You know what still bugs me? Brad Pitt’s SAG Award speech was super-problematic – as was the applause & laughter from the crowd – and no one has really mentioned it since. People are too busy talking about Brad & Jennifer Aniston and what’s happening behind the scenes and whether they’re still friends or whether they’ll get back together. I feel like fans don’t really know where to go – do Aniston fans really want her back with Brad after fifteen years of bulls–t? Do Angelina fans just want this newscycle to end? Do Brad fans really want him back with Aniston, of all people? And the narratives around this potential reunion…my God. But as I said, Aniston and Pitt’s people want us to talk about it. Even if the main characters are playing dumb:
Brad Pitt pays no attention to what people are saying about his and Jennifer Aniston’s reunion. Fans and even celebrities went crazy over the former couple’s run-in at the 2020 SAG Awards over the weekend. Pitt and Aniston were photographed together for the first time in over a decade, and appeared to be in great spirits as they hugged and greeted one another. So how did Pitt feel about the media and fan frenzy over their reunion?
“I don’t know. I’m blissfully naïve and I’m gonna stay that way,” the 56-year-old actor told ET’s Keltie Knight at the 35th Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Wednesday, adding that he hadn’t read the headlines.
Blissfully naive? Horsesh-t. He’s campaigning for an Oscar in the final stretch, and this is all part of a strategy worked out by CAA. Also part of the strategy: Aniston gets an apology for Brad’s substance abuse but Angelina Jolie doesn’t:
Meanwhile, a source told ET that Pitt and Aniston have been cordial with each other after their 2005 split. “Brad and Jen started talking after their relationships ended. They have seen each other but only occasionally and casually,” the source said. “Jen frequently gets photographed, so she was conscious of avoiding Brad because, while she has always adored him, she never wanted to start any rumors.”
“She didn’t realize how huge of a reaction the public would have to them,” the source added. “They both have laughed a bit about it.”
While some fans of the former couple are hoping for them to get back together again, a second source tells ET that this has been “nothing more than fun run-ins.”
“Brad and Jen look sincerely happy. They definitely worked on their friendship as their encounters are very genuine,” the source says. “Brad adores her and is really enjoying his moment in the sun.”
Additionally, a separate source added that the actor made amends with his ex-wife, explaining that they have definitely moved on from their complex past and that Pitt, in particular, has “apologized” for some of the past issues in their relationship.
“Brad is completely sober now and is in such a different place than he was when they were together,” the source says. “Brad is truly an introspective guy who has worked hard on himself. He has apologized to her for many things he felt were his issues in their relationship. He truly takes ownership for his mistakes and that has changed their relationship with each other today. They both have moved on.”
“Right now they just love and adore each other and have been much closer friends since their divorces,” the source says of where Pitt and Aniston stand now. “They have a very mature relationship that has evolved over time because they both have experienced marriages that didn’t work out.” In particular, “Brad has grown so much in his life since he and Jen broke up,” the source says.
Oh my God. “Brad is completely sober now and is in such a different place than he was when they were together.” Brad and Jen truly haven’t been together since January 2005, fifteen years ago. I don’t doubt that Brad abused substances when he was with Aniston, but why isn’t the narrative “Brad is completely sober now and in a different place than he was when he attacked Angelina and their children on a plane in 2016”? Because that wouldn’t be good for his Oscar campaign?
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Wasn’t the essence of his speech “I am a drug-abuser and my wife and kids hate me?”
Douche.
But has he apologized to Maddox?
Maddox could probably ruin this whole love feely vibe for Brad if he ever revealed what all happened on that plane….
Even Jennifer Aniston couldn’t save that.
Anyone who was on that flight can ruin him. As Wasser said, what he did will damage his wholesome image.
He didn’t hit Maddox on the face! He’s a great dad!
Oh let’s give a grown, privileged man a gold star for being sober after tearing through two marriages and traumatizing his own children. Good job, old boy, you are a big boy now!
I actually do not hate or even dislike Brad (despite my tone lol), but I hate and dislike this narrative in the press. He has hurt many people, and is surely hurting himself in many ways. If he’s sober it’s more of a “finally got his shit together, and hopefully keeps it together so he can stop doing damage” moment, rather than a “woohoo what a good boy pat him on the back!” moment.
Agree! It could have been an opportunity for real reflection and growth. Instead his past is excused or ignored.
Same. I think Brad is a great actor and I don’t dislike him, but this narrative is bizarre.
