Earlier today, Angelina Jolie was spotted looking very professional in Los Angeles, heading into Sony Studios (photos here). She totally flew in under the radar, per usual, because pretty much everyone thought she and the whole family were still in France. It’s thought that she was attending a meeting about signing on for the lead role in The Tourist, the gun-toting, ass-kicking suspense/action film she’s been considering for about a week. Looks like Brad’s film Moneyball is probably never going to get made, The Tourist will probably begin filming in a few months, and it will likely be a location shoot in Europe. Perhaps a European Christmas for the Jolie-Pitt clan?
Beyond that, Brangelina’s tabloid drama has taken a backseat to Gosselin, Lohan and TomKat drama this week. There are only a couple of Brangelina stories in this week’s magazine, and both of them feel like stale leftovers. Star’s story is all about how the Jolie-Pitt kids are running amok because Brad and Angelina “don’t feel like spending time yelling at them”. My guess? The Jolie-Pitt kids are little hellions with strong personalities, but I’d bet they’re basically good kids. Empress Zahara runs a tight ship, after all:
The kids do as they please, according to sources. “They have dinner around 11 p.m. And it’s a real smorgasbord of snacks – cheese and crackers, chips, grapes and chocolate.”
Not only is there no set bedtime, but there is no rule on what to wear to sleep – or even where they lay their heads.
“They all sleep in Brad and Angie’s bed. And the kids wear whatever they want. Sometimes Zahara falls asleep in her Sleeping Beauty dress, which has permanent chocolate milk stains on it.”
The wildest of the clan are Maddox and Pax. “The two of them are double trouble. They have every sort of toy known to man, including paint guns, which they splatter all over the walls of the house.”
Maddox tends to get special treatment. In fact, it was his idea to pierce baby sister’s Vivienne’s ears. After he said he wanted to do it himself with a pin, an insider says Angie decided to have it done professionally.
“Brad is starting to get tougher… he does tell them ‘no’ and holds them accountable for their actions. The trouble is they just run to Mom, and she caves.
Growing up, Angie often worked to help support her single mother and, “She doesn’t want her kids to have that kind of life… she gives them their freedom because she wants their ‘souls to evolve.’”
[From Star Magazine, print edition, October 26 2009]
My experience with kids is very limited, granted, but some of this stuff sounds like normal “kids need structure” stuff. Don’t ask me, though. I’m the OCD structure queen, and when I was a babysitter, the kids were always good for me. Because I set the rules, damn it. Although I did used to babysit for a kid with night terrors who used wake up screaming thirty minutes after I put him to bed. I never really considered him a bad kid, just a kid with issues.
In addition to those stories, Star also reports that the kids gang up to terrorize their nanny, using methods that I swear came from The Sound of Music. “Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens/Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens/Brown paper packages tied up with strings/ These are a few of my favorite things!” Hmm… I need to see that movie again. Other than that, I only liked the part about Empress Z falling asleep in her Sleeping Beauty dress. How cute is that?
Meanwhile, the other Brangelina story comes from the National Enquirer, and it involves the Bermuda Triangle, white wine and a phone. Only this time, Jennifer Aniston was the one doing the alleged drunk dialing. Their source claims that Jennifer “was hoping for an intimate chat with Brad, and ended up tangling with Hurricane Angelina! When Jen heard Angie’s voice, she freaked out.” Oh, yes. But the source also knows what the two women said to each other: “Jen basically told Angie that she hated her, but Angelina fired back and warned Jen to stop calling Brad and harassing her. Angie screamed, ‘Leave my family alone!’ and ended the call.” After the call, Angelina allegedly read Brad the riot act, and demanded that he cut off contact with Jennifer for good. The Enquirer leaves us with this note: “It remains to be seen if Jen will let go of him or continue to give chase.” Ugh. Seriously? That’s all I’ve got. Just a big, fat “Seriously?!?”
Brad, Angelina, Pax and Maddox are shown on their gerbil shopping expedition on 8/20/09. Credit: Bauergriffinonline
Right……yawn…..next!
oh brother… [eyeroll]
I love on the story about her going to the studio, it said “Angelina braved the L.A weather” A few rain drops, and she is braving the weather? LOL!
boy, these stories just keep getting better and better!
the only part of this that I would believe is the kids running amok part.
