In Touch Weekly’s cover story this week is an obvious one – “Brad Takes The Kids” in huge, bold all-caps. It’s as if In Touch’s editors know they’re making something up, so they’re just to cover up their lie with a headline that should read “Lalalala… I can’t hear you!”
The story seems overwhelmingly based on Brad’s recent trip to Niagara Falls with his oldest sons Pax and Maddox, and his parents Bill and Jane. You see, Angelina didn’t go with them to Niagara Falls. Thus “Brad Takes The Kids”… to Niagara Falls. So, In Touch is still beating the drum that Brad and Angelina will split any minute now, and the purpose of the cover story is to try to figure out what’s going to happen with the kids. Who will get custody? Why is Angelina yelling at Brad all the time? Is Brad worried about his children’s welfare if he – gasp – unceremoniously dumps Angelina? Just so everyone’s caught up, the article starts out talking about how depressed Brad was at Niagara Falls:
[While] Brad was clearly trying to make it a fun day for the boys – and his visiting parents, Bill and Jane – there was no missing the sadness etched into his face.
At a breaking point in his relationship with Angelina Jolie, “Brad is finding this time so much tougher than his divorce [from Jennifer Aniston],” says a confidante. “With Jen, it was just the two of them, but with Angie, there are six kids involved.”
“He knows that he and Angie are over,” the confidante shares. “They try to be civil, but they rarely speak these days without it erupting into a screaming match.”
Spending most of his time [with their kids] – and as little time with Angelina – Brad is trying to figure out what would happen if he had to share custody of the children.
But that may be easier said than done. According to the confidante, Angelina has threatened that she won’t give up the kids without a fight: “He’s worried the kids are picking up on that.”
Brad’s parents, Jane and Bill, are aware of the severe rift [between Brad and Angelina]… even though there’s no love lost between them and Angelina, they are urging him to work things out with Angie so that he can still play a role in his children’s lives.
“Jane has been telling Brad, ‘Those kids are what’s important, not you or Angie,’” the confidante says. But though Brad “knows she’s right,” adds the source, he also understands that he can’t stay in such an unhappy relationship – and it’s upsetting him deeply.
And during the Niagara Falls trip, Angelina was conspicuously absent. Angelina – who was shooting in Albany, NY – could have easily made the trip to the falls to join them for the day, but she “bailed out” a family friend says.
“She’s not about to just hand him the six kids. She will fight for full custody , and she’ll fight to the end.”
[From In Touch Weekly, print edition, May 11, 2009]
Obviously, that’s not the complete article. There was some more stuff about Angelina being a shrew, and Brad being a wishy-washy moron, but you get the point. In Touch also brought Dr. Gilda Carle back in to talk more about the Jolie-Pitt kids, whom she’s never met. Some will remember Dr. Gilda as the f*cking genius from a previous In Touch story about Brad flying to France alone to get away from Angelina. Dr. Gilda seemed to think at the time that if Brad and Angelina weren’t photographed together, they weren’t together at all, and “that must be very confusing for the children.” I’m not making that up!
In the end of this week’s article, Dr. Carle is once again brought in, this time to discuss whether or not the kids will ever recover from Brad walking out. Dr. Gilda Carle, in her infinite wisdom, says, “They call him Daddy, The whole family believes he is the father… The kids are no doubt going to be disoriented if they split.” Could the kids believe that Brad is their father because he is their father, Dr. Gilda? Oh, but I know what she’s really saying… she’s saying that because three of the children are adopted, Brad’s not their real father, and they won’t be as upset as the biological kids. I hope Dr. Gilda gets whatever banana republic college psychology degree revoked immediately.
what a conundrum.
man…I don’t really care for these two, but JAYSUS these rags need to stop with all this crap.
I don’t like them either..but the phony stories need to stop!
know wonder people call this mag “OUTTATOUCH”
Sooooooofalse! Brad never will leave Angie!
IMO she will dump him and take the kids. She looks sooooo bored!
oh gosh, for the last time… THEY ARE STILL TOGETHER. I’m sick of this fake fly on the wall transcripts of their “arguments”.
if it’s true i’m sorry for the kids-but i’ll be ecstatic i won’t have to hear about the sainted Brange anymore.
however it sounds like hogwash
I’m more interested in Charlie Sheen’s alien babies!
