As we talked about exhaustively yesterday, Brad Pitt is still talking, still issuing non-apologies and clarifications and commenting in general about “Commentgate” or “Paradegate” or whatever the Anistonloonies are calling Brad’s Parade Mag interview. If you’d like to review yesterday’s exhaustive coverage, go here and here and here. Basically, Team Aniston thinks Brad only disrespected his marriage to Jen because he’s totally jealous of her new, hot relationship with “artistic” Justin Theroux. Team Jolie thinks Brad shouldn’t have apologized at all because now he’s spending all of this time talking about Aniston, Jolie’s arch-nemesis. Team Pitt thinks… God knows. I think Team Pitt just wants him to STFU for two seconds.
Page Six has an interesting/sad-making piece about the Anistonloonie fatwa against Brad and against Moneyball, with “movie insiders” wondering aloud if Brad hurt his popularity amongst women:
Despite Oscar buzz, some close to the Sony release are worried that Team Jen’s female following may be turned off by “Moneyball,” which opens Friday. It wasn’t clear in the first place if women would head out in droves to see a picture about the 2002 Oakland A’s and their general manager, Billy Beane.
“Interest is all male,” said a studio honcho, adding “They’ve tried to hide its subject matter, but it is what it is. They have a little older female interest. But younger females, forget it, that’s just not happening.”
When Extra posed the question, “Are you excited to see this film?,” on Facebook, angry comments were mostly sparked by Anistongate. “NOPE. I don’t like what he said about Jennifer … he went down a big notch!,” wrote one. Another raged, “Not after his stupid remarks about his marriage to Jennifer Aniston. I’ll never watch anything he is in again … LOSER.”
Meanwhile, Us Weekly reported that Aniston’s reps “went ballistic” and “angrily reached out to Pitt’s camp” to force an apology from him. She’s since made a point of being photographed smiling and enjoying herself with new beau Justin Theroux in New York this week.
A rep for Aniston said the “Us story for the most part is untrue. We all know that this is the working of the tabloid world to generate drama that doesn’t exist.”
[From Page Six]
A rep for Aniston told Page Six that “this is the working of the tabloid world to generate drama that doesn’t exist.” Right after the rep for Aniston leaked more information to Us Weekly about the house that Aniston and Theroux are renting and how they’re apartment-hunting together in NYC, and how Aniston believes that Justin is “the one”. Meanwhile, Brad’s full Today Show interview is now available for viewing:
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Once again, Brad says, “I don’t know what was pieced together [in the Parade interview]… It’s a shame that I can’t say something nice about Angie without Jen being drug in. You know, she doesn’t deserve it… I don’t want them to say anything bad like that about Jen. She’s a dear friend of mine.” Brad also denies that Jennifer called him over the interview, saying, “No. But she’s also a seasoned veteran and she knows. You know, and she’s a valuable person. We spent seven years together. Come on.”
Us Weekly has a new piece where “an Aniston insider” (perhaps the insider is her rep who knows “the working of the tabloid world [is] to generate drama that doesn’t exist”) says that Brad and Jennifer are NOT still friends: “They don’t talk. She will always think of him as a jerk…She’s 100 percent not speaking to him. He can apologize. But these are two people you will never see in the same room together.” Unless that room is that Kodak Theatre and Jennifer is once again invited to be a presenter (surprise!) the same year Brad and/or Angelina is nominated for an Oscar.
Here’s an honest-to-God question, Anistonloonies: why does Aniston get to DIRECTLY talk about Brad, Angelina (“uncool”), AND their children in the press for years and years, in interview after interview, but everybody freaks out when Brad makes a reference to how unfulfilled he was a decade ago?
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To answer your question, I think its because he left the marriage, so by default she gets to rip him until the end of time and he has to take it like a man.
Am I the only person in the world who doesn’t think he said anything terrible? I am an uninvolved bystander….I like all three of them the same amount. And I can’t believe the shit storm this has created. What did he say that was so horrible? That 7 years ago he was bored? BFD! I could say the same thing about my marriage (at times) and I’m still married to the guy. Who hasn’t been in a relationship that wasn’t perfect? You ride out the good with the bad, and if you don’t want to ride the bad out anymore you get out. My God, leave the guy alone. It seems to me that all 3 people who were involved are all pretty happy now.
I tried to watch the interview, but my 2 year old kept screaming “Spongebob” during the whole thing.
He looked awful, I don’t really care for him or his movies. I don’t like Angie as an actress either, and don’t really like her movies. That said, I don’t care for Jen Aniston’s movies either. Phew.
However, this is the first Pitt movie that I may actually see. I love baseball, I can bring my husband, and I love Jonah Hill. Hopefully, my distaste for Pitt will be brought down a few notches if he does the movie justice.
A rep for Aniston said the “Us story for the most part is untrue. We all know that this is the working of the tabloid world to generate drama that doesn’t exist.”
Hmmm…”most part is untrue” which means that some of it IS true. Interesting.
Hehe, “unfilled” typo… I knew you’d come over to the dark side.
Seriously Brad just stop! You can’t make everyone happy so just stop talking about it already. If asked do not engage, evade!
I wish both women would just stop getting over paid to make terrible terrible movies..
That said, I think this whole drama is only helping to drum up intreats in his movies..I don’t think people are going to not see it solely because they are loyal to Aniston.
I agree with atlantapug, all three of them could disappear from the big screen and news and I wouldn’t give a hoot.
Brad didn’t spend most of his ‘Today’ interview talking about Jennifer, it was the guy who did the interview who kept pushing the subject.
Haha atlantapug – I could just copy & paste every single thing you wrote, except that I have a 4 year old who is sick so she’s not screaming anything.
Otherwise, my comment is DUH non-story! Or is this all Brad’s PR stunt to get people to see $ball??
This movie has “BOMB” written all over it. Really, who cares about the 2002 Oakland A’s?. Are people going to go just to watch Brad Pitt overact? I doubt it
I doubt those angry commenters would have gone to see the movie anywayHaRvey sound like hard core JA fans, which means they probably wouldn’t see a BP movie regardless of what he says.
Good see Dibba is all for it too!
I have so ceased caring. But yet I read the article…sigh.
I really didn’t care about this while it happened, or in the gazillion years after. Sometimes marriages don’t work out. Sometimes people cheat. Sometimes I really don’t want to butt in. And most of this strikes me as everyone going about their lives, while the magazines desperately try to sell copies.
I’ve never hated Angelina. I’ve never thought Jennifer was sad or pathetic. I’ve never…cared about Brad.
But his interview was unacceptable. At the very least, he should have phrased it better. Did it really never occur to him how his words might be taken? At the very least, it was stupid. Yes, it’s private but that involves, y’know, not talking about it.
“Here’s an honest-to-God question, Anistonloonies: why does Aniston get to DIRECTLY talk about Brad, Angelina (“uncool”), AND their children in the press for years and years, in interview after interview, but everybody freaks out when Brad makes a reference to how unfilled he was a decade ago?”
BINGO!
You hit it perfectly, Kaiser, but you buried your headline. LOL!
@Dibba and @Krissy,
Yeah, I know, all 3 of them release bomb after bomb after bomb and they STILL get paid to make movies!
I don’t get it.
I’m weary of the drama! However,
I will not miss Moneyball despite Brads
participation….I can’t resist any Sorkin movie…
OMG… he needs to shut up.
I have made a point to ignore these threads. Simply because it is all self made drama. Plus the fact I always thought he was dumb as dirt.
Yet here he is still talking. And choking on his own foot.
I keep hoping Angie Jo would come fetch Brad and stop all the madness.
She really needs to keep a better eye on him. So he will stop embarrassing himself. 🙂
@Bianca: Brad really opened the door to that.
A good response to that would be something along the lines of “none of your business, this is private”. And do you know what would have made that much easier to say? Not bringing it up in an interview in the first place.
Today wants people to watch their show. That means going for the hot story. You can’t blame them for doing their jobs.
Aniston is not attractive, that’s why. Not like Angie. So Jen gives fat housewives everywhere hope that if they just comb their hair over their face enough, they could be a star too. They ‘relate’ to her unfortunate face.
They see her as a victim because of her looks vs. Angie,but Jen has continued a VERY mediocre talent & career by refusing to stop talking about Brad.
Out of curiousity, aside from joking once that for all the tabs knew, they were all friends who spent weekends together, (one of the kids) on Jen’s hip etc, when did she EVER say anything about the children? And more importantly, something negative about the children?
I didn’t see Horrible Bosses because Aniston was in the movie and I didn’t see Sandler’s movie because Aniston was in it. I will not pay one red cent to encourage Anistan’s acting(I use the term loosely) career.
Her PR games and her neurotic fans are out of control. My husband and I will see Money Ball.
Free publicity. That’s all. A little controversy helps a film.
I don’t think men really care about his past marriage nor do I think Anistonloons can hurt his movies. They can’t even make her films hits so how can they hurt anything.
I will watch it on DVD. Not hauling my butt out to see it.
Kaiser, to answer your question – its because Brangelina won. They won! They have a partnership that will go down in history as one of the finest, most powerful, and most beautiful couplings of our time.
Jen lost. To the victor belongs the spoils (children, professional success, critical acclaim) and to the loser goes the sour grapes. Jen is marching around Manhattan in Doc Martens with a balding 40 something hipster. Brad and Angie are floating around a sprawling French estate. Its not even fair. Its like comparing Cabernet Sauvignon with Merlot. Jen gets to bitch and moan because her life sucks in comparison.
Doesn’t matter why she could talk about him and his family for years and years. I believe he is killing the triangle with these interviews, so people will finally lose interest.
I believe all parties involved are fed up with it, a lot of people are fed up with it. By opening his mouth and saying one thing after another about his former spouse, and the tabloids all over it, eventually there will be nothing left to say.
The last 6 years were an overkill of these 3 people and even though at one point they might have thought it would help their careers, it didn’t.
Let me start by saying, I take no sides. Don’t love or hate either of these three.
I will comment though that in all of these posts many including Kaiser assume that those who were offended by Pitt’s initial Parade comment are only JenHags or Annistonloonies. But you guys have it partially wrong. A big bulk of the offense comes from those women who are not really involved in day to day gossip in general, and most especially about these three.
Case in point, I was at my kid’s school function (95% women) and at a table of about 10. The topic moved to movies someone brought up Moneyball. 9 out of 10 (me being the lone wolf) immediately pounced on Pitt’s comments… not because they like Anniston or hate Jolie, but because from where they are sitting (many divorced themselves), they believe that talking that kind of stuff about your ex-wife (who in their only partially informed minds was left for another woman) is about the worst thing you can do.
These women don’t really know the he-said she-said that many here who are fans of the three know, and honestly, they don’t care. They live their lives, watch Entertainment Tonight or E! News once in a while. In the end, they think he initially acted like a jerk and now gave him credit for trying to set the record straight. That is their perspective.
His apology had little to do with angry calls from PR people or with Annistonloonies … it had everything to do with the mindset of your average 35-45 year old women (50% of which are divorced) and protecting HIS brand.
So basically Brad said he was bored but isn’t wasn’t Jens fault. Then goes on to say that Jen is a nice person, we are still friends etc.
All the loons on Team JA and Team AJ go batshit.
I just don’t understand. The interviews and his choice of words make more of a statment about him than it does about JA and AJ.
(Goes to get popcorn to wait for all the looney posts. You guys really make me laugh.)
The answer to that question is because Angelina IS uncool. More a fact than an opinion. Whether you like it or not, she held the moral highground where that triangle was concerned.
Why are all these mega-stars so willing to do anything for publicity? I don’t understand, they are super famous already. Why the constant need for any kind of attention, even if it’s negative???
@ahoyhoy- comb enough hair in their face….
Hahahahaha..! My coffee came out my nose on that one!
If it weren’t for this “controversy” no one would be talking about him or his movie. “There’s no such thing as bad publicity”. I can’t see his movie because I have offspring and I don’t get to go movies much anymore. I hope JA isn’t pregnant, I mean how long has she known this new guy?
Jeez! Brad, STFU!! All three of them, STFU! How about, “I will always care about Jen and the time we had together.” PERIOD. THE END.
