Just in case you shut yourself in your house on Friday after work, and spend the entire weekend without turning on the television, radio, or computer, ignoring incoming phone calls and all the newspapers and sundry tabloids piling up outside your door: Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have announced their separation.

Oh sure, of course we all KNEW it was gonna happen--US Weekly and Star have been preparing us for months. But it still comes as a shock that America's golden couple is no more, I mean, when you cut us, do we not bleed?

Although it's been widely suggested that they split over whether or not to have children the official statement from Pitt's publicist was a curt "The couple have officially separated after four and a half years of marriage." However, gossip mongers are flogging the Angelina Jolie horse yet again. A snitch tells News Of The World, "[Brad and Angelina] would speak on the phone all the time - always speaking in hushed tones. There was no hiding their affection for each other. Jennifer listened in on the conversation via another extension. I don't know if she accidentally picked up the phone or deliberately did that. Either way, she went ballistic." Yet another source combines the baby and Angie theories nicely: "Jen became furious when he pointed out that, at 29, Angelina is six years younger than her and is managing to combine motherhood and a successful career." Whatever, Brad. If Angelina Jolie jumped off a cliff, would you make Jen do that, too? Jerk.