There are a few pieces of Angelina Jolie news today, and I just thought I’d put them all in one sketchy post. First up – Britain’s Sun newspaper is running a big story called “Angelina Jolie’s Lolita Secret”. The report consists of what they think will go into Andrew Morton’s biography of Angelina. Unfortunately, this rumor was already promoted by Star Magazine back in May – there really is nothing new. The claim is that a very young (like, 15-year-old) Angelina “seduced” her mother’s boyfriend. Unfortunately for both the original report and this one from The Sun, if it’s true, it’s statutory rape, not “seduction”.
Next up: does Angelina bake? I don’t have an image of her as a baker. Or as any kind of cooker, griller, or fryer. But Sandra Lee, hostess of the Food Network’s “Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee” thinks Angelina is a baker. Sort of. While promoting her show, Sandra Lee told People Magazine that one of Angelina’s friends told her that Angelina used one of Sandra’s recipes for a birthday cake. Right. As fans of Sandra’s show know (and I count myself among them), Sandra gets drunk a lot. She can’t even make herself breakfast without pouring ten jiggers of bourbon into some kind of half-assed breakfast cocktail (“The breakfast bourbon cocktail,” Sandra might say. “Ten shots of Bourbon for every one splash of maple syrup!”). So just read this with the knowledge that Sandra was most likely totally drunk:
She’s a working mom – one who juggles six kids, a movie career and philanthropy – but Angelina Jolie still found time to whip up a sweet treat for son Maddox’s birthday in August, thanks to TV chef Sandra Lee.
“I was really surprised when her friend let me know she made my No Bake birthday cake,” says Lee, whose show hit Food Network show, Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee, provides viewers with no-fuss recipes prepared in minutes. “She’s a Semi-Homemade mommy just like the rest of us!”
The cake, which Lee says is “a beautiful display that anyone can do in five minutes,” starts with a store-bought white sheet cake, topped with a plain white round cake and then surrounded by cupcakes and pre-decorated cookies. “What’s great is that you get to personalize that beautiful display,” says Lee.
“She’s a very busy, overextended mother,” Lee, 43, tells PEOPLE. “I’m very proud not just that she made my cake but that someone of her stature isn’t delegating these [tasks], like her children’s birthday, to other people. I’m glad she loves the show and that the kids apparently also watch it too.”
[From People]
Bless her drunk heart. Sandra Lee is one of my favorites, along with Giada deLaurentis and Ina Garten. But my absolute favorite is Paula Deen. Watching her show is like food pr0n. Mmm… butter.
My last piece of Angelina news is actually more about Slumdog Millionaire beauty Freida Pinto. When Pinto was interviewed recently, she talked about how cool Angelina was when they met during the awards season. Freida said: “I think she’s a lovely person who is there for people who are just starting off, for starters like me. She said, ‘Just enjoy this because you never know if it’s going to happen again.’ She’s a lovely lady. I don’t know what else she said to me, but I wanted to go up to her and say, ‘Adopt me!'” Hm… if I was Angelina, I would try to adopt Dev Patel (swoon!) before Freida, but whatever. I’m sure Angelina was considering adopting at least one of those Slumdog child actors.
Sandra Lee is shown at the Daytime Emmy Awards on 8/30/09. Angelina Jolie is shown at the Inglourious Basterds premiere in LA on 8/10/09 Photo Credit: PRPhotos
Well, I don’t find the story about Angelina using one of Lee’s ideas for a cake so ridiculous. Just because she is a celebrity doesn’t mean that she maybe doesn’t want to do something a little creative and fun for her kids. It sounds like a birthday cake that the other kids could help with too, so what is so “drunken” about her saying that ? It isn’t like she said she made a Sylvia Weinstock type cake.
LOL!!!! That cake sounds absurd!!
….and intriguing.
I never worried about the Jolie Pitt children until now. If they’re eating Sondra Lee recipes, they really are having a horrible childhood.
I hope to God she is a drunk. She’d be a frig of a lot more interesting.
Ugh. Sandra Lee’s food is so gross. Like, she’s so OBVIOUSLY wasted coming up with 90% of the crap on that show.
LOL! As Angelina herself would probably be the first to admit, she is no kind of cook, period.
It’s hardly considered “cooking” if you buy already made cakes and put cupcakes around it. So I am thinking Angie is capable of doing that much.
ITA, the concept sounds ridic, but if you have a bunch of rug rats it sounds like it could be something they can decorate together, as a family.
Also, my mom has a dress like Sandra’s, in a different color, and from the 1960’s!
Just as an aside…. I saw GIA this weekend. Angelina was quite the fireball. I wonder how much was acting and the rest was just her craziness. But I have to admit I couldn’t take my eyes off of her for the entire movie. She’s captivating even when playing a washed up heroin addict.
