These are cute pictures that were just released of Brad, Angelina and their two oldest boys going out gerbil-shopping last week. I have no idea why the pictures are only coming out now, but they make me happy. Any picture of Angelina Jolie smiling lovingly at a sleeping gerbil, like that gerbil is a disenfranchised orphan refugee, is a good picture in my book. The whole gerbil shopping incident is also a sidebar to In Touch Weekly’s “Brangelina is breaking up” story. According to In Touch, shopping for gerbils was just Brad and Angelina’s sad, pathetic attempt at a “show of unity” all for the sake of their children. In Touch’s source claims it just shows that they will do anything to “make their kids happy in the moment”. As opposed to, you know, they were on vacation and just decided to go shopping for gerbils or whatever.
A few weeks, Brad Pitt sat down with Ann Curry for an exclusive interview to promote Inglourious Basterds. Brad brought Ann down to New Orleans, and they talked about stuff like whether Brad was going to run for mayor, Make It Right NOLA and, of course, the family. When Ann asked Brad what love meant to him, whether he still thinks that love is putting someone else’s interest before his own, Brad replied, “I stand by that… Someday it won’t always be there, so… I don’t look forward to that day, so… it comes with it, the greater the love, the greater the loss.”
I’m bringing this up because that one incoherent statement is the jumping-off point for In Touch’s latest “Brangelina is breaking up” story. In Touch is reporting that with that statement, Brad was “letting the world know their romance won’t last forever.” They even have an “expert” to preach that Brad was “unconsciously revealing that relationship is head south, and he’s preparing for the breakup.” The rest of In Touch’s story is about how Brad and Angelina are “living separate lives” as they spend the remainder of the summer in their chateau in the South of France:
“They have separate bedrooms, separate offices and separate schedules,” the insider reveals. “Brad has renovated [a private building on the property] and has installed video games and a cinema room with surround sound, as well as a jukebox and pool table… it’s a mess in there. It looks like a frat boy’s dorm room at college, not like where one of the world’s biggest stars would spend his free time.”
Angelina is increasingly frustrated with Brad, and he’s tired of being henpecked. “He’s starting to think that nobody has a right to tell him how to live his life… between his mood swings and her mood swings, they are constantly clashing. So they mostly just avoid each other.”
[From In Touch Weekly, print edition September 7 2009]
Blah, blah… there’s more stuff about how Brad can fall out of love instantly, like he’s the Love Highlander or something. They refer to Brad’s Today interview as “his doomsday comments”. They also say Brad is looking to leave Angelina without looking like “the bad guy”. Next week’s cover story is going to be about Brad and Angelina fighting over custody of the gerbils. Cut to a cover shot of Angelina looking pissy with the words: “Angelina Denies Brad: You’re Too Stoned To Look After The Gerbils!”
Brad and Angelina are shown shopping for gerbils with Pax and Maddox in Brignoles, France on 8/20/09. Credit: Bauergriffinonline
Jeepers. Nice look Brad. He’s looking like a thin version of Dom DeLuise or New Oleans chef Paul Prudhomme.
I think the body language is shouting that they are not “In Heat” any more, I stand by what I posted last month that everything happened way to fast.
Brad’s outfit is a MLC dream he in his late forties dressing like Spencer Pratt is not the answer.
He’s walking ahead of all of them in one picture, instead of holding Pax’s Hand like Jolie is holding her son’s hand.
As sexy as Jolie is, to me she comes across as needy in this relationship with Brad.
I hope they make it but both of them sign up for this with having so many kids with in the span of couple of years, really with out spending time to build up their base relationship.
Well in all honesty he doesn’t look very happy or into it, or sexy for that matter. AJ seems to be enjoying herself, Brad not so much.
Yeah I’m sure Angelina was hemming and hawing for days over how to show M & P how she still loves their dad “I know!! Gerbil shopping!?!>@#8one!!”
you know ange…making out at the dinner table would have been $8 cheaper
I bet Brad is just grumpy in those pictures because he doesn’t want his children playing with RODENTS.
Oh please. If my relationship were based on every expression I made, it would surely be dooooomed! (We’ve been together 20 years.)
I dont care about they are together or not… but i have a really important question: does she have another dress?
I agree, Anastasia. My DH and I have been together 23 years, and we don’t have smiles on our faces 24/7 either. We don’t hold hands every second of the day and sometimes…hard to believe, I know…sometimes we actually have arguments and yet we stay together!
This is idiotic. They are family. They have ups and downs like any other family. They have many obvious advantages being as wealthy as they are, but they also have the disadvantage of having their every move photographed and scrutizined by “experts.”
Letter from PeTA in 3, 2, 1…
Minority opinion here, but I think that she can do better than him.
“gerbils of doom”…
that made me laugh!
I don’t see how these pics indicate a looming end to their relationship – they just look like they’re shopping to me.
but I agree on Brad’s outfit…he needs to be on that blog called “Go Fug Yourself”. or just ditch the black socks and shoes, that would at least help.
The gerbils aren’t for the kids…that’s why she’s smiling…bend over Brad!
