Angelina Jolie Watch

Note: I’m a little late on this story due to illness.

There’s still much drama surrounding the Angelina Jolie fake delivery story. According to the AP, Entertainment Tonight knew the story was fake before it aired on their show. Angelina’s real assistant, Holly Goline, told the media source that she had not sent them emails about the birth after it was printed on the ET’s website.

Shortly after the story was posted but several hours before the broadcast aired, Goline told “Entertainment Tonight” that she was not the person with whom they had been corresponding, a person with direct knowledge of the conversation told The Associated Press. That account was confirmed by another person close to Jolie.

The story started with and ET Producer named Sharlette Hambrick who told the show that “she had obtained a BlackBerry e-mail address for Goline from a contact at CNN, according to the executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.”

According to the show, they didn’t learn of the impostor until they received a letter from Jolie’s attorney three days after the show aired. A statement for the show read in part:

“We takes this very seriously and is, of course, concerned that the show may have been victimized by someone allegedly posing as a member of Ms. Jolie’s team. We are actively investigating the matter and are reaching out to law enforcement agencies.”

All this back and forth was supposed to have taken place via Holly’s Blackberry email. A source close the family says that Holly has never had a Blackberry account even though she was spotted with a Blackberry at Cannes. (Do you have to have a Blackberry account to use your Blackberry? I have no idea how it works. I assume you can just use any ole email account as long as you are connected at to the web.)

It’s all very confusing but it looks like ET didn’t fact check like they should have.

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Entertainment Tonight is refusing to retract their Angelina birth story. Last Friday, ET posted a story indicating that Angelina had given birth to the twins earlier in the week. Later that same day, People magazine spoke with a family rep who denied that Angelina had given birth. Fans, I among them, expected ET to retract the story and was suprised that a usually reliable source had gotten things so wrong.

Seems like ET doesn’t think it got things wrong.

The plot thickens. Yesterday, Angelina’s attorney’s alerted news organizations that someone had been posing as her assistant Holly. The implication being that this person was the one who actually sent ET the email about the alleged birth.

The show initiated its own contact with Goline after hearing rumors the babies had been born in France, said the executive. The person who made the contact was an “ET” producer who had worked with Goline while at CNN and kept Goline’s e-mail address, the executive said. The executive forwarded an e-mail exchange that appeared to support this version of events.

In the e-mails, Goline — or the impostor — said she was there for the deliveries and everyone was doing well. Pressed by “ET” for more information, the person said she could say no more.

After all the hullabaloo ET removed the story from it’s website but hasn’t issued a full retraction.

“Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are friends of ‘Entertainment Tonight.’ We have spent years cultivating that friendship, working with them side by side on many of their projects,” Linda Bell Blue, executive producer for Entertainment Tonight and The Insider, said yesterday. “We wish them and their children well. We are waiting to see how this story plays out.”

I’m of the mind the kids haven’t made it here yet. There have been insistent rumors accompanied by legitimate sounding names but there have been no James Haven or Jane Pitt sightings in France. If the babies had come last week wouldn’t we see other family members by now? What do you guys think? Has Angelina had the babies?

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More snippets from Angelina’s July Vanity Fair interview have been released. Check out the the groovy green wig.  The photos were taken on January 31 before Angie was showing.

On naming their youngest Shiloh:

“It’s a biblical name,�? she told me, “but we didn’t name her for that. It was a name my parents almost named their first child—there was a miscarriage: Shiloh Baptist. Because my father had been shooting in Georgia and that was the most southern name [my parents] could come up with. It’s a name I always liked. I used to go under it in hotels: Shiloh Baptist. I’d gone under it when [Brad] called hotel rooms where I was staying.

On how how she’s exposing her children to different religions:

“[My mother] was Catholic but also a child of the 60s. She stopped going to confession at one point because she was having sex before marriage. To me, she represented what religion should be. She never preached. If things didn’t make sense to her, she never just accepted it. I had Communion, but she never forced me to go to church. Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It’s a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That’s how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We’ll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We’ll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We’ll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.�?

On Brad Pitt coming into her life unexpectedly:

“After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then I met Brad, everything I wasn’t looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish for, you know? I don’t see him as an actor. I see him very much as a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in the movies.”

You can read the entire interview  HERE.

Also check out snaps of Brad and Maddox hanging out at the Grand Prix in Italy.  Obviously those babies haven’t been born because Brad wouldn’t be away from his family.

We didn’t get babies today but we did get a fantabulous Vanity Fair interview. In the interview she talks shares a great deal.

On Brad finding her sexy while she’s pregnant:

“I’m fortunate. I think some women have a different experience depending on their partner. I think that affects it. I happen to be with somebody who finds pregnancy very sexy. So that makes me feel very sexy.”

Oh her birth experience with Shiloh:

“We were in this little hospital in Africa when Shi was born. I don’t think there was anybody else in the hospital. It was just a little cottage, the three of us. It ended up being the greatest thing…. I had a C-section and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.”

On their nanny situation:

“We don’t ever have anybody spend the night. We may have to adjust that when the next one comes. But we do have ladies that work with us, and they’re also from different cultures and back-grounds. One lady’s a Vietnamese teacher—wonderful. One is of Congolese descent from Bel-gium. Another is from the States and is really creative and does art programs”

On being parents who are also artist:

“Artists raise their kids differently,�? she said. “We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It’s what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.�?

