Not Every Celeb Was Impressed During Jennifer Aniston's Public Reunion With Brad Pitt

Summary

• Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt's brief reunion at the SAG Awards in 2020 caused a frenzy on social media and broke the internet.
• Wendy Williams initially thought there was something significant about their encounter based on pictures, but changed her mind after watching the video.
• Aniston and Pitt's marriage ended in 2005 after cheating rumors involving Pitt and Angelina Jolie surfaced, and Aniston later found happiness in other relationships.

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt ruled the entertainment world in the 90s. Aniston was the sitcom star of the legendary show Friends and Pitt was the actor whose heartthrob status only amplified his celebrity.

Therefore, when the two began dating towards the end of the decade, it seemed like the perfect fit. The couple married in 2000, but the marriage was over by 2005. Cheating rumors swirled around Pitt and his co-star Angelina Jolie. When the two confirmed their relationship shortly after Pitt's split from Aniston, many believed the rumors were true.

All of this public investment was still on full display when Pitt and Aniston ran into each other backstage at the SAG Awards in 2020. The pictures of the brief encounter broke the internet and everyone, including Wendy Williams, had an opinion.

Jennifer And Brad Reunited Briefly Backstage At The SAG Awards In 2020, But Wendy Williams Wasn't Impressed

In January 2020, both Aniston and Pitt attended the SAG Awards. They didn't arrive together, but they did run into each other backstage and cameras were there to capture the moment.

The pictures went viral and proceeded to break the internet. Social media was buzzing over the encounter and the two actors were the hot topic the following day.

The reunion was even a hot topic on The Wendy Williams Show. Williams said that when she first saw the pictures, she believed there was something significant about their body language.

Williams shared her hope that Aniston and Pitt would eventually get back together. However, her producer Norman disagreed. Williams said that Norman and the rest of the hot topics team then convinced her otherwise.

The reason Williams changed her mind was the actual video of their exchange. According to Williams, the video proved the exchange was so brief that it didn't seem as significant as the pictures made it out to be.

Aniston later appeared on The Howard Stern Show where the host asked her if the encounter was awkward.

"No," she said. "It was absolutely fun. You know, Brad and I are buddies. Like, we're friends and we speak."

"There's no oddness at all," she continued, "except for everyone that probably watched it and was wanting there to be."

Jennifer Aniston And Brad Pitt's Marriage Ended On Rocky Terms

Aniston and Pitt began dating in the late 90s; confirming their relationship on the Emmy red carpet in 1999. In the summer of 2000, the couple were married and Pitt even guest starred on Friends the following year.

In 2004, Aniston told The Guardian that she was looking forward to having children with Pitt.

"It's time. It's time. You know, I think you can work with a baby, I think you can work pregnant, I think you can do all of it. So I'm just truly looking forward to slowing down," she said.

However, cheating rumors began to swirl around Pitt and his Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie that May. In January 2005, the couple announced their separation and Aniston filed for divorce that March.

Meanwhile, Pitt's relationship with Jolie was not only confirmed, but being flaunted everywhere. In July that year, Pitt posed with Jolie for a photo spread in W Magazine.

"Is it odd timing? Yeah. But it’s not my life. He makes his choices. He can do—whatever. We’re divorced, and you can see why. I can also imagine Brad having absolutely no clue why people would be appalled by it," Aniston said at the time. "Brad is not mean-spirited; he would never intentionally try to rub something in my face. In hindsight, I can see him going, ‘Oh—I can see that that was inconsiderate.’ But I know Brad. Brad would say, ‘That’s art!' There’s a sensitivity chip that’s missing."

Jennifer Aniston Revealed The Relationship That Helped Her Breakup From Brad Pitt

Aniston met Vince Vaughn when they were working on the film The Break-Up in 2005. The two actors co-starred in the 2006 romance and a romance blossomed in real life as well.

Their relationship lasted one year, with the couple announcing their split in December 2006. Not much was said by Aniston nor Vaughn about their relationship for a while. Then, in 2008, Aniston shared her thoughts on the relationship when speaking to Vogue.

"I call Vince my defibrillator," Aniston, who met Vaughn the year she filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, told the outlet. "He literally brought me back to life. My first gasp of air was a big laugh! It was great. I love him. He’s a bull in a china shop. He was lovely and fun and perfect for the time we had together. And I needed that. And it sort of ran its course."

Vaughn kept quiet for a bit longer until he opened up to Playboy in 2015. During the chat, Vaughn revealed that he wasn't a fan of the media attention the couple received.

"You know, she's great," Vaughn said. "For me personally—and I think most well-known actors who are together feel this way—I never enjoyed the paparazzi side of it."

Vaughn reflected on the role he played in the relationship, ultimately believing it paid off for him in the long run.

"You like someone and you're spending time with them; that's separate and that was all fine," he said. "But I really spent most of that time finding ways not to be drawn into the attention. I think lying low and not talking about it put me in a good position later, because I just wasn't part of anything."

Aniston went on to date Paul Sculfor and John Mayer. In 2015, she married Justin Theroux, with whom she co-starred in Wanderlust, and the two split in 2017. Pitt and Jolie eventually married in 2014, with Jolie filing for divorce in 2016. In 2019, a judge declared the two "legally single."