These are waste of space fake stories that are tagged to pictures. I can see that they are only meant to please Jennifer Aniston fans who are still hooked into that triangle shit.
Out of Touch mag report stupid lies. I wouldn’t buy their rag mag even if they were reporting a nasty story on my worst enemy but it’s a pity that some one is buying that cr@p mag if it has not folded yet.
“Any picture of Angelina Jolie smiling lovingly at a sleeping gerbil, like that gerbil is a disenfranchised orphan refugee, is a good picture in my book.”
Yeah, but I wish Brad and kids had smiled a little too, and showed enthusiasm about getting new pets – always a high point of a kid’s life. She is the only one smiling here.
Looks like Angie knew about the photo op and didn’t tell Brad, wonder who tipped off the paps about their visit to the pet store.
I always wear lace maxi dresses when I go shopping at pet stores.
Good point pop, my kids do jump up and down skip grinning when they get a new pet even if it is just a tiny fish, the kids don’t look happy or into it either.
Pax looks down right pi$$ed off.
So because they are not having sex while shopping for pets, that means they are definately breaking up? I can’t believe the logic of some people. Other sites have a lot more pictures where Brad and the kids are smiling. But that doesn’t matter. Not smiling doesn’t mean that they are unhappy. I don’t know why people find it so hard to believe that Brad and Angelina get followed by the paparazzi or that bystanders call them with the tip. Also Angelina always wears maxidresses so I don’t get the she dressed-up. They are all basically the same black dress.
I’m a fan of the brange, her more than him but I don’t think they’ll last forever. I do think however, that if they had broken up Angelina would say so. And if they do break-up in future I’m pretty sure they’ll remain great friends and co-parents.
Angelina is happy, Brad not.
He look so old! Ans pi**ed!
He DOES look like he fell into Spencer Pratt’s closet.
What in the heck is up with that outfit of his?Those shoes! Those socks?
Of course the kids are not happy they are being photograph and most of the time that they see paps they don’t seem very happy or smiling. Angie don’t care that much and Brad HATES so nothing strange here
Beth there is a difference between having sex in the store and looking like you are enjoying youself, or looking happy. I can’t believe the logic of some people myself.
Stop the lies. The only ones who believe that crap are Aniston fans and I don’t think there are enough of them anymore to save any rag. But they keep on trying. The Jolie Pitts are fine and continually prove the tabloids to be liars. Sorry but I can not take the tabloid lies anymore.
Beth I also saw the pics on the other sites and some how missed these ones of the kids and brad smiling.
Are you sure they exist?
damn it is funny how some people hate Brad and Angie but find themselves inspecting pictures every picture of them to find fault with it. He is not smiling, so he is pissed blah blah blah etc. I can see Brad and Angie 5 years from now out and about and some people still inspecting the pictures and saying she is pissed or he is pissed and that they are on the verge on breaking up lol
maybe Brad was just constipated.. I know I would be if I were wearing this outfit.. his socks and shoes just made me laugh out loud. Maybe that’s why Angelina is so amused. And yes, they’re breaking up because he’s not grinning constantly.. Well, at least JenHens have some fun reading the bodylanguage, getting their Juicy sweatpants in a twist over every expression. “Gerbils of doom”.. that was cute!
Whenever I see a man, under the age of 70, in shorts with black trouser socks I like to simply say to myself ‘boy that guy sure must have good sense of humor’ instead of my initial reaction ‘Jeebus man! Did you dress in the dark?’.
I think they’ve been over a long time ago, but are staying together to save face due to how they got together in the first place. He’s not going to go anywhere because they have kids together and Brad comes off as very family oriented. And AJ won’t bounce because she needs to keep her Superwoman Saint image intact.
She has that ‘cat got the butter’ smile on her face. This is clearly a photo op. Who knew they would be going to shop Gerbil and why did the pictures take days to surface. They don’t seem random at all. Angelina seems to have stanged them, like that Tokyo airport photo op.
So many reasons why Brad looks like that:
I would look angry too if I was forced to wear that outfit
If I had six kids and was stuck with them for company the next three months with no work or friends.
Seriously, Bradley needs to call his old friends ASAP because this trap he created is killing him slowly but surely.
They suck as a couple…..
Everytime a movie comes out with these two, you see them out and about with the chosen children.
I’m sure Shilo is home practicing her lines for her next film.. She does want to be a great actress like her mother…YOU KNOW.
Zahara is home crying for a black stylist to take care of her hair. Last time she was out in public she looked like Buckwheat.
AJ has worn that dress both times she was preggers.
okay, not that in touch would be right – but i will say this, i don’t think they will last more than the next few years. it’s a sag/gemini relationship and as a sag who swears off gemini’s and always winds up with one i will say that – at first you are so happy and the fall in love is fast and furious – the sex, amazing – the chem, unreal. and then all the things that make it a fantastic relationship spiral, unbalanced – creating a very unstable union not conducive to children or family or longevity… sadly the break up is never clean or nice or as fast as the fall, it is slow and evil and full of resentment and a lot like getting off drugs, you know what’s right but you are never quite ready to do it.