I’ve heard quite a few stories about how out-of-control they are, and how they’ve trashed hotel rooms and rented houses.
maybe NONE of the stories are true, but that would be the only one that MIGHT be, IMO.
of course, the brangeloonies that refuse to believe that Brad still calls Aniston will be the FIRST to believe that Aniston drunk-dialed him.
Hire a professional child wrangler and give them hazard pay, I know children and boy if you don’t get the upper hand immediately you are toast. As for Jenny calling drunk on white wine…was she calling from Johnny’s loft or Butler’s house?
I’m tired of all of them.
Back in black. And she is smiling! Ridiculous.
I don’t believe it. These kids each have a room or the girls and boys share a room and the twins have their own. Climbing in the parents’ bed is for early mornings or early evenings before bed.
They do have nannies because at times, neither parent is present. The nannies travel with them and would need to be in the parents’ bedroom if that is where the kids slept. Not likely.
They have a chef who cooks healthy meals for them. They have said so. People who have met the kids say they are happy, healthy, friendly and polite.
I am not buying this story lol they use paint guns on the walls??? Come on folks these people live in million dollar homes,,they must be pretty bored to start trashing kids.
I say this is 90% bulls**t and 10% normal kid stuff.
I don’t doubt the junk food aspect, as they are frequently photographed with Cheetos and other tasty treats. Both parents have said they don’t make a big deal out of the kids eating junk, which I actually like about them.
Who believes this horse-shit?
Like the tabbies really know what Brangelina’s kids do. It’s the same story over and over . . . the tabloids have become more desperate than Paris, Lindsey and all the Kardashians combined.
I can’t believe Brad and Angeline raise their kids in such amock manner!! Nobody would let their children _ no matter how spoiled they are_ to redecorate the whole house with a paint gun or to pierce one another’s ears!! Totally lies to me!
Who cares? For every $100,000 they give to the Burmese people (with a big appearance by Angie and a camera crew), Brad collects $5 million doing ads for Suzuki, which spent years and years oppressing the Burmese people.
Why does the press have to keep us occupied with this nonsense when there are so many more painfully truthful stories to write about them?
These two make millions expolioting the world’s poorest people while claiming to care about the world’s poorest people.
I don’t believe for a minute that these kids are “out of control.” If they were out of control at home then they would be out of control out in public. When have they been photographed running away from their parents, throwing things, screaming or climbing over an ice cream counter? Suri Cruise has been photographed doing those things but not the Jolie-Pitt kids. I call lies to that.
As for junk food . . . of course they eat junk food. Most kids do. But, overall, those kids look very healthy with shiny hair and clear skin and they are the proper weight for their ages. If junk food was a big part of their lives, they would be fat. Just take a look at the majority of American kids!! I call lies on that also.
I don’t know about the drunken calls to Brad but I can’t imagine Jennifer would do something like that. In fact, I can’t imagine Jennifer cares a bit about Brad or Angelina and vice versa. But this triangle keeps on going because it sells magazines. I really wish it would stop because it makes Jennifer look ridiculous. I feel sorry for her.
I so tired of tabloids running the same fucking stories about the same 6 fucking people over and over and over and over…….
Celebrity gossip has really gone downhill in the last few years.
oh my god – the kids eat grapes?! they can wear whatever they want to bed?! someone call child protection services!
I doubt a lot of that. I also doubt the ear piercing part. What boy gives a sh## about his sister’s pierced ears????
Yeah I read that hotel story over a year ago. As soon as that Brit tabloid published it, the hotel denied it ever happened. Brad made a joke about it at Cannes. When someone asked him where the kids were, he kept a stone face and said “They are back at the hotel throwing spaghetti on the walls.”
From all accounts I have read, everybody who has met those kids has said they are friendly, polite and well-mannered. But the Boo-Hoo Sisterhood doesn’t want to hear it, and they are the ones buying the tabloids.
As for “It remains to be seen if Jen will let go of him or continue to give chase.”, bullshit. She gave up the chase five years ago. She’s dumb, but she’s not that dumb.