I think it is all about intent. Jennifer has been pointedly asked these questions, even when she didn’t have a movie to promote, and even when she was told she wouldn’t be, and has said very, very little and hardly what you could call inflammatory or defaming. Brad brought it up out of nowhere when he did have a movie to promote and his words were very, very ill chosen.
Also Jennifer was originally the humiliated party. It makes a difference.
Brad and Angie didn’t need to pick up the pieces and get on with their lives. They had already ventured on to a new one. That was left for Jen which she did carefully, thoughtfully and valiantly.
As far as Brad, I think EVERYBODY wants him to stfu. team Brad, team Jolie, team Brange, team Aniston, team Moneyball, and team neutral. Why can’t this guy just shut up? Somebody give him a shut up pill.
@garvel: I hear you, I feel exactly the same way about Pitt and Jolie. Even though I adore Depp, no way I was paying one red cent to see The Tourist. Ditto for IB, even though I think Tarantino is brilliant. In fact the only movies that Pitt is in that I will go and see are the one’s with Clooney, because he trumps Pitt every time.
The more this goes on the more pathetic they both seem, JA and BP. At least AJ staying silent. Maybe JA and BP really do deserve each other — Even tho she has her “new man” and badass NYC-montenegro style goin’ on and he’s found his “soulmate”
@ garvels
I agree. I don’t understand how Hollywood producers haven’t caught on to the fact that Aniston brings down their box office.
I cannot suspend disbelief while watching her in a movie.
PS My entire family is planning on seeing Moneyball…
Day 6, Tabloids held hostage by Pitt and this never ending controversy.
We get it. You have a Movie to promote…so you thought creating a controversy will help sell your movie to the masses.
Epic Fail. Now take your losses like a man…go back to your g/f you refuse to marry, and the six kids, that you’re happy that you picked out the right brood mare, to be their mother.
I’m so sick of this story!!! Gah!!! Let it go, loonies! Just let it go!
Team Sanity wants them to all shut up and go away for a while, and for this tabloid nonsense to finally go away too.
Young women not interested in a baseball movie starring an older guy and Jonah Hill?!?!? I’m stunned! Speechless! How could this be!?
Am I missing something here that only insiders know about? From where I’ve been sitting, I don’t think Aniston has been talking about them for years and years like you say. My recollection, she said about 2 or 3 things the whole time. In all fairness, she was made look like the biggest chump and loser when Brad went off with then femme-fatale Angelina Jolie with all her beauty, oscar, adopted child, engagement in world issues and so on. Then shortly after that comes that magazine cover with brangelina playing happy family – pretty insensitive. I mean, every time a photo has appeared of brangelina since, everyone thinks, wow, they look good, immediately followed by – poor, loser jen, while at the same time feeling sorry for her, or hating her. Not great to have to put up with that for the past 6 years or however long it is now. Now he comes along and adds “dull” to the mixture and aniston gets the muck kicked in her face all over again?
As for women fans going to his latest film – seriously, do women really go to the cinema to see Brad Pitt in a movie nowadays? I think those days are long gone. Try 1996 maybe.
#21.
I couldn’t have said it better.
I shudder in horror when I see her name attached to a film. Watching 101 ways to reinvent Rachel in every movie is like taking a cheese grater to my brain.
Wow I am really over this. It was fun for a while reading the comments of all the nutbags from both Teams, but now it is just sad.
In particular there are certain posters here that really need to take a good long hard look at yourselves. You know who you are. C…………
You do not know everything that goes on in AJs mind. You do not know her personally. You have no intimate knowledge of her home life. By the same tokin you also no nothing about Jens life or personal feelings either. So please stop stating your thoughts on this matter as facts. You know nothing.
“Here’s an honest-to-God question, Anistonloonies: why does Aniston get to DIRECTLY talk about Brad, Angelina (“uncool”), AND their children in the press for years and years, in interview after interview, but everybody freaks out when Brad makes a reference to how unfilled he was a decade ago?”
Because Aniston was not a jackhole, and they were unbelievable jackholes. And in my opinion, still are, and continue to use Aniston for self promotion.
@Dibba: Jen has said exactly nothing about this, the only one who has said anything at all (over and over and over) is Pitt.
I agree with Juliet. He didn’t say anything wrong. Besides, he never said that it was Aniston’s fault the marriage didn’t work. If her fans chose to take it that way, then that is more a reflection about how Aniston’s fans feel about her than it is of how Brad does.The man is obviously happy and committed in his relationship which is a good thing. And she seems to be ecstatic with that dude she’s with now so why make a big deal out of nothing? Again, it’s more a reflection on how her fans see her than it is about how Brad feels.
Oh God STOP TALKING DUDE
They were both immature and in the thicks of Hollywood shallowness that dictated that being in that perfect red carpet powercouple relationship was what they were supposed to want. So they got married and it got them all the external approval they craved.
Then they slowly figured out that actually, they didn’t have much of a connection. I totally believe BP when he says he was bored. Their relationship sounds like it was all appearances, with nothing much on the inside. And maybe JA was more attached to the external approval and not inclined to give it up, or maybe BP just got shaken out of the illusion when he met somebody he did have a real connection with, but point is they weren’t in sync about it ending.
And now they both know more about who they are and what they want and they have relationships that seem to suit them better. That’s it. Probably neither of them was horrible. Probably they just got so caught up in what external validation said they were supposed to want that they didn’t figure out that it didn’t make them happy until later.
It takes 2 to end a marriage, regardless of what played out to the public.
His words were innocuous.
OK – I have been silently observing this stuff for a while now – I have to put my two cents in. I like Jennifer Aniston. I like her movies. Yes, she basically plays Rachel Green over and over again in different ways – but I think she’s likeable. I also like Angelina Jolie – I like her movies and she is beautiful, obviously. Brad Pitt I could take or leave. What makes his comments so distasteful to me is my feeling that JA really, really loved him and trusted him – and he burned her. He left her and threw away the 7 year relationship he had with her. If I recall correctly – JA made some comments not too long after this all went down, but has been relatively quiet about the issue for years now. Then, BP and AJ did that spread in W magazine posing as the married couple with kids very shortly after the marriage ended – it was in poor taste – and his comments in Parade were in poor taste as well.
Once upon a time, AJ said (or was quote saying) “Brad knows when to shut up and just be pretty”. I wish he could just go back to that.
@Melymel- You said it best.
Brad cant make everyone happy. He should concentrate on making his partner and his children happy. Aniston can find someone in her life to comfort her.
Here’s a question: Why can’t people just be team “Angie & Jen”
These are two very different women with their own place in hollywood, making their money and living their lives, why does one have to be the other’s nemisis?
Brad looks like a daym fool digging a bigger whole for himself.
I think Angie does need to come fetch him.
What a moron he is.
The difference is he left his wife, and went directly to a younger woman. That makes him a butthole. Whether they actually cheated is just insult to injury. And when he opens his fat pie hole now, he talks about how she wasnt fulfilling him. YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO FIGURE THAT OUT BEFORE YOU WED dipshit.
And one other difference..he is straight up lying. To our faces. These two are friends now? Please. If that were so why not have a public coffee to prove a point. And Ang? She wanted this image now she has it and she doesnt like it. Well..when u spend your youth wearing black..plus blood around your neck, kissing your brother on the mouth in public,doing drugs, stealing Billy Bob away from LD..who is 2x your age..dont be pissed when it doesnt go over well when u do it to america’s sweetheart and dont expect to replace her in that place too. Just keep ole goat hair in line ok? BTW she sucks at that too.
You know what? I’m tired. I’m really f*cking tired. The tiny bit of sympathy I had left for him is now gone.
My menstrual cramps have just told me to get out of this mess (I know, TMI). So I’m out. Officially.
To all of you (fans, non fans, Team Jolie, Team Aniston, Team “I don’t care about them yet I’m here commenting”) who are brave enough to keep this shit going on…good luck. I mean that: good luck.
P.S.: One last thing though: Anne de Vries’s comment # 47 summed everything up perfectly.
JA hasn’t said anything, but I think her photo ops in NYC are staged and some of her peeps are talking for her.
“Here’s an honest-to-God question, Anistonloonies: why does Aniston get to DIRECTLY talk about Brad, Angelina (“uncool”), AND their children in the press for years and years, in interview after interview, but everybody freaks out when Brad makes a reference to how unfulfilled he was a decade ago?”
THIS.
1) for all we know, the parade interview person asked the question
2) There is ample proof (which I’m to lazy to find) that Anniston has said stuff about the other two and THEIR KIDS over and over again. In the same ‘interview’ standing as this parade interview.
3) I’ll give him credit for continuing to answer questions (even though it’s a waste of time) instead of Jen who goes through the tabloids and releases quotes about x y or z
I’m actually not a big fan of either of them. But Jen has been pulling the bitter ex-wife thing for YEARS, and Brad is allowed to have a opinion about that time as well. He didn’t slam her, she’s slammed him repeatedly.
If you’re going to get upset-hold them to the same standard. It’s absurd.
It’s triple-pathetic that Brad cannot compliment Angie as a mother & partner without THAT being a slap at Aniston…..Brad decided to have his kids with Angie, shouldn’t he be allowed to sing her praises, Jen-loonie-soccer-moms?
I seem to remember Jen ‘promising’ to have kids w/ Brad over & over. And then another movie would come along, and she’d put it off again. Clearly Brad was tired of waiting (approaching 40), and Aniston kept pushing it back. I think it’s pretty obvious now how much Brad wanted a boat-load of kids, so I don’t blame him at all for getting on with his LIFE. I know I’d move on if I was so ready for a family and my spouse kept putting me off for ANOTHER tragic rom-com.
Another Brad Story…
OKAAAAAY. Now… It’s not Brad anymore pushing this stuff down our throats. Brad is back in the UK with his FAMILY. But I guess, like the almighty ripple effect, every media outlet has to cover his every word…
I think I’m gonna do myself a favor and put the matter to rest in my life…
Brad said crap. The whole world b*tched about it. His movie came out. And he went back to his family… Okay, I know I can’t say THE END yet though! There’s Angie’s December premiere and the Oscars and GGs. at the beginning of next year…
Omg, these guys are my ‘drug’, lol!
Jeepers! I guess I’ll JUST have to STAY TUNED! whoopee! (rolls eyes)
“Here’s an honest-to-God question, Anistonloonies: why does Aniston get to DIRECTLY talk about Brad, Angelina (“uncool”), AND their children in the press for years and years, in interview after interview, but everybody freaks out when Brad makes a reference to how unfilled he was a decade ago?”
Sorry, but the timeline on this is not really correct. Angelina kind of got the ball rolling by giving the first interview in late 2006. There she stated that she’d welcome sitting down with Jen, felt that Pitt was ‘at the time with his best friend’ and she herself was looking forward more and more to meeting Pitt daily on set.
Aniston didn’t have anything to promote until late 2008, which is when the ‘uncool’ comment was made. About that time she made the only reference on record to the kids, as Canuck already cited, it was more directed at the tabloids than ‘talking about the kids’.
About that time both Jolie and Pitt gave interviews were they said they fell in love on the Mr & Ms set.
On the other hand, Pitt has talked about the marriage a few times, stating they got out of it with a lot of respect, etc. I’m not sure that Aniston would agree to that, yet she didn’t commnent on it. Also, Pitt went on record saying that Aniston probably didn’t mean the ‘uncool’ remark but was cornered into it by the tabloids.
These were the kind of things that would have ticked me off, because Pitt no longer gets to be the mouthpiece for the Aniston-Pitts, even if it was meant to defend Aniston.
And now this. Nobody can tell me that he didn’t see it coming that any reference to his ‘marriage’ wouldn’t make people pay attention.
No one antI-Pitt addressed why Aniston gets to joke about his kids. Or smile blithely while her BFF makes racist/homophobic digs at his toddler aged kids.
I bet poor Brad is just counting the days until this publicity tour is over. The complete hysteria about his comments has been beyond absurd. He simply stated that the unhappiness he felt in his marriage was part of the reason he was dissatisfied with his life. I think part of the reason so many Jen fans are upset is because they had this fantasy that Brad and Jen were blissfully happy until Angelina came along and stole him away. But, as both Brad and Jen have implied their marriage was over long before Angelina.
ahoyhoy: Jen gives fat housewives everywhere hope that if they just comb their hair over their face enough, they could be a star too. They ‘relate’ to her unfortunate face.
