That's that, then; after three years of everyone kind of wishing he hadn't ever split up with Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake has confirmed what we already knew – that the Justin Timberlake/ Cameron Diaz love story has staggered to a lousy end.
Despite weeks of Justin Timberlake/ Cameron Diaz split rumours, both Justin and Cameron have now broken their silence to officially announce that they are no longer doing it with each other, and will henceforth never refer to their split ever again except obliquely in Justin Timberlake's music videos if his album sales ever need a bit more of a push. But now they are happily single again, perhaps Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz can go back to what they enjoy doing most; Cameron Diaz can return to pushing out ever-more desperate Shrek merchandise and Justin Timberlake can go and find a new woman closer to his own age. The mum off Everybody Loves Raymond, for example.
Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz were like a textbook version of how a celebrity couple should act. They protected their privacy by firing off lawsuits and pushing each other out of the way of speeding paparazzi-driven death-cars. They helped each other out with their side projects; Cameron Diaz was there to big-up the Justin Timberlake range of clothes and Justin Timberlake was there to always make Cameron Diaz look even more homeless. And – unusually for a couple of celebrities – Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz seemed to love each other.
So happy did they look in their comfort zone of not splitting up and not getting married that we thought Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz would stay together forever, but we literally couldn't have been wronger. After rumours of a Timberlake/ Diaz split hit just over a week ago, Justin Timberlake was seen dating his own mother at the premiere of his dreadful-looking Alpha Dog movie, a tactic which may have all just been a front so that he could get some time with Scarlett Johansson at the aftershow party. But, for all we knew, Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz were still together as there had been no official confirmation of a split. Well there is now; in a joint statement, Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz said:
"It has always been our preference not to comment on the status of our relationship, but, out of respect for the time we spent together, we feel compelled to do so now, in the light of recent speculation and inaccurate stories that are being reported by the media. We have, in fact, ended our romantic relationship and have done so mutually and as friends with continued love and respect for each other."
Ah, the old "continued love and respect" line – there's no bigger guarantee of a forthcoming Cameron Diaz Sobs Her Heart Out In Public headline. Weirdly, though, when reporting this split confirmation, Reuters wrote this:
Timberlake's bitter breakup with Diaz, 34, drove him into the arms of her worst enemy, 22-year-old actress Scarlett Johansson.
Her worst enemy. Scarlett Johansson isn't just a girl with pretty tits, she's Cameron Diaz's worst enemy. While we're genuinely confused as to why a 34-year-old woman would have a worst enemy, we can't help thinking that it may have something to do with the time that Scarlett Johansson, hell-bent on revenge for nobody liking that last Woody Allen film she was in, held the world to ransom with a number of strategically-placed, high-powered mind-wave devices and Cameron Diaz was forced to battle her to the death during a climactic fist-fight in a burning speedboat in order to save mankind. Or it could be something else. We don't know.
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Teddyworld says
you’re right… why aren’t Justin and Britney still together? That way Scarlett Johansson would be free to go out with creepy bastards like me
justin says
the way justins mother was linking with him arm in arm sugests they might have had a brief fling