This is rapidly becoming one of the grosser Oscar campaigns I’ve seen. Yuck all around.
This is the grossest campaign I have ever seen because Brad completely throws his children under the bus for this.
Not just that though. People are OKAY with him throwing his children under the bus. A roomful of people laughed as he joked about his wife, a woman who had to pack up their children and run. It’s disgusting.
I agree totally. Everything about this “campaign” makes me increasingly uncomfortable. Like, yuck!
I think so too.
He knew he couldn’t campaign on Angelina or the kids anymore, so he’s using Jen instead. All this “she adores him” and “he apologized and takes responsibility” is coming right outta his camp.
Actually its coming from Aniston camp, you see people are calling her a doormat, so they are spinning it that he apologized to her thats why she is nice and friends with him again.
One thing of course they wont admit, is that Aniston truly wants her ex-husband back. But not Brad.
It really is. I’m happy he’s sober, that’s a big accomplishment, but he’s being so obnoxious.
I repeat. He is a slug and Angie looks healthier and happier without him. I can not wait for her to start promoting her new movies.
You know it’s a PR effort, not just because that is plain, but ctrl-f the word “adore” on this page. The anonymous source hits that word at least 3 times. Repetition = messaging. Blech.
Barf. That’s even grosser than Leo’s Oscar campaign.
Here’s a tought, Brad: How about you work on your relationship with you children? You’re welcome.
I cannot believe I used to admire this jerk.
Yeah so he can apologise to his ex wife after 15 years whom he only cheated on but he cannot apologise to Angelina & his children for his abusive behaviour which traumatised them?
After Oscars, hopefully this vile man will disappear from our radar.
Thankfully, Angelina has 4 movies coming out this year and rumoured to act in one with Christian Bale and another one for Paul W Anderson.
Her and the children looks absolutely happy and at peace.
He owes Angelina and his children an apology. I use to like him but realize he was acting like he was into charities, social work because of Angelina. He is just a narcissistic, selfish actor who is totally into himself. I just wish the Oscar voters could see thru his act and give the Oscar to someone who actually deserves it for acting!!!
And if anyone EVER wondered who was the better person out of Anniston, Pitt or Jolie, that question has been answered. Angelina could destroy Pitt’s life in one tear-filled interview. Maddox could blow his father out of the water with one Instagram post. Yet neither of them have done so. I REALLY wish they would but I don’t think they will. Because they are better people than Pitt or Anniston could ever DREAM of being.
I hope Anniston and Pitt do reunite because they deserve each other.
“Didn’t realize how huge the reaction would be?” I’m not sure if my eyes have ever rolled so hard in my life. Wow
I co-sign everything you wrote, Kaiser. The person who deserves an apology for his substance abuse is Angeline and his children. He’s behaving as if they don’t exist. The PR strategy has us living in a reality where he was sort of mean to JA and now they are friendly; no mention of his cheating on her and his subsequent 10+ year relationship with AJ and their family and how he traumatized them. He can’t erase 15 years.
But he’s “healthy” now. Stop being a
Party pooper. Can’t we just pretend it all didn’t happen and Just go back to adoring this handsome, charming man? Let’s focus on what’s really important… his “comeback”.
(Please read this in the sarcastic way it is intended! Totally agree with you!)
“He can’t erase 15 years.”
He’s sure trying to though, isn’t it? It’s gross.
He is repulsive, despicable and vulgar.
Ugh. Hollywood… Cheering for a toxic, abusive male that has shown little to no remorse. What a surprise.
I have really come to loathe him & seriously dislike Aniston. All her supporters can say what they want, but it’s blantantly obvious what they are BOTH doing. Saddens me that six innocent children are getting caught up in their PR games. Just give him the oscar already so he can disappear for the rest of the year.
I agree! Of course this is Brad’s fault, but the enablers are no better!
Aniston is clearly is acting like the “cool ex” for publicity. How about we all stop enabling toxic behavior?
Im really surprised that he is acting like his marriage to Jolie and his kids DONT EXIST
It must drive the ole former “most beautiful woman in the world” crazy to see her ex she stole from America’s Sweetheart raring to return back and world seems have forgot 15 years like a nightmare. Says a lot about the woman Jen is, truly a sweetheart. She prevailed.
Men cannot be stolen.