I truly doubt that a young Jolie “seduced” her mom’s boyfriend… I think she loved her Mom way too much to hurt her in such a way.
Huh. I guess I’ll have to watch Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee. Honestly, until just now, I thought it was cooking with SARAH Lee and so never watched it (it kind of makes sense…”semi” homemade cooking / Sarah Lee…never mind.)
I love Angie but I sometimes think that the jealous haters will never leave her alone. I love she and Brad and their family but Brad has brought some really hateful women out there trying their best to hurt Angie. I have been really happy how strong she has been and I am even more surprised at how supportive and strong Brad has been for her. I did not see him that way. But I remember a quote from Angie” Brad is more man than any man I have ever known.” I hope their positive karma continues to protect them.
Sandra Lee makes the most disgusting, fat-loaded, preservative rich, cavity-causing disastrous messes.
I highly doubt she even knows who Sandra Lee is. She probably thinks she’s the Olivia Newton John character in Grease. (yes, I know it was Sandra Dee) I certainly can’t see her leafing through drunko’s web pages and picking out that particular recipe to celebrate Maddox’ birthday.
Go to Food.com and look for her recipe for a Kwanzaa cake.
This is the most random article. I highly doubt Angelina can cook, especially baking.
Oh, because Angie is so above it??
Some people just should not be allowed in the kitchen. My aunt is one of the best women who ever lived, but I have to be honest about her culinary skills — yuck.
I don’t know if she’s “above it” or not. Just sayin’ that Angelina has acknowledged before that she isn’t a good cook (baking is even harder). I think she was quoted as saying the only thing she makes in the kitchen is cereal.
Such food snobs!
I’d hate to hear the remarks towards me if I told y’all that yes, when I bake with my little sister and we don’t have all the time in the world, we get the betty crocker cake mix!
That’s right! And I’m not ashamed to say it. And then we’ll throw in our own little extra goodies and you know, she and I have a BLAST.
Kids don’t care if it’s organic,whole grain, gluten-free, made from scratch.
They just want to know if they can decorate it with gobs of frosting and then lick it all off.
Such food snobs. Not all of us have the hours and hours to sit around sifting out cake flour and mixing that with two parts this and two parts that and a pinch of this. Some of us want to do something fun with the youngin’s and you know, letting them collect the eggs and collect the measuring cups, that’s what kids care about. Well, that and like I said, the frosting.
And so if AJ IS doing something like that, big frickin’ deal. You guys would all throw a tizzy if she hired someone else to bake a cake for her kids and you throw a fit if she does it with her kids.
As a side note, I <3 Paula Deen the best too. Although, if anyone’s gonna cause a heart attack, it’s this woman. Not Sandra Lee and her semi-homemade cheats.
Wait, wait, what’s this – Angelina has six children? I had no idea!
BORING!! It would be news if Angelina actually ate the cake. I liked her better when she wasn’t so skinny. It’s not attractive. She looks older than 33, for sure.
Sass a frass- It is a No-Bake cake. You buy the cakes at the grocery store, add a few cupcakes, also bought at the store to the cake, then add cookies, and candies to it. It isn’t rocket science and I think that is the point, that this was her way of trying something that she kind of did herself, without having to actually bake it.
She doesn’t eat because Brad likes his women skinny!!!! Just ask Gwennie and Jennie!
The story about the cake was mentioned in few different magazines with all the details, so I’m am tempted to believe it and maybe Sandra Lee recently found out? I looked the article over standing in line not for Angie but to find out what the hell a no bake cakes, although I guess there are (delicious) no beak cookies. It was made the same “recipe.” I think it was for Shiloh. And they said the kids picked out the decorated shaped cookies and put the cookies and the candles on however they wanted to (cute but may not be true)
They both admit she can’t cook, the kids were involved in decorating the cake for their sister making it more personal. Plus if she went to a bakery they might have sold pictures or told stories to promote their business. So maybe she didn’t bake the cake but she was involved instead of having the whole thing done for her and was private.
Unlike the recent super dad who didn’t do anything and misspelled on of their names, probably didn’t paid for it. And posed with it for pictures. I think that is much worse the Angelina not baking the cake herself.
Why to you thing Angelina is a drunk? Because she got advice from a show that features the host drinking?
The booze is my favorite part of that show:)
Whoa Annie, cool your jets there; it’s a “no bake” cake, i.e bought cakes with a metric f*ck-ton of canned icing with extra sugar and more colouring than a paint factory chucked on. And it’s ‘super super simple’ and “fancy dancy”. Apparently. But must be eaten on a table with random chairs and plastic flowers chucked on it, sprayed with glitter and with ratty ould fabric nailed on for a “super-duper elegant” experience.