Yeag I just love how Brad/Angie get blamed because magazines and blogs print stories about them.. Yeah they are responsible. Angie has been filming since March.. NO interviews or TV spots. Brad is busy with the kids, MIR, and other things. NO interviews yet when blogs and magazines print stories it is their fault..
OK.. Yeah.. that make sense… TO AN IDIOT.
They are using them to sell mags. But the problem is they have spent the last few years printing so many stupid and false stories NO one with a Brain believes this stuff anymore.
About time. Hopefully the kids will grow up more grounded now. I think it will be the best for the children’s mental health.
It’s sort of like Aniston and the baby. If they keep printing it someday it may well come true, then they can say they were right. If BP/AJ are together they’re playing it up for the cameras. If they’re not seen together they are breaking up. What’s sad is how many low information citizens (a/k/a idiots) believe everything printed in these rags.
Such bs. So what if they had some daddy time. They seem to be a very loving and connected family.
The aforementioned expert should be struck off immediately – shocking statements
As opposed to Angelina, Brad was a stable guy, and a social guy who has friends and close to his parents, so the kids get to have grandparents.
IF the children with Brad they might have a chance at a healthy stable life with school and social routines with other children at their age group.
I do hope he is going to get the children and that they will finally stop being dragged from one country to another photo op and interviews.
I’m not pro-Brangelina by any means, but I have to agree with cakes’s comment.
How do these rags get away with all these foolish stories? I am so sick of seeing them in the supermarket. I asked at my local market and they tell me noone is buying this crap. They end up sending most of them back. The thress hens that run In Touch, L&S and Star must be really sad women and their staff must be desperate to keep their jobs.
Again with this story? Do they really think it makes people buy the magazine?
I laughed that in the same sentence the article said that Angelina was conspicuously absent from Niagra Falls but had her shooting in Albany the same day. How is she supposed to be in two places at the same time? Considering that four of the kids didn’t go I don’t see how Angelina’s absence was a big deal. I’m baffled as to why people keep believing these breakup rumors considerig tabloids have been saying this for 4 years. You would think people would stop paying attention until they actually do breakup.
You know it’s a slow news week for these trash mags when they turn to the safe-seller “Brange Drama” lineup.
OH! I predict the next one will say that Brad wants to be back with Jen, so they can raise the children together!
so saying Brad is a stable guy, as opposed to Angelina is now something that should be censored?
Why is my comment awaiting moderation?
I love Brad’s expression in this pic. He’s like “here we go with this tabloid b.s. again.
This line of the article has me cracking up @ “[While] Brad was clearly trying to make it a fun day for the boys – and his visiting parents, Bill and Jane – there was no missing the sadness etched into his face.”
Sadness etched into his face? Really ‘In Touch’? How intuitive.
Fascinating, not! I doubt Brad has a chance in heck of getting any sort of custody of the adopted kids, but with his three biological kids he’ll probably be stuck with 50-50.
You know, even if they were to someday split, the gossip rags would have a collective orgasm and the madness would still continue. I hate hearing about their every mundane move (Who gives a crap that they went grocery shopping? Do we really need photos of them entering and exiting every building they are in? Seriously wtf? The levels of attention they receive can be downright stalkerish and creepy sometimes.) but have accepted that it is probably not ever going to end. The “triangle” story is still the dead horse being beaten four years later, so I can imagine all the countless years of BS stories regarding a Brangelina split.
Too bad some people need these kind of stories to make them self feel good.
Yawn. since when are magazines in the business of publishing re-runs?
why is it that everyone believes every other story on this website except those about pitt and jolie… don’t they all come from the same source and we eat all the others up don’t we?
Oh yeah, don’t you just LOVE it when the so-called experts come in who never saw the people they are talking about in person? All the tabloid psychologists diagnosing people they never met with whatever psychological desease might be hip at the moment, or talking about relationships of people they never met – it’s so laughable. I don’t know if Brad and Angelina are happy or not. I wouldn’t know because I DON’T KNOW THEM.
I don’t believe any of the stories that come from these rags. How come Aniston fans believe every tabloid rag magazine story about the Pitts then don’t believe them when they print about Aniston. I would not pay 10 cents for this magazine. This rag magazine use bitter people who are having a hard time moving on with their life. It spin lies hoping to keep ill people coming back to buy it.