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OUCH! Harsh — but probably very true.
“jen has been pulling the bitter ex-wife thing for years” – How do you define bitter exactly and how has she pulled that? She seemed to try to get on with her life, dated, made her movies, kept herself looking fit and healthy. Doesn’t seem typically bitter to me. More brave I think.
Brad should not have said what he said. I am totally with mia girl # 27. he took universal hit at women who have been dumped when he made that statement and everyone knows how they would feel if their ex made a public statement like that. I think most woman would empathise with Jennifer Anistone here. He should have stopped talking when he said that he was sitting around smoking joints in the 90s and he certainly did not need to elaborate by adding to the sentence that he was leading an uninteresting life and that his marriage had something to do with it – chump.
Why now? Does he have some movie coming out. He is so over to me…If I had to choose a team I will choose Team Aniston after all this public talk about his failed marriage to Jenn it just makes him looks desperate and lame. When they broke up people blamed Jenn, rumors of her not wanting kids etc. but now with all this bogus talk from Brad I see why maybe she just was not feeling him anymore.
Plus it’s disgusting to see so many people with their heads up his ass because he’s Brad Pitt.
“Once upon a time, AJ said (or was quote saying) “Brad knows when to shut up and just be pretty”. I wish he could just go back to that.”
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Really?
Cos I don’t think Angie would ever say that. Though speaking of “pretty”, I really like that top pic of Brad. But then, I’m also on Team Shut Up Brad.
Karma’s a bitch. Brad felt safe talking shit now that Jennifer has a new love. He’s an ass.
I disagree with the idea that it’s only the Aniston followers being put off Brad [ I can’t stand Aniston rom-coms and never cared much for her character in Friends]. I’d think that most women would be put off by his behaviour or desperation for publicity. What happened for him to open his mouth about his concluded marriage? No houses to build for charity? He didn’t feel like engaging in some philanthropic deed he had to descend into the mire of marriages lost. What a conversationally limited man.
I have difficulty watching interviews with Pitt. He is one of those people that fit the adage. The allure fades the minute he opens his mouth. I wonder how Angelina copes with it all.
I’m wondering why the shit didn’t hit the fan when Aniston sat next to Chelsea Handler smiling, when Handler trashed Angelina as “evil”? Or, when Jen cooed about how “happy” she was with her new boyfriend–the guy she cheated with? He was living with his girlfriend of 14 yrs when they were photographed together. Or, when she mentioned her marriage recently in a James Lipton interview? Why does she get a pass? Don’t get the double standard. All three are annoying famehos who have overstayed their welcome in my opinion.
I think the only time they get a pass from me is if they make a decent film. So far, Brad’s movies have been the best of the bunch. Angelina’s haven’t been so good of late. Jennifer’s movies suck. I can’t think of one film of hers that I liked. Maybe Office Space? But, she didn’t add anything to that film. Anyone could’ve done her role. She is the most over-rated actor and she picks such shitty commercial crap to star in, most of the time.
If it wasn’t for each other, these three certainly wouldn’t be as popular. It’s unfortunate, because I really wish they would fade away. It’s been 7 freakin’ years. Time for them to ride off into the sunset…
Definitely, so true, Original Bee.
WOW!!!! Talk about JUDGEMENT really the man was bored… don’t trash talk his family them think its UNCOOL when he speak his mine…. come on this has been yap about for almost a week. MOVE ON HE’S HAPPY….who cares if you go see his movie I bet he not losing sleep…. all for a chick that brought you ROCK STAR…. THE BREAK-UP….. BOUNTY HUNTER REALLY!!! good on you if you didn’t waste your money…
I hate it when folks start “bullying” on these boards posting stuff about “fat” women or “ugly” women. Women are so mean to other women. Can’t we just have a dandy and spirited debate without name calling?
@Cheyenne
Who in their right mind would want Jennifer Anistons who
‘gives fat housewives everywhere hope that if they just comb their hair over their face enough, they could be a star too. They ‘relate’ to her unfortunate face.’
sloppy seconds?
The uber cool knife collector and blood vial wearing, Angelina Jolie that who.
This story will never go away. When ELizabeth Taylor died, my mom reminded me that she had stolen Debbie Fisher’s husband. For some people, Angie will always be the one who stole Brad from Jen, whether it’s true or not.
It’s wierd that Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt still get to use each other for publicity to promote their new projects. Don’t they have a production company together still. They’re smart & they know how to play the game. Even Jolie talks about Aniston when she has something to promote. The buzz never fails. It’s sad that people don’t recognize that..
I really wish BP would just WRITE A BOOK about what really happened, and throw in all the details about the not-so-attractive side of “poor Jen”. Co-authored by Angelina Jolie.
@AshleyB: You’re attributing that quote to the wrong person. See Ahoyhoy #21. I thought it was hilarious, albeit a bit harsh. (Well, maybe more than a bit.)
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@Anne de Vries #47: Very astute comment. Totally co-sign.
Memo to Brad: Point made, point taken. SHADDUP ALREADY!
@Canuck. I totally agree with your stance. I saw Jen Aniston’s movie “Just Go with It” on a plane out of New York. It was funny. I thought she was funny and kinda cute. Sandler made me laugh more though. I watched it for him. And the cute kids in the flick, funny. It’s pretty forgettable though. Not something, I’d watch on a loop.
And I wouldn’t, like, ‘pay’ to see any of her movies… Horrible Bosses, The Switch, etc. Nah. So we’re alike like that. Not paying to see the movies of actors we can’t really stand unless there’s someone better in them.
Brad has always been bored. First he was bored with Aniston. Then last year he said the reason he was growing a beard was boredom. Nothing ever changes with him, just the women. He needs to shut up. Btw, in the first pic he looks like a woman.
What ive never understood JA supposedly has all these fans but they never seem to support the movies where she is the sole star ie “the switch”..
@Jen34 #74: LOL! I’m probably your mom’s generation and I remember very well the Taylor/Fisher/Reynolds triangle. God, what a mess — and that time around, there were four small children involved. Taylor had three, Fisher and Reynolds had one.
Taylor didn’t help matters much by answering some reporter’s question about why she put the moves on a new man so soon after her husband (Mike Todd) died. Taylor’s response to the reporter was “What am I supposed to do — sleep alone?”
@Delta : No you’re not alone… but the new dream’s girl is…. short and hairless as…J…..
I hope the movie does well. I’m a baseball girl, and a fairly rabid A’s fan. I like JA, but I’m not pro or anti Brangelina, so whatevs.
I will say that the sheer number of Celebitchy posts this week on the unholy trinity is kinda overkill. I know the page clicks are hard to resist, but it’s a bit much.
um whoever says Angie brings up Jen to promote a movie is WRONG! she has only brought her up ONCE in dec 2006 since then she has said NOTHING
Remember when JA and BP went away with Cox and Arquette and BP wore the “Trash” shirt? Why was he wearing that? I also remember an interview with Barbara Walters with one or both of them about 1 year or more before they split up and one of them was saying how people weren’t meant to be married forever. I was like UH OH! I think when they came out of their stoner haze, they realized they made a mistake. How does JA stay thin? Doesn’t one eat alot when smoking pot?
I don’t think he was disrespectful in his words, nor do I think Jen cares at all. I am total agreement that this is all fueled by the tabloids and the morons who choose to believe the tabloids.
I used to like Brad a long time ago before Angelina. But after that and the stupid Parade magazine article – I for one will not see his movies or Angelina’s for that matter. He needs to own up that he screwed around on his wife and then rubbed it in her face many times. Scum.
This interview was pathetic.
And where is Robin Wright?
Doesn’t she play Brad’s wife in this movie? Shouldn’t she have been at the premiere – the girl who plays his daughter was there. Not a peep from her at all – a little strange?
Why do people keep bringing up Chelsea Handler? JA can no more control what comes out of her mouth than AJ can with BP.
I have to laugh at comparisons of Angelina to Elizabeth Taylor. Apart from the broken marriages (Jolie and Taylor are two for two: Taylor ‘stole’ Fisher and Burton from their wives, even though Fisher’s marriage was studio made and Jolie the same with Pitt and Bob-Thornton), there is no comparison in terms of acting quality. For me, Angelina will always be in transition in terms of her acting capacity. Sure, she poops all over Aniston, because Aniston is like SJP (forever Carrie) – forever Rachel – but Jolie hasn’t really made anything that screams quality of late. Even her accents in some films (especially Oliver Stone’s Alexander) are a bit off the mark.
@Dede #84: Actually, Angie didn’t bring Aniston up. The Vogue interviewer did. She asked Angie if she had had a sit-down with Aniston since her divorce from Brad Pitt. Angie replied, “That would be her decision, and I would welcome it.”
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@Mrs. Smith: Aniston can’t control what comes out of Handler’s mouth. She can, however, decide whether or not she wants to be associated with her.
Soooo over this…just stop saying her GD name already!! He should have his manager or whatever tell the lame interviewers that questions about Jennifer are OFF LIMITS. I’m sick of hearing about it!
@ Sahas #43 – Most excellent post. *clapping*
I think MiaGirl@27 touched upon the answer to Kaiser’s question:
Jen’s “fans” get so caught up in the back and forth because they feel like she represents every woman who may have been wronged by a man with a wandering peen or ever been divorced.
So, when Brad occasionally talks about this past relationship, perhaps they hear/see the voice of their exes and this generates a visceral negative response.
Since Jen was/is considered to be the wronged one (in the original marriage), she can do no wrong even if she is allowing/encouraging her associates to denigrate Pitt/Jolie and/or their offspring. She’s also given a pass if she ruins someone else’s relationship/marriage because she essentially can do no wrong, since she was so very wronged originally.
Makes perfect sense right? No? Oh.
@Cheyenne What is wrong with JA being associated with Chelsea? Isn’t she a comdeian? Isn’t it her job to make fun of people? Why is it not ok for her to make fun of the Jolie/Pitts? The Jolie/Pitts aren’t above being made fun of are they?
I know alot of questions, but I really don’t get it.
celebitchy posts are getting ridiculously slanted and over the top immature about this pseudo drama that is good PR/attention for all parties involved, anyway.
The truth as they say is somwehere in the middle, no doubt.
And that means that the brange and JA are all complicit….regardless, all are human and none are perfect. So I am sure AJ has some skeletons in her closet, too and possibly there is some truth to some of the rumors about her currently-who knows-i sure don’t! But I also don’t know the status of JA’s love life for real, or her personality, either.
Give it a rest already-
i know i shoud not reply b/c it’s yet another interest click on this type of thread…..but honestly, the bias is getting bizarre, folks.
Giving celebtichy site a rest today-
see ya.
I don’t think anything really bad was said by Brad and I’m not on either team (Brad or Jen) but I really do think that this needs to be put in the past where it belongs. Not only that but no one really knows what happened in their marriage except them. People always assume he strayed and that Angelina is a man stealer but no one will stray unless they have reason to. I’m not saying I even think that happened. I just think that there are two sides to every story and that maybe their relationship was on the rocks and they split simply because it had run its course. I don’t think anyone will ever know for sure. People speculate and sources claim this or that but I don’t think that the truth will ever be known.
Really, the media needs to find something else to report about!
He is such a hypocrite if you want to move on from this stupid Aniston mess, just DON’T TALK ABOUT IT!!!!! Do not talk about the marriage etc. I think he did this on purpose to get more media attention pure and simple.
the outrage over his comments had nothing to do with his lovely words about Anjelina but about his harsh statement about his previous marriage. He is really a dumb schmuck!
@JustBe #94: Makes no sense at all, but you nailed it anyway.
@ cheyenne; i am currently reading Elizabeth Taylor Biography ‘HOW TO BE A MOVIE STAR’ and am at the Fisher/Reynolds/Taylor scandal……This stuff will not go away. The Jen/Brad/Angelina parallels are uncanny with regards media reporting on the triangle.
