Just when I thought that two Brad and Angelina stories was enough for the day I hear about Angelina’s incredibly candid interview in the upcoming issue of Vogue. She reveals how she felt a strong kinship with Brad while they were filming “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” and how she looked forward to going to work just to see him every day.

She said she once shook hands with Jennifer Aniston but never really sat down with her. She claimed she would be willing to have a long talk with Aniston, but that’s it’s up to her. She said that she and Brad are “legally bound” to their children and have both been married before so they don’t see a need to do it again.

Angelina said that she hardly trusts anyone at all, except maybe her mother and Brad. She also revealed that she’s not comfortable hugging or kissing people casually, but that she feels differently with her children:

“I think we were the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t,” she said. “I was quite content to be a single mom.”

The “Tomb Raider” babe admitted she was thrilled working with Pitt every day while shooting “Smith” in 2003 and 2004.

“Because of the film, we ended up being brought together to do all these crazy things, and I think we found this strange friendship and partnership that kind of just suddenly happened. I think a few months in I realized, ‘God, I can’t wait to get to work,’ ” she said.

“Whether it was shooting a scene or arguing about a scene or gun practice or dance class or doing stunts - anything we had to do with each other, we just found a lot of joy in it together and a lot of real teamwork. We just became kind of a pair…”

“And it took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realize that it might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe,” Jolie said. “And both knowing that the reality of that was a big thing, something that was going to take a lot of serious consideration.”

Jolie said she and Pitt remained “very, very good friends” after shooting “Smith.” They were resigned to staying nothing more than pals, Jolie said, until Pitt and Aniston announced their breakup in early 2005.

Pitt and Aniston filed for divorce that spring, amid rampant reports that the Hollywood hunk had his eye on Jolie the whole time.

Vogue didn’t directly press Jolie on whether she and Pitt fooled around behind Aniston’s back. But Jolie said she realized, early on, that she shared a deep, emotional bond with Pitt before they formally hooked up post-Aniston.

“Not as exciting as what a lot of people would like to believe,” Jolie said. “We spent a lot of time contemplating and thinking and talking about what we both wanted in life and realized that we wanted very, very similar things.”

“And then we just continued to take time. We remained very, very good friends - with this realization - for a long time,” she added.

“And then life developed in a way where we could be together, where it felt like something we would do, we should do…”

Jolie said she hasn’t spoken to her dad, actor Jon Voight, for five years.

Although she keeps up with mom Marcheline Bertrand, Jolie said she doesn’t allow many people into her inner circle.

“I don’t trust anyone,” Jolie admitted.

“I don’t think it’s a good thing. This is going to make you think that maybe I should get some therapy, but trust is such a bizarre word. I’d like to say that I trust my mother, but I also don’t know if she might do something that she thinks is in my best interest.

Still, “I trust Brad will never do anything,” she said.

But after a few moments, Jolie then added, “I don’t know. I don’t trust anybody completely.”

Jolie said she won’t wear emotions on her sleeve - because it wouldn’t do her any good.

“It’s not going to accomplish anything to cry. It’s not going to help you to get a hug!” she said.

“I’m not a hugger. People make fun of me. It’s something that I have a hard time with. If someone hugs me, I hold my breath. Snuggling, cuddling, hugging, crying . . . all that stuff makes me very uncomfortable.”

Except when it comes to her kids, the star said.

“Oh, I love hugging my kids,” she quickly added. “It’s a different thing because you feel such a genuine grab from them.”

She’s very articulate and well spoken, but it’s hard to believe she was this candid in an interview. Why is she revealing so much? Maybe she thinks that if she gives people what they want, they’ll stop speculating so much about her. She’s trying to say that she hooked up with Brad only after he was separated from Aniston, and that he wasn’t really as well suited to Aniston as he was to her. People who think she broke up their marriage aren’t going to change their mind after hearing this. She may as well have kept quiet about it.

All this information about her intimacy issues might come back to bite her in the butt someday. If she doesn’t trust anyone, why does she trust us with so much information about her personal life?

Lainey’s gossip predicted that Brad and Angelina would walk the red carpet together this winter, and she suggested it would have something to do with awards season. No matter their motivations, Brad and Angelina look relaxed and happy as the meet a firestorm of flashes at the NY premiere of Angelina’s new film with Matt Damon, “The Good Shepherd.”

It doesn’t seem like these two can catch a break, and I admit I was down on them after all the scandals with Angelina’s heavy-handed security staff in Namibia and India. According to reports from New Orleans where Brad was filming, Angelina kept the brutes in check and was gracious with the locals. After the cute news that they toured Frank Llyod Wright’s masterpiece home, they seem like America’s golden couple again. Now that Reese and Ryan have split, someone’s got to take over. They seem to be all too aware of the role the public wants them to fill, and are still willing to play the game for us anyway. Thanks, you two.