Is Pitt wearing black socks with shorts? Is he intentionally dressing like an old man in hopes of getting peace from female fans?
I don’t know why you guys don’t believe it they have said themselves they think the kids should make their own choices, what to wear, when to sleep, what to eat this is not new news.
Is that the only dress Angie owns?
Poor Cheyenne. She thinks only the boohoo sisterhood keeps this story alive. It never occurs to her that by commenting on these celeb sites she too keeps this story alive.
Just like your idols, you think you’re above it all.
LOL!!!!
i love that even maddox is going, “dad, what the f is up with BLACK SOCKS?!”
If the kids are such wild animals why aren’t there pictures or video of them acting out? The only story I’ve heard was they were thrown out of their French home because they destroyed the house. The truth was they were in Germany so Brad could film “Basterds”. If they caused such damage they wouldn’t have been allowed to return. If Brad and Angelina said that the kids can do whatever they wanted whenever they wanted it would have been all over the news. They did say they let the kids be creative and they like art but they said it was on paper not walls. They did say the youngest sleep with them a few years ago but that’s normal.
Each has a nanny. The walls get cleaned and the toys get picked up by the housekeeper.
If you knew any movie stars, you’d know that their children are all followed around by a personal nanny. There is a housekeeper and a cook.
Brad has his personal assistant at hand and so does Angie.
Do the math. There are also personal educators who do the teaching. Or, is Angie teaching the kids to speak French?
@Charity is Chic
Take my advice, don’t say anything about Cheyenne or make any valid points. She’ll just ignore them then say that you’re a “Jen-hen” and YOU can’t move on.
Then you’ll go back and forth and when you have a really good response back calling HER out, your comment is not accepted.
” looking very professional “?
She looks like a greasy-haired, make-up-less, 1970s-early ’80s catalogue model.
I have never heard the J-P kids described as “polite and well-mannered”, Cheyenne, please provide a link.
Too many uncontrolled kids with zero limits, their “family” will be no more by the time the oldest is ten, and those offspring will have more therapist hours logged than Carrie Fisher, Danny Bonaduce and Britney Spears combined.
Laura: So true. Cheyenne’s more obsessed with Jennifer Aniston than any of the dissenters she goes after. I personally couldn’t care less about all this “triangle” nonsense, I just come here to watch the crazies get all worked up.
I totally buy Angelina living in filth, even with help available. She just doesn’t seem like the tidy type and I bet she can’t cook or do anything responsible adults do. Her skank factor is high up there. That dress is a nightmare even in a Vampire/Goth film. She really doesn’t have it all, including an education and a good family background. I can’t hate her still.
I don’t really have an opinion on this story, but I’d like to join this Boo-hoo sisterhood tribe I keep hearing about. They sound like more fun than some poster who memorizes every brange clan’s conversation, moment, appearance and sound like they can even read their thoughts and emotions.
DD – Ok to enter the club u need to scream to the ocean, being DUMB as F.U.C.K in relationships date Douche guys at least 3 times even if he say to the world that he is breaking up with u or be more interest in tweeter or write a song about the relationship, u will also need say the same thing over and over in interviews and talk about ur ex gorgeous husband and his new gorgeous woman and their gorgeous kids at least for 3 or 5 years … Meanwhile u have to date mans that don’t want nothing serious with u one after other in the same time that u are talking about the gorgeous family that u ex have, them u finally stop talk about him and his lover/family and start being a poor girl next door that is a bomb at working. So there it is this are the requirements to be part of the Boo-hoo sisterhood tribe. Enjoy and congratulations on ur DUMB choosing i don’t have any doubt that u will fit perfectly in the tribe.
Staying up late eating cheese and crackers for dinner, and sleeping in my parent’s room watchign T.V.? That sounds like my dreams when I was those kids’ age.
They’re all brats, Ma and Pa included.
Please … someone must know …. How can the tabloids continually get away with printing blatant lies, unsubstantiated stories with invalid sources, and ridiculous headlines that contradict the (same tabloid’s) headlines printed the week before. I can’t stand it. Why are there not immediate and continual lawsuits???
