ET Sticks By Angelina Jolie Birth Story?
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?
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Brad’s parents are already in Provence.
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Brad would not have been with Mad in Italy if the twins had been born. Mostly because a preemie birth would have been devastating to the whole family. I really HATE the media who report this sort of stuff. And it is unbelievable that they refuse to print retractions. This just highlights the fact that celebrity magazines do not care about truth. Boo Yah idiots.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:29 pm
AJP, How do you know Brad’s parents are there?