The tabloids are full of speculation about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s engagement this week. OK! Magazine had a story about Brad and Angelina fighting over every single detail of their wedding plans, and that’s why they took the trip to the Galapagos Islands. The Enquirer says Brad and Angelina will have a quiet beach wedding in the Bahamas, which… I mean… a beach wedding? Doesn’t Angelina know that Jennifer Aniston theoretically owns the “beach wedding” concept? Star Magazine also has a story about Brad “gushing” about his engagement to George Clooney, and Clooney deciding to “propose” to Stacy Keibler just because he saw how happy Brad was. LOL. But my favorite, by far, was In Touch Weekly’s piece about Angelina turning into a “my way or the highway” style bridezilla. ITW makes a really big deal about Angelina flat-out REFUSING to have a double wedding with Brad’s parents for their 50th wedding anniversary:

It seemed like such a meaningful idea – tying the knot alongside his parents as they celebrate a milestone of their own. But when Brad Pitt suggested to his fiancée Angelina Jolie that they have a double wedding with Bill and Jane Pitt, who plan to renew their vows on their 50th anniversary in August, Angelina hated the idea – and she didn’t hesitate to let him know.

“She was not okay with the double ceremony at all,” reveals a family friend. “She believes that their wedding day should belong to her and her alone.”

Angelina has been insisting that she doesn’t care about her wedding day, and that the only reason she’s getting married at all is to please Brad and their six children. But while Brad has made numerous suggestions, and the kids love the idea of a big family wedding, Angelina is letting them all know that it’s her way or the highway.

Mocking Brad’s pleas for a traditional wedding and informing him that, 50th wedding anniversary of not, Bill and Jane will not join them at the altar, Angelina is insisting on a very small ceremony, of which she is clearly the star.

“She doesn’t seem to know the meaning of the word ‘compromise’,” marvels another friend, while an insider adds that it took brad “weeks” just to get her to wear the ring that he’s spent a year designing with Robert Procop.

And though Brad longs to emulate his parents’ happy marriage, he and Angelina are off to a very bad start.

“They’re fighting all the time,” the friend says. “They may not ever make it to the altar.”

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

First of all, I didn’t know that anyone still did “double weddings”. I thought those only happened in Jane Austen novels. Second of all, it’s Angelina’s wedding and she’ll bridezilla if she wants to. Third, who says that Bill and Jane Pitt even WANT Brad and Angelina to steal their 50th-wedding-anniversary thunder? Bill and Jane Pitt probably want their anniversary celebration to be all about them, and Angelina wants to have her wedding be all about her. Let everybody have their own thunder, Brad!

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

This is the tabloid story I’ve been waiting for – the Us Weekly version of “What Jennifer Aniston Thinks About Brangelina’s Engagement”. We’ve heard People Magazine’s version (“Jen is not a bitter person and she has always wanted Brad to be happy” – but not Angelina). We’ve heard E! News’s version (“she doesn‘t care”). We’ve even heard the Enquirer’s version (“collapse”). I’ve long suspected/known that Aniston’s rep uses Us Weekly for all manner of “dirty work” when it comes to her PR. Just this week, when TMZ reported that Aniston and Justin Theroux were scouting wedding locations in Crete, Aniston’s rep ran to Us Weekly to deny it (a story that he had likely planted in TMZ in the first place). So what does Us Weekly have to say about Aniston’s state of mind?

Jennifer Aniston has been having a low-key several months, but the 43-year old knows that everyone is wondering how she took a certain piece of news: her ex-husband Brad Pitt’s long-awaited engagement to Angelina Jolie, announced nearly two weeks ago.

“She hates it being brought up because she doesn’t really care,” says a pal of the actress, who was married to Pitt, 48, from 2000 to 2005; Pitt infamously fell in love with his Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar Jolie, 36, while he was still married to her. (After seven years together, Pitt proposed to Jolie, with all six kids present, earlier this spring with a $500,000 diamond engagement ring he helped design with longtime jeweler Robert Procop; the family of eight recently celebrated the nuptial news with a trip to the Galapagos Islands.)

