one person is growing this way and the other is growing that way… Sometimes that can happen and you can stay together, and sometimes you can’t.”

The pair both posed up on the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of their movie, but refused to pose for a shot together. It may well have been because Justin, 40, prefers to keep their relationship out of the public eye.

In an interview to promote the film this week he said: I understand the curiosity, but other than saying I am happy, I am not going to indulge it. That’s building your own torture device.”

— Daily Mail

“I was bullied at school for being a Goth… I had no idea I could be pretty”

She’s widely considered to be one of the most attractive celebrities in the world, and is envied by men and women alike for her stunning curves.

But Mad Men star Christina Hendricks has revealed she wasn’t always so confident in her looks, and was targeted by school bullies when she was younger. She explained: “My school days were pretty unhappy.

I had the worst high school experience ever. I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy. I was a bit of a Goth and I was also part of the drama group, so my friends and I were all weird theatre people and everyone just hated us. There was a long corridor with lockers on either side and kids would sit on top of them and spit on you. It was like something out of Lord of the Flies.”

However, it was when Christina posed in a modelling competition after leaving school that she first felt attractive. She told the Daily Mirror: “When I got the pictures back my mum and I started crying because I had no idea I could be pretty. I’d always felt awkward. It was the first time I really felt pretty.

It just sort of changed my perspective of myself.” And now Christina says she has learnt to move on from the past, secure in the knowledge that she has achieved what she wanted to with her life. She added: “If I could go back and tell my 14-year-old self anything it would be, ‘Don’t worry. You’re going to be doing exactly what you want to be doing.’”

— Daily Mail

Dick Van Dyke Popp-ins to the supermarket

He swept to fame as chipper cockney chimney sweep Bert almost 50 years ago. But these days, the loveable Dick Van Dyke is a shadow of his allsinging, all-dancing Mary Poppins alter ego.

The 86-year-old American actor looked frail and stooped as he visited his local grocery store in Malibu last week. He was spotted hunched over his shopping trolley as he made his way into the store, wearing a casual ensemble of jeans, trainers and a sweater printed with the words ‘Midnight Mission’. Indeed today, Van Dyke is more akin to another lesser know part he played in the hit 1964 Disney movie — that of grumbling bank president Mr Dawes.

The actor did in fact reprise his role as Dawes very recently in a stage-show version of the muchloved movie, in which he famously starred alongside Julie Andrews.

Van Dyke had to persuade Walt Disney to giving him a second role as the old banker in the film — as bosses had initially ruled he was too young to play the ancient financier.

But the actor apparently won them over by acting a screen test, agreeing to portray Dawes for free and making a donation to the California Institute of the Arts, which Disney co-founded. The character of Mr Dawes was not included in the California stage musical — but was written into a scene so Van Dyke could reprise his role. While his role as Bert the chimney sweep may have warmed hearts all over the world, the actor was famously ridiculed for his convoluted East End accent.

— Daily Mail