I keep waiting for a week to go by with the tabloids totally ignoring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. You’d think that with the Tiger Woods drama, the Charlie Sheen drama, and all of the other random celebrity stories out there, these cheesy Brangelina stories would fall to the wayside just for a week or two. True, most of the tabloids have been going with the Sheens and the Woods stuff, but Brangelina still made two covers this week – both In Touch Weekly and the National Enquirer are running Brangelina cover stories. The Enquirer is the one I’m itching to read (“Angelina Attacks Brad”) but alas, it isn’t online yet. So we’ll just have to make due with In Touch and one other hilarious story from Star Magazine.
Star Magazine has a story this week about Brad‘s brother Doug, and why Doug came to New York last week to spend time at Dave & Busters with Brad and the kids. According to Star, this wasn‘t some nice, quality family time over the holidays. Oh no. Doug Pitt, it seems, was staging an intervention. The basic story, via Jezebel: “The only reason Brad Pitt’s brother Doug visited him in New York over the holidays was to stage an intervention to get him to leave Angie. Over some beers at Dave & Busters, ‘Brad and Doug had a heart-to-heart… Brad complained about how difficult Angelina can be. Doug said the family would support whatever Brad decides, but if the relationship continues like this, he should leave her.’” Do any of you watch Intervention? Real interventions are a lot more hardcore than two brothers bitching about their significant others. Real interventions usually involve crack pipes, handcuffs, and a judge’s orders.
Now, for the In Touch Weekly cover story. I don’t know who is running In Touch, but that bitch has a hard-on for Brangelina, big time. I really don’t know how IT can keep selling magazine when every week it’s the same made-up crap about “the last straw” and “this time Brad will really leave… in a minute, just wait for it” et cetera. This week’s story seems completely based on those photos of Angelina wearing her Salt costume, talking on the phone (sidenote: I actually think Angelina was filming a scene). In Touch claims that Angelina was on the phone to a staffer, ordering that poor person to “spy” on Brad as he made secret arrangements to secretly meet secret Jennifer Aniston – SECRET!
Angie was photographed having an animated phone conversation on the set of her film Salt, so of course In Touch had to make up a semi-plausible reason for her to be upset about Jennifer Aniston. This is all the editors could come up with: Angelina asked a staffer to eavesdrop on Brad’s phone conversations and “From what was reported back to her, she became certain Brad was planning to go and meet Jen in Miami,” says an insider.
Angie “yelled at [Brad] over the phone, and then sent him nasty text messages all day.”
Angie found a gift wrapped book about Frank Gehry with no tag and assumed it was from Jen since she “knows his interests better than anyone.” It was actually from a business associate.
The mag claims Brad canceled his Miami rendez-vous with Jen, which is why he was photographed having fun with his family in New York over the holidays. (Angie forced him to put on a happy face while hanging out with her and their adorable kids, of course.)
[From In Touch Weekly, via Jezebel]
Meh. I like the intervention story better, probably because I think there could be a grain of truth to it. Not that Brad “confessed” he was going to leave Angelina, just that I buy that Brad and his brother probably sit around, drinking beer and bitching good-naturedly about their family life. Isn’t that what brothers do? Is it an intervention?
In Touch Weekly cover courtesy of CoverAwards. Brad & Doug Pitt (with Doug’s son and Pax) leaving Dave & Busters on December 30, 2009. Credit: WENN.
What’s the bet that the ‘intimate’ phone conversation image ends up as a scene in Salt?
Well, he is sporting the same ‘I quit this bitch’ beard he grew when he left Aniston for Angie…
I keep waiting for a week to go by with Kaiser totally ignoring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Not gonna happen, huh?;)Just a joke, I enjoy your posts!
I would buy the intervention story since everybody knows that Dave and Buster is the best place to have a hardcore heart to heart. I really want to know who believes these stories. Who talks about leaving their significant other at an arcade with their kids an armlength away? Brad was going to spend the holidays with Jennifer? If he was going to do that he would have left Angelina. You don’t spend the holidays with somebody else and stay in a relationship. Especially when you are away from the kids. Is she even in Miami? There are always pictures of Jennifer on vacation. Although it’s usually Mexico.
