For those still 'shipping Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, it was a dream scenario.
Because there was the flaxen-haired boy himself, slipping into West Hollywood's Sunset Tower to fete his former wife's 50th birthday alongside the likes of George Clooney, Amal Clooney, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Downey Jr., Ellen DeGeneres, Barbra Streisand, Kate Hudson, Laura Dern, Demi Moore, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow. It was a guest list so star-studded it could easily be mistaken for that of the Academy Awards, but for plenty of pop culture fans Pitt's was the only appearance that mattered. Coming nearly one year to the date after Aniston's shocking announcement that she and Justin Theroux had ended their two-and-a-half year union it was the sign: Clearly the universe had righted itself and Hollywood's golden couple was reuniting, their 2005 divorce and subsequent marriages just an unfortunate 14-year break.
So let's all raise a tequila, lime juice and Cointreau margarita (no sugars, no agave) and celebrate, right?
Well...
While there may, indeed, be cause for revelry it's more that everyone involved in this once incredibly painful situation has found a way to close the door to the past and be cordial. Milestone birthdays can have that effect.
An insider tells E! News, "Someone extended the invitation to Brad to come to Jen's party and he accepted. He wanted to support Jen and it was a momentous occasion."
That's not to say the 55-year-old Oscar winner was some sort of afterthought, rather Aniston made the conscious decision to include everyone who had made some sort of impact on her life. Pitt wasn't even her only ex present, what with John Mayer making the rounds mere steps away from his other ex Katy Perry and her new guy Orlando Bloom. (Though with much of Hollywood present, Theroux's absence was somewhat conspicuous.) Pitt's former fiancée Gwyneth Paltrow was also in attendance, dragging the birthday girl into the photo booth for a snap. Basically the event was a giant show-and-tell on what happens when everyone acts like grown-ups about the whole situation—when your friend asks you to come celebrate their existence, you deal with the fact that it may bring you face-to-face with a former lover.
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