How does Gerard Butler deal with those pesky Jennifer Aniston relationship rumors?

By joking about it.

“Conan [O'Brien] asked me about Aniston, who is my costar in the movie I’m making now, and I just said, ‘Yeah, we’re getting married. What the he–,” Butler tells Parade magazine.

“Tell a joke, that’s my technique,” he continues. “I learned as a kid how to stay out of trouble: make it funny.”

He also kids about walking down the aisle with a few other women.

“I’m careful to also say that I’m marrying Cameron Diaz and maybe Joan Rivers,” says Butler, who was briefly linked to Diaz in April 2008. “I like to tell everyone I’m going to be a busy guy.”

Butler wasn’t as smooth with his The Ugly Truth costar, Katherine Heigl.

“Truthfully, one time I was supposed to play with Katherine’s hair and I kept forgetting my lines,” he explains. “I was so nervous that I grabbed her breast. Afterwards, all I could do is say ‘I’m sorry.’ Yeah.”

But later?

“We went back to our trailer and made out after the dancing scene,” he quips.

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Trust Katherine Heigl on this one – it’s no picnic faking an orgasm for the big screen.

She felt she’d been put through the wringer on the set of The Ugly Truth the day she filmed a sequence which her admiring co-star, Gerard Butler, predicts “will go down in the annals of history in comedies because it’s a classic scene.”

Heigl hopes that will definitely prove the case when The Ugly Truth romps into theatres on Friday. The verdict is still out as to whether she succeeds in trumping Meg Ryan’s celebrated moment of simulated rapture in When Harry Met Sally, but Heigl makes clear that she gave her scene – which involves a restaurant dinner party, vibrating underwear and a remote-control device operated by an innocent kid – her all.

“Oh my god, it was a nightmare,” giggles Heigl who reveals that the scene required 35 set-ups. And yes, she may have been faking her eruptions – but it was still physically exhausting.

“It’s so much physical movement, with the legs dancing under the table and all the tensing up of the body . . . At the end of the day, I felt I had done a marathon. I thought I had run 20 miles. Then I went: OK, I know why this is called ‘physical’ comedy because it’s so physical and exhausting. No one wants to orgasm 35 times!”

Co-star Butler notes that the scene has been breaking up audiences at preview performances. “I don’t know many people who don’t love it. It’s one of the most brilliant performances I’ve ever seen. Katherine was – dare I say – bang-on.”

Pics: Katherine Heigl stopped by the Letterman show yesterday to promote her new movie.

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Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl had to evacuate the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles Saturday night.

The Ugly Truth costars were told to leave their rooms while police were investigating a bomb scare.

People reports:

While police were investigating a bomb scare at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles, actors Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler, inside the hotel promoting their upcoming film, The Ugly Truth, were forced to evacuate, along with 400 other guests.

For two hours, the stars mingled with fans outside the luxury hotel before retreating to the nearby Il Cielo restaurant. Butler, one eye witness tells PEOPLE, was spotted posing for pictures with members of the AC Milan soccer team, in town to play the Los Angeles Galaxy Sunday night. Heigl, barely recognizable with her hair dyed red, was seen leaving the hotel during the 1:45 p.m. evacuation.

Police investigated the premises and found no unattended packages or luggage and the hotel reopened two hours later. The bomb threat was delivered via telephone, police told PEOPLE.

The Ugly Truth will be released in North America on July 24, 2009

On Being Honest…
“Now I’ve got this moniker that I’m the foot-in-mouth gal, and I keep thinking, In what way? Because I said something you don’t agree with? Because I said something you don’t like? I’m just telling you my opinion. I hate the idea that I can’t be honest about how I feel about things because it’s going to piss somebody off who feels differently. That seems preposterous to me.”

On Using A Stylist…
“If it’s the Emmy’s or the Oscar’s I need a little extra help, but I just like to do myself because I don’t like all the hoopla,” Heigl says. “Inevitably it’s me who knows what I want. When I leave the house. I want to look in the mirror and go, ‘I feel like the best version of myself in this.”

On ‘R’ ratings…
“I know this is going to sound bad but I’m really glad [Ugly Truth is rated] R. I didn’t want to do another PG-13 movie. [In any real-life contentious relationship with romantic underpinnings] you’re probably going to drop the F-bomb once in a while. You’re probably going to say some things that are kind of harsh. And you’re definitely going to talk about sex. It doesn’t have to be so Snow White and Prince Charming.”

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On Living Life Despite Tragedy…
“Here’s the deal: This is what my family and I have been through [her older brother died in a car accident and her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer], and although we’re not perfect, we are survivors… No one in my family ever said, ‘Life’s not worth living because this happened or that happened to me.’ It’s always worth living, and living well.”

On Knowing What You Want…
“In my early 20s, I didn’t know who I was or what I wanted… I was fed up with trying to be somebody else, and got really lucky and met a great guy [husband Josh Kelley] who loved me for me. I keep telling my friends, seriously, write down what you want and make it specific. Like, I’m talking, do you want a beach house in Venice? Be specific and be creative and define not only what you want in your career but what you want in your personal life.”

PS: That hair makes her look 10 years older, IMO.

Katherine Heigl is the fifth highest-paid actress in Hollywood, with a successful TV series (Grey’s Anatomy) and two blockbuster romcoms (Knocked Up and 27 Dresses) topping her CV. She famously described Knocked Up as ‘sexist, painting the women as shrews’, went through heavy-handed and very public salary negotiations at Grey’s and withdrew from last year’s Emmy race because she didn’t feel she was given the material to warrant a nomination. In a (male-dominated) business where diplomacy counts for more than honesty, an actress saying what she actually thinks upsets the status quo.

You’ve said you have an opinion about almost everything. So what’s off-limits?

Nothing, actually, though people misunderstand that. Lately I’ve been getting a lot of crap from people thinking that I shouldn’t have an opinion.

Would you describe yourself as something of a feminist?

I’m not out burning bras, but I’m very opinionated about women owning their power. I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident. You repress how you really feel because society tells us what women think isn’t valid, that we’re frivolous and shallow.

How does it feel to be officially the fifth highest-paid actress in Hollywood?

That’s awesome. I didn’t know that. I have a tendency to go, ‘Oh my God, there’s nowhere for this to go but down’, but 
I should take a minute to appreciate that. If it all goes away tomorrow? I’ll be OK, too.

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Your new movie, The Ugly Truth, explores how to manipulate men. Did you ever try any of the techniques?

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I’m not a big one for the rules.

How important are your looks to you?

I always assume I look better than I actually do. I’ll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I’ll see a picture and think, ‘Crap, I had no idea that’s what I was looking like.’

When do you think you’ll move on from doing romcoms?

I know I’m catching some crap for it, but I really like doing them. People keep asking me if I want to do anything more serious, or Oscar-worthy, and I do, but I’m not quite there yet.

Katherine Heigl isn’t leaving Grey’s Anatomy, a source tells Usmagazine.com.

“Katie will still be on Grey’s next season,” a source tells Us.

Heigl’s rep tells Us: “I am unable to comment.”

In February, her costar James Pickens Jr. told Us both Heigl and T.R Knight were leaving the ABC medical drama.

While Knight is off the show, as confirmed to Us by former costar Melissa George yesterday, Heigl negotiated her contract to stay.

Both characters’ fates were up in the air on last season’s finale. Knight’s George O’Malley was hit by a bus, while Heigl, who plays Izzie Stevens, underwent a risky brain surgery to battle cancer. In the show’s final moments, they were both unconscious.

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