Well another week another C r a p story.. with all the stuff about Charlie Sheen and Brooke, plus Tiger and countless other celebs.. they go with a picture from the set and Angie on a phone.. my Gosh.. talk about obsession.
I guess there must be a lot of fools out there with money to waste on this trash. It really scares me that some people actually believe these dumb stories..
My first thought when I read the title of this article was “one can only hope.” IMO, he has elevated her status and she has lowered his. But I digress.
I like to read (but not waste money on) the “rag mags” and laugh at the ridiculous-ness of their claims – they all claim it’s a “pal” who rats out the stars.
Claptrap as usual. The tabs are so dull these days. A notorious heiress died suddenly in very pathetic circumstances. Surely that should warrant a cover page or two? But no.
Jennifer Aniston must be so sick and tired of having her name brought up any time Brad and Angelina have a arguement or disagreement. It has been five years and four children since Jen and Brad broke up, maybe it is time for the media to move on (Jen,Brad and Angie sure have!)
I think the Angelina Attacks Brad story is made up around that fake quote Angelina gave “Sometimes I get so angry I tear his shirt”.
Jazz it probably is, funny thing though is that quote, that whole interview was fake as hell.
Many years back, before the constant triangle stories I used to buy In Touch, I mostly enjoyed flipping through the pictures of celebrities than the stories.
I never buy or even browse through a copy now for that reason, I find their recycling of the same story with the same people ridiculous. Also the constant attacks on Angelina’s character, along with the cheesy Jen droppings, have a misogynistic quality to them.
It’s time for these rags to do something new, I find it hard to believe that people are interested in the same story over and over for 5 years.
Man I hope that one’s not true. Karma’s a bitch – he signed up for her, he should have to put up with her for eternity and another half dozen kids to ensure he never sleeps again.
Angie looks like Cruella DeVille in that last picture.
That is all.
You are the voice of reason. It is so good to hear In Touch being called out. For people in a recession, losing jobs it seems somehow evil to take advantage of them by printing what they know are lies and to do so and then sell those lies is really a tragic sign .
Just a Dave & Buster comment- Have been there a few times with my child and their friends. The only reason one goes there is for the kids to play arcade games. The food is awful and overpriced, but the kids love the games.
It is too noisy for any substantive conversation.
Kaiser is an IDIOT as always.
Brad/Doug pic —
Doug (whispering): Come with me, I can take you where she can never hurt you again. I am willing to leave my son as a diversion, but we must go NOW.
Angie pic (the gerbils have called w/ info gathered by D & B spy, Brian) —
“Damn you Doug Pitt! I WILL KILL YOOOOUUU!”
Sounds to me like In Touch is drowning in their own bullshit. First they made up some story about Brad running back to Jennifer, and now every week they have to invent more lies to back their original story up.
As for the Star story, let’s not forget this is the same slag rag that reported two years ago that Brad was going back to Jennifer and taking Shiloh with him.
@Reply, I hope whoever’s holding a gun to your head to make you read this doesn’t come to my house and make me read the sports page.
They’re trying to save him before he gets sucked into the vortex that is her giant vag and is never heard from again.
Same old, same old.
I could believe that the family isn’t 100% crazy about her, but I really doubt they’d try to convince him to dump her. And that if they did, they’d do it at Dave & Buster’s, where you can’t even hear yourself think!
I also seriously doubt there’s any communication, let alone anything else between Brad & Jen. Come on. Both have moved on, years ago.
Interesting tidbit Doug works for the Jolie Pitt Foundation and is founder of Care to Learn.The only way to get Brad and Angie off IT cover a celeb has to commit a crime or die i.e Brtitanny Murphey, Michael Jackson
What did Kaiser do except her job?