Wait now, so what club do I belong to thinking both Jolie and Aniston are big jack-o-latern horsefaced, uneducated losers with Pitt not having a self-identity? Name my club!
Who cares? We all will in a couple of years, when they grow up & turn into LiLo’s! Kids need rules.
I’ve heard countless times that maddox at least, is a total brat. I’ve even heard other celebs say it, so its not just a gossip mag thing… I’m inclined to believe they’re brats, dunno about the paint thing though.
And if all they eat is junk, doesn’t mean they’d be fat. You only get fat if you sit on your butt all day. if you’re running around however…
I think Angelina needs a wardrobe intervention. That dress is fuuugly and she wears it (or some other version of a strapless, floor length Vampira dress) all the time. And I see now she’s added some kind of spiderweb leggings. Pretty.
I’m sure their kids are just normal kids who have absentee parents a lot of the time. How do you have time to spend alone with each kid when you’ve got 6 kids? And why are their kids wearing crap clothes? Jeez, with Brad and his black socks and crapola hat, Angie in her creepy black dress and those kids looking dirty, they pretty much look like they frequent KMart or something.
WTF is up with Brad marrying people who only dress in black? (yeah, I know Jen wears jeans and stuff, but generally on the red carpet or events, she wears only black).
She always seems to be wearing the same thing because everything she wears is black. I’d love to see her wearing red or something in print.
Really Annabelle? link please, because I’d love to hear which celebrities you heard called this child a brat.
@TwinkleToes- We are obviously in the same club, but like you, I don’t have the name of it either.
The kids are rude and stupid!
Maddox still does not go to school.
Annabelle,You heard what other celebs say that Maddox is a brat? Elvis? Tupac? Those are called hallucinations dear, that’s a sign of mental illness.Provide the qoutes from the celebs please As for the NE story I don’t even like Jen and I still feel the story is BS.I have noticed that the JP’s haven’t been featured as much on the tabs so I guess they the lies aren’t selling as well as they use to. They used to be the main story on 3-4 tabs almost every week, this week they are only on Lies and Style and even Outatouch Weekly gave them a break.
Angie HAS to wear that long dress to hide her disgusting insect legs. It’s hard to be a junkie and keep weight on, even if you do feed your family absolute crap for food.
I believe every word that I read about their children being out of control. No stability, no routine, no friends, no security (except that kind that will punch a journalist in the throat). Better get all the attention you can before mommy gets a shiny new toy!
LOL Twinkle Toes, I think that’s the “NOT A FAN, b/c I’m SANE club.”
Both sides of the triangle are a little touched. I mean still holding grudges over a divorce that’s 5 yrs old? It’s not your divorce–get over it. I’m not a fan of these people–they all strike me as fame addicts. So over all 3–
Oh no a drunken phone call. How long until she is accused like Brad for having a drinking problem? It is well documented she likes margaritas… Soon people will be writing about Brad and Jen going to the same AA meetings and rekindling their old flame while leaning on each other for support.
The intimate stories they share in the meetings will lead to them both revealing their feelings for one another and he will beg Jen to take him back (according to anonymous sources of course). He will admit his “problems” with Angie, living is a separate part of the house, she won’t marry him, and the stress of all the kids so fast drove him to drinking. They both will reminisce about their stress free joyous marriage and being Hollywood’s golden couple. Ha ha ;o)
Another mag claimed that Angie always taking the girls out and Brad always taking the boys out wasn’t a gender thing it was just because it was too difficult to control all of them at once. Their “evidence” was on Angelina’s last trip a woman’s five kids were acting out and the mother was embarrassed. Angie told her “Don’t worry. My kids are even naughtier.” That is irrefutable evidence. *wink*
Can’t wait for my ankle to heal so I am busy enough to not be up to the minute on this nonsense!
Twinkle Toes – I’s like to hear more too!
IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN THE ANSWER TO SELA’S QUESTION:
The magazines don’t get sued because:
– Each magazine has teams of lawyers that approve the stories and make sure the appropriate disclaimers are in there.
– They hide behind the sources, saying it has been confirmed and it is not their fault if sources are lying and if the do the due diligence fact checks (which they don’t look very hard at) then they are not responsible.
