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Remember how Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and the kids all went shopping for gerbils a couple of weeks ago? Remember how everyone freaked out? Like, Brad and Angelina were either the devil incarnate because they were shopping for gerbils of doom, or they were, like, freeing the oppressed gerbils from some ghastly gerbil-slavery or something? It really was that either-or. It was pretty funny. Well, we have a great update on the gerbils of doom story! It seems Brad Pitt got tired of dressing up like Hermione Granger (you know Angelina makes him), and he decided to do something special for the victimized gerbils. This is according to The Sun and here goes: Brad Pitt laid out more than $75,000 on a specially-designed, custom-made, “complex” gerbil run! The Sun refers to it as a “bespoke run” and they describe it as “a maze of tunnels, seesaws and platforms.”
ARCHITECTURE fanatic BRAD PITT has spent £50,000 building a bespoke run - for his children’s gerbils.
The Hollywood heavyweight is fascinated by design and construction and personally oversaw every step of the project at his family’s French estate.
It features a maze of tunnels, seesaws and platforms which makes the rodents the most pampered vermin on the planet.
In 2005 the Inglourious Basterds star had an informal apprenticeship with Frank Gehry - one of the world’s top architects.
Brad helped design a development for the seafront in Hove, East Sussex, but it has not been built.
A source said: “Brad pores over architectural journals like other people pore over newspapers. He had so much fun putting the run together with his kids MADDOX, ZAHARA, SHILOH and PAX.
“It’s incredibly complex and cost a lot but Brad’s more than happy with any activity that can combine his two passions - his kids and architecture.”
[From The Sun]
If this is true, Brad needs a good smack to the head. What kind of fool spends that kind of money on gerbils? Seriously, it’s not like it’s for a horse, or a dog or something. Do gerbils need to be pampered? I’m sure if the gerbils could speak, they would say that they would prefer the money be spent on really great gerbil food. And maybe some gerbil hookers and gerbil blow. Maybe a really good gerbil deep-tissue massage? I also enjoyed the subtle jab at Brad’s architectural stuff - he’s “had an informal apprenticeship with Frank Gehry” but now he’s just jerking off to blueprints for a gerbil run. Someone please show Brad another house he can buy and renovate into oblivion, he desperately needs a new project.
Brad Pitt is shown at the after party for the premiere of The Time Traveler’s Wife in NY on 8/12/09. Credit: Fame Pictures
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Animals, Brad Pitt, Crazy
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30 Responses to “Did Brad Pitt spend $75 K on custom-made racetrack for gerbils of doom?”
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LOL, is this the best, the Sun can do? I bet the Jenretards will believe every word.
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Such an unbelievable story … unless everything is gold-plated or he built a four-room cottage for the gerbils.
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yes it is true !!!!!
everything about aniston in the media is true so this is also true!!!!!
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$75,000.00 could go a long way in feeding those refugees in Iraq, Afghanistan,Cambodia and Dafur. Those same places that Jolie flies to, for those little pesky Photo-ops.
BTW where exactly did all the 14 million dollars go to that they received by exploiting the twins?? I only know about 2 million dollars tops they gave away.
Was the rest used for down payment on a Chateau in France? As they say, Charity begins at home.
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I think Brad’s just creating an elaborate love nest/exercise retreat for his pal Clooney.
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That is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time!
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yeah…um…can’t you just get a Habitrail for like, $100?
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I’m just picturing the gerbils sobbing and calling to eachother, from different and hopelessly lost positions in the maze.
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That is going to be a bear to break down and pack up when they move again.
Maybe they’ll hire a hanny (hamster nanny) for the gerbils who will take care of that when the time comes…
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CB Rawks… lol.
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This is the dumbest story. How on earth can a maze/house for gerbils cost $75,000? Besides Brad and Angelina don’t strike me as people who buy extremely expensive junk. Mansions and private airplanes is one thing but I haven’t heard of them buying frivolous things.
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He said: “There’s real value in the quality of life in France.” Even for the pets?? This is what the could construct with the money he made with his last movie?? Maybe everything else was to pay the pot and drinks! Pitt-potty-head-drunk spent a lot of money with his needs.
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CB Rawls…That was funny!
I pictured the maze as a replica of the “chateau” and one hamster squished all the way in a corner, desperately tappng out morse code to the hamster he left behind at the pet store…
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I’m offended that all the gerbils came from one store. Shouldn’t they have gotten a black gerbil, and a chinese gerbil, and a south american gerbil? What about gerbil diversity, for god’s sake?
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@ CB Rawks fifty grand on a gerbil run sounds absolutely moronic to me. Given that it’s by The Sun I’d say that it’s safe to assume that it’s nonsense. (in this case only Anak
) I liked the dig at his “informal apprenticeship” too. What exactly is that meant to mean? Did he fetch coffee or sharpen their AutoCAD tools or something?
Or maybe his input into the design was “I think we should have more glass into the sea-ward wall” or “Duuuuuuude, steel piloti would be SO FREAKIN’ RAD man!!!!”
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Yay Gerbils!
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It’s hilarious that these two caricatures with their insatiable greed and excess are self-appointed crusaders against world poverty. They’ve become a punchline.
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The article is so Bee Ess …
Nobody, even a crazy person, would do that. -
Love Brad and Angelina! Who comes up with these goofy stories in Sun mag anyhow?
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Tabloid BS as usual , Fact IB has grossed 179 million worldwide, 95 million domestic ,84 million foreign according to boxofficemojo. I gave the source for Firestarter since you accused me of giving inaccurate box office figures For Angie.
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Thanks Kim. I guess. Didn’t think it was that big of a deal, but I guess it is.
Yay Gerbils!
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BULLSHIT!
@cb-rawks, Lol, then one of them takes out a tiny cell-phone and puts in a call to their peeps from that G-Force movie and they get rescued, so it’s all good.
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Dumb story.. sad that some people will and need to beleive it.. They don’t seem like they would do this.. but I guess no matter how dumb the story sound it had to be printed.. I guess a day can’t go by with out a Jolie-Pitt story..
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LOL Y’all are hilarious…
If he really did spend that kind of money, I hope he calls me if ever they want a cat, because I’m the self-appointed Cat Whisperer and can really set them up well.
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“I’m just picturing the gerbils sobbing and calling to eachother, from different and hopelessly lost positions in the maze.” - CB Rawks
Hahahaha
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“I’m sure if the gerbils could speak, they would say that they would prefer the money be spent on really great gerbil food. And maybe some gerbil hookers and gerbil blow.”
LOL - just the visual of gangstah gerbils standing around discussing their preferences makes me laugh
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Sounds like probable gerbilcide to me - you know Maddox is going to incorporate fire in there somewhere, or other psychological torture of sorts.
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lmao, this is funny!
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These stories just keep getting more and more ridiculous.
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