That’s what it’s all about isn’t it. Pitt ain’t forgot anything and it’s sad because Jolie has been gone four years hun. If she wanted Pitt you think she wouldn’t have file for divorce! Am I missing something. Did your husband leave you?
Angelina was the one who left him and hasn’t looked back since. If anything it must be driving Brad crazy that unlike all his other exes, HE is the one who got dumped – hence, his trying to erase the last 15 years and block the narrative that 2x America’s Sexiest Man Alive actually got dumped. If Angelina wanted him back, he would have come running but nope, she’s done with him and now his play is to go back to his PR games with Aniston who should really know better by now.
@Black Beauty
Are you for real?
Angelina is happy she’s rid of him.
Angie would say to Jen ‘Please take him…..i’ll even gift wrap & hand deliver him’
Angelina & kids are happier & thriving without his ass, meanwhile Jennifer looks like a complete doormat.
WTF?
Black beauty Surely you must be a sitcom writer for pathetic romcoms the nice normal 50 year old woman with the mindset of of a lovelorn teen ager prevailed, at what ?? She seems like an idiot who any man can use and dump on when the woman that man actually wants rejects him.
Sweetheart? The best thing that ever happened to Jennifer Anniston is that Brad Pitt got bored with her simple ass and moved on. The woman’s career is based on a haircut and being dumped by Brad Pitt.
I agree with a lot of the other commenters here! I seriously used to like Brad Pitt a lot. NOW? Ugh he disgusts me – this Oscar campaign is vulgar and truly the person who deserves an apology for his abusive, alcoholic behavior is Angelina and her children. You can love/or hate Jolie (I personally love her haha!) but she is the one who deserves the apology here, not Aniston. I mean Pitt can apologize to Jen for running off and leaving their marriage for Jolie … sure lol. But that was 15 years ago, and no one is talking about that. Plus I seem to remember Jolie was painted as the homewrecker there, not really Pitt. But yes, the more I see of Pitt this award season, the more I detest him!!
“But that was 15 years ago, and no one is talking about that.”
you new here?… 😉
HAHA – I meant right now in his disgusting Oscar campaign – I am fully aware no one can seem to let go of the Golden Couple that was once Pitt & Aniston LMAO
Did he really say all of this or is it a source. But in all essence people want his man to be with this woman and he doesn’t. This is one of the reasons for his alcoholism while married to the woman he wanted to be with. That is all. Hopefully this charade will come to an end soon so the kids won’t have to read the garbage and hate thrown at their mom because of their father’s ambitions.
@say, agree with you, I am thinking of their kids too, what they went through & now this! But Angie is there for them & I am sure she knows how to alleviate their pain!
“Blissfully naive.” ROTFL
Watch out Kaiser some people on other sites don’t like it when you talk about Brad and Jen.
But I do wonder what those kids think about how people say things about their mom. It has to be hard for them not to retaliate or say something on social media bless their little hearts.
And maybe he has apologized to the kids and their mom. Who knows?
All this little PR commentary is stemming from people online saying that he left her and is a has issues and she shouldn’t want his azz back. Like I said. They only see the negative things being said to clean it up.
Please let’s give this man that Oscar, so this can die down
He lost me as a fan.
Blissfully naive my ass. His publicist and Oscar campaign strategist (if he has one) are creaming themselves over all this.
@say, agree with you, I am thinking of their kids too, what they went through & now this! But Angie is there for them & I am sure she knows how to alleviate their pain!
@ Laura, they both orchestrated, they knew the outcome, both are tabloids whores. It doesn’t matter who he hurst as long as that image is intact! He was forced to mentioned his kids in his speeches because they questioned him at his Gg awards!.
This is Hollywood at its most toxic: forgiving the shitty actions of a man by using women as tools. At some point, I expect there will be another campaign against Angelina bc how dare she leave the world’s sexiest man?
Jen: get wise, stay away
Gwyneth: stop dropping Brad’s name, we know you are desperate for relevancy but have some boundaries
Angelina: fists up, sista– YOy are doing the hard work
Brad: do us a favor, stay sober but go away
Brad Pitt is Pathetic!! Instead of keep apologizing and repairing his relationship with Jennifer… It would be better to do that with his kids instead??, And people can say that he is doing that in “private”, but seeing how his children still don’t want to do anything with him; it seems that he has not done the right thing with them!! But hey, Brad will get his Oscar and public sympathy… and that is all that matters to him!! Pathetic man!! 😐
@ dulce, he is just plain arrogant & vile. People can’t see what sort of man he is behind close doors! He presents himself nice everywhere he goes but only his family knows who really he is! Hollywood is more than a toxic place where all the money, fame, vanity driven community fooling people!
