Courteney Cox Cherishes Gift From Jennifer Aniston

Tuesday, Nov 23, 2010

This is so lovely,I know a lot of people have been commenting on how lovely Courteney’s “Coco” necklace is that she’s been wearing lately. See a pic here. Isnt that really sweet?

Jennifer Aniston gave her former “Friends” co-star and longtime friend Courteney Cox a necklace when her daughter, Coco, was born, and the actress is still keeping it close to her heart almost seven years later.

Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush caught up with the “Cougar Town” star this weekend at the OmniPeace by Jordan Klein charity event on Friday. The actress, who serves as an ambassador for humanitarian fashion brand, is working with OmniPeace founder Mary Fanaro to end poverty in Africa.

“Now tell me Courteney, you’re wearing two things on you right now that you care about a lot, OmniPeace is one but I love your little chain Coco,” Billy said.

“Thank you, [I] got this when she was born from Jennifer,” she told Billy.

“Jennifer Aniston gave you that? How cute,” Billy said.

“Not Jennifer Aniston, my friend, um, Jennifer, um… no, I’m just kidding,” the actress joked.

“But do you wear it everyday? ” Billy inquired.

“You know what? Recently I’ve been wearing it every single day,” the 46-year-old actress, who recently separated from husband David Arquette, told Billy. “I re-found it again, because obviously, she’s 6-and-a-half years old… I wear it everyday, ‘cause, you know, she’s my girl.”

In addition to her own little one, Courteney is opening her heart to other children through her work with the fashion brand. OmniPeace is about to build its fourth school in Africa in just three years with the proceeds from their T-shirt and hoodie sales at Kitson stores in Southern California.

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Cougar Town “Little Girl Blues” Sneak Peak

Monday, Nov 15, 2010

Courteney Talks Exclusively To The Daily Mirror

Saturday, Nov 13, 2010

Speaking for the first time about the break-up, she reveals the heartache behind the separation – and her hope that they can patch things up.

“I’ve been laying low but I just feel like I’ve been in a whirlwind,” says Courteney, 46, talking exclusively to the Mirror from a suite in a Beverly Hills hotel.

“This is the first day off I’ve had since I’ve been separated and it will be an interesting time. I woke up the other morning and thought, ‘Now what do I do?’ It was a weird feeling, but we’ll see.

“I never run from things and getting separated from someone after so many years, and someone I love so much, takes a lot of courage. It’s for sure the bravest thing I’ve ever done.

“I don’t know what will happen, but we are not getting divorced.This is a separation so hopefully whatever is supposed to happen will be the best thing for us.”

“We have grown apart and we have to maybe take some time, but there’s definitely been a big adjustment.” Even Arquette’s outburst on the Stern show elicits little more than a shrug.

She says: “That’s David. He’s a kook. He’s an entertainer and I’m sure that people who listen to the radio are entertained by his stories and he’s just being honest… maybe too much. But it’s not shocking to me.”

Eyebrows were raised when they got married in the first place with some pals fearing it would never last. After all, she was the elegant, multi-millionaire star of one of the biggest shows on television – and he was seven years her junior and a hyperactive, supporting player in minor films and TV shows who had struggled with drug abuse.

Yet they made it work. They had a daughter, Coco, gathered a wide circle of friends and the Sunday night open house parties at their Malibu home were famous. But now, sadly, the marriage has broken down.

Courteney’s latest TV hit is the series Cougar Town, in which she plays a middle-aged divorcee with a teenage son who starts dating again.

At the moment that is not something she can even contemplate. She says: “Right now I’m not doing anything but working and looking for some calm and time to reflect. No dating.”

Foreshadowing troubles to come, in one of her last interviews before the split she said: “We still have the same arguments we’ve had for years. Some things never change and the intriguing things you fall in love with will become the things you don’t like.”

She has stayed in their Malibu home, while Arquette lives in their house in Beverly Hills.

Courteney says: “She’s having a hard time but she’s dealing with it well and David and I are trying to show her that we spend a lot of time together.”

Best friend Jennifer, who survived the end of her marriage to Brad Pitt, has been helping her through the tough times and has been “amazing”. Courteney says: “I have a lot of really close friends who are going through this right now, like Jennifer did.

“She’s has been amazing. She’s the greatest girl and we hang out together all the time.”

The couple have been close since they were both cast on Friends in 1994. Originally, Courteney auditioned for and won the part of Rachel. But she felt the character of Monica, with her love of cooking, cleanliness and need for order was more her, and persuaded producers to switch.

The overwhelming popularity of the show was a windfall for her in many ways. She received a bigger salary with each series, culminating in a $1million-perepisode deal during the 10th and final season. It made her and co-stars Jennifer and Lisa Kudrow the highest paid television actresses in history.