Here’s the trailer for the film, which is a fictional retelling of the start of the CIA. Matt Damon looks incredible.

Pictures from SimplyBrad.

Brad and Angelina are not going to get married in a fairytale wedding this Christmas in South Africa, their rep says. We called bullshit on the story on Friday because the invited guests were said to be Oprah and Madonna. Whoever made that up wasn’t familiar enough with the famous couple to know that Madonna is on their shit list and would never be invited to a wedding.

Brad, Angelina and their cuties are in New York now after Angelina surprised Brad with a trip to architectural great Frank Llloyd Wright’s famous home Fallingwater in Pennslyvania. The staff at the renowned landmark praised Brad and Angelina for being such down to earth guests. Brad was overheard excitedly explaining architectural principles to Angelina. He was said to be extremely knowledgable and interested in the subject.

Angelina even wore a pair of one the staff member’s shoes when her elegant high heels weren’t suitable for walking up the snowy steps to the overlook of the home.

Now their rep is denying the wedding rumors that no one believed anyway.

Brad Pitt’s rep denied late Friday that the actor is planning to wed Angelina Jolie in Johannesburg. “It’s all made up,” the rep told Us Weekly.

A tabloid reported this week that the couple would wed in South Africa in a simple and elegant ceremony with African music. Guests attending, according to the report, included Oprah Winfrey. “Oprah would not be invited to their wedding. They are not that close,” a source close to the couple says.

Pitt, 42, and Jolie, 31, have three children, six-month-old Shiloh Nouvel, Maddox, 4, and Zahara, 1. The couple is currently in New York to promote her new movie, The Good Shepherd; they have been together since early 2005.

I wish they would get a myspace and do some Blackberry blogging so we could be privy to their unedited thoughts about all the crap the media reports about them.

Pictures from Splash News Online.

Brad and Angelina are said to be planning a fairytale Christmas wedding to take place South Africa. Weren’t they supposed to be having some kind of tribal ceremony in Namibia when they were there, and didn’t Brad later say that he wouldn’t get married until it was legal for same sex partners too? This sounds like wishful thinking. Add Oprah into the mix and it’s rather suspect. All this story needs is a dash of George Clooney’s Italian villa:

The Hollywood couple will tie the knot in a small village outside Johannesburg, according to reports in the US.

Sources say they were persuaded to pick the venue after talking to chat show queen Oprah Winfrey.

An insider said: “They are treating their marriage like a spiritual affirmation and don’t need big Hollywood glitz like Tom Cruise had in Italy.”

The ceremony will include traditional African music and will be “simple and elegant”, a friend of the couple told US magazine OK!

The pal adds: “They are so much in love.

“Brad and Angelina have waited a long time for this chapter in their lives to unfold.”

It comes after Jolie and Winfrey have grown close after the TV host was impressed by Jolie’s humanitarian efforts.

She is said to have told her: “When you have the chance to capture lightning in a bottle you need to go for it.”

The pal said: “Ange is grateful to have a big sister in Oprah, a person who understands her fears of commitment but is also a kindred spirit.”

Winfrey, 52, is expected to be among several stars attending the low-key event, shortly before Christmas.

She founded the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in a village south of Johannesburg.

Madonna, her husband Guy Ritchie, actor George Clooney and Jolie’s co-star Daniel Craig are also said to be going.

Jolie was previously married to actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton.

This story screams bullshit on so many levels. Madonna just dissed Angelina Jolie. She told Oprah that she’d never met her and made a dismissive reference to Angelina’s humantarian efforts. She would never be invited to her wedding.

Oprah and Angelina are not friends as far as I know. Oprah has Jennifer Aniston on all the time, and Brad may have made some appearances on the show but I’ve never heard that Oprah and Angelina are friendly. It’s a slow news week with the holidays coming up, and you can only squeeze so much out of the Britney story. More on that later.

Here is a picture of Angelina on the cover of January, 2007 Vogue, courtesy of Just Jared.

It’s nice to hear a positive story about the Brangelinas. Life & Style reports that their security team is being kept in line and they’re behaving graciously while they’re in New Orleans for Brad to shoot his new film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons.

Angelina is said to have told her security brutes to step off when they tried to bar a hotel worker from entering an elevator with her. She said hi to a surprised shopper at Saks, and she’s visiting Brad on set with the kids between takes. Brad also went to a bar and happily posed for pictures with the locals. That’s not really sensational news, and maybe that’s why none of the other gossip rags are carrying it:

An insider at the 4-star InterContinental Hotel, where Brad and Angie are occupying the entire 14th floor, tells Life & Style, “One night, I was about to step into the elevator when a big, surly man said nastily, ‘You can’t come in here!’ Then I heard a woman’s voice say, ‘For goodness sake, let her do her job!’ I entered the elevator and it was Angelina Jolie! She grabbed both my hands and said she was so sorry for the way her security guy had treated me!”