Ive been reading the past few post of brad n this whole jen is boring thing and i hesistated 2 comment cuz i wanted 2give him the benefit of a doubt….but hes skating on thin ice with me….jenniferfur needs 2 sit down somewere with her dark new and improved eddie monster sex buddy and get a life! I dont like the feelin im getting that brad is licking jennifers wounds for her and praising angie as just the best baby producer ever!! He needs 2 re his queen as she deserves! Stop back tracking with the aniston qoutes and stop talkn about her like shes a factor because shes NOT or is she bradly?? It seems 2 me like angies just sitn back chill and dosnt see threatened but i think lowkey she will cut a bitch and jen too if need be! Hell angie used 2 cut herself u think it would be to hard 2 cut someone whos wronged her?? Lmao! At the end of the day i hope brad truly appreciates angie for more than just the paternal parent of his children and they happily move on from this crap!
The real question is, why do people give a crap? Brad left Jen, what does anybody care? He said his life and his marriage were boring, so what? It beggars belief how passionate people get about other people’s lives,as evidenced by some of the comments here, when we all have our own lives to worry about. Or don’t we?
@Mrs. Smith: Making fun of Jolie is one thing. Making fun of her children is something else again. And making racist comments about her children is absolutely despicable. That is what Handler did, and why Aniston would want to be associated with someone like that is beyond my comprehension. Say whatever you want about Jolie and Pitt, but leave their children out of it.
@jen34; “This story will never go away. When ELizabeth Taylor died, my mom reminded me that she had stolen Debbie Fisher’s husband. For some people, Angie will always be the one who stole Brad from Jen, whether it’s true or not.”
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i agree that some of us will be 60 AND STILL SAYING Jen is forever Rachel.
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@Cheyenne; “…Taylor’s response to the reporter was “What am I supposed to do — sleep alone?”
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Man, I can’t IMAGINE if Angie said that! The Earth would tilt on its AXIS!
i’m confused. didn’t jen just break up a 14 year relationship or something? and wasn’t the girlfriend (who would be legally considered a common law wife, in canada) totally blindsided? and then isn’t jen totally flaunting her relationship and happiness in the press, without any regard for how the ex-partner feels?
i thought that put an end to feeling sorry for her as the wronged, suffering ex-wife.
@Cheyen : YES !
You are right, Kaiser. If you look closely in past interviews, Jennifer brings them directly or indirectly (very sneakily) often, even when she’s in a relationship. What man wants to be in a new relationship when she constantly bringing up her ex? Especially in interviews? Hmm, wonder if Mayer wrote a song about that?
Lauer keeps badagering Pitt about this and the tabloids–well, how often do they tell the truth?
Ah yes, the Jeff Spicoli of the Serious Acting world. What, was James Lipton too busy to interview this talentless, brainless turd?
And WTF is up with the FIVE-head he sports now..did his noggin get stretched or something? Scary..
@Cheyenne I get it now. Anyone who has ever associated with anyone who has ever made a joke that someone else has perceived as racist or distastful should disassociate with them immediately so they are not tarred with the same brush. Got it.
BTW thats quite a long bow you have there.
This story will never go away…people love it and will feed off of it forever and ever… maybe if Jen gets remarried, then maybe people will leave it alone. oh and… it’s really hard to believe that “Jen” is still a “dear friend” of Brad’s…
@94 JustBe-
That’s right. Well said. The truth hurts. Apparently, there are a lot neurotic women who still do not understand why their marriage ended (too bad) or never transitioned into a better life after their divorce (that is unfortunate). These women cannot handle rejection or know how to move on and instead scream at the ocean.
If I was divorced I would not give two sh*ts what my ex would say because he would be considerd a nonfactor in my life. I certainly would not give him the satisfaction of being hurt and his name would be not referenced in any way after the divorce. When I am done, I am done— cold, hard math.
Regarding his private life… Brad will now shut the media down as he put Matt Lauer in his place when tried go further with the interview about the misconstrued comments.
Well done Brad. You clarified, said this had nothing to do with Jen…the end. Next subject, please!
Let the Jenhens snarl, scream at the ocean again and hold their breath to show their disapproval of his truthful comments. Who cares if they continue to act like children? Let ’em!
Moneyball is a movie that I will go see. Brad and Angie are in love and everything is fine.
Brad is now content and very intentional about his life’s work and his commitments. I love a man who knows what he wants and gets it. He is a man’s man and that ALONE is intoxicating.
BTW, he is STILL sexy as hell ( I love his swagger) and I want to see him on the screen! HOT!!!!!
@ #34 Thesea-
“Pick up the pieces?”…WTF?!?! Aniston was dry humping her rebound partner Vince Vaughn (and then some) BEFORE her divorce in 2005 was final. She was not sitting home alone. I believe Brad sent her his best wishes when he heard that VV, who also starred in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, hooked up with the X. If Brad wasn’t jealous then, he was never going to be jealous.
Aniston is not a victim, but she PLAYED the victim card to stay relevant. Want proof? Well, there’s you…and others.
@ #35- Canuck—
We know how you feel. However, The Tourist raked in 278M worldwide without your “support.” Go figure.
I am team none of these people and I really wish BP would just STFU already! This is getting so old and tired, I’m suprised anyone has the energy to keep going on and on about the same thing everyday. Geez.
I dont think what he said was that bad and its true – Jenn is boring as can be. That said he is the one who cheated therefore he shouldnt comment on his marriage to Jenn at all ever in my opinion. Its low class to comment on past relationships anyhow – move on. But he didnt really say anything that bad.
Women dont want to see Moneyball period. Its about baseball – not many women want to see a movie about baseball regardless of the jenn comments.
I think the controversy stems primarily from the following:
1) Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have always flatly denied that they had an affair on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. I doubt that Pitt’s first wife believes that and, frankly, neither do I.
2) After Brad leaving Jennifer for Angelina, it was actually Angelina who publicly addressed the situation first.
Now, if you can add two and two together, then it is difficult not to see why Aniston was and/or still is pissed: your husband leaves you for another woman and, 7 years later, still doesn’t have the balls to admit that he had an affair with her, not publicly that is. To add insult to injury, this woman, who I think is that last person (and I mean that chronologically) who should have commented on the situation, is the first one to. She even has the balls to be so patronizing as to say that she “would like to sit down with her [Jennifer] one day” and, even more patronizingly, to comment on Pitt’s relationship with his wife by claiming that it was clear that “he was with his best friend”. The fact that the comment was “nice” makes it doubly patronizing.
To make it perfectly clear, this is not a rant against Angelina. If I had to “choose” between the two, I’d go for Angelina over Jennifer any day of the year. The point here is that Angelina should have never had to address the situation. Brad should have. It was Brad’s marriage and he should have dealt with the aftermath of its ending. Instead he practically hid behind Jolie for years and Jolie, most likely because she is incredibly media savvy, ended up dealing with the “mess” instead.
I frankly feel a lot of sympathy for both of the ladies: for Aniston for the above-mentioned reasons and because she has been portrayed as a miserable pathetic fuck whose entire meaning in life depends on whether or not and for how long she can keep a man, and for Jolie for being publicly vilified. Pitt should have either addressed the issue decisively once and for all or kept his mouth shut (along with Jolie) once and for all. In public, that is. In private they may do as they wish obviously.
As I read these stories I am constantly reminded of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Now she was really, really vilified in a way that is truly horrendous, especially here in the UK. Nonetheless, she never opened her mouth about John’s first marriage or about his first wife and it was for the most part (i.e. 95% of the time) John who dealt with issues relating to how they cam together and his first marriage.
Long rant. Over and out.
Can he just go away!!! He’s a low-life piece of crap using anything he can to get media attention for what I am sure is another loser film with another loser performance by him!!! Honestly – no one cares what this cheater has to say…go away, STFU and just live your life with Angie and your kids… MY god is he a complete utter ass along with being a complete utter bore!!!
Oh my God. Seriously, this is ridiculous, I fail to see how he ever even made any kind of rude comment about Aniston! All he ever said was he was tired of pretending his marriage was something it was not. That’s honest, and it isn’t necessarily slamming Aniston, it’s just addressing their marriage failing, and two people are in a marriage!
All I’ve EVER seen from Jennifer Aniston is just a vapid, shallow, stupid person. And she doesn’t do sh*t outside of her crappy acting gigs. Angelina Jolie however, has been a very involved Human Rights Activist and UN Ambassador for a long time, and I think that’s one of the reasons that Brad Pitt fell in love with her: because she’s got DEPTH and intelligence and gives a flying sh*t about the world around her, unlike Aniston. She works tirelessly to try to make a difference with all that money she makes, while Aniston’s does very little in comparison. Also Jolie is a pilot, does her own stunts in movies, had a child when they met, etc. She’s interesting and smart, and if Brad Pitt fell in love with her, so be it. They seem really in love and happy and have a great family, people need to get over it. And Brad Pitt seems like a good, down-to-earth guy, I never get why people attack him. All he’s trying to do now is defend Aniston, and people are STILL attacking him? Jesus people, what the hell do you want from him?
Meanwhile, Aniston is prancing around with her new douche of a boyfriend, and their relationship just seems ill and contrived to me, especially considering he left his girlfriend of 14 years for her, but you know, none of the Anistonloonies think it’s “uncool” that Justin cheated, or that Aniston is “missing a sensitivity chip” with the way they’re flaunting their relationship all over the place, or that she’s the epitome of a hypocrite considering she did exactly what Brad did by breaking up a long-term relationship.
One final note: it’s laughable that Brad Pitt is jealous of Aniston’s garbage relationship with her new douche; if anything he’s probably relieved and hopes it’ll last so maybe the Anistonloonies will get a life and leave him alone.
Sorry, rant over.
@Josephina 112: And Aniston’s two films out this year will probably end up to a combined total of around 450 million (once HB has opened and closed in all markets) wthout the money that people here don’t want to spend. So what’s your point?
“Here’s an honest-to-God question, Anistonloonies: why does Aniston get to DIRECTLY talk about Brad, Angelina (“uncool”), AND their children in the press for years and years, in interview after interview, but everybody freaks out when Brad makes a reference to how unfulfilled he was a decade ago?”
To my knowledge, she’s only spoken about their children once and it was a joke in reference to what the tabloids would say about her. She has never uttered a single negative word about the Jolie-Pitt children nor has she made fun of them. No, she hasn’t talked about them in interview after interview.
As for talking about Brad, she has a right as the injured party to talk about it. It’s not fair, certainly. But no matter what, if you are the dumper, it is in poor taste to talk about why you dumped someone (or contributing factors to the dumping) especially to a wide public audience. It’s just tacky and rude and completely unnecessary.
Talking about how hurt you were when someone dumped you is a more sympathetic position to be in. No one feels sorry for the person who dumps someone else. That’s why she can talk about it and no one says anything (although the Brangeloonies don’t have any issues tearing her apart for it) and Brad needs to keep his fat trap clamped.
Speaking of which, OMG SHUT UP BRAD!
Neither of the women have said anything about this, by the way. This is all Brad’s dumb hick moronic mouth breathing nonsense.
Who cares. JLM is better anyways
@Theresa, 34 – “Also Jennifer was originally the humiliated party. It makes a difference.”
How was Jennifer Aniston humiliated?
@115: Ida:
1) They denied it for years. Maybe, just maybe the are telling the truth?
2) Jennifer addressed it first, then Brad.
I read most comments about this topic. My opinion is that Brad didnt offend Jen with his comment. IF and this is IF, Jen or anyone got offended by it, is because of your own insecurities, or people are STILL hoping for a reunion.
Women in general like to live in a fairytail. They rarely see their own faults or mistakes, but they are MASTERS in blaming other people.
I’ve never heard 1 woman talk good about their ex-husband even when they were the ones that cheated.
@Josephina: damn straight girl! I agree with you on all points! 🙂
Please, just let this end soon!
I am not a fan of Pitt;
I am not a fan of Jolie;
I am not a fan of Aniston.
Please put a sock in your mouth Pitt and stop talking about a marriage that was 7 or so years ago!
You are there to promote a movie – talk about the damn movie!!
You know what just occurred to me? That every single one of us posting on here probably cares way more about this than Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston does. I don’t think either of them really waste any time thinking too much about eachother, and this basically is entirely fueled by the press at this point. It is not that Brad Pitt talks about her all the time; it’s that the press constantly ASKS him about Aniston all the time, so he responds. And all of us are arguing passionately about it when really, Pitt and Aniston are just enjoying their lives and not giving a sh*t about one another. We care more than they do. That being said, I still think Aniston is a butthead and her new relationship is a joke, but hey, it’s her life, not mine. And I’m entitled to my opinion. Have a good day all! 🙂
@Toe, if you think that a man (or woman) gets out of a 7 year relationship and a marriage moreover (contractually binding and all that) just because they realized they really looked forward turning up at work the next day to get to hang out with another person then you are living in a fairy tale world I’m afraid. Such affairs are hardly ever platonic, for better or for worse.