“She feels Angelina can have him,” the Aniston source continues. “She just wants to move on.”

Indeed, since falling for her Wanderlust costar Justin Theroux, more than a year ago, that’s pretty much what Aniston’s done. (Although Aniston recently sold two Manhattan apartments, she and Theroux, 40, have snapped up a $21 million home in L.A.’s posh Bel Air enclave, and have been in the process of redecorating.)

“Jen’s totally happy with Justin,” says the pal. “That’s all in the past.”

[From Us Weekly]

Look… ugh. Sure. She’s moved on. I’ve really been trying to give Aniston the benefit of the doubt, and I can just feel Aniston’s supporters coming out of the woodwork to scream about Jennifer being so, so HAPPY now… and sure. I’ll buy that. As I’ve said many times, I think Aniston is probably the happiest she’s ever been now that she’s with Justin Theroux. But…“She hates it being brought up because she doesn’t really care”…? When she brings them up in interview after interview? Really? And “She feels Angelina can have him”? Yes, after seven years, two pregnancies, six children and an engagement, Aniston is stepping off the Brad Pitt Battlefield with honor?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I have no idea why I didn’t get around to covering these photos yesterday, but hey, better late than never. These are pics of Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and all of their kids (right? Do a head count) in the Galapagos Islands on April 23, Monday. The photo set included blurry shots of the family getting on a plane, which makes sense because I don’t even think the Family Jolie-Pitt is still in South America at this point. So these photos are days late… just enjoy.

Radar says that the Jolie-Pitts toured Santa Cruz Island, which are probably the photos on the little boat, I’m guessing. Random thoughts:

*I would love to know more about Angelina’s collection of sack dresses, because this woman has a sack for every occasion. I can’t make up mind as to whether a one-sleeved, gauzy black “Morticia At The Beach” sack-caftan is too dressy or too casual. Or is it just right? I can’t decide.

*When did Angelina become such a hat person? Bitch has changed! Nowadays she cares about her skin so much, she’s become all Nicole “I must wear a hat at all times outside!” Kidman.

*Isn’t it weird that Brad’s outfit looks exactly like a larger version of something Shiloh has already worn? Montengro Style is genetic.

*Love Brad’s track pants on the boat. Never seen a dude who can pull off white track pants, but Brad kind of makes it work.

*Angelina’s purse is fug. Brad’s messenger bag is the bomb.

*Empress Z looks like she’s been taking boat tours all her life, right? That’s because she has.

*Love Vivienne’s pink outfit. Ten bucks says that Zahara helps Angelina shop for Vivienne.

That’s about it. Just cute photos of a big family on vacation. The shots are so budget, I tend to think they were taken by some tourist and then sold to photo agencies.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

These are all photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie through the years at the Cannes Film Festival. Because why not? For all of these engagement stories, I’m trying to use some older photos that we haven’t seen in a while, just for fun. Anyway, I’ve gotten a chance to read some of the tabloids this week, and they all have versions of Brad Pitt’s proposal. I think most versions have Brad spending months and months designing the ring and when he actually proposed, Angelina cried. But I think my favorite version is Us Weekly’s story – they basically say that Maddox is a little family-values conservative who guilt-tripped his parents into getting married because “mommies and daddies should be married.” OMG. Santorum-speak!!!! Us Weekly’s sources also claim that Brad came right out and proposed to Angelina… in 2006. When she was pregnant with Shiloh! And Angelina refused him!

It wasn’t your average Jolie-Pitt family meeting. On a recent spring day, Brad Pitt gathered his six kids — Maddox, 10, Pax, 8, Zahara, 7, Shiloh, 5, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 3 — as he presented love Angelina Jolie with a very special present: A tablet-shaped diamond engagement ring — estimated at 16 carats and worth $500,000 — which he helped design with jeweler Robert Procop.

Pitt skipped the tradition of getting down on one knee, per a source, and merely presented the ring as a token of his unwavering love.

