Angelina and Brad are supposedly making a documentary of their adventures in Africa post-Shiloh to help African causes. This sounds like BS and the source is The Sun, but maybe it’s true:

They’re so secretive that we doubt this is true. We’ll believe it when we see it.

Columnist Liz Smith of the NY Post says that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie didn’t top the Yahoo! buzz list this holiday weekend, and that they’re fools for sequestering themselves in Namibia since they’re only increasing the value of photographs:

By having Shiloh in Namibia Angelina did bring a lot of publicity to African causes, and she achieved some privacy through the brute force of the Namibian government and her own nasty security guards. It looks like she achieved her goal after all. Releasing a video doesn’t sound like something she would bother with.

Gorgeous header illustration of the possibility of an ironically ugly Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt from Gallery of the Absurd.

A columnist for Britian’s The Guardian discusses Internet commentary on Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt’s odd name.

Shiloh is a hebrew name of course, but it could mean several different things:

“Nouvel,” which means “New” in French, should be spelled “Nouvelle,” its French feminine form, since it’s part of a girl’s name. Brad and Angelina may have made the grammatical error deliberately, though:

This makes sense, since Brad loves architecture and has admitted it’s one of his passions.

Brad is also narrating a show for PBS on environmentally friendly architecture called “Design: E2.” It will air in June.

A commentor on “A Socialite’s Life” noted that Pitt also gave Zahara her middle name, Marley:

Angelina should have let Brad name the baby, since Nouvel is a much prettier name - and much easier to pronounce - than Shiloh.

In related news, Angelina and Brad are showing their gratitude to Namibia by donating $300,000 to benefit the country’s state-run maternity wards. Their newborn has been offered Namibian citizenship from the grateful government.

Here are some pictures courtesy of JustJared that were probably taken at the World Economic Forum with a cameraphone. Until they come back to the states, scrounging for old low-res pictures is probably as good as it gets.

Update: pictures are from the Mr. and Mrs. Smith set during a break from filming.

We took a couple days off, and are technically still on vacation. Babies were born, people died, we got more comment spam - the world went on.

Angelina Jolie’s personal obstetrician has been flown to The Burning Shore resort where the famous family is staying in Namibia. The couple is said to have converted a suite in the hotel where Angelina will give birth. If Angelina doesn’t have the baby by June 3rd, she’ll be induced. Everyone agrees that the birth should be uneventful since she’s super fit:

Jolie is said to be doing yoga in preparation for the birth, and should be well prepared when her time comes.

Meanwhile there’s a good reason why so few pictures of Angelina and Brad have come out lately. Photographers and journalists are really intimidated by the Namibian government and the thuggish Jolie-Pitt security team. Many are threatened with deportation, and one photographer spent a few days in jail before being released without charge:

Someone managed to snap Brad riding his bike with Zahara dangerously strapped on his back without a helmet, so there’s at least one paparazzo around.

The first picture of the baby-to-be has commanded nearly $5 million from an American magazine. You can hardly blame photographers for hoping to secure their retirement with an unlikely shot of the newborn.

Update: Angelina’s brother, James Haven, has been flown to Namibia. Jamie accompanied Angelina to the 2000 Oscars for her best supporting actress win, where Angelina sparked controversy by kissing him on the lips. She is now said to want Jamie by her side for the birth of her first biological child.

Angelina was supposedly in labor on Friday, and this story may explain that rumor, or it could be total b.s. like a lot of the stories about the Jolie-Pitts. Life and Style is reporting that Angelina is having early contractions:

A friend of mine also had early contractions in her pregnancy, and everything turned out fine, so if it’s true it’s probably not much to worry about.

The couple’s 16 month-old adopted baby, Zahara, is said to be suffering from a mystery illness that also has Brad and Angelina worried. Zahara has rickets, a bone disorder caused by a vitamin D deficiency, but this sounds like something else:

Zahara’s symptoms incredibly worrying and we hope the baby gets well soon! Hopefully she will get proper treatment and they will figure out what’s wrong with her.

The Namibian government has been giving baby gifts as a thank you to Angelina, and has sent a representative to teach her about local birth customs. They seem to be going out of their way for Angelina and Brad, and it seems like Angelina picked a country with a very accommodating government.

