It was sixteen years agone today that Jennifer Aniston filed for divorce from Brad Pitt citing 'irreconcilable differences'.

The former couple had announced their separation only two months earlier amid mounting rumours of a romance between Brad and his Mr and Mrs Smith co-star Angelina Jolie - claims both denied.

But since Brad's divorce from Angelina in 2016, Brad and Jen, 52, accept reportedly grown closer and excited fans are drastic for a reunion.

Indeed, they went wild when a mystery man wearing a very Brad-similar outfit was spotted in the groundwork of one of Jen'southward selfies last month.

Taken in her trailer on the ready of The Forenoon Testify, the motion-picture show was purportedly of the actress and her canis familiaris Clyde, but information technology was the man lying on the floor that had everyone talking.

Jennifer Aniston'southward selfie set tongues wagging (

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And Celebrity gossip Instagram page, Deuxmoi, fuelled the fires, reporting that it had received a hot tip that Brad - who is in the shooting new motion-picture show, Bullet Train, in the same area - has been hanging around The Morning Show set.

"And so basically the dms of people saying he's been hanging round the tms set up could well be true considering this pic," the page operator captioned the snap.

So what'due south going on with the pair?

According to Us Weekly magazine, the former spouses have been meeting upwards secretly, with a source claiming they "have been in bear on plenty during the lockdown, chatting over the phone, and via Zoom, plus hanging out from time to time."

Jennifer filed for divorce from Brad 16 years ago today

Their friendship, said the insider according to Gossip Cop, has been years in the making subsequently the hurt Jen endured during and subsequently their divorce.

"Brad felt bad nearly what he put Jen through, but they worked through their bug and started from scratch," the source continued, "The more than they talked, the more they realised how much they'd missed each other equally friends."

What's more, while there's said to be a potent spark between the pair, neither is reportedly willing to act on information technology and adventure dissentious the friendship they've worked and so hard on. But that might not always exist the instance.

"It's a never say never state of affairs," the source said. "Jen and Brad are on totally dissimilar wavelengths now, and both concord that everything happens for a reason. Information technology'due south shaped where they are today, which is in an exceptionally positive place."

Meanwhile, Brad's mum Jane is reportedly drastic to see them get dorsum together, with a source telling the National Enquirer: "She was rooting for them to get married again. They were all rooting for a reboot."

Brad and Jennifer are said to take worked difficult on their friendship (

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Jen once laid bare the truthful levels of her heartbreak in a now famous Vanity Fair interview from 2005.

Describing how the actress looked like she had been "stabbed in the heart" when asked about rumours Ange was already pregnant - two months before Jen and Brad'south divorce was even finalised - the reporter said Jen cried silently for several minutes, unable to stop the tears rolling downward her cheeks before shaking her caput, too hurt to requite an answer.

As for whether she believed the gossip that Brad and Ange had had a full-blown affair, Jennifer said, "I choose to believe my married man.

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"At this point, I wouldn't exist surprised by anything, but I would much rather choose to believe him."

The line from friends was that he'd wanted to work out what he wanted in life every bit a single homo, and had assured Jen, "This is non about some other woman."

However, the strength of her conventionalities was shaken when pictured surfaced of Brad playing the doting dad to Angelina'south adopted son Maddox on the beach in Africa on April 29.

"I would exist a robot if I said I didn't experience moments of anger, of injure, of embarrassment," she said. "I just don't know what happened. There's a lot I don't understand, a lot I don't know, and probably never will know, really.

"I have to call up there'southward some reason I accept called this into my life," she says. "I have to believe that - otherwise information technology'due south just vicious."

Both Brad and Angelina have always denied whatever romantic involvement while he was still with Jennifer.

Simply despite her devastation, Jennifer admitted she "felt lucky to have experienced" her marriage to Brad.

"I honey Brad; I really beloved him. I will dear him for the residuum of my life. He's a fantastic man. I don't regret any of it, and I'm not going to beat myself up about it... It was a beautiful, complicated human relationship," she said.

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