“Angelina cried and smiled” at the proposal, a confidante tells the new Us Weekly, out now. And the children, who had been extremely eager for their parents to wed after seven years together, were equally overjoyed, the source adds. “Everyone hugged once she put [the ring] on. She went around and showed it to each of the kids.”

As the world now knows, Jolie, 36, quietly debuted that long-awaited ring at an April 11 private viewing at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with startling photos and a confirmation from jeweler Procop and then Pitt’s manager emerging two days later.

“Angie considers herself bonded to Brad for life,” adds the source.

The engagement fulfills one of Pitt’s long-held dreams – and a source gives all credit to Brad and Angelina’s oldest child, Maddox. “Maddox wanted them to have a wedding… he was the most vocal in pushing for it… Brad pleaded with Angelina and said that everything else in the kids’ lives is not normal, that they travel constantly, they are always in different houses and different schools. They needed to give the kids one thing in their life that is normal and they are asking for this. Brad told Angelina they should do it for the kids.”

It wasn’t the first time Pitt proposed to her, reveals the insider. “He asked her to marry him when she was pregnant with Shiloh,” says the source. “And she said no.”

But more recently, Jolie was taken off guard when Maddox urged her to take the traditional next step. “Maddox told Angelina a mommy and daddy should be married. It broke Angie. She knew she had to do it then.”

As Brad designed Angelina’s ring, he was actually working for the kids’ approval. “brad would show them plans for the ring… he wanted the ring to be from the whole family, not just from him.”

As for making plans for the actual wedding, sources say it will likely take place in their French chateau either this summer or next. A source says, “I don’t think Angelina figured that she would be getting married again… [but she sees it] as formalizing the agreement they already have… it’s no big deal to her.”

A friend also says, “I don’t think Angelina has ever worried about her ability to keep a man, but what she has with Brad is very strong. They can still be hot and heavy. There is a great attraction. Angie is deep and thoughtful and undeniably sure of herself. I don’t think any man but Brad could really make it work.”

[From Us Weekly, print and online editions]

Yes, I see it clearly now. Maddox’s fingerprints are all over this!! It does sound like Maddox was working both parents separately, right? He was all, “Dude, you need to do the right thing by my mom” to Brad and then to Angelina, Maddox was all, “Girl, he loves you. The next time he asks, SAY YES.” That’s how I imagine Maddox speaks. Am I wrong? I want to know what Zahara thinks of all of this. You know she gave that 1980s ring an empress side-eye.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Angelina Jolie needs to get to work. Do you realize that she hasn’t been in front of a camera since she filmed The Tourist in early 2010? Sure, she wrote and directed a movie, and she did voice work on Kung Fu Panda 2. But it’s crazy that one of the highest paid and most in-demand actresses in Hollywood – with a long list of projects that she’s associated with or signed on to – hasn’t been in front of a camera for two years. She’s got two films that she’s allegedly going to be working on this summer - Maleficent and The Counselor. And now she’s got somewhere else to go too – Brad Pitt’s latest film was just announced to the Cannes Film Festival line-up, so she and Brad are going to be in France next month. Basically, I’m saying that they probably won’t be getting married this summer. Guess who else is coming to Cannes this year? ROBSTEN. Bruce Willis. Reese Witherspoon. Nicole Kidman. Viggo Mortensen. Yay!

The carpet will be red hot – with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson,Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves, Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth, and new parents Emma Heming and Bruce Willis, turning this year’s Cannes Film Festival into a two-week A-lister date night.

Add in Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban – and the possibility of a Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith sighting – and you might forget they also show movies at the world’s most glamorous film event.

The 64th Cannes fest, which will run from May 16 to 27, formally announced its schedule in Paris on Thursday, and organizers haven’t stinted on star power.

One year after Pitt’s film Tree of Life took Cannes’s top prize, the star is returning, this time with his bride to be, Jolie, who is expected to join him when his New Orleans caper Killing Them Softly vies in competition.

Stewart and Pattinson will turn up separately for their movies, On the Road and Cosmopolis, although don’t be surprised to see them together.