Our thoughts go out to baby Zahara. Hopefully she will be fine and Angelina will have an uneventful labor and birth.

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Reader Millie needs to start writing for the site, because she said a while ago that Angelina was farther along than she admitted, and it looks like she was right!

The latest news from Africa is that Angelina is in labor with the world’s most anticipated baby.

No wonder they secured a picture deal for the first photographs so “early.”

At this point Angelina could have already had the baby!

Congratulations to the couple and we can’t wait to see the pictures.

Update: That report seems premature and follow-up news has the baby arriving in the next 48 hours, which means that Angelina is probably due in two days. My son arrived nearly two weeks after his due date, and first babies are usually late, so it could be a while.

A deal has been struck for the first pictures of the anticipated Jolie-Pitt baby. Britian’s Daily Mirror is set to report that an unnamed publication has agreed to pay £2.6million for the pictures, with the proceeds to go to UNICEF. £2.6million pounds is $4.89 million dollars USD. That’s incredible.

Meanwhile Pitt’s family says there’s no hard feelings about Angelina deciding to give birth in Africa, and that they honestly like her. If these quotes from Brad’s brother are geniune, the family does admit that Brad’s Mom still talks to his sore loser of an ex, Jennifer Aniston:

That’s a phenomenal sum for some baby pictures, but it will be the most famous baby in the world.

The picture above is of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt impersonators and was run in NY Magazine. It must have sold plenty of copies even without the real thing.

Little Suri Cruise still hasn’t been seen by the press. Her pictures are worth a healthy sum, but surely not as much as the Jolie-Pitt baby.

Life and Style Weekly is reporting that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were “married” in a wedding ceremony following Namibian custom. The ceremony may have sentimental value, but it is not recognized by US law and is not legally binding.

It sounds like someone made this up, like most of the non-stories about the Jolie-Pitts. They’re also supposed to be starting their own housewear line using local Namibian crafts.

Meanwhile Angelina is supposedly causing Brad to fear for their unborn baby’s health by running off and picking fruits and berries with the women in the village. I sincerely doubt they’re hanging out with the locals except for pre-approved photo opportunities.

If they did get “married” in Namibia, why aren’t there stories about it in an African newspaper? It just doesn’t seem like they could keep it a secret to only be leaked by one source, even with the crackdown on the paparrazi.

Until the baby comes, there’s probably not much real news about the Jolie-Pitts and someone is making this crap up.

Update: Pictures of Angelina and Maddox in Swakopmond, Namibia [via]

Thanks to reader Millie for sending us this People article debunking basically everything we’ve gleefully reported about the worlds most famous couple. Almost nothing, except the fact that Brad and Angelina are in Africa (or Angelina is, at this point) is true:

Damn! That just about blows every stupid thing we’ve written about them out of the water. My faith in the gossip industry is just about nil. They even make up quotes from people I actually know, and I’m not that connected.

Angelina did give a few real quotes in her Dateline interview that the press is blowing out of proportion. She said she can’t quite believe that she’s pregnant and is in denial about it, and that she plans on adopting more children.

She also supposely said that’s she’s not morbid, but that’s not from her Dateline interview and is just some random quote so who knows if it’s true?

16 month-old Zahara Jolie-Pitt suffers from rickets, a bone disorder that she developed while in an Ethopian orphanage. When she came down with a cold, Brad learned that rickets makes her more susceptible to all sorts of diseases that are common in Africa, including malaria and yellow fever. He became concerned for her health and brought her back to the states for medical care. Babies get sick a lot and Zahara will probably be fine, but this reopens the conflict between Angelina and Brad as to where Angelina will give birth:

You know Angelina will do whatever she decides, and won’t let someone else tell her where to have her baby. She is said to be planning to use a birthing tub in a Namibian hospital for a water birth. I had most of my labor in a birthing tub and found it to be very relaxing. It’s a nice alternative to medication and is said to be as effective as an epidural.

Update: Angelina Jolie’s Dateline interview:

Here are pictures from People Magazine online of the world’s most beautiful family. You may have seen most of them already, but some are new.