It’s sometimes hard to know if Jon Voight is completely aware of the things he says from one interview to the next. He’s always so over-the-top sensational in his delivery, whether he’s sullying or praising his high-profile daughter, and this time is no different. Jon Voight hasn’t had the chance to meet his twin grandchildren yet. He’s heaping on the adoration with such gusto you can’t help but question his complete sincerity.
“The twins! Holy smokes…I’m hoping, so we’ll see,” he tells OK!. Voight and daughter, Angelina Jolie, have had an infamously estranged relationship in recent years. And while the two are reportedly trying to mend their broken bond, the actor has yet to meet his twin grandchildren.
“I think she’s very happy,” Voight tells OK!. “I saw her here before the twins came, and she was so happy. I’ve never seen her that happy. And she’s got this beautiful film with Clint [Eastwood] out, so there’s going to be a lot of energy around that one as well.”
[From OK! Magazine]
The adulation didn’t stop there. With his usual dramatics, Voight talked about Angelina’s idea of family. According to her father, Jolie has always had a different view of family and he has no idea who to attribute that to. He might not know where she gets her feelings about family, but he knows how much she loves hers and how much she and Brad try to protect their kids.
The Oscar winner tells OK! he sympathizes with his daughter and Brad trying to protect their kids amid a daily barrage of paparazzi.
“They are handling it, but it’s a stress on them because they can’t do things, they can’t easily go out and do stuff. They always have to consider the barrage of some kind happening. It’s difficult. They’re just kids after all, they’re just young people.”
[From OK! Magazine]
Grandpa really wants to see those babies. I wonder if he remembers their names?
Jon Voight is shown last night at the world premiere of “24: Redemption.” Credit: WENN
LOL, didn’t he call Zahara or Shiloh Shakira?
Unfortunately I don’t like him any more than his daughter, if he could take her away and hide her, I would maybe change my mind and like him for that.
If they are concerned about their kids, why tell the press that their twins are in the hotel upstairs? Why sell pictures of your children to magazines for money. Is the money from the W magazine also going to charity. Making money off your kids is wrong at all levels. How can you complain when others treat them like money making machines?
Kim, I’m sure this has been addressed many times but for the sake of what is clearly your undying obsession with the JPs I’ll have another go.
If Angelina and Brad release carefully staged photos of their children they are doing three things at once, supplying the relentless demand of the public, robbing some pap of his chance to become a multi millionaire and all while creating funds for charity.
If you cannot understand that I am sorry. Perhaps you just can’t help being so obnoxious about people you don’t know. If I don’t have any interest in someone I don’t comment on those specific posts. You on the other hand are on every single Jolie post, I actually believe you’d curl up and die if Angie was to ‘fade away’.
Angelina should stop complaining about her father now that she admitted that she run off with someone’s husband. Like father like daughter.
She asks us to forive terrorists yet she cannot forgive her own father for calling her mentally ill when she actually was and still is and cheating on her mother when she Angelina has slept with countless married or involved men. How would she have felt if her father’s mistress gave interviews about falling for him when he was married? Hypocrite much?
I was watching Pitt on Oprah and I did feel sorry for him. He looks really bad, seriously, blotched face, eye-bags, blood shot eyes etc, but you can tell he loves his kids and you can see that that love carries him through what has turned out to be a nightmare.
I noted that when asked whether it was the happiest he had ever been, he did not answer automatically or give a straight answer, just said ‘dare I say’. Kind of like, ‘I guess I should be happy’. I would have expected a straight affirmative with a huge smile. Poor sod, what happens when those kids are teenagers and are no longer sweet.
I was troubled by the poo, wee, and John/Peter stories. They don’t seem like stable kids they are raising, they seem bratty. It confirmed my conclusion that those children seem dirty, Brad too and Angelina sometimes all seem dirty.
He is uncomfortable through out the whole interview and never once looks Oprah in the face. I wonder if his adultery will haunt him forever.
As for the tattoo fan… I won’t even go there.
“I was watching Pitt on Oprah…”
But of course you were. Watching and projecting, and so the circle turns.
Rose of course I will die when this circus show ends. I am actually starting to enjoy it.