Opening night’s movie Moonrise Kingdom, being shown in competition, stars Willis. Mud, starring McConaughey and Witherspoon, was a surprise last-minute addition, sources tell PEOPLE.

Also anticipated: Efron and Kidman climbing the Palais steps together. She has two films in Cannes, The Paperboy and the thriller Stoker.

Other names include Kirsten Dunst, James Gandolfini, Kylie Minogue, Viggo Mortensen, Bill Murray, Marion Cotillard, and Chris Rock, who’ll join Pinkett Smith for a special afternoon kids’ screening of Madagascar 3.

[From People Magazine]

It seems like a pretty exciting line-up this year, with lots of American stars scheduled to attend. I’m not one of those “USA! USA!” chanters, I’m just saying that Cannes Film Festival coverage is simply more interesting when there are big, internationally acclaimed celebrities there. Will this be Kristen Stewart’s first time at Cannes? That should be exciting for her – I hope she brings it, fashion-wise. I wonder if Kristen and Sparkles will walk each other’s carpets? That would be sweet if they did. Maybe they’ll do it separately. It’s been a while since Nicole Kidman has been there too!

In other Brangelina news, the family arrived on the Galápagos Islands yesterday. They’re staying at a private villa, allegedly. People Mag’s report is a bit confusing – they took a private jet to Baltra, Ecuador, then they boarded a yacht to the Galápagos Islands, maybe? Whatever. I guess this is their pre-Cannes vacation.

Brangelina through the years at the Cannes Film Festival, photos courtesy of WENN.

Soon after Brangelina’s engagement was announced last Friday, Hollywood Life had a story about Jennifer Aniston being “happy” for Brad and Angelina. Then E! News got into the act late Monday, with sources telling them that Jennifer “doesn’t care” about the engagement, and that she’s “moved on” even though nobody thinks she has “moved on.” And now it’s time for People Magazine’s sources to weigh in. People Mag, the gold standard of celebrity gossip. If People says it happened a certain way, that’s the way it happened (or the way their publicist would have you believe it happened). So what do People’s sources say? Jennifer has “moved on”. Yet again. Jennifer “is not a bitter person” – contrary to all of those bitter interviews, I guess. And she’s “very happy with Justin.” Of course.

Jennifer Aniston has nothing but warm wishes for her ex-husband Brad Pitt and his new fiancée, Angelina Jolie.

“Jen moved on a long time ago, and she is trying to just focus on her own happiness,” a source says of the actress, 43, who will celebrate her 1-year anniversary with boyfriend Justin Theroux in May. Pitt and Jolie announced their engagement last week.

“Jen is not a bitter person and she has always wanted Brad to be happy,” says the source. The couple divorced in 2005 after five years of marriage.

“Jen spent many happy years with Brad and thinks their divorce was meant to be,” adds the source. Now living in L.A. with actor-writer Theroux, 40, “she is very happy with Justin – and that’s what she is focusing on right now.”

[From People]

I said yesterday that I was going to wait until Jennifer said something directly, or until it was clear that her publicist spoke to an outlet. I was holding out for Us Weekly, but I’m going to take this People story as The Official Aniston Version. Right? This is how Aniston wants to put herself out there, so let’s analyze this move. She’s not bitter. She has moved on. She’s focusing on her own happiness. She’s focusing on Justin. She’s always wanted Brad to be happy (but not Angelina). Eh. Sure. This situation makes me sleepy.

What’s more interesting to me is that People Mag drops in the whole “one year anniversary” thing with Justin. Yeah… they didn’t get together last May. They got together months before. They’ve already spent more than a year together. So I’ve got to wonder if, beyond the tabloid BS, Jennifer and Justin are actually engaged or already on the “marriage path”. Because you know what sucks? If Jennifer and Justin announce their engagement at any point in the next six months, everyone will just say they’re copying, or that Aniston is dragging Justin to the altar to one-up her ex-husband. And… that’s not fair to her. She homewrecked her piece, she should get to marry him whenever and however she wants.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Terry’s Diary.

