She’s very genuine, honest and down to earth.” – Vince Vaughn, actor and boyfriend. Not long ago there was no escaping Cerys Matthews. Her husky, 50-a-day vocals were all over the radio while her boozy social exploits kept gossip columnists and fans entertained. Since the late Nineties, however, the ex-Catatonia singer and erstwhile party queen has come on quite a journey, moving from her native Wales to deepest Tennessee, via Wembley Stadium, the Met Bar and the Priory.
In 2003 she married Seth Riddle, a South Carolina-born record producer seven years her junior, with whom she has had two children – Glenys Pearl, who is almost three, and one-year-old Johnny Jones. Now, five years after her swift exit from the limelight, she has decided to move back home and, armed with a new album, is relaunching her singing career. Has also appeared in the movies Bruce Almighty, Along Came Polly, Friends with Money, The Object of My Affection, The Good Girl and The Break-up.SHE SAYS “When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.”THEY SAY “What you see is what you get. A Life in Brief BORN 11 February 1969, Sherman Oaks, California, to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow. Two half-brothers, John Melick and Alex Aniston.FAMILY Married Brad Pitt, 29 July 2000; divorced 2 October 2005; no children.EDUCATION Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts, New York City.CAREER Several off-Broadway shows, The Howard Stern Radio Show, short-lived TV series Molloy, 1993 movie Leprechaun In 1994 she was cast as Rachel Greene in Friends. The only thing I can think of doing is maybe a Thanksgiving episode.
Our Thanksgiving episodes were really fun.” Jennifer, please Think of yourself, think of the future Forget about Brad and forget about Rachel. “You’ve got me all kerplunked.” Yet while Aniston is slowly putting her life back together, working on new projects, apparently indulging in a new romance, it appears she is still tempted to mess it all up and make all this progress meaningless. Yes, Rachel has reared her head once again.Terrifyingly, in that same interview Aniston fuelled speculation that she and her Friends friends would consider a reunion. Previous possible reunions were scotched because Aniston herself was reportedly cool to such an idea, but this time she declared: “I do miss it.
In a separate poll she was named the most powerful celebrity on the planet. And in that battle of the T-shirts, “Team Aniston” outsold “Team Jolie” 25-1.Whatever it is, it is clear there are people are on her side. When Aniston appeared on Richard & Judy, Finnegan fawningly told her: “You’ve got millions and millions of people wishing you well. I have to say, I honestly don’t know of anybody we’ve interviewed who has inspired so many of our friends and teenage children to say ‘Please tell her I love her’.” Even Aniston had the decency not to know how to respond to such nonsense.”Thank you,” she mustered. Perhaps tellingly, a poll last year in Cosmopolitan discovered that while Aniston topped the list of women men would most like to marry, Jolie topped the list of women men would most like to sleep with. Is this because she is less threatening than some Hollywood stars? Is it because she comes across more as the attractive girl next door made good rather than the utterly dazzling, high-maintenance starlet? Is it a result of the barbed and relentless press campaign that was waged against Jolie last year?It may be that people simply felt sorry for Aniston after her break-up.