The Latest in Hollywood Romance and Break-Up News

Can Jessica Biel finally trust her new fiancé, Justin Timberlake? “They seem really happy and in love right now,” says an insider of the duo, who split for three months last spring in the wake of reported infidelities on his part. Yet as Timberlake, 30, and Biel, 29, attempt to put his promiscuous past behind them, insiders are concerned their happiness won’t last. “Everyone knows his track record, so her friends are skeptical of the engagement,” says the source. While the actor is trying to reform, sources say he can’t simply turn a 180. “Justin really loves Jessica, but he just can’t stay monogamous,” explains the Timberlake source. “Basically, his brain and his penis operate separately, and the brain proposed to her. He thinks it is what he wants, but he has two sides — and the other will pop back up. He has a big sexual appetite.”

But now that she’s a bride-to-be, Biel has a strategy to keep him stray-free. “She’s smart. She knows she’s going to have to limit the amount of time that Justin spends with his old clubbing friends,” says a Biel source. But friends wonder if her constant monitoring will work long-term. “Jessica has made it easy for him to behave because she’s controlling,” says a Timberlake pal. The confidant of the former boy bander even confesses, “I don’t think he’s been tamed.” At most, the source says, “I think he’ll be more strategic about his affairs, maybe do it less.”

Minka Turned Down Jake

Jake Gyllenhaal strikes out! A source tells Hot Stuff that Minka Kelly, 31, “ declined” an invitation from Gyllenhaal, 31, when he asked her on a date last fall. But she had good reason: The insider says that at the time, Kelly was split from her on-and-off beau, Derek Jeter, 37, and “was trying to patch things up.” Her willpower paid off: Kelly and Jeter reconciled in December.

JUSTIN & JENNIFER: Chill Winter Getaway!

Jennifer Aniston “is a really good skier,” Chelsea Handler tells Hot Stuff. She should know: The E! talk show host spent six days in Telluride, Colorado, with the star, 42, and her beau, Justin Theroux, 40, during a relaxed New Year’s Eve vacation. (A witness even saw Aniston and Handler having a girls-only fireside chat over red wine at the hotel Lumière Telluride!) Aniston and Theroux, who stayed in a luxurious private residence, took daily ski lessons and brought a little showbiz glitz to the slopes. Justine Nelson, a customer at the Steaming Bean coffee shop, tells Us that on January 1, the duo purchased two cappuccinos “and tried to pay with a $100 bill!”

KATY TELLS RUSSELL: Pack Up Your Stuff! Perry demands that Brand get his possessions out of her sight

Out with the old! Katy Perry “is all about moving on now,” an insider tells Hot Stuff of the pop star, 27, whose whirlwind 14-month marriage to Russell Brand, 36, imploded December 30 when he blindsided her with divorce papers. “She wants his stuff out of their house in Hollywood.” Recovering drug and sex addict Brand, meanwhile, has remained in London and is focusing on his 12-step sobriety programs. “He is working hard to stay clean,” says a source. Though the two are 5,500 miles apart, the distance between them is nothing new — and it was one of the issues that led to their breakup. “They had made a deal that after Katy toured all year, she would have nothing on her calendar but time to spend with him,” says a third source. “Instead, she wanted to party with her friends. She wasn’t committed.” Adds the source, “Katy is doing fine. She wanted it to end for a while.”

Adele Finds Love

Adele, the queen of heartbreak, has finally found love in new beau, Simon Konecki. Happiness isn’t the emotion usually associated with the singer, who, despite her success, has been known to burst into tears while performing ballads about her ex. (Their 2009 split inspired the five-times-platinum album 21.) “She didn’t know how to meet anybody, so she really stressed about it,” says a source. “Luckily, Simon came into her life.” The two-time Grammy winner was introduced to the nonprofit CEO, 37, late last year. “Simon is a nice guy and would never use her,” says a friend. “He likes her for who she is.”

 Third Time’s A Charm for Halle Berry!

The 45-year-old actress and Olivier Martinez are engaged, a source confirms to Us. Over the holidays, Martinez, 46, proposed with an emerald-and-diamond ring from Gurhan. Berry, who has a 3-year-old daughter, Nahla, with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, has been married twice before. (She dated model Aubry, 36, for nearly five years before splitting in April 2010.) She wed former baseball player David Justice in 1993 and divorced four years later. She then married R&B singer Eric Benet in 2001, only to separate in 2003 and finalize their divorce in 2005. She first met French actor Martinez while working on the film Dark Tide; they stepped out as a couple in fall 2010. He previously dated Australian pop star Kylie Minogue for several years before splitting in 2007.

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