It sounds like the kids are being well taken care of(like I had any doubt) and are having a wonderful childhood.  I can’t wait to read the issue in it’s enirity

Update: People has the the rumors aren’t true. Shucks ET is usually a very reliable source.
A rep for Angie says, “Angelina has not given birth. She is fine, enjoying her home and her family in France,”

Breaking news! According to ET, Angelina has given birth to the twins. No word on weight or sex of the babies. Congratulation to Angie and Brad. Can’t wait to see the new additions to the family. Rumors have been swirling that Angelina was put on bed rest. If that was true, it wasn’t for long.

I posted yesterday that Angelina and Brad bought a sprawling French estate. According to People, the couple actually has only signed a three year lease.

The couple, who have four children and two more on the way, signed a three-year lease on the 880-acre estate called Chateau Miraval, where neighbors will include Johnny Depp and David and Victoria Beckham, according to the French newspaper Nice Matin.

Whatever the case, congrats on the beautiful secluded property.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have finally made permanent move to France. The couple recently purchased a 1,000-acre, $60 million estate in the south of France. The property has more than 35 bedrooms, a vineyard, moat and forest. The property is called Chateau Miraval and is situated in a small village called Brignol near Aix-en-Provence.

An insider says, “Brad and Angelina are thrilled, they love the place and have already been furniture shopping to fill the place as it’s massive…The whole family can’t wait to move in.”

The very dense forest will afford the family a great deal of privacy. “No one will ever be able to get pictures of them relaxing at home, it’s just impossible.”

Angie and Brad are expected to move in within the next three months.

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This is a longer look at the Changeling. I cannot wait until this hits theaters. According to IMBD, the movie will debut in US theaters on November 7th. That date sound a long way out to me. Cannes debuts usually premier in theaters in in the summer or(at the latest) the early fall. More terrific reviews are pouring in for Angelina.

From the UK’s Independent:

“Thanks to her media profile, Jolie cuts such an absurd figure it is easy to forget how accomplished she can be. This is a performance of subtlety and power.” (Not sure how I feel about the absurd part. The writer seems to equate her personality with her media persona. Still it’s a good review) .

We’ve got more from Angelina and Brad’s dinner date the other night. I love this video. It shows Brad and Angie being extra loving and Brad’s jokingly shooing the paps away.

We knew that Angelina and Brad dined with Clinton Eastwood last night. We’ve also learned that Mick Jagger at six other people joined the power couple. The party of eight dined at Tetou Restaurant in Golfe-Juan, France on Monday evening. Tetou is a trendy spot, know for it’s celeb clientele and fabulous bouillabaisse.

Photo Sources: Just Jared and The Daily Mail

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt looked gorgeous as they left their Cannes hotel to attend dinner with Clint Eastwood. Angelina’s strapless, multi-colored dress is by Nicole Miller and her bag is Bally.

The couple is staying at Eden Roc Hotel during the festival. The hotel dates back to 1863 and is THE place for celebs during Cannes. Hotel amenities  include a cliff top swimming pool, four star French restaurant, in house spa and private pier. I wonder if the family took Paul Allen’s yatch to the property?

Angelina and Clint’s film The Changeling debuts tomorrow.

Last week the Today show “scooped” Angelina’s due date. Other sources insist that she’s actually due much sooner. I’m not sure what the truth but I seriously doubt that she’s due in August. When do you guys think Angelina will have the babies?

Photos Source:  In Cast You Didn’t Know 

Angelina, Brad, Maddox and Shiloh were spotted today shopping in Cannes at the trendy Bonpoint children’s boutique. The family bought white, white and more white for the twins in sizes ranging from 1-3 months. There’s lot of speculation on the sex of the babies. According to Fox News, Angelina confirmed that she’s having fraternal twins.

Fox News’ Roger Friedman says that Angelina told him that there was a line on the sonagram that indicated the her babies were not perfect copies of one another. Neither Brad nor Angie have confirmed the sex of the baby. People says that Angie and Brad have no idea what sex the babies are. An employee asked if Angie was expecting boys or girls, she replied, “I don’t know yet – we don’t want to know.”

I suspect that Angie and Brad know the sex of the babies. I’m sure they’d like to keep something private. Lord knows everything in their lives is for public consumption. Click on the pictures to enlarge.

Photo Source: Oh No They Didn’t

Just stunning!

Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Maddox and Pax returned from today’s sail. You can just make out out Pax’s feet behind the guy in the brown pants. Maddox is getting so tall. He won’t be able to swing between mom and dad much longer. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge images.

Photo Source: Celebrity Baby Scoop

Angie, Brad, Maddox and Pax were in Grasse, France yesterday for a routine sonogram. Apparently they want the kids to feel included as the family grows.

“Angie was due for a scan and they thought it would be cool to do it on Mother’s Day and take Maddox and Pax along to see the twins for themselves on the sonogram machine,” a source told E! News.

“Brad and Angelina are very big on explaining things in a very simple way to their kids and they want the kids to feel included in the process of her pregnancy. Having them see the babies for themselves was a really exciting day out for them all.”

The family grabbed some chow from a local Mickey D’s and headed back home. Today Brad, Pax and Maddox are in Monaco with the family lawyer. Perhaps they’ve settled on a house.

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Photo Source: Gossip Girls

Photo Source: Just Jared