The down-to-earth family begins its busy days with a healthy meal of spinach omelets for Brad and Angie and cereal for the kids, says another hotel insider.

And even though Brad works long hours — some days from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. — Angie makes sure the kids get to see their doting dad.

“One day she stayed in a building opposite the set, feeding the kids while Brad was shooting,” says an on-set insider. “He would go across in between takes to check on them. It was moving to see how close they all are.”

Locals have another reason to be impressed with Hollywood’s reigning royalty: Brad and Angie are determined to help the city recover from Hurricane Katrina.

“Brad told us he’s really committed to helping rebuild the city,” says one local insider, who met Brad when he went to a neighborhood bar to watch the New Orleans Saints play the Atlanta Falcons.

“He was really kind and posed for tons of photos,” says the insider. “People loved it – especially because he was rooting for the Saints!”

Angie impressed the locals just as much when she was spotted shopping at Saks Fifth Avenue with the kids.

“She’s so normal – and so damn beautiful,” said one shopper. “She was really sweet and said hi to me. I couldn’t believe how pleasant she was.”

If all that is true it seems like Brad and Angelina are taking a page from Johnny Depp, who is known to be the nicest most fan-friendly celebrity. Depp, on the other hand, has insisted on having the biggest trailer on the set of his new movie in London, Sweeney Todd, and wants it decorated to look like a Moroccan harem at a cost of $50k. Brangelina is approachable and Depp is a diva. I’m all confused now.

Don’t their kids look annoyed in that header photo?

Thanks to Just Jared for these pictures of Brad Pitt bald on set, and We Smirch for the story. Header image from Life & Style.

Brad and Angelina were spotted on a motorcycle in Vietnam on Thanksgiving. There was a rumor that Brad’s mom had invited Jennifer Aniston to Thanksgiving at the Pitt’s in Missouri, enraging Angelina, but whether that was true or not we may never know.

Angelina was in Cambodia the day before Thanksgiving on a surprise visit to Maddox’s home country. She donated over $1 million for a forest conservation effort there and recently canned the non profit organization that was overseeing the project. It was thought that they were misappropriating funds. Angelina checked in with officials about the charity and also toured a Genocide museum with Pitt, a painful reminder of the mass murder committed by the Cambodian government under tyrant Pol Pot in the 1970s.

While in Vietnam Brad and Angelina took their famous motorcycle ride through crowded Ho Chi Minh City. Although motorcyclists pictured in the background are also unhelmeted, it seems kind of foolish for celebrities to be riding around with bare heads. They should realize they’ll be photographed and that they set an example.

True to form, Brad and Angelina visited a Vietnamese orphanage on Friday and gave out toys to the children.

HOLLYWOOD superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie doled out candies and toys during a surprise visit to an orphanage in southern Vietnam, a state-run newspaper said today.

The couple went to Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City and had lunch there on Friday, the director of the charity facility told the Saigon Giai Phong (Liberation Saigon) daily.

Newspapers, which ran front-page photos on Friday of Pitt and Jolie riding a scooter in the city, said their photographers had been unable to capture any shot of the couple on their second day in town.

The two arrived in Vietnam on Thursday during what appeared to be a break from filming A Mighty Heart in India, where they have been mobbed by fans and stirred a media frenzy…

State newspapers said the couple flew into Vietnam from Cambodia, birthplace of their adopted son Maddox.

That night they dined at a Vietnamese restaurant. One newspaper said they would leave Vietnam on Saturday.

Is Brangelina looking to adopt again, or are they just doing warm and fuzzy charity? My husband speculates that they’re not happy since they lead such a nomadic lifestyle. Is he right? I know I’m a homebody and hate travelling by air but I have to fly commercial with a toddler.

Photos from ONTD and NY Post.

I don’t really believe this at all, but I could see how other people would considering that this is the woman who proudly wore a vial of her lover’s blood around her neck.

There’s a story in the latest Life and Style that Angelina has forbid Brad from talking to his ex, Jennifer Aniston, after Aniston reached out to him to work together. Aniston was said to have talked to Gwyneth Paltrow while she was in London trying to make it seem as if her relationship with Vince Vaughn wasn’t completely over. Paltrow told Aniston how great it was to work with Pitt, and since Aniston’s career is shit now she was supposedly convinced to contact Brad to collaborate again through their Plan B production company.

It all smells like bullshit to me, but now there’s an hilarious story that Angelina is casting little creepy spells on Brad to keep him in her skinny clutches. The source is some voodoo expert who just knows this is happening:

The Mr and Mrs Smith stars reportedly turned into real-life couple during the film’s shooting - the period when Pitt was still married to Aniston. Later the actor dumped his wife for the puffy-lipped siren and went on to father her adopted kids. The stars also became proud parents of their first biological child, daughter Shilouh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt.

