Brad and Maddox at a Moto GP race in Italy on 6/3/08. Credit: Bauergriffin
Yesterday, Angelina Jolie was photographed having a girls’ day out in New York with her beautiful blanket-toting daughters Shiloh and Zahara. Within hours, Brad was photographed having a boys’ day out in Las Vegas.
Oh my God, they’re in different cities – they must be splitting! Right? Probably not. They are probably just doing separate little mini-vacations with the kids because they both have different things to do in different cities for a few days. At least, that’s just my take. People has more:
Just days before the Academy Awards, Best Actor nominee Brad Pitt enjoyed a boys’ getaway to Las Vegas – with his sons Maddox and Pax.
The guys of the Jolie-Pitt clan (minus 7-month old Knox), were spotted at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Wednesday evening.
The boys’ trip comes as Angelina Jolie is spending time with the girls of the family in New York. Jolie was spotted with daughters, Zahara, 4, and Shiloh, 2, shopping at one of their favorite spots in the Big Apple – Lee’s Art Shop – on Wednesday.
The day before, Jolie, who is scheduled to begin filming the movie SALT next month, began prep work, looking at costumes and visiting an apartment building that will serve as a production location.
Jolie and Pitt are expected to reunite in time to attend the Oscars this Sunday in Los Angeles. Pitt is up for Best Actor for his role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Jolie is nominated for Best Actress for The Changeling.
From People Magazine
CB thinks that next week’s tabloid covers are going to filled with stories about an impending split with Brangelina, but I’m not so sure. With yesterday’s announcement that John Mayer will be Jennifer Aniston’s Oscar date, I think the tabloid covers will be filled with stuff like “Showdown at the Oscars!” and “Jennifer finally tells Angie: You’re UNCOOL!”
All of the Brangelina -Aniston/Mayer drama really has me thinking. The only ones who really benefit from it (this week) are the Oscar producers and the people doing the Oscar red carpet. Ten bucks says that whenever Aniston comes out to present her award, the Oscar producers have a cameraman shove his lens in Angelina and Brad’s faces, and there will probably be several cutaways for Oscar viewers at home. It might be a classy way to diffuse the situation and deny the Oscar producers their money shot (money shot = Angelina shooting Aniston a bitchface) by having the Brange simply leave the auditorium for Aniston’s presentation – they go get a drink for ten minutes. But then there will still be the Oscar party drama – there’s no way to avoid that. Perhaps that’s what Brad and Angie are doing on their separate vacations – just trying to relax before all of the Oscar drama.
Here are photos of Angelina Jolie taken in NY today as she arrives at a rehearsal for Salt. Credit: SplashNewsOnline
You know when, say, your best friend has a birthday party and also invites your ex, who you may not have feelings for anymore but everyone around you makes a big deal to the point that you don’t even enjoy the night anymore. That’s what this situation is like, for all three of them. Sucky. Totally juicy though for the outside parties though.
That Vegas trip sounded like so much fun!
Or I’m sure the pre- Oscar Red Carpet Fashion show interviewers will call upon Angelina to discuss her designer and then hope Jennifer is walking by and call her in to. Making it totally awkward.
On another note, their little mini-vaca’s looked cute!
I think Jen is totally over this and has been for a long time!! I think it’s time for the blogs, media and rag mags to get over it too!!
I think it’s a shame the Oscars have turned into the cover of Star magazine. The story should be about all of the nominees, who I doubt will appreciate an EX sitcom star trying to steal their thunder just to get back at her ex and his mate. This just makes the ex look even more pathetic, IMO. Hope it’s not true but I’m sure it is. BP & AJ should not go, what is in it for them to let the producers use their personal life for ratings. P.S. Anyone want to bet there’s a press release Saturday stating that JA is pregnant?
I think these people’s pr need to pre-arrange an over the top gracious greeting of all four (mayer will be there so i’m counting him too) on the red carpet. Hey Jen, Hey Angie style hugs and smiles. That would shut down a lot of the dramz and be so boring that people MIGHT quit talking about it.
Pre Oscar appearances across state lines.
I’m just waiting for the imagined “diss” in JA’s speech, or *gasp* a REAL diss (couched inside a self deprecating joke of course, and with a clumsy lead in to the award topic…) I really hope she has some good PR support because that would backfire in a huge way!
Best scenario for all involved: JA’s just professional and honors the people she’s there to honor without making about herself, even for a laugh.
Vale!
I’ve TOTALLY been there.
It happened to me in college. And it was beyond awkward.
