JEN & CHELSEA ON ICE!

ONETIME party pals Jennifer Aniston and Chelsea Handler like to play down talk of a feud, but it can't be denied that they barely speak ever since the Friends alum “soft ghosted” the caustic comic for being too brash — revealing that it was never more than a “showbiz” friendship, at least for Jen, sources spout!

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Chelsea Handler and Jennifer Aniston have allegedly drifted apart since sparking their friendship about 15 years ago

“Chelsea was never a perfect fit with the rest of Jen’s aging, well-off social circle, but if you go back 12 or 15 years when Chelsea was becoming a household name for her late-night cable show, she and Jen talked all the time and there was real sharing going on between them,” spills an insider.

“The bottom line is that it was always a show business friendship, nothing more!”