I don’t for one minute believe in that rubbish of controlling the pictures, that is bull. Who told you that they are giving the money from the W magazine to charity or from the pictures they took in Africa and sold too? Where is the accountability for all the money they made off these innocent kids? Until I see it, I will not believe it. All I see is private jets, multiple homes and a grand lifestyle of people who are almost at the end of their careers, making me believe that they will keep some if not much of that money.
They make enough money why resort to whoring those poor kids out? I even don’t care where the money goes, pimping innocent kids is wrong. What if they want to be really private people when they grow up?
Rose, are you the tattoo fan in any case?
Nope, I think as a family they’re interesting and I don’t understand the rabid hatred and claptrap spewed by people like you? It’s not like you know them personally.
I never mentioned the W pictures at all. it’s none of your business if they are rich or have multiple homes either. There is plenty of real exploitation and cruelty in the world, whinging on about the JPs is laughable.
Kim –
I respect that you have a right to post here. But how can you write those things. You act like you know them and I’m guessing you don’t.
Secondly, he did look at Oprah I watched it too. Yes – he did looked tired. But with newborms twins you would too.
And for the Peter Pan thing – give me a break. That’s perfectly normal behavior for a young child. My daughter only responded to Peeper for years. I don’t think she responded to her given name until preschool.
Lastly, BRAD made a committment to Jennifer NOT Angelina. Jennifer herself has said she does not think there was an affair (as did her BFF Courtney Cox). But you have some desperate need to blame anyone – why Angelina. Isn’t Brad the one who was in a marriage?
It is so sad that AJ is using her children as pawns in her war with her father
Mummy can do no wrong
(as evinced in the recent blubbering over her mothers saintliness)
Daddy can do no right
(as evinced in her bad mouthing him in the press every chance she gets)
Now, that’s mature
Perhaps if she forgave her father for being so much like herself, the childrens grandfather could become part of their lives – and consequently remember their names
Watching and projecting and obsessing and seething…. and on and on and on in a never-ending cycle of irrational and illogical rage at a family who affects you and your life not even one tiny iota. It’s not good for you, Kim.
xia – you raise a good point. Voight has a big mouth and should have kept it shut publicly as far as AJ’s concerned, but it does look petty and immature, that I agree with. Also your point that they are very alike, which I think is a major stumbling block for her and something she publicly fights against. Both should, if not actually kiss and make up, at least make an effort to keep their differences private. This holding grudges business is at odds with the image she projects.
But, on the other hand, no one really knows what goes on inside any one else’s family so there is all that too…things we’re not privy to.
Taryn, you are entitled to your opinion. Of course Brad is also to blame and Karma is beating him up badly going from how he looks.
Courtney said Brad didn’t cheat because Jen admitted that before Angelina’s interview in vogue, she too thought so. I guess he is a slime in addition to being a dumb dickhead.
I don’t know Brad and Angelina. I still look at them like the latest circus show in town since they treat their lives as one unfortunate soap opera.
Poor Jon. He’s all alone. It’s just him, and his cowlick.
Interesting point xia – I’ve often heard that what we’re most critical of in others is what we despise most in ourselves.
Kim – what’s this about the twins’ safety? That interview with Fiona Phillips was pre-recorded and they had probably left the building by the time it was aired.
Now you do have a point about making money off one’s children, but in films we’re limited enough in choice from many of the major hollywood companies and only making films with no children in them is going to limit it even more. Same thing with childrens programming – I suppose it could be wholly limited to cartoons for younger kids, but probably not with teenagers. Until such a time as hyper-realistic CGI can be used to stand in. Bit of a catch 22 that.
Thanx geronimo and Mairead for the feedback :-)………. It’s true stangers aren’t privy to the small everyday betrayals that go on in any relationship but to me AJ’s idolisation of her mother and contempt for her father is glaringly obvious and very public. She just cannot forgive her father for being human – a major right of passage happens when you realise your parents are not perfect and made mistakes – forgive them and move into a more mature relationship with them. If her mother had lived she would have come to be (temporarily) disillusioned with her too. I guess everyone comes to it in their own way and time. I think her Dad is right when he says she has mental health issues but I agree with you geronimo, he should NEVER have said it publicly.