And that crap about women living in a fairy tale world while simultaneously being resentful bitches is incredibly misogynistic. I know plenty of women, of which I am one, who have never badmouthed their former partners. And Jennifer Aniston has actually never badmouthed Brad Pitt to my knowledge. Not in public anyway.
why same subject of yesterday ?these are the same brad’s phrases you talked about yesterday kaeser nothing new
I have not seen their movies in years.
When you see it’s jen’s movie, you know
the outcome of the movie. Same holds true about Joli. It’s the same boring acting.
I go to the movies at least twice a week. Anyone else is more entertaining. IMO.
Who cares about them?
Um, I was curious while reading this article. There was highlighted in the write-up of the writer’s opinion, “AND their children.” So, I clicked on it & read the article, thinking the writer was “onto something” where Anniston had made some damning statements about “their children.” I read the entire article, & guess what?! Jenn was extremely careful w/her words…nothing damning. Also, the writer of that article went on to say that she (JA) was EXTREMELY THOUGHTFUL/CAREFUL of her words/responses when queried about that whole fiasco. **I encourage anyone who will, to read this article.**
I want to be clear, I’m not a “fan” of any of these people. However, in all fairness, Brad did not have to say what he did in his interview. He was unprovoked in his candid answers…he brought up the marriage in a BAD CONTEXT/BAD LIGHT. He put his past marriage in a bad light/context in the interview, when he did not have to do so. Why couldn’t he have spoken of his past in more general terms? Why, for heaven’s sake, did he have to bring up his past marriage in a bad light? Sour grapes…I dunno. But I do know he regrets it now, & wishes he hadn’t. Why in his interview w/Matt Lauer, did he tell Lauer he “didn’t want Matt to read his quotes to him?” It was, afterall, HIS WORDS IN HIS INTERVIEW. So, he gives an interview, & then says, he’s not “into what is printed.” I’m paraphrasing his words, but this is the essence of what he said. So…he SAID IT, but now wants NO PART OF IT? What a complete spineless buffoon-moron.
This speaks volumes of his “intelligence,” or lack thereof. It also speaks volumes of how he views his past marriage. How he’s responding to all this flak speaks VOLUMES of his character, or lack therof. He’s pandering to the press…a people-pleaser whose obviously realized what an idiot he is.
I’m not sure that having 99 kids would de-bore. Maybe the parent would have to be “on” all the time in terms of putting on a cheerful front of the kids constantly, you know, ENTERTAIN them but I think that would be boring too.
I foresee my parenting to involve a lot of laying down. I’m EXHAUSTED.
That wouldn’t mean I wasn’t bored.
To answer your question:
The anger directed towards Brad, and why he doesn’t get cut any slack–even years later, is because everyone KNOWS he cheated on JA. While he was still a full participant in his marriage, he was in a movie in which he had an affair with his co-star. Everyone knows that sometimes marriages do not work out. If he had let his wife know he was leaving the relationship prior to starting a new one this would’ve blown over by now. As he didn’t, he never gets the right to act like he was anything other than an ass, who cheated on his wife.
If the hordes of scorned women in the world would stop trying to identify with every single perceived injustice against other women no body would have taken Brad’s comments out of context. They’re mad for no reason other than I was dumped by a guy or my husband and I can identify with Jen because she was dumped by a guy too. Even though Jen seems to not even care about what Brad said and what Brad said, while never once mentioning his Exs name, was no insult. I mean this is America Brad, did you expect people to COMPREHEND what you were saying?
@jen34, LAK and Sakyiwaa: The Taylor/Fisher/Reynolds mess was much worse than Jolie/Pitt/Aniston in that it involved a serious betrayal on Taylor’s part. Jolie and Aniston had never been friends and I think they had met only once on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. But Taylor and Reynolds had been good friends for many months before she ran off with Fisher, because their husbands (Fisher and Mike Todd) were close friends. Taylor backstabbed Reynolds in a big way but Reynolds was big enough to forgive her later. She and Taylor used to get together occasionally and have a good laugh at Eddie Fisher.
It’s hilarious that Reynolds got over the whole thing decades ago and her fans are still upset about it.
@ 118 Canuck-
NICE. Now IF I combine Angie’s movies like you did, what will we have? Let’s see:
The Tourist – 278M
Salt – 297M
Kung Fu Panda 2- 675M
Let’s combine all 3: 1.25 Billion in sales! Damn!!!!
Let’s combine 2 (Salt and The Tourist): 575M –AND SHE WAS THE LEAD CHARACTER and NOMINATED FOR HER ROLE IN THE TOURIST.
Not fair? OK. Let’s level the playing field since Aniston is a “pro” as a supporting actress:
2 Movies- Kung Fu Panda and The Tourist:
948 Million!
Ahem…Who’s the Heavyweight Champion here? Angelina! She wins again!
She wins every time! The man, the life, the career, the global fanbase, critial acclaim, beauty, gorgeous children, etc…gets your panties all crunched in a bunch, doesn’t it?
My point is that more men will support Brad than you realize. More men will relate to a man trying to move on in his life while an old flame is still trying to inflate her R-E-S-P-E-C-T from a deadend relationship.
Aniston is now in a new relationship. The burden is on her to show that she is not a spiteful, vindictive, boring, dull, uninteresting, passive-aggressive, immature, neurotic wreck and that she can sustain a healthy relationship with a man.
Piece of cake, right? Well, we ARE talking about Aniston. I am still laughing at how her new douche BF held the umbrella under himself to protect his 4K leather coat rather than protect his new lady love. Choices, choices.
She has done enough talking (i.e.”spring cleaning for 5 years- Architectural Digest 2010,” GQ magazine 2008, Vanity Fair 2005, People Magazine 2010, ” I still listen to my husband’s voicemail messages that I have saved (sick!)”), now it’s time to get walking (that means move on and not look back) and not react directly or indirectly (Chelsea Handjob) each time someone references her as less than “sunshine.”
Damn…all those years of therapy…put to waste. Where are the results?
@Canuck: You still trying to say Aniston is a bigger box office draw than Brad Pitt?
These are the totals for their last three movies, and just for fun I threw Jolie into the mix as well:
Aniston: $463 million
Pitt: $686 million
Jolie: $1.232 billion (you read that right)
(source: http://www.the-numbers.com)
@claire: I’d say that had they actually admitted to cheating, this all would have blown over too. I’ll bet if you took a poll of the general movie going public (or public in general) about whether or not they believe that Brad didn’t cheat on Aniston, you’d get maybe 5, max 10% who actually believe him. And no one likes a smug b*stard who thinks he’s pulling one over on people, while giving condescending quotes to the masses.
Moneyballs going to score big.Brad will continue helping the world,loving Jolie and his children.And the jenhens will be bitter and hate this man until the day they inhale their last breath.
I’m sick of this story because already but the pull to read and comment is irresistible lol…Kaiser and all the posters who thinks people who thinks that BP is a jerk for commenting that way are Jenhens or Anistonloonies are completely wrong, I for one will see an AJ movie before I see a JA movie. I don’t speak for all women but I will say that most people are put off by BP’s comment because he left his wife(which is fine if he was miserable) and then proceed to tell the world that she was boring and pathetic and that his jump off is like the best thing since slice bread. Anyone who has been dump which is almost everyone will sympatize with the fact that he is basically telling his ex that she was a piece of sh*t who didn’t do it for him and that it took Angie to give him life. Pathetic.
I don’t care about this at all…but I get irritated when he says stuff like, “It’s a shame that I can’t say something nice about Angie without Jen being drug in.”
Jen was drug into the conversation by YOU, fool! YOU mentioned your previous marriage. That wasn’t manipulative editing, that was you being inarticulate and putting your foot in your mouth. OWN IT so the world can move on!
Why? For the same reason black people can use the N word and white people can’t. Black people were/are the injured party.
For the same reason it is not OK for thin, svelte Gwyn Paltrow to call someone else fat.
That being said, however, I don’t believe Aniston ever did anything of the sort. It is nonsense to say she did.
@Cheyenne: Busy knocking down straw men again? Please feel free to LINK to anywhere that I’ve claimed that Aniston was a “bigger box office draw”, since here you are claimng that supposedly I’m doing it “again”. My comment was to someone who was quoting TT numbers to me to presumably “prove” to me that my movie dollars make no difference. Now, since the several posts beforehand had to do with voting with your wallet, I was making the point that quoting TT numbers to me is irrelevant and that the post I was addressing was somewhat pointless. Since in fact, there was no point. How much TT or HB is equally useless information given the topic at hand. Do try and keep up, would you?
@ Tiffany…I totally agree. The whole “It’s a shame that I can’t say something nice about Angie without Jen being drug in.”thing is just Brad trying to gather sympaty from team Brange fans. Like he wants his fans to be like”OMG Brad can’t even give a compliment to the mother of his children after 7 years without Jenhens losing their sh*t, let’s me go see his movie to piss them off”…hahaha it’s funny how people lose complete objectivity when they “love” someone and don’t even notice when they are being played…All three of these people are playing you like a violin. Get a clue!
I don’t think Brad is a prize and Angelina is stuck with him. So she lost that round. Now Brad is trying to say all of this controversy is because he said Angelina is a good mom lol he wouldn’t let Matt Lauer read the quote that pissed people off. No, he’s just gonna blame it Angelina. *rolling my eyes*
I bet both women are bigger b*tches than anyone posting can truly realize, and that having been said, if my husband did to me what Brad Pitt did to Jennifer, I’d be saying A LOT more than ‘that’s uncool”.
Brad has become more annoying than Saint Angie..whom has made out with her brother, lesbian affairs, drug addiction. Brad has rapidly lost his looks since he hooked up with Angie. Jen and Justin are boinking and smiling, and dressing in black…What the heck is wrong with that?
@Tiffany: I agree with you.
One thing complimentary about Brad, he looked good in the interview. The still photos don’t do him justice. Overall I liked the interview. Thanks for posting it. But I do agree with Tiffany, he should have not brought up his first marriage to begin with.
@thesea: Just because you can do something doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. I’m black and I don’t use the N-word because it makes you look common when you do it. And Aniston may have the right to whine as the injured party, but it makes her look pathetic when she does it.
As I’ve said before, there is a very thin line between pity and contempt, and she crossed it a long time ago.
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@april and Tiffany: no argument there. Let sleeping dogs lie and dead marriages stay dead.
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@Guano (Canuck): Getting forgetful in your old age? You were the one who brought it up in the first place.
Aniston fans are so hypocritical. Jen ‘joking’ about Maddox and Knox(still an infant at the time)in between jabs at Angelina wasn’t very light-hearted. But it’s fine because Angelina is a homewrecker therefore her children are fair game right? Jen gets to talk about her marriage and her breakup in the context of her motivations for roles but Brad doesn’t right? If Brad says something mildly negative it MUST be because Angie told him to. But if Chelsea Handler makes racist & homophobic jokes about the kids and calls Angelina evil literally 30 seconds before introducing Aniston onto her show it’s got nothing to do with Jen despite the fact they vacation together and share the same management team. Sure sounds fair to me 😉
I don’t know if you are intentionally being obtuse or whether you’ve really head your head up your butt or something but Aniston has been called anywhere from pathetic, to manipulative to sad, lonely, ageing spinster hag etc etc for the very few comments she has made… a mild “uncool” has unleashed torrents of hate for her and in case you haven’t noticed there are quite a few Jolie-Pitt lovers who seem to be typing from the looney bin. Quite frankly, your posts have become very demeaning and not really amusing at all, painting everyone with such broad brush strokes. Plus, you are a “journalist” I presume, you should really try to stay at least a LITTLE impartial (I’m not saying you should have the integrity of an actual journalists, but your posts are kind of ridiculous)… methinks I should be done with this stupid site anyway… :-/
@Tiffany I was thinking like that at first but Brad Pitt is a grown ass man. He should be able to express himself. I don’t remember people telling Jen to STFU about her marriage. I don’t remember this huge outcry, where Jen had to issue statements clarifying things. So why ride Brad’s ass about it. He made one fu*king statement. Brad has every right to say whatever the f*ck he wants. Alot of the people that think the way you do need to grow up. This is childish. “Oooohhhh Brad can’t talk about HIS marriage at all. Period.” It is HIS freaking marriage!!! When Brad writes his memoirs would you like it if he pretended he was never married to Aniston at all? I bet alot of you would. Get over yourselves, he can talk about whatever he wants.
