How many people actually remember that Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn once dated? It was not a flash in the pan kind of thing, either: They were together for more than a year in 2005. Vaughn was her first boyfriend after her marriage to Brad Pitt crumbled and Friends ended. The two first met on the set of their film The Breakup and sparks apparently flew. Vaughn is dishing in a new interview about his time with Aniston and how "great" he actually thinks she is. But he hated the paparazzi who came along with dating her.

Vaughn recently opened up to Playboy and, as it turns out, nothing really awful happened to cause his split from Aniston. He simply did not want to live in the kind of fishbowl she often does.

"For me personally -- and I think most well-known actors who are together feel this way -- I never enjoyed the paparazzi side of it. You like someone and you're spending time with them; that's separate and that was all fine. But I really spent most of that time finding ways not to be drawn into the attention," said Vaughn.

Flash forward a decade and Vaughn is now happily married with two kids and Aniston has been engaged to Justin Theroux since 2012. The two have managed to remain good friends and it seems that both have learned to navigate the intrusive paparazzi well.

Vaughn is always low-key about things, but Aniston seems to have finally figured out how to be that as well. She and Theroux are so private that there are often rumors of them splitting up just because they manage not to be photographed together.

Aniston has had such a great year professionally, do you think she is any closer to actually getting married now that the dust from award season is settling? Tell us your thoughts in the comments section below.

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