I’ve used cake mixes myself and don’t think they’re that much quicker than from scratch, especially as you have to measure out liquids anyway and you really should sift them as they settle in the packet – plus I find the damn things either stick like the devil to the tin or crumble like crazy. I find sifting the flour into the weighing scale bowl saves “hours and hours” of time 😉
Plus Sandra Lee’s “rrrrussssipies” don’t save you that much time and cost a fortune and rely solely on lots and lots of added sugar. And let’s not get me started on her canned icing obsession. Yes it’s handy – but this hoor even sticks it on ice-cream!!!
I’m a true and true pretentious food snob. Which is fine by me because it means I’m never tricked into thinking the “Kwanzaa cake” to be anything other than revolting and Crazy Granny Lorraine’s Iced cake tins wasteful and idiotic. I’ll post the video links to these disasters in my next post
Here’s the rrrrussssssipie for the “No Bake Cake”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cpd6rHIfyA
apparently it’s a beautiful cake, which went from being $40 to being priceless. And it’s made (NOT assembled) with love. Honest.
Apparently Crazy Granny Lorraine was a great cook “as well”
http://www.youtube.com/user/CesCooking#p/u/86/WVjj_I8b6a0
The waste!!!! No “melk” “marscapohn” was used. For which I am “apprushutive” But at least it has “eggstrak”
This is what I meant by the chair comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs4zGujcSaA&feature=related
I mean, what sort of self-respecting drunk can’t even get the name of a bellini right?
And the “Kwaanza Cake”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we2iWTJqo98&feature=related
I defy not to laugh like a drain and feel extremely nauseous at the same time.
Now I do enjoy watching Sandra Lee when I can, because it’s pure car-crash telly. And occassionally she hits upon an actual rrrusssipie which could work in real life, so long as you left out half the sugar and unnecessary lard.
I guess I’m a terrible mother who usually just picks up a decorated cake for my kids birthdays. There’s mothers who order cakes for 200 dollars and bring in the circus. That type of bs reminds me of that rediculous show sweet 16. I’m happy we will never see that with the JP children, maybe Suri but never JP children.
If being revolted by Sandra Lee’s horrific Kwanzaa cake means being a food snob, sign me up. I don’t think I’ve ever been so appalled by food.
That said, I kind of love the idea of Angelina Jolie having a few drinks and puttering around in the kitchen. It amuses me, and I’m willing to bet that she would produce something edible, which is more than I can say for poor Sandra.
damn, why does she look so old for 43? I have 43 year old friends and they don’t look nearly that bad… and they’re not even rich and can afford plastic surgery… actually, it looks like that might be the problem… celebrities are their own worst enenmies it seems :/
lol…. the kwanza cake had me in stiches… the icing, well… it was the icing on the cake… and when she stuck the giant dinner candles in it, I was done for… HAHAHAHAHAHA
You know, I can’t fault Angie for coming across an interesting idea for a kid cake that wouldn’t take a lot of effort but the kids would enjoy the heck out of it. I get it, she is juggling quite a bit in her household. And I bet it was a big hit and the kids probably knew that mommy “made” it (with love, anyway). So no harm, no foul.
I can believe she did the cake.
What I can’t believe is that this broad has a TV show centered around that disgusting tripe she tries to pass of as food.
I cook from scratch and am proud of it. I don’t expect everyone to enjoy cooking like I do but this is an insult to non-cooks. The Jolie cake is not so bad depending and children would like it but that Kwaanza cake is a giant hurl fest. When she put those monstrosity candles on it I was done for.
More BS from the liars. Both a liars and irresponsible persons because when you are in charge of so many kids, when you have to feed, to vest, to educate and to provide a healthy place to live for so many kids (its almost like a class in a school), you have to stop, think, and do whatever you can to make these kids grow with a profound sense of respect to the rules that govern the relationship with other persons/kids, with a profound sense of what is right or wrong, and know how to behave themselves. It’s very difficult to imagine a life like that with so many trips around the world, no place to call home, no country to say this is where I live, where I will grow, where I will have my heart in my adult life. These parameters are necessary to anyone. I don’t know how the adoption institutions allow such kind of crazy couple to adopt more kids.
i guess i’m the only one who doesn’t think its so far fetched to think that aj seduced her mom’s bf. just because she was underage doesn’t mean she can’t seduce. and its not like she doesn’t have a history of seducing “unavailable” men (i.e. billy bob thorton = engaged, brad pitt = married). i don’t think its something she’d be proud of or ever admit to, but i don’t really put it past her. its well known she was a wild child… she hasn’t always been st. angelina.
Kaiser_ass always with the b/s. Angie didnt even live with her mother at 16.
I know it’s beside the point, but…popk, do you have to live with your mom in order to shack up with her boyfriend??? And good for her if she made the cake. It actually seems plausible that she would do so. She can’t cook to save her life, but she loves her kids and probably wanted to “make” something. Oh well.