Did he apologize to his wife and children for his shit behaviour or is he still too busy trying to smear her in the press and punish her for leaving his drunk, allegedly child abusing ass? I don’t get the people who are romanticizing the whole Brad and Jen reconnection thing. JA is lowering herself to gutter level by playing along with his “redemption” efforts. He’s campaigning for that Oscar harder than he’s ever tried to reconcile and make amends to his family. Who cares if he apologized to her.He’s a huge POS.
Who are these celebrities shipping them? These people are hypocrites though because if what he did to him former family is revealed, they’ll all drop him like a hot potato ala Mad Mel.
Also, why is Page Six pushing so much for this narrative? Today they had an article as why Jennifer Aniston looks so great at 50. Is anyone paying them?? Give me a break!!
They are selling clicks and papers hun. This may go on til Feb2 so get used to it. I’ll bet my arm she is a presenter at the Oscars
I’m glad he is sober. Its a disease that wrecks so many marriages and families. My mom drank my whole life and it was really hard. She got sober 11 years ago and our relationship is so much better now. It was hard for me to find forgiveness but I’m glad I did. I hope that it isn’t too late for his relationship with his kids. Only time will tell.
I don’t have direct experience with alcoholism in my family but do have indirect experience with close family friends, and I would expect it’s easier for him to apologize to JA and for her to forgive him because it has been 15 years and they haven’t been in each other’s orbits. As you say, only time will tell whether he will be able to mend things with AJ and their children. Maybe he is working on that in private and maybe he isn’t, but that may still be very raw for all of them.
Aside from all that, I don’t know why Jen fans want her to get back with a man who…did not treat her that well, at least at the end of the relationship. Why would you want that for someone?!
For some mind blowing reason they think it will hurt and avenge Angelina. How sick is that?
Feeble minded ones
Wow. You nailed it, Kaiser. That publicist should get a raise for their Next Level Oscar strategy.
Brad Pitt royally f**ked up both his marriages.
And, if we’re being perfectly frank, he’s using his Jennifer Anniston adjacency to climb his way back to relevancy. And why not? Let’s face it: She’s more powerful and well-connected than he is at this point in his career, so a thumbs up from her is a big boost for him.
Latching onto her is a politically-wise career move for him and I suspect she’s savvy enough to play along because she’s basking in the afterglow of all this attention, which, despite all of her moaning and groaning about “the media,” we know she lives for this shit. The math is not complicated.
Okey, what did I miss??, How exactly Jennifer Aniston is Powerful and well-connected in Hollywood??, No offense… But she is just a TV star and NOT a movie star!! Yeah, her movie in the theaters almost always flop!! She only does better in TV!! So how exactly is she powerful?? 😐
There’s no doubt she’s very well connected and also well liked by her peers (look at the celebs jumping in to congratulate her on social media). She can command the production houses and streaming C-suites to her parties like snap. I think she has very good advisers looking well ahead at the very least.
Cyber…
Just now; Jennifer has found some success in TV!! But that is it; ONLY in TV!! Because like I say; her career on movies is not that successful!! And Yeah, she is well liked by her peers, but that doesn’t make her powerful!!
People attending her parties or congratulating her on the internet doesn’t make her powerful, it means she has a lot of celebrity friends. JLaw, Meryl or ScarJo for example have power yet we don’t know who their friends are. Before the Morning show, she was starring in Sandler movies.
@dulce here’s what you missed: the past five years when television became just as good as movies.
I suggest you get a Netflix account and amazon prime and try catching up.
Maybe Apple TV too, so you can see what Aniston and Witherspoon are doing.
Well, you have to admit TV isn’t “just TV” anymore in the age of streaming. She was one of two top-billed stars in the most streamed Netflix (the number one streaming service in the world show) release in 2019. TMS is getting critical acclaim. She’s doing very well in streaming, and even former strictly films only actors are saying yes to streaming productions.
See everyone? All is well with Brad and your favorite of his exes! She ADORES him and he her. In no time, his most recent ex will ADORE him again too. It’s ok, go ahead vote for him, he’s not a trainwreck at all.
Yeah, yeah, yeah!!!! Cue the violins!
Why no one is talking about his speech because his pr savvy and knew what he said was not cool, so to burry his speech he sought out Jennifer backstage.