Oh and just because you say something over and over and over and over and over and over again doesn’t make it any more true. Not a single soul bitching about Brad having an affair can prove it. So what is that saying “innocent until proven guilty.” Any of you ever heard of it? Probably not. Well thats how the justice system works, thats how decent people rationalize things until they get proof. You can’t make statements like oh Brad had an affair…seriously? No proof of it. Brad denies it. So you can’t even drag that up and say oh thats why Brad can’t talk about HIS marriage. Brad had an affair, I can’t freaking prove it, but oh you know it because I have had similar things happen to me I just know it and I am gonna go around saying stuff with no proof. No wonder no body cares that tabloids lie about people all day. Some of you take whatever you want to believe and make it a fact like that. Its sad. *end of rant*
57.ahoyhoy:
September 22nd, 2011 at 10:22 am
It’s triple-pathetic that Brad cannot compliment Angie as a mother & partner without THAT being a slap at Aniston…..Brad decided to have his kids with Angie, shouldn’t he be allowed to sing her praises, Jen-loonie-soccer-moms?
I seem to remember Jen ‘promising’ to have kids w/ Brad over & over. And then another movie would come along, and she’d put it off again. Clearly Brad was tired of waiting (approaching 40), and Aniston kept pushing it back. I think it’s pretty obvious now how much Brad wanted a boat-load of kids, so I don’t blame him at all for getting on with his LIFE. I know I’d move on if I was so ready for a family and my spouse kept putting me off for ANOTHER tragic rom-com.
THEY DID NOT DIVORCE CAUSE OF KIDS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. HE SAID IN AN INTERVIEW IN SPRING OF 2009 HE ONLY WANTED KIDS WITH ANGIE. They both said that they did not divorce cause of kids.Wake up….WAKE UP AND STOP adding what you think …listen to what they say. He just added something elsa…his lifer with her was not interesting..
For the love of God people listen to what comes out of these people’s mouths and not what makes you feel at ease in your own head.
If most woman (as noted by a few previous posters) were offended by Pitt’s comments, along with most woman not feeling complete/fulfilled/worthy until having children …… I’m glad I’m NOT most woman.
Funniest and most unnoticed comment of the thread:
#58: Omg, these guys are my ‘drug’, lol!
@Cheyenne: Are you going blind as a bat, maybe have some guano in your eye? Btw, love the name calling, it makes you look about 10. Still doing the “pull my finger” joke too? Maybe, as you keep telling others to do, you should grow up. === Try and follow… Post 23 (poster won’t spend $ on JA films), 35 (I agree, do the same with AJ and BP films, unless GC in BP film), then 78 was adressed to me (they take the same stance with actors they don’t like), then 112 where someone thought it was relevant to quote $$ to me, then 118 where I quoted numbers back and asked what the point was. And now, here you are quoting even more irrelevant numbers. Because what? It’s not obvious that all of their films would make more money if people didn’t boycott them because they don’t like the actors? And that none of them are going to go bankrupt either? The numbers weren’t the gist of the discussion until someone other than I felt the need to introduce them needlessly. As I said, try and keep up. Maybe you need the audiobook, that way you can put it on pause when it gets to be too much to assimulate all at once.
Brad, shut up about it already. Dumbest thing you did was try to backtrack on your initial comments about saint jen.
Are you people freaking serious? You actually have data and quotes on total strangers?! You are insulting eachother over this ish?
Josephina, great post, but you’re wasting valuable time and effort trying to explain anything to someone who has total vacuum between the ears.
Both Brad and Jennifer are allowed to say whatever they want to say about their marriage, the past, and each other. And the onus of any fallout lays on each of their shoulders. None of this is worth the tearing down and bullying of each other here. None of it.
Josephina 136: see post 156 to Cheyenne. WhyTF are you bothering to quote numbers to me in the midst of a discussion that had nothing to do with who sells the most? I know you feel you somehow need to “score a point” and “win”, but FFS you don’t start playing football in the middle of a tennis match and then claim a win because you kicked the ball farther. Get a grip.
Wow, pass the popcorn, this is fun.
All this angst over three mediocre actors.
BTW: Box office numbers have nothing to do with quality of work.
@cheyenne: regarding the taylor/Fisher/Reynolds scandal…..Assuming one believes evrything one reads, and as i said, i am currently reading ET biography, Reynolds and Taylor were never friends until many, many, many, years later. They socialised because their husbands were friends but in the world of studio-led lives, that is as much as saying one socialises with their boss and his wife. in this scenerio Mike Todd being Fisher’s boss. Privately, everyone knew that the Fisher/Reynolds marriage was arranged by the studio, and was as dead as a dodo from the beginning. In Fisher’s very naughty memoirs, he claimed to have had relations with Reynolds very infrequently and most definitely only to have children. For her part, privately Taylor has maintained that she would never have touched him if the marriage was good, and she was aware that it was only kept alive for publicity’s sake.
BUT before you shoot me down, i am only relaying what is in this biography, which is either true, speculation or untrue, and not my opinion.
The reason i compare it to the current triangle is the PR effort involved are the same. HOw could Fisher/Brad leave sweet little debbie/Aniston for that witch Elizabeth/Angelina?? never mind that it was studio/Huvane setup of a marriage between two people who had very little in common. Of course the earlier triangle felt much worse because morality was very strict. whilst we are more sympathetic to dead marriages as valid excuses for exiting one, we still censure a man for leaving his wife to go play house with another woman. This is why Brangelina and especially Brad can never win this one, whilst She can use it to her advantage.
BTW postscript to reynolds/taylor/Fisher story, she used the publicity to re-negotiate terms of her studio contract to become the 2nd highest paid actress after Taylor……see the parallels just write themselves.
Assuming of course that you believe everything you read 🙂
“Here’s an honest-to-God question, Anistonloonies: why does Aniston get to DIRECTLY talk about Brad, Angelina (“uncool”), AND their children in the press for years and years, in interview after interview, but everybody freaks out when Brad makes a reference to how unfulfilled he was a decade ago?”
I’m no fan of Jennifer Aniston’s, but I’ll answer the question anyway: Huvane. Seriously, I very much doubt she would get nearly as much press or work without him. It’s masterful how he’s kept things like Jen’s BFF Chelsea making racist jokes about Brad’s kids under the general public’s radar. At one point Jen declared her love for a man with a “white supremacist d*ck” and yet she’s still America’s sweetheart, FFS. And a lot of people still have no clue that Justin betrayed his partner to be with Jen.
Huvane is a PR genius.
Brad is really thick not to have realized the thoughtlessness behind his comments. I think we have gotten an insight into the real Brad.
@LAK: Your comparison between the two “triangles” as it relates to Reynolds and Aniston is spot-on. Taylor’s situation, though, was different from Jolie’s. Mike Todd hadn’t been six months in the ground before she was humping Fisher. And when she made that comment about sleeping alone, any sympathy people had felt for her as a recent widow went right out the window. Everybody and his grandmother was calling her a home-wrecking whore. After a while, though, most people got over it, especially after Reynolds remarried and Taylor ran off with Richard Burton. I don’t remember anyone feeling sorry for Fisher then. More like eff you, buddy, you asked for it.
I’m going by what I remember at the time. Taylor’s bio is probably very good reading, but probably also heavily edited. Some things you don’t want to be remembered for.
After talking to a few people in the real world, this “outrage” about his statements are media made. My mother thinks he doesn’t owe Jen crap and that he’s allowed to talk about his life. My grandmother said…who. My co-workers are all…umm…isn’t he with Angelina. And so on…
I’m going to see Moneyball because of him. I don’t see Aniston’s movies because of her.
I can see now why Brad has just kept his mouth shut all these years. I used to wonder why he didn’t take up for Angie for all the hate she was taking but he was smarter to be silent. No matter what he says he is going to be ripped apart. The whole thing is so unfair and ridiculous.
Couples divorce every single minute of the day so why is THEIR divorce the eighth wonder of the world?
Actually it has just gone beyond ridiculous how the tabloids use this ancient triangle to sell their crappy mags. GET OVER IT!
This is old boring news. Interestinis has anyone seen the rumoured CHILD OF ANGELINA AND MICK JAGGER = Georgina Jagger, she looks EXACTLY LIKE SHILOH http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03_02/hallDM2703_468x317.jpg and http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/08/16/article-1045977-018CB4D400000578-860_468x379.jpg
Personally I’m convinced! I wonder if Georgina has any clue. I almost hate posting this cause people are so cruel and judgmental….but I’m not introducing this rumour…
@Love Angelina I completely agree with you about so many women identifying with Aniston because of their own past experiences, and completely blowing Brad’s innocent comments out of proportion. Some people act as if Brad left them. I’ve been dumped and cheated on. Most people have. What happened between Brad and Jen has occurred in millions of marriages. They weren’t happy so they got divorced. I can only imagine how frustrating it is for them to constantly hear about their marriage which ended 7 years ago. If I had to continuously relive my relationship with my ex husband I’d go insane.
Wow Rachel that’s a really cruel and ugly rumor you are spreading. Is it so hard to believe Georgia got her lips from her dad and her blonde locks from her mom. Whereas Shiloh got her blonde locks from her dad and her lips from her mom.
I guess that kind of nastiness gets some Jen-Hens to sleep at night.
@Rachel: You may not have introduced it but that’s no excuse for spreading it. That was foul.
I would LOVE it if Angelina would leave Brad for another man and rub it in his face the way they did to Jen.
Hey Min76:
Love the hypocrisy….look where we are. Careful about throwing stones when you live in a glass house.
What occurred to me when I saw a whole slew of pics – is that is Angelina’s child, if it mattered that much to me, I’d bet on it. Those are Angie’s lips, smile, look in her eyes, there are pics of this girl as an adult, and she looks like Angie (at the same age). If you look at her siblings she doesn’t really resemble them!
If she isn’t Angie’s daughter they share a very common relative with very, very, strong genetic traits.
Had to read again to understand Jen-Hens. I like them both, but I Angie is the girl I most identify with. She’s, complex, has intense experiences and is completely unapologetic. If anything I don’t care for Brad, he’s meh.
Enjoy reading talking about gossip that you are o.k. with 🙂
@Rachel.Yes you are right I draw the line at bringing in a young girl who has NOTHING TO DO WITH ANGELINA JOLIE into this mess because someone has a creative imagination. Are you a DNA expert? Do you know everyone of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall’s relatives? She is the very definition of an innocent bystander but it really says a lot about your own delusion that you don’t get how nasty it is to spread some story about a young girl just to get your rocks off. More attacks on children this time not even Angelina’s demented indeed.
Did he really say “drug” as the past tense of drag? It’s dragged. I don’t care what his dialect was before he became an actor. He should know better by now.
It was folly of Pitt to reference his marriage in any way shape or form because he knows damn well the tabloids are still milking that ancient history.
Personally, I didn’t think his comment was that bad. He had an uninteresting life while married to Aniston. She comes across as perfectly lovely but not particularly passionate about anything public. Maybe behind closed doors she has a searing intellect and vibrant list of passions, but it’s not evident to me.
Sarah: I would LOVE it if Angelina would leave Brad for another man and rub it in his face the way they did to Jen.
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And this would benefit Jen how?
You Jenhens are a trip. First you couldn’t wait for Brad to leave Angelina. Seven years later that still hasn’t happened, so now you want Angelina to leave Brad.
Regardless of your motives, wanting a family of six children to break up is just ugly.
@mln76
Having fun on your high horse. I am entitled to say whatever I want whenever I want. If I wanted to be “nasty” I would.