I have this crazy theory that I try to live by: If I don’t want to read it, I don’t click on the link. It’s amazing, you should try it, Reply.
Uhhh Nooo! Kaiser is not an idiot. She got you to click, read and reply. Looks like she did her job to me. I remember when Kaiser was just one of us posters. Her posts were always in the upper 10 percent in my opinion. Didn’t always agree with her, but that’s beside the point. Now that she works for the site I appreciate her more. On weekends and Holidays when new storys are few and far between she will still post up pertinent news in a timely matter. Don’t get the love affair with Gerard, but I’m a dude and I don’t think I’m supposed to get it.
Madchen,,,every time I see your name I think of Madchen Amick. Man she was hot. Do you use it as Girl in Deutsche?
As soon as they wrote “meet Jennifer in Miami” they lost all credibility. Everybody knows Jennifer Aniston never goes to anywhere outside L.A. but Mexico!!! Unless, of course, she gets paid by hotel owners and then she will show up in Morocco.
Anyway, I knew there would be some sort of story/lie about those pics of Angelinia on her cellphone. Just too good to pass up. Nice try.
And, Doug stages an “intervention” over beers at Dave and Busters? While Doug’s son and Brad’s sons hang out, by themselves, at the games, surrounded by strangers. That would be a bigger story than the “intervention.”
And it goes on and on and on . . . .
Is it me or is Brad’s brother looking better than him? I used to think Doug was fug compared to Brad, not anymore. Doug’s son looks like he’s going to be gorgeous also.
They are definitely a good looking family. His brother and nephew have the hotness gene too. (Sidenote: I watched Se7en the other day, and I don’t care how stupid that beard looks, his gorgeous face will be preserved on film for eternity!)
I don’t know what the tabs are thinking (or smoking!), but even IF the story were ture, all it would do is make me like Brad’s family less. Angie is the mother of his children. Unless she’s beating him up or openly parading around with another man, I can’t think of any reason for an uncle and grandparents to advocate breaking up a family.
(Please spare me the “well, SHE broke up a family” or “she IS beating him up and cheating” responses…)
I agree with the last comment. Why would anyone want a family to break up is beyond me. She didn’t force him to stay with her or to leave his ex for her, I am going to lose all the respecty I had for him. I couldn’t care less about him when he was with ” miss i’d rather sunbathing than giving my husbang kids he always wanted for so long” ( sarcasm lol), now he is a father he needs to man up and work things out with his kids mother. That’s waht real men should do.
@Jayhem–actually, I think there are a few more reasons to leave a relationship besides physical abuse and cheating. There’s emotional abuse, lack of physical intimacy, lack of core commitment, lack of shared principles/morals and disagreements affecting children, just to name a few. That said, I don’t think the stories in above mags are true. But I do worry for the Brange. They both seem…off lately. I’m not saying they’re relationship is in trouble (after all, how can any of us REALLY know one way or the other), but they’re both so tired, skinny and old looking. They look used up. And with their staff and access to treatments and therapies of all kinds, it’s enough to make you wonder…
Wow, a ragmag actually gave Jennifer a decent cover picture for once.
@ Bek – I was just being more sarcastic, but you do bring up a few good points. However, I think the paps & tabs go for the worse of the pictures because they’ll match their completely made-up drivel. But, alas, we will never know, will we?!
So, when my in-laws come to visit I should watch my back. They are probably trying to get my husband to ditch me! Is that why they go to lunch without me?
It always amazes me the in depth detail these stories go to, with long and detailed quotes attributed to a ‘source’. Maybe Brad’s beard is wired and is transmitting back to In Touch?
to archiepelago (great name, btw), it wasn’t his bed.
IT WAS THE EVIL GERBILS OF DOOM!
so THEY ARE breaking up….. Officially. I guess all those scoffs at crazy-mad phone calls and insane jealousy and family interventions will be retracted, Kaiser?
Angie is a psycho – I seriously can’t wait to see how her PR people spin this