Brad Pitt claims that he and Jennifer Aniston are still very good friends and that he just had to follow his heart to ensure he lived the life he dreamed of.

"Jen and I still maintain a deep friendship and have a lot of life together that isn’t erased in any way," the actor tells V magazine of the couple’s four-and-a-half year union, which ended in 2005.

"I don’t know how better to have handled [the split]. My view was, this was no one’s business in the end – at least in matters of the heart," he says. "The thing guiding me then was, you don’t know how many days you have, and you need life to be everything you need it to be." . . .

Adds Pitt, who now has four children with Angelina Jolie: "Those questions had to be answered before an attraction to Angie could be answered."

We’re curious about how Jennifer would describe their relationship. BFFs? Doubt it.

Oh…and here’s an Anatomy Lesson for Brad: That body part you followed out of your marriage and into Angelina Jolie? Clue - the heart is above the belt.

Got it? Good.

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We really wanted to entitle this post "Nicole Kidman, Fool, Was In A Rush to Marry After Escaping Her Unholy Union with Tom Cruise" but we feared that it might not be the best search-engine-appropriate headline.

And that we might spark the ire of an unnamed, wee-yet-litigious man.

Oh! And that we might sound too much like Mr. T.

So, the story, according to Page Six, is that Nicole Kidman reveals in her Vanity Fair interview that she was "secretly engaged" to a man she won’t name in between the end of her contract marriage to Mr. Tom Cruise and before she married Aussie country crooner Keith Urban.

But our sources say he was Lenny Kravitz. "They were even house-hunting together for a while," a spy said. A representative for Kravitz said, "I cannot confirm or deny it." A rep for Kidman said, "I don’t know."

So there you have it…unsubstantiated, yet highly likely…and not nearly as interesting as the picture on the cover.

Come on. Secretly engaged for a short time? That’s like being almost pregnant. Half the kids in school can claim that.

A source close to Jessica Alba is claiming Jessica broke up with Cash Warren because she was ready for marriage and he wasn’t. The insider says:

"He wasn’t ready for marriage, and Jessica is. It’s simple as that. It’s kind of cold that the press is saying she was just finished with him, because it isn’t like that. Seeing Eva get married made Jessica wistful. That was the reason Jessica seemed to be in a terrible mood in Paris."

I’m hoping Warren makes a public statement telling his side of this like, "She didn’t like sex, and I can’t live without it." I’d totally understand that. I mean that’s like saying, "She didn’t want me to breath, and I can’t live without air." He said "yes" to marrying her vagina, but "no" to marrying a block of ice.

OK! Magazine’s cover line = mwah ha ha ha.

Belly laughs, all around.

This is their response to the naughty Jacuzzi pics?

Nick Lachey voluntarily allowed cameras into his home during his marriage with Jessica Simpson.

Vanessa Minnillo, besides being a famewhore in general, has been practically getting naked for publicity for years.

Oh…and Nick’s "over Jessica." Well, mentioning it once again certainly proves it, right?

Incredible.

According to US Weekly, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt don’t need a piece of paper.

“I’ve tried marriage twice before, but Brad and I haven’t felt the need to do it. We never discuss it too much because we don’t feel like there is anything missing.”

No surprise there. They seem happy enough.

Besides, why pay the butcher when you’re getting the sausage, and the growing multi-national brood, for free?

Are we right, ladies?