This is a GOSSIP site and you’re here. You must have hit your head last time you fell off that high horse…
@Canuck
Jennifer aniston is not a ny girl or gwyneth paltrow they were both born in Cali… Growing up in ny for 6-7 years dossnt make you a new yorker.. Jlo, Alicia keys, barbara Streisand, Joan rivers are native new Yorkers … Btw the fame school was based on laguardia hs which in queens, ny….
This a stunt, it’s so obvious. Come on, people, it was probably in their marriage contract that they could use each other to promote movies for the rest of their lives in the event of a divorce.
Also, this movie sucks.
@Deltona: I think you’re thinking of LaGuardia Community College in Queens. The Fame school (LaGuardia HS) was based on the old Performing Arts HS. It merged with Music and Art HS in 1984. It’s located in Manhattan near Lincoln Center on the Upper West Side. Both schools were very competitive but PA was killer to get in. I had a lot of friends who auditioned, and only one was accepted.
Totally agree Dibba.
He and Aniston were *married*. Not casually dating – there is a huge difference. Walking out on a marriage and then bragging about how you then picked the right woman to bear your children???! OUUUUUUCH.
It really disturbs me when I read how it’s been 5 years, now 7 years and Aniston should be so over it. Marriage is so devalued now its no wonder we have a 50% divorce rate.
There’s something really ironic on Kaiser being so ‘exhausted’ but posting every word breathed from Pitt’s mouth. For Christ’s sake. This isn’t ‘Aniston-loonies’ this is individuals obsessed with the whole sloppy BP-AJ-JA-JT 4 ring circus and pretending to be on some moral high ground.
They all suck in one way or another.Jen’s plain, Angie’s nutty, Pitt’s boring and frankly…they all make terrible movies with a few exceptions. Ta-da…problem solved.
@Cheyenne There is a Laguardia High School of performing arts in Queens also I know a few people who’ve graduated from there.
Cheyenne, calm down…it was meant as a joke.
The first poster in this thread hit the nail on the head. When BP screwed around on JA (and don’t be naive, he would not and did not leave his wife for a woman he’d never even slept with! Duh!), and left her, he gave up his right to speak ill of his ex. The dumper always looks like an asshole when speaking badly of the dumpee. Turn the tables for a moment: if JA had fucked someone on set and left Brad and talked about how she had to leave because of how boring her marriage was, we’d want to kill her. And ol’ Brad would have free rein to cry in his beer through umpteen interviews about it.
Thank you @Dibba
Lesson: don’t piss off the Jen cat ladies!!
The only reason women identify with Jen Aniston is because she isn’t very pretty, so they aren’t threatened by her.
Why is it if anyone thinks Brad bringing up his ex marriage the way he did was unnecessary they’re automatically labeled a Hen/Aniloon that isn’t worthy of forming an opinion because clearly they must have been left by a man and are nothing less than vindictive, bitter women? Really? smh…
Brad says, “I don’t know what was pieced together [in the Parade interview]… It’s a shame that I can’t say something nice about Angie without Jen being drug in.”
Seriously, Brad? Do you hear the words coming out of your own mouth? People are responding to (as I think you knew they would) the comment YOU made towards your past marriage, not the comment you made about Angie… Two. Separate. Comments. Come on, Brad…don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining. Seriously you CAN NOT be that dim. And by the way..it wasn’t some unknown force that “drug” Jen and your past marriage back into the headlines..It was YOU!
He just needs to SHUT.THE.FUCK.UP and let this pass. Some will keep hating others wont but the more he talks the worse he makes it.
mln I think I know the one in Queens you’re talking about. It’s near LaGuardia Community and it’s connected with the college. They have a very strong arts program. But they aren’t connected with LaGuardia HS in Manhattan. The one in Manhattan is the “Fame” school.
okay-celebitchy…are we reading the same GQ article? Jen answered the questions thrown at her concerening the strange bermuda triangle that exsist in the papers….she pokes fun at the fact that it has been suggested that they are all friends and rolled her eyes at questsion does she talk to angie. and responded to the fact her husband fell in love with another women while at work. Understandable….
As for pitt -No matter how much you will it or you think he should defend Angie..if it is at the expense of Jen, he can’t say anything bc he was the cheater. He was an idot to compare the two and he should of kept it to himself..
That interview was painful. All I can say is that if Jen even cares or is listening to the gossip she must be so happy to be rid of him! I don’t know why but Brad is better to keep his mouth shut. When he got with Angie and didn’t say a word for a couple of years that was his best time. When he opens his mouth it is obvious how truly dense he is. He needs to take some lessons from Johnny Depp about how to give interviews without talking about personal stuff.
That interview was painful, I agree. Lauer was clearly frustrated and Pitt became hostile. Yuck TV.
He should have stipulated ahead of time he wouldn’t talk about it.
OK I just watched the clip w/ Matt..
“It has no reference to the past” (Brad’s words)
Does he really think talking about his PAST marriage to Jen wasn’t a reference to the past?
Angie is probably somewhere in France banging her head against a wall trying to convince herself -six kids in- that he’s worth it 😉
B/c he checked out of the marriage, cheated on her with the skankiest skank there ever was. So, by rights, Jen can rip him until the end of time. Also, Angie is too smug for words. He looks like shit, and I think in 10 (or less) years he’ll ditch Angie and the worlds hugest sigh of relief will be heard.
I wonder whose camp will leak the sex tapes from their marriage first? I guess that’ll be the last roll of the dice publicity stunt.
Oh my. Brad’s stupidity knows no bounds.
NO COMMENT! BRAD JUST SAY NO COMMENT! NO COMMENT!
He really is stupider than he looks and he looks really stupid.
And that whole it became clear to me i was trying to find a script of someone with an interesting life. He totally stole that from Angelina.
I remember her saying something similar… google… there it is: “I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.”
He really does morph into his partners lol.
i am a fan of brads, yes, i will see anything he’s in, i don’t engaged in this, some people are pissed because brad left his marriage, it does not matter why, angelina and brad have made a life together, and they seem happy with that, most women i know claim, they are glad brad cleared things up, they don’t care about his ex.
Whatever Brad said in the Parade article was so very trivial that the attention to what was printed is indicative of what we seen to be facing in the problems in our country . Education has been dumbed down so much that reading comprehension is not even required .Tabloid lies and sensational gossip is elevated to the level of actual journalism . Today this story was actually mentioned on CNN! Jen’s “feelings” real or not is supposed to be reported on because someone feels that she was the wronged woman that should be protected and defended against any perceived insult. Her defenders are given license to disrespect Angelina , her children, and anyone else who is thought to be in the way of Jennifer’s right to be the winner .
@Jen#196: Area you going to hold your breath in the meantime?
@Ida – @ Tiffany – bravo
This isn’t about JA or AJ … two remarkable women in their own right who are in the unfortunate position of having Brad Pitt articulate anything about them. The main point with the Parade Article and follow up is that HE brought Jen into the conversation. He is so self-absorbed that he doesn’t get it! He doesn’t have a clue that his statements about AJ were offensive (he could have said, “I am so lucky Angie accepted me into her life as a co-parent … we have wonderful children. She is such a good mom … etc) Instead, his comment emerges from his usual hub of me, myself, and I, as did HIS statement about his marriage to JA (totally unnecessary). He states JA is a valuable person but, he can’t leave it at that and the basis for his point is, “We spent seven years together.” Thanks for clarifying buddy, I knew she was valuable because she was married to the almighty Brad Pitt.
Over the years I keep trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, but he continues to raise the bar with his dimwitted prattle. Executives probably warned his Moneyball co-cast they couldn’t respond too intelligently to questions (hello Phillip Seymour Hoffman) at the TIFF press conference for fear Pitt would sound as stupid as he sounds. When is this gig up? I feel like I am watching a modern day, “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
At any rate, Pitt’s comments to Matt Lauer were obtuse; “It’s a shame that I can’t say something nice about Angie without Jen being drug in”. Yes Brad, it is a shame you couldn’t say something nice about Angie without Jen being drug in [to it] … So why did you drag her in?????? His tone was annoyed when he ordered Matt Lauer not to read what HE said, “No, I, you know, please don’t read it, because I don’t read these things, by choice, I don’t. I don’t wanna be encumbered by any of that.” WHAT? You don’t want to be encumbered by an Interview YOU gave to promote YOUR movie? He doesn’t realize he insulted Parade Magazine by referring to it as if it were a tabloid making up sh*t. He then tries to pull off false humility when Lauer brings up the Oscar, “It’s all good fun if your number comes up, and it’s even more fun when your friend’s number comes up.” Coming from someone else, I might believe them … coming from Pitt, it sounds hollow. It’s a shame.
@JustBe #94: You said it. Who cares about right or wrong, truth or fiction -“Jen-Jen gets a free pass, on anything and everything” and that is the bottom line of her fans. Blech. Not from me. I remember back in the day how self-centered end entitled she was, and the mean little remarks she made about her new husband (disguised as humor) when he was so supportive and guileless. I thought under that ditzy facade, there was something very un-nice about her.
@Love angelina “Not a single soul bitching about Brad having an affair can prove it”. Seriously? What about BP’s parade interview?
“When Angie and I first met, we came together quite quickly”
Quite obvious, isn’t it? Not to mention what he said about Zahara’s adoption…(if true, the process for her adoption must have been started before the divorce was pronounced)
Critisizing the marraige that YOU left with you wife at the time who was even willing to work out your issues and not just throw in the towl there and then(which sound like a good wife to me) is for sure not ok.
If he was so miserable in his marraige, why did it take Angie coming along to make him realise this and ONLY THEN leave, what stopped him from leaving the ‘dullness’ before?
Spineless wimp.
@Deltona: Do you really think that being born in a city and then moving when still a baby or toddler automatically makes you a “insert-name-of-city person”? I think the millions of foreign born army brats, expat kids and adoptees would disagree. We know that Aniston’s parents divorced when she was 9 and that they were already living in NYC by that time. Presumably, they didn’t decide to move to NYC as a family just so they could divorce there, so let’s give them a minimum of a year of being there first. So that would mean that she, at the least, did Grade 2 through HS, plus a couple of years doing off Broadway plays. Do you think she spent that time driving around in a convertible singing “I wish they all could be California Girls”? Pffft… sure.
There is so much bitterness here. Why are people not over it by now?
No one is getting a free pass, but people are definetly getting played by the ‘ZEN MASTER” to get you all riled up.
He is messing with everybodies head and heart and it is working big time. He leads all headlines. For serious.
Moneyball is expected to be #1. Sony/Amy plus all the studios head honchos were all over him at TIFF AND The Premiere. They are in full support of this. A baseball movie, no matter who is in it could never be topic #1, but Brad KNEW how to take it there. Talk about himself and watch the venom. Forget talk about wives being upset, target audience is men who understand where he is coming from. They sure as heck are not mad at him. CAA was there too btw. Played. Thank you very much for enjoying the show.
He needs to make a sexy movie like Mr. and Mrs. Smith again. Nothing about the tree of life or Moneyball seems very sexy to me, I have no desire to see either movie.
I LOVE Brad Pitt in movies like Fight Club, Seven and 12 Monkeys but he doesn’t seem to make those kinds of movies anymore. It makes me sad.
@cheyenne
My bad I thought fame was filmed at performing arts school in queens.. I still don’t consider her a New Yorker I associate her with Cali.. She doesn’t have that vibe.
@ichabod
Brad has not utter a word about JA in 3 Years and still didnt then just responding to “uncool” remark …and he didn’t mentioned her by name in the parade article.. But for the last 7 years all we’ve heard from her is about the breakup.. this man is almost 50 years old and he’s not allowed to talk about his life.. John Mayer humiliated her much worse than Brad could ever do in just one
Year of dating…
@Rachel
so now Angie met Mick Jagger at 14-15 years old he had to be in his 40’s , got pregnant at 15 and had his baby at 16 years old.. WOW Mick Jagger should be thrown in jail…
@Rachel
So now Angie met mick Jagger at 14-15 years old he had to be in his 40’s got her pregnant at 15 and had his baby at 16 years old.. considering that his daughter is almost 20 and angie just turned 36 3 months ago..WOW Mick Jagger should be in jail….
It’s been 6 years people
@jen
you need to get a grip an go find Squiggy. He’s calling you right now.