And according to a leading voodoo expert, Doctor Snake, Jolie has allegedly put a magical spell on Pitt to forbid him from rekindling his relationship with the former Friends beauty.

“That vial sounds suspiciously like a voodoo ‘mojo hand’, or magical charm”, said the author of cult best-seller “Voodoo Spellbook” to Softpedia.

Snake is skeptical that the charm is for warding off accidents, as voodoo spells using ingredients from bats are normally used as he says in the workings of a black magic love spell.
“One dark voodoo spell uses Bat’s Heart Incense, which is burnt to break up a love affair or marriage”, The Post Chronicle quoted the Doctor, as saying.

And there’s an earlier story from this same voodoo expert that says that’s how Angelina got Brad in the first place. I’m sure it had nothing to do with the fact that she’s drop dead gorgeous and smart.

Header image from MSN.

Hoards of people watched from the Gateway of India as Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, little Zahara and Maddox enjoyed a boat ride in Mumbai on Saturday morning. Maddox sported a new multi-colored tail while Brad wore an unflattering printed bandana around his head.

Brad Pitt was spotted enjoying some rare alone time along the river Ganges in the Indian town of Varanasi later on Saturday. He seems to have been relatively undisturbed after travelling there by private plane.

While it was reported that Brad and Angelina were planning to return to the US, but I have not been able to confirm that. Life and Style reports that they are not thought to be returning to the states for Thanksgiving and that Brad Pitt’s mom has invited Jennifer Aniston to spend the holiday with the Pitts in Missouri!

Pitt also gave an interview in response to the allegations that children were roughed up outside a school where “A Mighty Heart” was filming. He said he was “horrified” by the accusations of racial slurs by his security team and called it a “terrible misunderstanding.” He also repeated Angelina’s sentiment that he has a multi-racial family and would never hire bigoted staff.

Brad also said that he loved India, enjoyed the food and would “definitely” come back.

We know who the gracious one is in that family.

Thanks to Just Jared for these pictures.

Update: The Brangelinas are indeed leaving India, and several news agencies have reported that “A Mighty Heart” has finished filming.

Amid reports that Angelina Jolie’s bodyguards roughed up young children and their parents at a school and used the epithet “bloody Indians,” the Jolie-Pitts are returning to America. Jolie’s haughty denial of the incident blames the paparazzi and claims that her bodyguards can’t be racist because her family is of “mixed race.” Isn’t that like using the “I have black friends” excuse?

“It is not surprising that the press involved failed to mention their share of the responsibility in the chaos,” Jolie said.

“As for this horrible rumor that someone referred to a local man as a ‘bloody Indian,’ let me say this: I would never work with anyone that was derogatory towards another man’s race. My family is of mixed race.”

Three of the bodyguards were arrested by Indian police and released on bail. Brad Pitt and Angelina’s co-star Irfan Khan personally apologized to Indian authorities after the incident. The bodyguards, including notorious murder suspect Mickey Brett, must meet with police every day for a week until they go to court on November 23rd.

If Brad Pitt can apologize to the police chief, why can’t Angelina say she’s “sorry for the confusion” and take a more contrite stance? Maybe it’s true that the paparazzi caused the chaos and that it’s just a rumor that someone used the Muslim religion as a slur, but Angelina could have sidestepped the blame and still said she was sorry for the hurt that was caused. She sounds bitchy in that statement, and even if she feels targeted she should have backed down.

This is not the first time her bodyguards have been accused of brutality. Brett was videotaped choking a photographer, and another photographer says he was threatened with a gun after trying to hand Angelina his business card. In Namibia journalists claimed that Brett and his thugs followed them and threatened their life, and he was said to have beat a man to a pulp while little Maddox watched.

IndiaGlitz reports that Brad and Angelina and their family are flying back to the US today, and most of India probably says “good riddance.” This is the first I’ve read that they’re leaving, and we’ll have to see what happens to production of “A Mighty Heart,” which was said to be delayed by this latest scandal.

Pictures from Socialite’s Life and Splash News Online.

As we mentioned yesterday, Brad is said to have “big news” for his family in Missouri during his upcoming holiday visit with Angelina and their three children. This could mean anything, but Star magazine suggests that Angelina is pregnant again, and that she’s sporting a bump. This rumor was circulating earlier, and I’m not buying it until I see more bump evidence.

The cover of Star features a recent picture of the famous couple out in India. As lifetimeis4u at Oh No They Didn’t! points out, a sleeping Maddox’s eyes in the original picture have been Photoshopped open so that he looks awake!

Thanks to popbytes and Just Jared for the photos.