It’s sad to see a Grandparent so obviously desperate to see his Grandchildren. I feel sorry for both of them. Jon for missing out on so much, and AJ for not giving him a chance.
I don’t get the ‘dirty’ comments. They’re dirty and spoiled because they bring poo to Dad? Or pee on a stool in defiance? Do you have children? 😕 They seem pretty normal to me.
Kim, karma is the payback in your next life for evil done in your past life. So if karma is making Brad look tired (and not the fact that he’s pushing 50, has six kids, two of them newborn twins, and a heavy work schedule), then it’s from something he did before he became Brad Pitt.
And if you don’t believe in reincarnation, then you are not allowed to use the word “karma”.
I don’t see this as Voight’s desperation to see his grandchildren at all. I see it as Voight’s desperation to get publicity, and this seems to him like a good way to get sympathy. If you totally ignore your own children when they are small, they will grow up and not want anything to do with you, and then you don’t get to see your grandkids.
And yes, the JP kids seem normal to me too. We all have poo and pee stories in our repertoires. As well as kids who decide to have different names and refuse to answer to their own – my older girl insisted on being called Helen for a number of months for some reason known only to her. So we called her Helen.
If you want spoiled brats, head over to the Cruise residence.
meeting your grandchildren is not something you need to hope for, it should be a given privilege. especially if you say… brought your granchildren’s mother into this world. and if your saying jon voight wasnt there to raise angie and her brother or whatever, angelina jolie seemed to have no problem in taking advantage of jon in advancing her career. so both of them are pretty much users
He’s made some bad choices in his past, so has she. She should let the past go so her kids can get to know him. That doesn’t mean she has to be around him all of the time, either.
AJ should follow what she deems best for her children period, her house her rules.
Obviously she feels strongly about excluding her father, she must have good reasons.
You reap what you sow Jon 🙄
Oh John is just something Angie projects all her failings on to. Narcissists do that. He is her scapegoat. It really is so silly. I don’t think she can see she has much more in common with dad than mom. Cheating and needing attention. And Shiloh looks just like grandpa. Too funny, And now she wants to be called John. John Angie doesn’t do holidays with the family. They are to special for that. She will drag them somewhere just to be different. Don’t you get her yet? She needs to be different. And her kids are artists. Not just any kind of kid but artists. Some day you might be needed for some damage control and press. It will happen John. She will use you like she uses her own children. Just wait.
What the hell is wrong with tattoos?
How intersting that Jon Voight is desperate to meet Shiloh and the twins but not so keen on the older children. I don’t remember this very public out-pouring of praise and hope when Zahara and Pax were adopted.
I’m starting to think there is a very good reason why Angelina and Brad keep him at a distance.
In this year’s VF interview, Angie said that she and Voight were working on their relationship in private. Unfortunately, Voight can’t stop talking about her or the kids. My guess is that to Angie, Jon is “on notice”.
Having read and seen some of Voight’s crazy rantings during the election cycle, I fully support Voight’s status being kept “on notice”.
Xia I agree with you.
Kim, you are full of hate. You do not even know these people. I think I said this about you before but, You make all of the JA fans look bad. If people judge all JA fans based on you, then no wonder why they all hate us!
Syko, why do you think Suri is a brat?
It would be nice for them to make up, but that is for them to decide. Who knows, maybe he won’t take any responsibility for anything he has done wrong and that is her problem. I have a non-perfect dad too, and if he couldn’t take responsibility for the things he has done very wrong I do not think I would speak to him. He has and we are all good, but that is neither here nor there. I really do hope they can keep there relationship behind closed doors a bit more though.
Michelle…….it’s true, it works both ways
Has Angelina ever been in therapy with regard to issues surrounding her parents-particularly her father? I’m just wondering. I also think it’s because of this relationship with her father that causes this desire to have the upper hand in any male relationship. I believe she totally gets off on leading men around by the nose.
She wants a patsy that she can wring right out and with Brad she’s found one. I feel sorry for him.
Interesting point Estelle – but I think that in the interests of fairness we should assume that he did, but that the media didn’t think it interesting enough to run with (or we didn’t think it interesting enough to remember)
I wouldn’t be suprised if she did undergo some counselling when she was younger Baho. But to use an old saying: “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink”
Michelle, I suspect that Suri is a brat because of the way she is being raised. The whole Scientology thing about rearing children, how they don’t need discipline, don’t need to go to bed until they want to, eat what they want, and are just small adults who already know everything they will ever know. That doesn’t make for well-behaved children, or happy ones. Children need guidance.