Wow, even more Brangelina news. Shocking! Take that, Kim and Kanye. Personally, I always welcome Brangelina news, but I’m wary of the deluge. It’s coming. Probably tomorrow, when all of the tabloids release their covers – I’m expecting lots of Uncool Bermuda Triangle stuff, and you should too. But for today, in this the halcyon day before the tabloid deluge, we merely have one negative and one positive story to discuss – we already talked about Angelina’s engagement-ring-flaunting photo op this morning too.

Meanwhile, Life & Style has an “exclusive” story about the proposal. I’m hoping that the print edition of People Magazine has a story about the proposal too, but for now, I’ll take L&S’s version:

Angelina Jolie may have only just debuted her gorgeous engagement ring, but Life & Style can exclusively reveal that she and Brad Pitt have been engaged for months!

A source says that Brad proposed to Angelina at Christmas and that the couple decided to keep it a secret until the timing was just right.

“Brad had the ring designed last year and made sure it was ready by Christmas because he wanted a romantic Christmas proposal — and he got it,” a friend of Brad’s tells Life & Style.

“They didn’t announce their engagement sooner because Angie focused so much on promoting her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey,” says the insider.

Instead, Brad waited until after the December premiere before getting down on one knee.

“She was very busy with the movie and her Oscar campaign. She also worried that the engagement would take over press on her film and detract from that. There was some negative press on Blood and Honey that bothered her a lot, and she didn’t feel the timing was right. So they waited,” reveals the source.

On April 13, after Angelina was spotted wearing the ring at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a rep for jeweler Robert Procop confirmed to Life & Style that Brad and Angelina were engaged, after more than six years as a couple.

Procop — who designed a collection, The Style of Jolie, with Angelina — worked with Brad to make the perfect sparkler.

In a statement to Life & Style, the jeweler’s team said, “Brad had a specific vision for this ring, which he realized over a yearlong collaboration with Robert. He wanted every aspect of it to be perfect, so Robert was able to locate a diamond of the finest quality and cut it to an exact custom size and shape to suit Angelina’s hand.”

[From Life & Style]

A Christmas proposal? Where were they over Christmas? They were maybe in New York City – they were photographed in NYC just before Christmas, and Star Magazine claimed that Brad and Angie were talking/fighting about getting married over Christmas in New York too. I don’t know – they could have been in LA or maybe Missouri too. I want to think Brad made sure that the proposal was super-romantic and fancy, and not some kind of peace offering in the middle of a gigantic fight.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

I like the inside-the-media stories, especially in regards to celebrity/gossip media outlets. I enjoy trying to figure out what is and is not “worthy” of a “special edition” or a “double issue”. What makes it on the cover of any given tabloid? How do they decide? Well, People Magazine’s choices are always fascinating. Last week, their cover story was about that dude William Levy, who is competing on Dancing With the Stars. Levy must have a great publicist, because many outlets are really trying to make this “WHO?” nobody “happen”. I hope that last week’s People issue sold very poorly – and I think it did. Which explains why People’s staff worked throughout the weekend to put together a “special edition” for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s engagement. Like, when was the last time People put out a special edition days before the usual Wednesday release? I suspect the last time involved Prince William’s engagement… or the royal wedding last year. So there’s your comparison – Brad and Angelina are American royalty, at least according to People Magazine, and their engagement is worthy of a special edition.

When the time finally came for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to make a promise for their future, Pitt made sure to do it right.

“Brad had the vision” for the custom-cut engagement ring, Beverly Hills jeweler Procop tells PEOPLE in this week’s engagement special cover story. Check out the stunning sparkler – with diamonds set on a band of yellow gold – in a close-up photo.

An independent expert tells PEOPLE that the ring could weigh in at more than 10 carats total, with a price tag of $1 million.

Jolie, 36, quietly debuted the ring at a private event at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on April 11.

After seven years and six kids together, the couple decided that they were ready to begin their next chapter together. “They’ve reached a stage where their family has jelled,” says a source who has spent time with them.

For much more on Brad and Angelina’s engagement, including wedding dress sketches from top bridal designers and an inside look at the couple’s relationship, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE.

