All eyes were on Jennifer Aniston, single and totally unattached again, in Marrakech, Morocco, this week, when she outshone the other stars at the reopening of the legendary La Mamounia Hotel.
Reporters in London went wild on Wednesday when Aniston arrived at Heathrow at the same time as Orlando Bloom. They tried not to be photographed together, but then both got into the same car, sparking breathless speculation of a romance.
But when the two later arrived in Africa, Bloom’s girlfriend, Australian lingerie model Miranda Kerr, was waiting for him with open arms.
Canadian columnist Shinan Govani tells Page Six Aniston wasn’t talkative at the hotel’s celebrity-packed party on Thursday. Asked if she’d comment on Ian Halperin‘s upcoming tell-all, “Brangelina Exposed,” Aniston cooled and simply mouthed, “No.”
Roxy Music rocker Bryan Ferry was also in a negative mode. Not even one of the word’s great beauties, supermodel Daria Werbowy, could convince him to sing for free at La Mamounia’s Churchill Bar. “He turned her down flat,” Govani said.
Adrien Brody was more obliging. Inspired perhaps by the scent of the 20-acre olive garden outside, or by the hotel’s 120-million-euro restoration, he sat down at the lobby ivories and — in an encore of his Oscar-winning role in “The Pianist” — began playing something sorrowful.
Others celebrating the hotel’s redesign by Jacques Garcia: Juliette Binoche, Dree Hemingway, Paloma Piccaso, Jose Carreras, Glenda Bailey, Colin Cowlie, Matthew Williamson and Salma Hayek (heard raving about Morocco’s famous souks.)
Aniston had photographers going wild as she arrived at the party with Gwyneth Paltrow. The two exes of Brad Pitt were “practically clutching,” Govani said. “It’s a pic that’ll have legs for tabloid-days.”