Posted Oct. 29, 2008

Jennifer Aniston is quite the creature of habit -- and not just because of her tendency to recycle boyfriends. On Monday night, the actress was caught by paparazzi as she made a quick exit from the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles with seemingly back-on squeeze John Mayer.

As he exits the Sunset Tower Hotel with Jen, John prays that their explosive chemistry doesn't go kablooey again. (©X17Online.com)

But the snappers didn't exactly need to play James Bond to track Jen's movements.

In recent days, the Sunset has become her hangout of choice -- the place where she enjoyed both a "romantic dinner date" with the crooner and a meet-up with Gerard Butler that was either "very affectionate" or strictly business.

Aniston, 39, and Mayer, 31, looked at ease as they hopped into an SUV and zoomed off, a stress-free state that might have something to do their recent quality time together.

Star says the reunited honeys got away from it all last weekend at the Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort & Spa in Paradise Valley, AZ, where they chilled in ultra-deluxe digs that run $4,000-a-night.

"John and Jen spent a romantic weekend in one of the resort's extremely secluded private homes," a spy tattles to the tab. "Their hideaway was tucked into the mountains and was so private that you couldn't even see the driveway from the street. Once they checked in, the couple was never seen leaving their home."

Not that they needed to. The palatial pad is equipped with a private pool, home theater, outdoor jacuzzi, views and chef-prepared meals.

The twosome's supposed sojourn comes amid another round of tabloid speculation about the state of their relationship.

Star, in a follow-up to last week's "Jen Pops the Question" cover, maintains she's already hired a wedding planner, while In Touch declares that she "looks pregnant" by highlighting her "telltale bump," which in the real world would be less a bump and more the result of eating, say, three Gummi Bears (for the umpteenth time, her rep has denied the stork chatter).

Either way, Jen and John appear to have overcome what the singer categorized in his post-breakup babblefest in August as "different chemistry."

"The chemistry was still there -- it always was," a Mayer source assures Us Weekly, with a confidant adding to People that it was their "major chemistry" that brought them back together.

Oddly enough, that's the same buzzword a mole uses to describe the actress' spark with Butler, telling OK!, "Jen and Gerard have chemistry in spades. I wouldn't be surprised if something clicked between them."

Lindsay holds onto Sam at an Emmy Awards afterparty on Sept. 21.

In other romance news, what porn-meister Joe Francis knows about women could fit into a single side of an A-cup bra whipped off by a drunken college girl on a "Girls Gone Wild" video. But for some reason, the execrable jailbird considers himself an expert on Lindsay Lohan's love life.

For the second time in a month, Francis has taken the liberty of proclaiming the starlet's sexual preference while dissing her deejay inamorata, Samantha Ronson.

"I care about Lindsay ... she's not gay," he says on Wednesday's episode of "The Tyra Banks Show" (via the Los Angeles Times). "She's being controlled by this ... who I think is a wretched woman, this Samantha Ronson."

Francis, who insists he's fond of Lindsay "because she's sweet," claims Ronson is "very jealous" and "tried to start a fight with me."

Sam's measured response?

"I think he's one of the more disgusting human beings in the world because of what he does," she rails to the New York Post. "He's a [bleep]bag. ... He should find something else to talk about."

Last month, Francis showed off his innate loathsomeness in a chat with E! as he opined, "I think Sam has taken ownership of Lindsay. I think if Sam were to let Lindsay go even that much, Lindsay would revert back to being straight."

The actress fired back on her MySpace blog, seething, "I don't understand why people feel the need to comment on someone else's life, and relationship when they can't even have one of their own. ... Samantha doesn't like Joe Francis because she feels he's [a bleephole], not because she's jealous. Would you be jealous of Joe Francis????? Yuck!"

Lohan, who has plenty of free time these days what with her abbreviated stint on "Ugly Betty," remains stuck like glue to Ronson, with People reporting they recently went on a double date with Nicole Richie and Joel Madden at Los Angeles hot spot Hyde.

"They were having a great time hanging out with each other," an eyewitness relays to the mag, which says the quartet downed dessert before hitting the dance floor.

Pete and Ashlee hit the VMAs earlier this year. (©WireImage.com)

And finally, with Ashlee Simpson set to pop any second now, Pete Wentz is feeling so domestically blissed out that he's begun talking in gushing metaphors.

"This year has been a good one. My wife has brought a balance to my life that I could never have described to anyone," the Fall Out Boy bassist bubbles to the London Sun. "She's the giant beam that I walk across and holds me up. But she's also my safety net in case I fall. Being married has changed my life more than I could have imagined."

Still, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Wentz says he's ditched his guyliner but not his commitment to grooming, ookily admitting, "I do like to trim my armpit hair, though."