[From People Magazine]

Yes, more photos of Angelina’s ring have come out, and it’s much different than I originally thought. From the side angle, I thought it was just one large emerald-cut diamond with maybe some smaller diamonds at the base. But this is one decent-sized “oblong-shaped” diamond, with smaller diamonds making a “tiered” effect. Procop told People Magazine that the surrounding diamonds are “ribbed” and weigh in at 10 carats – “The side diamonds are specially cut to encircle her finger. Each diamond is of the highest gem quality.” As Procop said before, Brad worked on this ring for a YEAR. Good God. Procop continues, “Brad had a specific vision for this ring, which he realized over a yearlong collaboration. He wanted every aspect of it to be perfect, so I was able to locate a diamond of the finest quality and cut it to an exact custom size and shape to suite Angelina’s hand. Brad was always heavily involved, overseeing every aspect of the creative design evolution. Each diamond is of the highest gem quality.”

And Angelina’s ring costs more than the ring he designed for Jennifer Aniston (hers was reportedly worth $500,000). Although People is now saying Angelina’s ring costs $1 million, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was more than that, judging solely by the quality of diamonds used, plus all of the special effort Brad took in co-designing it. What I’m saying is that if (God forbid) Angelina ever auctioned this ring, it would go for much more than $1 million.

Photos courtesy of People Magazine, WENN.

Instead of going into any further thoughts that I have about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s engagement, I just wanted to tell you my mother’s take. She’s not a Brangeloonie – she likes Brad and Angelina okay, but she thinks they have “issues.” I gave her the low-down on the ring and all of the gossip about the engagement, and her thoughts were: 1) Brad better have given her a huge rock, because she’s already had his babies and the rock should have grown in proportion with each kid; 2) They won’t have any more biological kids because Angelina’s body can’t take any more, but they’ll adopt again after they marry; 3) They’ll definitely get married overseas, probably in France or “…like, Thailand or something…” my mother said vaguely. I love how everyone has an opinion, a theory, an angle – and I don’t think my mom is far off the mark.

So in lieu of actual news about Brad and Angelina’s wedding plans, we get all of the stuff that’s left in the gossip vacuum. Every site is running “Brangelina through the years” pieces, like everyone hasn’t analyzed every piece of their relationship to death already. And of course, people want to know how Jennifer Aniston is reacting to the news, “Seven Years After Brad!” (That will be the People Magazine cover, just you watch!) To Aniston’s credit, she has not issued any public statements, nor has she stepped out for a convenient photo op with Justin this weekend. So Hollywood Life just had to make up a story about her:

No hurt feelings in this engagement! Jennifer Aniston couldn’t be happier for Brad and Angelina, sources tell HollywoodLife.com exclusively.

It sounds like there will finally be a happy ending to what seemed like a neverending Jen, Brad and Angelina love triangle!

Jennifer Aniston, 43, is so happy for her ex-husband’s engagement, a source tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively. In fact, she credits Angelina for her newfound happiness with current boyfriend Justin Theroux.

“Jennifer is happy for Brad and Angelina. She is so in love with Justin, that she is really grateful how things turned out,” a source tells us. “In a strange way if it weren’t for Angelina, Jennifer would not have connected with Justin in a romantic way. Jennifer is in a really wonderful place right now. I wouldn’t be surprised if she even went to their wedding.”

[From Hollywood Life]

I do think Aniston is in a pretty good place right now, and she’s probably the happiest she’s been in years now that she’s all loved-up with Justin Theroux. Justin came to play. Justin joined CAA. Justin is all about having a famous girlfriend who pays for everything. And Justin is fine with being Shane Warne’d like Jennifer’s personal Ken doll. So… God bless. I hope both couples are fine.