Even putting up a picture of their magazine cover on your site is free advertisement for their trashy magazine so they keep winning.
ChristinaT, I think you are generalizing. I don’t believe the stories in these rags, you can tell just by reading the content it’s bs. Besides this particular headline has been recycled a few times a month for the past several years.
Divorce is so common today and happens over 50% of marriages that is crazy !!!!!!! The kids are obviously the ones who suffer. I hope these two work it out, I hope they aren’t a statistic like so many others .. sad.
“They call him Daddy, The whole family believes he is the father… The kids are no doubt going to be disoriented if they split.”
I’m not interested enough to be sure, but isn’t the oldest one the only one adopted “before Brad”? So he that he really is their father?
A rain of hog pee on the In Touch editors.
He is their father. To ALL SIX KIDS! He adopted Maddox and Zahara before Shiloh was born and Pax in 2008. Sorry to burst your bubble. Losers like u all are the reason Lies and Sh*t and Outta Touch print these nasty stories
I doubt Brad has a chance in heck of getting any sort of custody of the adopted kids, but with his three biological kids he’ll probably be stuck with 50-50.
Bullshit. Even IF they split, Brad is the father of the adopted kids. There is absolutely NO difference in custody between bio & adopted kids. I can’t believe how ignorant some people are
“He adopted Maddox and Zahara before Shiloh was born and Pax in 2008.”
I forgot that, too (luckily I’m not a Brangelina expert).
But I think my point is also still valid: he’s been in 5/6 kids’ lives ever since they “joined” the family. And in the oldest one’s… what, most of the kid’s life? Blech. The “Dr.” is insane.
sometimes rags like the Star and the Enquirer do get it right long before the other tabloids.
you never do know until you finally do know for sure, but there’s still a 50/50 chance there’s truth (or at least some truth) in this story.
You are just as stupid as In Touch and that doctor: Banana Republic degree! How offensive, divisive and downright disrespectful to your international readers!!!!
“How offensive, divisive and downright disrespectful to your international readers!!!!”
How? I’m one of the “internationals”, but can’t see why that’s so bad. To me it seems like Kaiser is only talking about a degree bought from a shady degree mill, instead of, say, “a shady Swedish” or “a pathetic Panamanian” colleges.
As another ‘international’, I don’t think Kaiser went far enough in her dismissal of this idiot’s witterings. Mistress of the bleedin’ obvious and then some.
I expect she’ll suggest at some point that the way to solve the (supposed) custody issue is to cut each child in half and divide out the pieces. Personally, I believe they should do it alphabetically: Knox, Maddox & Pax in one corner and Shiloh, Viv and Zee in the other. And Angie gets to pick first since A comes before B. Job done.
SNOREFEST.
we know that the statistics for divorce in America is high; anyone dare to guess what statistics are for hollywood couples?
What amazes me is that anyone actually believes in the existence of Dr. Gilda Carle!!
My bet? They either made her up or she is a friend of someone on the magazine and actually has a PhD in, say, Romantic Languages, or whatever.
Why can’t they lie about an “expert”? Who is going to take them to court and make them produce her for the world?
Complete BS from story to expert.
I wish these two would just vanish!!!
They would if you stop clicking on to their blog to post. If they get the highest post then more stories will go up.
yeah, and i heard they were throwing vegetables at each other during their grocery shopping trip last weekend…
btw, isn’t she preggers again; and also considering adopting with her brother…
Dear Just Me: It’s not just you, it’s me too! 🙂
People seperate and get divorced every day, and the kids usually survive just fine…I wish they would break up, Im sick of all the fakeness they spew out!
46.someone:
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:26 am People seperate and get divorced every day, and the kids usually survive just fine…I wish they would break up, Im sick of all the fakeness they spew out!
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Speaking of fakeness, isn’t that what Brad And Jen’s (and many other HW couple)been doing throughout their marriage while they were having trouble?
47-sf..I don’t know why you brought Jen into this, but since you did, I liked them together..but then they were not media hos like Brad and AJ. They sell pics of thier family to the highest bidder..not all hollywood couples do that..then they say they are giving it to charity, and give it to themselves..”The Jolie/Pitt Foundation”. And if thier family means so much to them, why don’t they settle in one place and get married, and raise those kids in a stable home…I look for them to split up..its just a matter of time.