If he can shade the mother of his children in front of his peers & national TV, I can imagine him behind close doors a bully, vile & arrogant man, no consideration whatsoever to his children! But there you go that is Hollyweirdos life! Nice outside his home but no one knows how he is exactly behind close doors. I’ve noticed he is now mentioning his children after he was asked why he did not thanked his kids at GG awards. He is uttering his kids aimlessly, what a man! Has to be reminded that his kids exist!
He is so Gross.
Honestly though he has been throwing both Angie and jen under the bus for years.
I remember when everyone loved him when he was shading Jennifer talking about how he was bored and smoked tons of pot in a interview and now he is joking about sex life and marriage to angelina in his oscar speech which was completely offensive.
He has been playing both women against each other for years.
The way he has treated his adopted children is Gross.
No wonder Maddox wants nothing to do with him.
I don’t think Z does ethier.
I think everyone knows he’s not father of the year so his ghostwriters – his SAG speech like most of them probably had “input” from speechwriters – and PR people probably told him not to mention the kids to open up that can of worms or to look like he’s pretending to be something he’s not.
And if he can do whatever he did on the plane with the crew present, can you imagine what he was like at home?
I suspect he has apologized to Angelina and the kids, but that it came with demands. I work with addicts and they can have a “instant gratification” mentality in their relationships. I worked with a lot of people who took partial responsibility for their behavior in their addiction, would apologize to loved ones, but would get angry when their loved ones didn’t forgive them right away or unconditionally. They almost demand forgiveness. Which shows they don’t get it and really haven’t changed much at all. It wouldn’t surprise me if he’s bitter because the kids and Angelina weren’t so sick to forgive whereas it appears Jennifer was.
Let us not forget how he walked away — and still is trying to — the Make It Right mess.
He does shitty things and gets away with it.
Yes, he said it himself, but how about the Hollyweirdos community? That’ s what happened with Weinstein, most of them knew his activity but pretended they didn’t knew & carry on working with him!
Brad, Angelina and Jen are just meh to me. Their acting is just okay, their movies are just okay and their personal lives are all tabloid fodder when I don’t think any of them cares that much about the other anymore or what they are doing in their personal lives. So yeah, all three of them are over hyped and attention seeking and hopefully they all will find someone someday to spend the rest of their lives with so we don’t have to hear about it anymore.
Yes yes, enough of these lot but you’ll hear more of Aniston & Pitt now because they are the best tabloids whores in the industry, their PR machines work endlessly to keep them on media news
You can tell he is an actor alright. Lied with a straight face. He’s blissfuly naive about his rumored reunion with Aniston? This is a man who said on national broadcast TV that any woman standing next to him is dating him? Dude can’t keep his lies straight. He is very much aware of what is being said about him. That’s why he is talking about his kids now after he got called out for not thanking them in winning his first award at GG. Such a piece of work. Every sane woman should stay away from him. You don’t want an extra garbage to haul around.
So he was friendly with Anniston even while she had her attack dogs out there making racist jokes about his children and calling his wife a c*nt? Good to know.
Do you think you could ever spell her last name right or is it just your frothing at the mouth hatred getting in the way? Curious is all; not all that invested in any of these people.
Noticed he hadn’t mentioned Paltrow name in 20 years since she cheated on him. This is the guy that said he had a hard time forgetting any perceived slight against him. So expect at least 20 years or so before he will even acknowledge anything connecting to Jolie name . Yup, the last 15 years or so is written out of his life as of now. How dare she prefers the adopted kids over him?! Him, the all powerful game changer in HW. Hope all these awards will keep him warm at night. Betcha he is sleeping with them as we speak.
This will go on until February unfortunately. We know he is a liar and famewhore. That’s all he knows sorry. At least Angie and Jen can stand alone on their own. He can’t. He swims around on that triangle doing laps. On one hand he is gaslighting Angie in the other pretending he is best friends with Jen. What a piece of work. He was the culprit who initiated all of this mess with n the beginning and still is.
It seems like there’s a sensitivity chip missing.
Oooooooh throwing it back!! I like it
Why would J.A. want him back. He didn’t want to divorce and leave Angelina and now he is going to go back to her. That is so disrespectful to J.A. He is still bitter and angry with Angelina. Brad and Angelina need to get on because they have children and they will always be in each others life.
But has he apologized to those children?! Hmmm