One last thing – GLAAD issued a statement about Brad and Angelina’s engagement too. Brad famously said in 2006 that he and Angelina wouldn’t marry until everyone could. Now people are all “OMG, Hypocrisy!” Well, GLAAD’s spokesperson Rich Ferraro says, “We congratulate them on their engagement, and thank them for continuing to speak out about the inequality that so many gay and lesbian couples face today. No loving and committed couple should be denied the happiness, joy and legal protections that come with marriage.”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

No really. For real this time. This story is courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, and was then confirmed by People Magazine, not a tabloid. THR started things off with an exclusive photo – go here to see it – of Angelina wearing a pretty decent-sized diamond-looking ring on her left hand. THR says the ring was designed by Robert Procop, and it’s totally an engagement ring. Totally! Because Brad’s manager Cynthia Pett-Dante just told People Magazine, “Yes, it’s confirmed. It is a promise for the future and their kids are very happy. There’s no date set at this time.”

Who is Robert Procop? He’s about to be a household name, we predict.

The Beverly Hills jeweler and former CEO of Asprey & Garrard, the British jewelry company to the English royal family, confirms to The Hollywood Reporter that he has designed an engagement ring for Angelina Jolie. A rep for the jeweler says, “I can confirm that, yes, Robert Procop did indeed design an engagement ring for Angelina Jolie, designed in collaboration with Brad Pitt.”

Jolie was seen wearing the ring two nights ago, April 11, at a private viewing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Chinese Galleries. She attended the small gathering with Pitt as well as their son Pax. Neither the ring nor the engagement has been confirmed by Jolie’s representatives, who could not immediately be reached for comment.

Procop tells THR: “Brad had a specific vision for this ring, which he realized over a yearlong collaboration. He wanted every aspect of it to be perfect, so I was able to locate a diamond of the finest quality and cut it to an exact custom size and shape to suite Angelina’s hand. Brad was always heavily involved, overseeing every aspect of the creative design evolution. The side diamonds are specially cut to encircle her finger. Each diamond is of the highest gem quality.”

If Pitt and Jolie truly are engaged — long hinted at by every tabloid and weekly imaginable — it makes sense that Procop would be the designer who would have created the ring with Pitt. Procop’s “The Style of Jolie” jewelry collection on his website was designed with the star, and she’s worn a multitude of his pieces on the red carpet, including to this year’s Producers Guild Awards. The first funds from Procop’s collaboration with Jolie have been dedicated to the Education Partnership for Children in Conflict to build a school in Afghanistan. Procop also created pieces of jewelry for Jolie for The Tourist.

Procop’s had one very good week: When Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan stepped out for the L.A. premiere of The Avengers for the first time since the Feb. 7 birth of their son, Downey told the press he and his wife were wearing amethyst jewelry from Procop in honor of their son’s birthstone. Downey also wore a purple Gucci suit, and the couple joked that they were bringing a little bit of their new son Exton with them.

News of the potential engagement should come as no surprise to readers of The Hollywood Reporter. In January, Pitt told THR that he and Jolie did hope to one day tie the knot for the sake of their children.

“We’d actually like to,” he said of making Jolie his wife, “and it seems to mean more and more to our kids. We made this declaration some time ago that we weren’t going to do it till everyone can. But I don’t think we’ll be able to hold out. It means so much to my kids, and they ask a lot. And it means something to me, too, to make that kind of commitment.”

At the time, Pitt declined to comment on whether he had proposed yet. “I’m not going to go any further,” he said, “But to be in love with someone and be raising a family with someone and want to make that commitment and not be able to is ludicrous, just ludicrous.”

[From The Hollywood Reporter]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

By the way, in case you were all, “Who the eff is Robert Procop again?” He is not just some mangy famewhore jewelry designer – he actually knows Angelina Jolie. They worked together on “The Style of Jolie” jewelry line, remember that? So, is it on? Perhaps. I want a better look at the ring, though. It looks like a gigantic emerald-cut diamond. Nice.

Anyway, I’m very happy for them. Good for them. OMG FLOWER GIRLS!!! Vivienne and Zahara will totally be flower girls. Shiloh will fight it. She’ll want to be a groomsman. EPIC!

(You know this is totally about The Leg. And Michael Fassbender. Of course. And please, people – try not to go overboard talking about She Who Shall Not Be Named.)

Photos courtesy of WENN.