JENNIFER ANISTON and COURTENEY COX are stepping up a campaign to fight for women's rights in the Congo.The actresses have lent their support to humanitarian fashion brand OmniPeace, which aims to stamp out violence against women in the African region, and is run by their friend Mary Fanaro. Earlier this year (Jun09) Cox and Aniston joined singer Sheryl Crow at a dinner party to raise awareness for the charity, and now they're taking a new campaign to Senator Hilary Clinton. The stars are urging gadget fans in America and Europe not to buy electronics, such as cell phones and laptops, which contain materials sourced from 'conflict mines' - where the industry is at the centre of violent fighting. Cox has praised her pal Fanaro for all her charity efforts and hopes they will be able to spread their message even further. She tells Fox News, "OmniPeace was created to give back. I can’t think of a better way to support my best friend and all the work that she and OmniPeace do to donate t...

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JENNIFER ANISTON has ruled out a second Botox jab - because she hated the way her face froze after the procedure.The actress tells HollyScoop.com she tried the cosmetic procedure once but wasn't happy with the results - and she hates the way continued injections make friends and peers look. The Marley & Me star explains, "You see women and you know they're not young but you can't tell how old they are. It makes them look harder. The warmth in their face goes away. It is not a good look." Instead, Jennifer Aniston encourages fellow 40-somethings to get serious about what they eat if they want to look young and fresh. She adds, "If I eat burgers and fries everyday I won't get the parts I'm offered. I'd become a character actress, that might be fine one day but not right now."

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JAMES MICHAEL TYLER has confirmed the cast of FRIENDS is reuniting to bring the hit TV show to the big screen.The series came to an end in 2004 after 10 seasons, but the cast has been dogged by rumours of a possible big screen adaptation ever since. David Schwimmer denied reports last year (08) that the six core cast members - himself, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry - were planning on starring in a movie. He said, "There's never been any talk of a Friends film, at least as far as I know." But James Michael Tyler - who played coffee shop worker Gunther in the show - has confirmed the actors are in negotiations to star in a film adaption, set to hit theatres in summer 2011. He tells Britain's News of the World newspaper, "Friends: The Movie is definitely on. I still keep in touch with a lot of the cast and they say that they are really keen. I am definitely on board to do the film. "I really loved my time on the show and I am looking for...

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JENNIFER ANISTON has slammed reports she burst into tears on the set of her new movie because she was thinking about her ex-husband BRAD PITT.The actress was alleged to have become weepy while filming The Bounty with co-star Gerard Butler earlier this month (Sep09) after a scene reminded her of her former partner. A source tells New York Post's gossip column PageSix that the actress admitted to her assistant, "I need a moment. This scene reminds me of Brad and me." The insider added, "While she enjoyed flirting with Gerard on set and put a brave face on every day, privately she is still very fragile." But a representative for Aniston has vehemently denied the allegations, branding them "ridiculous" and adding, "It never happened." The former Friends star split with Pitt in 2005. She has dated other Hollywood stars including Vince Vaughn and John Mayer, while her ex is now in a longterm relationship with Angelina Jolie.

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JENNIFER ANISTON had to fight back tears of joy on the red carpet of her latest premiere on Tuesday night (15Sep09) - when she received a special message from the sick girl she helped fight cancer.The actress appeared in 2008 TV ads for St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Los Angeles alongside little Ellie, a patient who was receiving treatment there for a tumor on her brain. The pair clicked instantly and became pals on the set - and Access Hollywood delivered a very special video message to the former Friends star at the Love Happens premiere. Ellie, seven, said, "I wanted to say hi and I just wanted to let you know I'm cancer free." Aniston gasped and then turned to presenter Billy Bush and said, "You just want to get me all choked up before I go in. That's a beautiful thing."

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JENNIFER ANISTON faced her AMERICAN IDOL nightmare on daytime TV on Wednesday (16Sep09) when the TV talent show's new judge forced her to sing.The actress is taking singing lessons for her upcoming role in The Goree Girls, in which she'll play a musical prisoner, and Ellen DeGeneres insisted she show off her skills for her talk show audience. Red-faced Aniston said, "They promised me you wouldn't do this to me," before singing a section from George Gershwin's I've Got a Crush on You." The actress then giggled, "I'm absolutely mortified that you did that to me," prompting the new Idol judge to joke, "I would put you through to the next round."

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JENNIFER ANISTON has suggested previous lovers like JOHN MAYER and VINCE VAUGHN were too "lazy" to communicate their feelings during their relationship to her.The former Friends star has been unlucky in love since her divorce from Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt in 2005, despite stepping out with the likes of Mayer, funnyman Vaughn and British model Paul Sculfor. The actress, who has most recently been romantically linked to The Bounty co-star Gerard Butler, maintains a positive attitude towards finding happiness in the future and insists she "still believes" in love and romance. She tells Harper's Bazaar Australia, "I'm still a romantic. "I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase." But Jennifer Aniston admits she has learned valuable lessons from all her past ...

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JENNIFER ANISTON tunes into medical reality shows whenever the pressures of Hollywood stress her out because she finds the bloody operations fascinating.The former Friends actress dreamed of becoming a surgeon when she was a kid after watching hours of "educational" medical programs with her father - the only TV shows she was permitted to watch during her childhood. Aniston later decided to pursue a career in acting, but she insists she still has a strong interest in cutting people open and turns to the TV surgeries when she needs to "decompress". She tells Elle magazine, "The two things I was eventually allowed to watch on TV as a kid, and usually only with my father, were (news show) 60 Minutes and documentary medical programs, because they were educational. So I would watch surgeries while eating dinner. "My dream would be to become a micro surgeon because those surgeries, with the intense focus and detail you can't imagine, completely fascinate me. "When I watch... reality show...

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