– Sources hide behind the press shield laws, so they don’t have to testify about any untruthful statements or jeopardize friendships or their career by revealing their identity.
– They twist the celebrity’s own words and photos of them to out of context that seem to support the story and applying misleading captions and “body language experts.” Poor integrity and bad journalistic integrity but not illegal.
– The standards of slander and defamation of character are higher since they are considered public figures. The average private citizen could sue over some of the information that celebrities cannot.
– Publication of private facts (when the statements are proven to be truthful but harmful in someway) laws don’t apply to them.
– The celebrities would have to testify in open court and reveal possibly damaging and embarrassing information to refute these claims – which would make it worse for than ignoring or denying the rumors.
– There are so many stories that come out and law suits can take a while all they would be doing is suing and testifying.
For those reasons they only go after photos that violate their privacy or are inappropriate (like the George Clooney picture of the teenager.) Plus they are:
– Easy to prove and applies equally to everyone.
– They don’t have to reveal any private information, other then “yes, I was sunbathing topless in my own private back yard” a la Cathrine Zeta Jones or “yes, a friend of the family came over with their daughter and she changed clothes in my house. I was not in the room.”
– Sometimes they don’t even have to go to court at all.
– Damages (amount of money the magazine has to pay) can be substantial.
– Discourages them from trying something like that again, knowing that the celeb has sued before.
– They almost always win.
Hopefully the list form makes it easier to read. In paragraph form it was long. I wasn’t trying to talk down to anyone – I just know their are readers from other countries and even here that do not fully understand the American court system. That is why I explained terms you may already be familiar with.
just because u are rich and famous doesn’t mean u are suitable parents…i kno they have turned these kids lives around but just imagine what kind of people they will grow up to be
Those long black dresses look awful on her. Why oh why does it continue?
As much as I hate the Sainted Saints, I truly doubt this story, if this was true those kids would be running amok period, and hyper as hell 24/7, when they the kids are always behaving when in front of the camera.
May God continue to bless the Jolie-Pitts and others who raise families and give their time to the forgotten people of this world.
It really funny how people on here talk about the “Brangeloonies”, and about how they are “tired” or have “enough” of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
Yet first, only in this thread there are a way much more comments from those people than from the supposed Brangeloonies. My conclusion: not tired enough of them? Can’t give up?
And then the comments seem to deny a simple boohoo sisterhood, but yet all I read is whinning about Angie’s dresses, Angie’s kids. Personally, as a Brangelina fan I really don’t care about Chinnifer Maniston’s dresses for example, and I won’t waste my time boohooing about her stuff because she just doesn’t get into me. So another conclusion: boohoo sisterhood is all about boohoo sisterhood, and again not tired enough, can’t give up on Angelina? After all, she is fascinating. Indeed.
@Lennie
Go to any “Chinnifer” story on this site. You’ll see the exact same thing. Because instead of the “Sisterhood,” you’ll see Brangelunatics “whining” about the very same inane things.
Works both ways.
After all, she is fascinating. Indeed.
OK, the hypocracy on this board is ridiculous. Every comment on Suri Cruise is about what a brat she must be and yet none of you brangeloonies can believe that these kids are brats. Atleast Katie keeps Suri clean. Ugh, Angelina, get a new dress already! She must smell.
Since she is the highest paid actress in the world according to the Hollywood Reporter.I’m sure she bought several copies of the same dress or she can get one of the dozens of people on her staff(nannies,assistants, housekeepers, chefs etc) to wash the dress after she wears it.OK Haters. For one day go comment on a celeb that you like and see how that positive energy transfers to your personal life. Negativity attracts negativity . Peace!
I think the girl from africa she adopted is seriously ugly. To bad they can’t make a return like take her back to the pound DUH. Well any way Madonna new daughter top her in ugly they got to be the uglyist kids I ever seen, why would anyone adopt ugly children, talk about how jealous they will be. Her adopted boys are just a little below average even their own kids well I have seen much better, like how beautiful Jennifer Aniston kids would of been if she had any. I just don’t get ugly with them,it is not about race they are just not good looking children.