I read an interview and Angelina said that acting is her therapy.
Therapy is a very personal issue – believe me I’ve been there. And unless your a doctor you don’t even know if she needs therapy.
I agree with the previous post – I think Daddy wants some PR of his own.
The bottom line, for me anyways, is that no one really knows what happened with this entire situation. People are believing tabloid reports that are KNOWN for their untue stories. I truly think that the media is turning this into a nightmare – not Jen, Brad or Angelina.
Can’t we all just get along………..
I like them all – and I’m sure they are just as sick of all of this as we are.
Gotcha Syko. I loathe scienolofreaks and their cult!
My guess is that some of you don’t remember the origins of the feud. At a crucial time in her adoption of Maddox, her father went on television and publicly accused her of being mentally ill. She noted in a later interview that she became seriously concerned that his comments could affect her adoption and possibly stop it from happening. She doesn’t want to give him the power to screw things up with her children and I can’t blame her. As someone noted, she has said they are working on things in private. But I can’t blame him for mentioning in public, likely after being asked, that he is looking forward to seeing his grandchildren.
My primary concern with him is that he would treat the biological children differently than the adopted children. It has been noted in various articles that they really consider the children all the same and wouldn’t want anyone to challenge that notion.
If she is beautiful on the inside, as everyone seems to think she is, then she should be able to forgive her father and do the right thing by allowing him to be a part the children’s lives. She fell in love with her current mate while he was married to another woman (what went on prior to his an Aniston’s divorce will forever be up for debate) and pursued a reltionship with someone who for the most part was unavailable. She should be the bigger person and show the world how WONDERFUL she is and forgive the man. Her mother did!
Sometimes forgiving parents is not possible. We have no idea if that is the only reason that they don’t have a relationship. And considering he didn’t even know the names of his ‘grandchildren’ I don’t blame her at all for not wanting him in their lives.
She has said they are slowly working on their relationship and sometimes wounds heal slowly when a parent hurts a child. I know that I certainly would not want someone like that involved in my children’s lives.
They are her and Brad’s children and they ULTIMATELY have that right.
Enough about her going after another men – I’ve read that statement about 2 million times. GET over it.
I mean do you crucify all the other celebrities who alleged cheated like,
Jennifer Aniston (Tate Donavon was engaged and his fiance was pregnant when they started dating), or Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish, Julia Roberts and Danny Moder, Julia Roberts and Jason Patrick, Madonna and A-Rod. These are just a few.
I just find it funny that Brad and Angeina are evil and everyone else is so pure and committed.
Margie –
I totally agree. I know that when Johnny & June Cash were together they only had one son together – but they NEVER referred to the children from their previous marriages step-children. They were their children.
I loved and respected that about the Cash Family.
The dynamic between parent and child is far more complex than the cover of a glossy.
Kim I am here to come to your defence. Your comments were pure hilarity. They all do seem dirty and the parents seem tired. My own ex at the time said after two or three kids brad must have thought what the fu*k! AJ must have alot of crap on his head. No one does the things these two do (six kids, three years? and no one thinks this is unhealthy? have your cousin leo do this right after his divorce and you tell me). This train is going to crash and only the kids will suffer. This is not the way for brad to spend his 50’s. Oh well, karma is a b i t c….(well you get it).
meeting your grandchildren is not something you need to hope for, it should be a given privilege. especially if you say… brought your granchildren’s mother into this world.
Erm, HELL NO. Being related by blood does not give you some kind of free pass to treat other people crap without consequences. I’ve seen too many people take too much crap ‘because it’s faaaamily’. If you would cut off a friend for behaving in a despicable way, why would you have to take it from a family member just because they happen to be related to you?
Sorry Kim – but you sound just a little jealous?
Xia- very well said. I’m in total agreement
Wow…I can’t believe how caught up some of you get in the lives of people who happen to be famous. Who cares what they do…you don’t know them personally. The way you argue back and forth is laughable and it makes you look pathetic. G E T A L I F E.