*eats popcorn while watching the crazy diehards*
@208
My husband can’t stand Brad Pitt. He can’t stand Angie either, but he admires Jennifer. He thinks Angie is vulgar.
@ 216
My brothers (both engineers), father (doctor) and boyfriend (scienstist) and most of my male colleagues who are consultants in High tech all think Jolie as being an all around intelligent cosmopolite eloquent woman graced with beauty and brains.
They think of Aniston as being the typical brainless bimbo with petty conversation and find her obscene and vacuous when she talks, they find her laughter gross (like the one you expect from boozers in bars), unsophisticated and think she is vulgar by associating herself with majorly obscene people like ex boyfriend urinator Mayer, bbf racist vulgar trashy Chelsea and abusers like Francis and Richardson, the summum of obscenity.
They think if it’s your entourage, then you are equally obscene and share most of their value since you accept it in your lifes.
Personnally i wouldn’t trust jenny’s maternal instinct with such an entourage. I would be scared to death my child being raised between aunty Chelsea, her vodka and obscene diatribes and uncles joe francis and Terry Richardson with their wandering eyes and indicent proposals.
Oh they think Pitt is brave, a nice guy but not in par intellectually with Jolie who could get top notch guys in any industry in any country, from entrepreneurs to politicians and hold an interesting conversation at their side.
To each is own.
@lio: You’re halfway right. Angie started Z’s adoption process months before his divorce. But it was also months before she had met Pitt. She had already applied to adopt Z as a single parent. Brad went with her to Ethiopia to bring Z home but he legally adopted her months later in California.
After the Today’s show aired and I went back and read what he said, IT WAS HIS STUPIDITY that got him into this. He could have talked about how his life was dull WITHOUT mentioning his marriage. He specifically said his marriage was part of that. Didn’t need to be said and the fact that he said that tells me he meant to dig at Jen. Or maybe he really is missing a sensitivity chip?
Gee, shall we start asking for scanned diplomas and notarized IQ test results soon?
Ok… My friend (former Head of an International Institution), my other friend (former Prime Minister), yet another friend (Harvard graduate), his former roomate (Harvard graduate), and my doctor’s former professor (might be the guy who discovered penicillin) all think that Jolie is a few notches down the evolutionary tree due to her obscenely long arms and probably painted her butt red to attract Pitt much like a female baboon . They also think that Pitt has the IQ of a small soap dish.
Oh yeah… I might be lying about these people and what they think. @217, you might be too.
This is too funny! Brad has exposed himself as a right ole’ pillock and its starting to become like comedy central.
I started off this whole debacle being kinda enraged (as one of those “Jen-Hens” who “scream at the ocean” etc – not really just dont like seeing one woman getting burned by another, its called female empathy for the Angieloonies who seem strangely lacking in?)
but now – now its funny.
1st Brad doesn’t want to hear his own words about the past being quoted to him, the very one he mentioned firstly.
2nd – is Drug in even a word – I thought it was dragged in.
3rd WTF is he wearing those glasses for are they those adjust-to-the-light jobs cos they make him look sightless.
4th I dont care what any of you say Justin Theroux is WAY hotter plus youtube his interviews he aint no d-bag.
Its amazing what a bit of university education can do for ya these days! Brad should consider going back to school.
Never liked AJ but I am starting to feel a wee bit sorry for her – oh but then I remember Karma’s a bitch and it might have just turned out she picked the loser. too funny.Brad you total dildo!
I’ve been lurking during posts about these stories. (Yes, I’m being entertained more by all of you then by “the story”). I just watched the clip and read the comments. Anyway, I agree with the posters that suggest that Brad Pitt doesn’t want his words read back to him because they were insulting. Further, he said something about their being a “statute of limitations”. On what? On being held responsible for what he’s done in the past or what he said in a national publication very recently?
That said, I think Pitt was trying to subtly get out the usual message, “I am a happy father and all I wanted was kids. Jen wouldn’t give me kids…oh, and she’s boring.” He just got off track a bit and said more then he meant to. Now “Brad just wanted kids that vapid JA wouldn’t give him” isn’t the story. The story is “Brad Pitt ran down JA after cheating on her by calling her boring and then talking about how wonderful AJ is”. Brad should just stick to talking about how wonderful AJ is and the sly-jen-wouldn’t-give-him-kids crap and he would still be good to go. Lastly, how he or anyone could have read into any of this that he can’t compliment AJ is…unbelievable. I don’t know anyone that takes exception to someone complimenting their partner…and he knows that too.
I know that the story we have been served for 7 years. But please, re-read what smart-Brad had to say about it in the famous parade ITW:
“When Angie and I first met, we came together QUITE QUICKLY and WE decided WE were adopting. Now the rules are that because WE are not married, I can’t adopt. Angie adopts. We decided WE were adopting a daughter”.
So the way i see it, whether he’s lying (why would he?), whether he is too stone to remeber (out of boredom?) or whether THEY decided indeed as a couple to adopt little Zahara when he was still married to Aniston.
What is funny is the frenzy that a few Jenhens have whipped themselves up into over a pretty trivial reference.
The other idea, that if Brad is not the soft-faced dull as dishwater counterpart to his ex-wife, his career must be suffering, is silly. Clearly they are missing the signals that he could care less about being anybodies glamour boy, publicly or personally.
Imelda** And ‘cos’ is a word? Some of you women…Ugh!! (Honestly,dragged-drug)
HorsePoor Hanna
What is you point with the ugh! how very unentertaining of you (and pointless)
Cos is shorthand for because but correct me if I’m wrong I am on a bitchy website – which you have so elequently conveyed by your remark – and not being interviewed on national television.
Anyhoo bitch on baby as I say its too funny……..
ps: I still dont think drug is a word in the context which he used it for, maybe he’s still thinking about all those joints he got sick of smoking ugh indeed!
Theres a Brad Pitt scorned women petition going around for (gasp) breathing air…
@ HPH now that’s more entertaining ya got there in the end
Ya,I’m a router…LOL! (YA-Yes shorthand right??)
HPH – like I say you’re (long-hand for ya’re)getting there – keep it comin’
There are lots of comments about JA not having children with Brad, I don’t know much about this triangle, but could it be that she can’t have children.
I can’t remember where I read the following take on this (was it here???): basically, why is Jennifer Aniston allowed to say how her marriage and divorce affected her, but Brad Pitt is never allowed to say? A marriage never breaks up because of a third party, and it’s never one person’s fault. I’m sure there were lots of issues in that marriage, on both of their parts (like in any marriage). Aniston isn’t a victim, Pitt isn’t necessarily a jerk. They should both be allowed to share how they felt during their marriage, and the media needs to stop painting her as the wronged party and him as the one solely at fault.
@lio
I thought that was weird also… He said,
“When Angie and I first met, WE came together quite quickly and WE decided we were adopting. Now the rules are that because we are not married, I can’t adopt. Angie adopts. WE DECIDED WE WERE ADOPTING A DAUGHTER. WE were going to do it right out of the gate. We were not going to mess around. Angie said, ‘NO SHOPPING [for kids].’ I thought that was astute and beautifully put. It took the pressure off of adoption and brought a magic to it. We had set our parameters—we had room in our family if anyone needed a home. WE GOT THE CALL , and that’s OUR eldest daughter, Zahara.
It is clear from this article that he and Angie were adopting together. NOT that he came along after Angie already started adopting Z.
I mean, He clearly states WE throughout the article..and she said ‘no shopping’ for kids..why say that if she was already adopting Z and the ‘shopping'(her word) was complete?
It’s clear they did it together.
So he was still married at the time he decided to start adopting with Angie. But they want us to think they didn’t have an affair? Really?
I just wish they would be honest about how their relationship started because they keep forgetting the “official story” and keep letting bits of the real story slip.
Either way they seem happy but really WHY keep lying?
@Deltona lakes
Yeah you’re right that could never happen in Hollyweird 😉 never.
Suddenly I understand the whole point of this “controversy.” If this new movie of his bombs it’ll be because of Jennifer Aniston and her “crazy” fans (ie women), and not because young women are no longer interested in wasting money to watch him over act now that he looks like Kenny Rogers. Maybe it’s just me but I don’t think there’s anything remotely sexy or interesting about a 50 year old navel gazer who thinks he’s a hero for doing something normal people do all the time (shack up and have kids) without expecting any credit for it. I mean you never hear Johnny Depp or Matt Damon or Ben Afflek – all of whom are committed and loving husbands and fathers – talking about exes in any capacity, let alone to say something negative. Maybe people are lashing out at him because they’re bored of his incessant attention whoring and lack of class.
The past tense of drag is dragged, not drug.
Which is not to say that Brad Pitt is Satan’s best friend, but in that instance, he’s wrong.
Signed,
Not a Brangeloonie, Not a Jenhen, Just a Spelling Spastic and a Grammar Ghoulie
Imelda, I feel empathy for a woman who was burned, which is why I feel empathy and sympathy for Angelina for being attacked for something she never did. And, its also why I feel empathy for *HEIDI BIVENS*, because she was burned by Aniston. I guess your ’empathy for women who were burned’ is very *selective* and ONE-SIDED…. Otherwise you would hate Aniston but you don’t. Which makes you a hypocrite since you only care about one person who was burned (by HERSELF and HER own actions) and not for Heidi, who was burned by Aniston. Karma will get Aniston! In fact, with all the greasy losers she dates and hires for escorts, I’d say it already has.
Everyone should just give this a rest.
Jen – you had him when he was hot.
Brad – you look like crap, and exactly what is going on in your head….I think you are mucho confused.
Angie – maybe you really are a man eater, because Brad is a shell of his old self….
And as for being happy….people who are happy look it, they don’t have to talk about it.
COSIGN!
I dont care if Brad Pitt had an affair while he was married, I dont care that he lives with a woman while beautiful- has a personality disorder, a history of IV drug abuse, cutting, and preditory sexual behavior. I dont really care that they have a dozen children from as many countries that do not have a geographically stable home or daily routine. It is their right and choice to live how they wish.
However, I do care that he makes boorish and hurtful comments about his ex-wife to justify his current living arrangements, (and his betrayal of his marriage vows) and to promote his new movie. It is every ex-wife’s nightmare that their ex husband would betray and shame them in public. 50% of us are divorced between the ages of 35-50 currently in the US. Unfortunately, he has access to a national podium to say these things.
I wish he would stick to the business of his movies, and spare us anymore comments about himself, his partner, his children and his smugness. He has no sense of dignity or class.
His mother must be mortified.
I don’t think anyone would agree that Jen Aniston should be anything but grateful of the Jolie-Pitts. Without them, she’d have no career and no relevance. Afterall, how many movies has she made that have little to no value?The Jolie-Pitts are a more successful couple than the Aniston-Pitts were. So what? Let it go. If the man got bored with his life (including his wife) then who are we to suggest he is a bad guy for doing something about it. Everything we know about Brad Pitt suggests he is a pretty decent fellow. If I don’t see Moneyball it won’t be because he may have hurt poor, faint of heart, unable to get over it, Jen Aniston. It will be because I just don’t feel like it.
HorsePoor Hanna: ‘cos’ is a word?
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‘Cos’ is Britspeak. They talk funny. 😆
I just have a question:
How can you get together the statements “most of the 90-ies I felt bored” and “I think that might be due to my marriage” (not exact words) with the fact that they divorced 2005 and that they at that time had been married for 5 years?
2005
– 5
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2000
To me it sounds as if Pitt is mixing things up.
Apart from that, well. Pressure is probably on and life happens.
Have a nice day!
The UNCOOL statement JA made was in reference to AJ talking about the affair they had ON THE SET of Mr(S) Smith, while they were still married. If bet brad didnt feel his life was dull until AJ came along and told him it was dull and then dangled trips with Bono in front of him and babies and good will ambassadorship and all that crap and he melted like a popcycle. I wish he had just tried to undull his life with Jen instead of completely walking out on her and screwing around with AJ. I just cant love him anymore. What they both did is just so incredibly evil and selfish, frighteningly so.
they just both look so shitty. Angie is all pale and anorexic and Brad just looks like hes hiding behind hair. they both look run down and dishevled. I think they both were mesmerized by each others media hype and did something they can never take back as they tried to live out some fantasy of being international peacemaking icons. I dont believe for a second that they are really in love anymore.