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To: bobby beara who wrote (45217)	1/8/2005 4:56:26 PM
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The End of Brad and Jen Fri Jan 7, 8:35 PM ET By Marcus Errico Simply put, Hollywood's hottest couple is kaput. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston (news) announced Friday that they were calling it quits after nearly five years of marriage. "We have decided to formally separate," they said in a joint statement. "This decision is the result of much thoughtful consideration. We happily remain committed and caring friends with great love and admiration for one another. We ask in advance for your kindness and sensitivity in the coming months." The couple's every move in recent months has been breathlessly tracked in painstaking detail in the glossies. Us Weekly, Star and InTouch devoted gallons of ink to chronicling the actors' ups and downs. First Pitt was linked to his Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar Angelina Jolie. Then Aniston was spotted sans wedding ring. He told Diane Sawyer how much he wanted kids, supposedly while she was partying it up London (and this after he jet-setted to shoot Troy, Ocean's Twelve and Mr. and Mrs. Smith). Then they were back together, celebrating New Year's in the Caribbean with Aniston's former Friend Courteney Cox (news) and hubby David Arquette (news). British oddsmakers even began taking bets on whether the couple would last through the end of the year (by Monday, the line was 2-to-1 in favor of divorce). People was the first out with the break-up news late Friday (undoubtedly ruining the weekend plans of rival reporters). "For those who follow these sorts of things, we would like to explain that our separation is not the result of any of the speculation reported by the tabloid media," they said in their Friday statement. There was no further comment from either actor's reps. Pitt, 41, and Aniston, 35, first hooked up in the spring of 1998 and instantly became one of Tinseltown's premiere power couples. They married two years later in a lavish, star-studded ceremony in Malibu attended by 200 of their closest pals, including Cox, Arquette, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, Cameron Diaz (news), Edward Norton and Salma Hayek (news). It was the first marriage for both. Pitt had one been engaged to Gwyneth Paltrow and before that had shacked up with Juliette Lewis. Aniston previously played house with actor Tate Donovan and had also spent time flocking with head Counting Crow, Adam Duritz. Endlessly dogged by paparazzi and the tabs, the couple was never far from a headline. Aniston's waistline and eating habits were analyzed ad nauseum for clues to whether she was pregnant during the final seasons of Friends. She finally confided to People in 2002 that they were planning on starting a family, when the time was right. "Absolutely it will happen but probably not for a while," she said. "Probably Friends will end, close that chapter, and see where we go." But Aniston's post-Friends career took off and she has at least a half-dozen films in the pipeline, beginning with Rumor Has It, a comedy due out April 15 in which she plays a woman who discovers her family was the inspiration for The Graduate. Her other projects include Derailed, a thriller about two people whose lives take a turn after a chance encounter on a train, due later this year; Diary, a film about a married woman who gets blackmailed after she loses her secrets-filled diary; Friends with Money, about three married women and their single friend; the heist tale Gambit with Ben Kingsley; and an untitled dark comedy about a politician's wife unwittingly reunited with a child she put up for adoptions years earlier. Pitt, on the other hand, has some down time after a busy year in 2004. (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, one of three high-profile films he shot last year, comes out in June.) While the baby-making was unsuccessful, the couple did make good on another joint project. They formed the production company Plan B with their manager, Brad Grey. With Aniston and Pitt splitting and Grey giving up his stake to take over Paramount Pictures, it's not known what will become of Plan B. The company's next major release is the Johnny Depp (news)-starring Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, due out this summer.