Friends also got Courteney nominated for numerous awards, boosting her profile to superstar status. It helped her revive what had been a less than successful film career.She starred in three Scream movies, meeting David who played the dim-butloyal deputy Dewey. They married in 1999.

Previously, Courteney’s meaningful romances had been with Stewart Copeland’s brother, Ian, and she had a six-year relationship with the reclusive actor Michael Keaton. But her films 300 Miles to Graceland, The Runner, November and Zoom went largely unseen and she returned to TV in the short-lived series Dirt, playing the workaholic editor of a tabloid mag. Now the US series Cougar Town has put her back on the map.

“I think a lot of people were turned off by the title,” admits Courteney.

“It’s the worst title in the history of all television and it’s not what the show’s about. It’s changed. We’ve really changed the concept.”

She adds: “A lot of people didn’t want to watch because the word cougar is offensive to some people and they didn’t want to see me with younger guys. There are tons of women who love the show. It’s very polarising… you either love it or hate it.”

Jennifer guest starred in one episode. Courteney says: “She’s a big fan of the series and to work together is just so easy for us. We always make jokes about one day we’ll do another sitcom together because life’s so easy when you do those sitcoms. We had it made on Friends.”

But for now she has other, far more pressing, things to consider.

She says: “The questions I’m asking myself are what makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70? “I want a little more calm in my life and more intimacy in a lot of ways. Nothing makes me happier than having dinner with a friend and talking.

“Right now I’m trying to figure out how that works, how to raise my daughter and just keep it simple.”

Source: Daily Mirror

Courteney Nominated For People’s Choice Awards

Tuesday, Nov 9, 2010

Yes!Fantastic news you guys! All of our voting payd off! Courteney has been nominated in the Favorite TV Comedy Actress category for the 2011 People’s Choice Awards! View all nominees here

Cougar Town Boss: There’s No End in Sight for “Solid” Jules & Grayson

Thursday, Nov 4, 2010

We just chatted with Cougar Town show runner Kevin Biegel, who assures us fans that current Cougar lovers Jules (Courteney Cox) and Grayson (Josh Hopkins) are “solid,” for now and for a long, long time to come…

“Grayson and Jules are good,” Kevin tells us. “The typical thing to do would be to have things go well for a little bit, then somewhere midway through the season you go, ‘Oh jeez, they are hitting a rough patch!’ and then at the end of the season you say, ‘Oh no, what are we going to do break them up?’

Lucky for us, C.T. is anything but typical!

Explains Cougar Town‘s boss man: “I just like them together as a couple, and like seeing a normal functioning couple on television where every week isn’t one of those episodes [where you think] ‘Is this the episode where they break up? Is this the relationship drama that they wont be able to get over?’ No, it’s a couple, and they fight, they find a common ground, and things get a little more serious week to week.”

Translation: Yippee! Grayson and Jules are here to stay.

“I just enjoy watching those two together,” adds Kevin. “They play up each others’ strengths really well. [I love] having them as a couple but not having every single episode be a couple story, you know what I’m saying?”

10-4. But now the obligatory breakup question. What happens when or if the Cougar Town Powers That Be decide to split the all-mighty Grules (ew!)?

“There are three options,” he laughs. “We either have them just stay together, and we don’t really play it up all the time; we could have them split up and cause a lot of drama; or we could have them get more serious and, to be honest, then split them up because we can’t make this work. That’s not as interesting to me as the other two options because, why not? Jules met a guy, she likes him and maybe this thing will lead someplace next year.”

Jules and Grayson. Successful relationship. More guitar. All good things—especially if they really do span into next season.

Also a good thing: ScrubsKen Jenkins (Dr. Kelso) reentering the Bill Lawrence realm tonight in Cougar Town‘s Halloween-themed episode as Jules’ countrified dad.

“We knew right away that we wanted him to be her father on the show because Courteney
is playing a Southern girl,” gushes Kevin. “And Ken is a total Southern guy. He’s got an accent, he loves just hanging out playing his guitar in the back of his truck, so it was just perfect. The character is a charming Southern gentleman, and he totally fit in perfectly with the cast.”

“It’s this cool episode about Jules dealing with some issues about her mom passing away, and just connecting with her father,” he says. “It’s actually it is a pretty dramatic episode at the end. Ken carries it with Courteney beautifully. It’s a ridiculously goofy episode for 90 percent of it, and the final 10 percent is ‘Awww…sweet.’ ”

As for the funny, Kevin promises good things: “Any time we can have a story where a father’s telling a daughter he loves her, and then throughout the episode you also have Barb dressed as a pile of hay and Ellie (Christa Miller) and Laurie (Busy Philipps) dressed like each other, that’s a win.”

Source: E Online

Sneak Peak from tonights Cougar Town

Wednesday, Nov 3, 2010