Let me lay out the scene for you:
One of my very good friends, having just turned 21, decided it was appropriate to invite everyone he knew. Being an actual bartender, I somehow got finagled into tending the event for him. Which was ok, because I was there for him and if I’m his little bitchslave for the night, it’s what fruit-flies are for! So we’re there with all our friends, and it just so happens that that night, my date was my sister (my bf at the time was at a frat even, please don’t ask why I ever dated frat boys. K? Thanks. :)) Anyway. Of course exbf shows up with newgf and the sad part is? He spends the entire time conveniently at the bar, with me. While she’s off talking to who knows who because none of us knew her that poor girl. And I mean, I’m not encouraging him, I’m totally railing on him (he’s an idiot who deserved to get dumped) and pretty much calling his ass out on it like “Don’t you have a gf to attend to?” It was wicked awkward but as my friend puts it, he got a gift out of it from my ex. So my awkwardness served a purpose. LOL He’s awful.
Yes, we’re still friends.
No. I don’t bother with my ex, though he makes for funny stories.
And yes, I looked banging that night. 🙂
p.s. I’m glad no one has called this a “photo-op exploitation of the kids” yet.
Anna: I have to agree, and I’d go that way if I were doing their PR. It would have to be totally sincere (or at least very well acted) to make it impossible to spin a negative angle out though.
And the thought occurs that Aniston has fared very well (attention wise) by the ‘drama’. She wouldn’t get nearly as much press if it were not going on.. no idea if she wants it this way though.
HMMM I honestly wonder if the 4 of them have gotten together and said, “lets create some hype b4 the Oscars so that everyone is more interested in us!” It would not surprise me if this whole “SHOWDOWN!” crap was planned.
How many nannies do they have?
If each of them have work to do in 2 different cities, then they need at leats one nanny in each city to watch the “older” kids while they work.
Then, there are the twins who need to be fed very often and change diapers, (not to mention to hold them when they cry)and other needs of babies that require closer and more intense care.
I hope the babies have more than one nanny to take care of them. One would be completely exhausted (not that 2 working in 2 shifts would not be).
I guess these kids don’t get any education other than how to pack and see new hotels and board a plane (or a toy store once a year) or do they have 2 flying teachers for each city?
Maddox is the only who is school age anyway – Pax’s birthday is in November, which means he wouldn’t have started school until he was about to turn 6 (the same thing happened to me, b/c my birthday was later than August/September.) So, chances are, they took a vacation from school for a couple of days before they settled in to New York.
This triangle will never, ever end because all the blogs and tabloids will never let it die. Posts about Brad and Angelina and Jennifer Aniston are always among the most popular. And tabloids have even admitted that the covers with them sell the best, and with how much $$$ they are losing, no way they’re giving up their meal ticket.
“Ten bucks says that whenever Aniston comes out to present her award, the Oscar producers have a cameraman shove his lens in Angelina and Brad’s faces, and there will probably be several cutaways for Oscar viewers at home”
Ten bucks, pffft. I’ll go ya fifty Kaiser.
Ok, I hope they kiss and make up at the Oscars. I honestly do. Then, the whole gossip/tabloid world can move on with their sorry lives.
I can just picture them making up now. They’ll say hello, then exchange baby pictures. Brangelina will show pics of the holy twins, and Jen will show pics of John Mayer. It will be SO precious!
Ned, seriously, are you really that concerned about this family that you’ve never met and know nothing about? Or do you just want to say anything that goes against what this couple does. Because if you hate them, you’re putting way to much time into talking about them. Way more than any of there fans.
Hey Ned-How many kids do you have? You seem to have so much child care knowledge. How many of your kids speak French Ned? How many were reading at age 5? It may not be your kind of schooling, but I don’t think you need to worry about the education of the Jolie-Pitt kids. Try another area for criticism, okay Ned? This one is going no where.
Jennifer Aniston could stop all the negative gossip by making a statement that would defuse the whole thing but then she would no longer benefit from riding their coat tails. She’s the one who has kept this triangle alive for 4 years. If she really doesn’t like the attention and negative spin, she could be gracious and let everyone, including herself, off the hook. Instead she plays coy and makes statements that insinuate or are vague. Only she could stop it.
Ned, I keep expecting you to show up in the rabid “I Hate Octuplet Mom With An Insane Fervor” crowd. Why perseverate with Angie?
Ned is amazing in his hatred for them (to be fair he hates others too LOL) and so entertaining. And yes he knows them personally, they did something to Ned and he is getting his revenge LOL The proper authorities have already been notified
…. “Ned”…
PLEH!
Anyway… where is Pax?
Those four kids are adorable!!!!! As are the twins but i just wonder does anyone know if their with Angelina (Im assuming) or Brad? I mean obviously they have at least one nanny which is their choice so what i want to know is do the babies stay with Angie or Brad?
they are fortunate to have holidays whenever they want. lucky kids.
my question: don’t they have people who does their laundry?? they really are not HUGE in the clean department by the look of things. Pitt looks sh*t!
oh ps! I havent seen Mayer ever looking as shoddy as Pitt looks on this pic.
pss. people will always pick on these people ‘cos it makes money! come on, if it wasnt these two, it couldve/wouldve been someone else!