Brad and Angelina on PR Defensive


Brad and Angelina made another public outing together, and showed up at grafitti artist Banksy’s art opening in LA on Thursday night. This appearance is in contrast to their last time out together, where they tried to avoid being photographed and quickly ran into Scott Caan’s birthday party on 8/23. The gossip rags picked up on it, with In Touch running a story that they’re “Barely Speaking” and using those pictures on the cover. Life & Style had the cover story “Angie Storms Out.”

In it’s September 18th edition, In Touch claimed that they were fighting over how to raise the kids, and said that Angelina wanted to teach them about other cultures and to be grateful for what they had, while Brad just wanted them to have upscale toys and things that other Hollywood kids enjoy. They say that Brad’s adoption of Maddox and Zahara has not yet gone through and that Angie threatened to make her brother, James Haven, their legal guardian.

Life and Style said that Angie left a restaurant in New Orleans in a huff after Brad went to the bar to smoke a cigarette and then returned to the table, chatting on his cellphone. They say that Brad has been trying to contact Jen Aniston and that Angie is pissed.

Both rags relied heavily on candids to make their point, saying that Brad and Angelina’s body language is distant and that they don’t make eye contact. I wouldn’t be surprised if each of those stories was entirely based on photographs with little or no insider information.

Brad and Angelina must have gotten the point, because they held hands, smiled, and looked into each other’s eyes last week while they were out.

Lainey Gossip speculates that they might be ready to make the transition to the red carpet, and could be showing up to together at the Oscars next year. A few more nasty made-up stories in the gossip rags, and she could be right.

I’ve know you’ve already seen the pictures, but I found a few news ones and thought I would report about it.

Pictures from AngelinaWeb and SimplyBrad.

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  1. Angelika says:

    I think it’s a really smart thing to do! Hiding can’t work FOREVER and these rumours will go on until they finally show how deeply in love they are.. I don’t know, it’s weird.. “Hiding” and not showing your love in public works fine for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, or for Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin (which is different because he’s not an A-list celebrity), and others.. But you can also do it like Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams who manage to keep their private live private but still appear together in public..

  2. Mr. T says:

    I don’t know, the only thing I can get out of understanding these celebrities lives is that I can appreciate my life all the more despite the fact that it is more boring and more mundane it is still saner and more fulfilling than anything these people would ever experience. Can you imagine a super star working on repairing their 16 year old kids car themselves much less having their child drive a beat up old car that needed dad to repair it so it runs? Well that’s living! Anyways, it sucks but I love every minute of it.

    Regards,

  3. millie says:

    I think the stories are entirely fabricated just to sell papers since most people buying the tabloids are JenJen’s fans, still pining for the Golden Couple’s return. I have to laugh at people who say Brad and Angie are in the outs because they look distant when photographed in public. He adoped her kids, traveled all over the world with her, managed to make another baby but he’s secretly missing Jen.. right. It makes total sense. They both obviously kept their distance not to feed the rugs and offend the MiniVan Majority (quoting lainey–I totally agree), but it looks like they’re finally ready to show their true feelings for each other. Personally, I can’t wait for them to show up at the Oscars next year. Brad has a real chance with Babel and Jen is not likely to be invited again just because she has a good agent.

  4. someone says:

    Its about time, all their fans talked about how much in love they are, but you never saw that in any pics..now you do, or at least they want you to think they are.., I don’t know how a relationship can last when it was started the way this one was…and I don’t think he’s missing Jen, and I don’t think she is missing him either…they have both moved on..

  5. whatever says:

    i don’t think they are hiding, they just don’t wanna give something for the tabloid to write about….

  6. Me says:

    I wish them luck, but something is bothering me…Look at his body language. It looks like he is trying to run away from her and she’s trying to hold him back, or even worse -just runs after him. And his face expression?! It could be that he’s annoyed by photographers, but that type of a body language just keeps feeding all this rumors about their relationship. They shouldn’t hide their love, as he didn’t when he was with Jen. I would like to see them really happy together, smiling and hugging like normal people who are happy in their relationship.
    Anyway, this site is great. As a stay at home mother of 3 kids I just wonder how you manage to do this, stay late at night or what? Give me a recipe, I need it :).

  7. Celebitchy says:

    Thanks Me! I do stay up really late at night, and I get up early too! I only have one kid though, that’s plenty for now. I wonder how people have more.

  8. millie says:

    ME: she’s not trying to run after him because he just wants to shake her off. The whole scene was packed with photogs, flashbulbs all over the place–I’m surprised she didn’t fall in those heels. He was just trying to get out of there as fast as possible and she was trying to keep up and not fall on her face (TMZ has a video–it looked like a madhouse). The photos taken inside show them very relaxed and smiling at each other. I’d love to see them express their true feelings too, but I can imagine the headlines if they showed a lot of PDA (“he’s rubbing it in poor Jen’s face” “missing a sensitivity chip”). I think it shows class and sensitivity on their part that they don’t show much public affection. I think it’s a brilliant PR strategy too. They’ll be more publicly affectionate when the emotions about this whole triangle die down a bit and everyone accepts them as a couple. It bothers me that people equate PDAs with love–I never kiss my husband in public either, the most we do is holding hands and we often walk slightly apart–does it mean anything? Maybe just that we’re not comfortable giving someone a glimpse into our private lives. Not everything is for sale.

  9. first time posting says:

    I agree with Millie. Although I am not married, I have been with my boyfriend for four years and I can probably count on one hand how many times we have shown PDA. I feel like I’m throwing my relationship in people’s faces if I were to hug and kiss all over him in public. It makes me uncomfortable. I have no problem with other people doing it in front of me but I’d rather keep my business just that, my business:).

  10. KELVIN says:

    OH, NO JENIFER ANISTON SO UGLY. OUT THERE MANY YOUNG BEAUTIFUL STARS . BRAD SO STUPPID TO GET BACK TO A WOMEN LƠ OK LIKE A MAN : STRONG JAW,HONKER NOSE, LONG CHIN ,FAKE BREASTS AND LIE.