People mag quote when a certain separation was announced, “They had decided to separate a while ago,” Cagle says but points out the couple had already planned this island vacation and went ahead with it. No separation date was included on Jen’s divorce petition when she filed and she later said the marriage was over in the summer of 2004. It’s 2009 move on.
Jen told RogerF then at Fox that she went to the 2004 Troy NYC premiere with her ex because it seemed to right thing to do at the time (important to note that Troy was produced by Plan B which Jen owned a small slice of at that time), that marriage reached terminal status in 2004. Truth happens to be that it is not easy to split when mutually much loved and wanted kids are involved, couples will fight to keep relationship intact. It is 2009 move on.
The seperation would give the children a chance at stability, socail life and proper education.
If Brad gets the kids- they will finally have a home.
Brad might even get his career back, who knows?
Oh Neddie, Brad’s career is red hot, back like it was before his dark days from 2000-2004 when he practically abandoned making movies. He is getting award recognition as he has never had before in his career the last couple of years. Those kids both go to school and are homeschooled, have plenty of friends, and most importantly for them are always with their parents. And social life for a 7, 5, 4, 2, and two 9 months old, LOL. Who are you to tell anyone how to raise their kids?
The older kids are in school right now on Long Island, a very prestigious private school as a matter of fact. I do believe that the youngest 2 are a bit young for school yet, really. Brad’s career is doing just fine, for the first time ever he was nominated for all the major awards for CCOBB, and the film has made around $330 mil worldwide. Angelina is a great mom and the six kids are hers as well as his.
Who is supposed to be 2 and 7?
Wasn’t Maddox 7 years old, 2 years ago (at least)? Wasn’t Shiloh born more than 3 years ago?
and how are they going to school when in the past couple of months their parents were all over the world (including Japan and the middle east, europe and different cities in the USA).
Brad was an actor with great promise and ever since he joined forces with Angelina, has done his worst work, and has no audience.
I am actually hoping he return to being the actor he was before he met Angelina.
We haven’t seen that actor in a long time, and the one that is being dragged after Angelina’s shenanigans all over the world, is not a good actor.
Now I know how Angie’s brother supports himself — he’s paid to surf celeb gossip sites and post “true facts”.
Wouldn’t it be a nicer world without this huge celebrity culture? It has really gotten out of hand
Well this has kept me up worrying all weekend.
I love how Jennifer Aniston got brought into the comments.
Relevant commenting: you’re doing it wrong.
Some of you people need to get a grip. Blaming Brad/Angie for being on the cover of a Rag mag is just stupid. And if you want them to go away stop posting on every thread about them. As far as their kids are concerned since non of us have been in their home or really seen them in private how is it possible to comment on the stability of their home. You know nothing. Media ***** I think not. Most of you if you are honest can count the number of time we have seen their kids. They seem to be a happy family. And how they chose to raise their kids in really no ones business. People in this country seem to think that they have a right to judge how other people live. Perhaps you all who are being critical should mind your own business, and if not use you same eagle eye of criticism on other celebs too. But then they are not Brad/Angie.. So of course Brad/Angie have to live by a different set of standards. Some of you are just big hypocrites. OK now attack me.
BRAVO LISA!!!
Sorry Ned…
Mad, born August 5, 2001, meaning he is now 7 & will be 8 in August.
Pax, born November 29, 2003, meaning he is now 5 & will be 6 in November
Zee, born January 8, 2005, meaning she is now 4
Shi, born May 27, 2006, meaning she is now 2 & will be 4 in a few weeks
Knox & Viv, born July 12, 2008, will be 1 in July
Bodhi – LOL! let me just correct your tiny accidental error re Shiloh going from age two to four before Ned pounces on it as proof that the JPs lie about their children’s ages and/or that AJ is an evil witch who’s not allowing Shiloh to be three! 😛
Geronimo~ Its a Monday… Correct away!! 🙂
Brad is a real family man.
He loves kids. I feel sorry with the children they have to split.
Don’t worry Brad, thousands of women are waiting for you, right?
Brad will eventually be rid of that nasty bitch AJ. She is a wicked homewrecker.