What’s so interesting about parents taking their kids to a pet store that it merits media nonstories such as this?
These two are so overexposed. While I don’t mind them and like them, it gets old hearing every little mundane, trivial bullshit story about them. Who cares?
btw – the reason he seems sad and worn is that he is the sag, who eventually realizes the problems are not and will not get better, where as the gemini is genuinly able to appear happy, because they are self centered and believe that the other will eventually just fall in line with wath they want…
“Angelina Denies Brad: You’re Too Stoned To Look After The Gerbils!”
That made me laugh super-hard.
I’m not a huge fan of either of them, but I think In Touch is totally misinterpreting Brad’s words. I got the impression that he was talking about losing a loved one, not about a relationship ending.
maybe he isnt happy with paps taking pics of the INSIDE the pet shop?!
i don’t think AJ should be allowed to have more pet.. she’s a known animal abuser and SHE admitted it… youtube if you don’t believe me
i would hate to think of any poor, innocent animal in that crazy house….flame away but it’s just my opinion.
Obvioiusly you’re pretty hard up trying to find some meat or content out of a gerbil shopping trip. You can try and inject some excitement, gossip or drama into it but I think you’ve failed. It is what it is, just like any other family might do….yawn.
Maybe they are getting the gerbils because uncle George is coming for a visit. Maddox looks mad because he’s been informed he will not be allowed to eat the “rats” like his countrymen.
I don’t give a gerbil’s ass about either of them, but, Kaiser, this one cracked me up. The title was brilliant!
Brangie is looking so repulsive these days. Wow!
Kevin: You are bad, bad, bad!
I’ve discovered the reason he is always using shadows! He is always high!
Pitt-potty-head-drunk and SATAN-gelina-home-wrecking are strange! She could not even manage to get a different dress again! Maybe his movie is going down the hole, like the others, and they have less money, so have to dress like this.
IB @ $86 million will gross 100 + million by weeks end.I just saw a pic of Gwen and Gavin and they were not smiling , damn I guess they they are breaking up too. A good photo all the kids in a park playing and smiling neatly dressed and well groomed. This is not a good photo op
If Brad and Angie aren’t locking eyeballs every single minute, it’s proof positive they are on the verge of a split. Or so the tabloids would have us believe. The slag rags have them on the verge of a split every other issue. The funny thing is that people still want to fall for it.
It’s FIVE YEARS, people. He’s not going back to Jennifer. Get over it.
What I want to know is, why didn’t they get a hampster? Gerbils have those creepy rat tails…*shudder*.
They didn’t buy gerbils. Those are hamsters. Of course, the tabloids never really get anything right. It just goes to show that these tabloids have a slow news week and need something to spice up the racks. And, voila, we have Brangelina fighting while buying gerbils of doom.
is that a tattoo on his calf??????
look at the pic where he’s standing with his back to the camera. the right leg looks inked.
ps. he does look stupitt but i guess its ok, i also look stupid sumtimes.
Thinking back to when I was a little girl and went on shopping trips with my mom and dad. She was totally absorbed while he would be looking bored shitless and wishing he was anywhere but there. Yet they were very happily married for 35 years until my dad passed away.
I chalked it up the a typical male abhorrence for shopping anywhere except for cars and electronics, when you couldn’t pry my dad out of the store with a crowbar and my mom would be tapping her foot and looking like she was about to enter a state of spontaneous combustion. Just one of those man/woman things.
LOL! That might just be the best headline I’ve ever seen. Anything that includes the words “gerbils of doom” is a winner! 😀
I am with others here that a snap shot of an expression at a given moment can mean many different things. I suspect someone could easily locate a pic of me glancing at the hubby, and by my momentary expression think I am contemplating smacking him upside his head with an iron frying pan; but for what it is worth that will never happen, because I love him and I don’t have an Iron frying pan to speak of… not that after 12 years the thought hasn’t drifted through the transom of my mind 😉
dee, was the buckwheat comment really necessary?
dee and the rest of the hateful fans are the ones that float In Touch. They have such a mental investment in the triangle they just will not let go of the evil spitfulness. I never found picking at kids funny at all.
I thought the buckwheat comment was classic!!
I hear “gerbils” and “Brad & Angie” and I think “gerbils” and “Richard Gere”.
Brad never smiles when the paps are in close range taking pictures when he is with his children. He has also said, repeatedly in interview, that he does not like it when the paps take close range shots of his children. Hence, the displeased look on his face– the paps are inside the store and are just too damn close.
The two boys do not like the paps’ company either. Sort of like being in an elevator with someone you do not like and you are stuck with their company. You have to ride with them in a confined space, and you keep hoping they get out next each time the elevator stops.
Brad never smiles because it’s like being at the center of swarm of piranhas, except that piranhas will only rip you apart and kill you as opposed to making up stupid stories about how your relationship is on the ropes because you did “something” while they were circling around you and misinterpreted it.
USMMAGAZINE SITE ON AUGUST 28, 2009 – Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt – Hollywood’s golden couple — Jennifer Aniston and Pitt — was torn apart after four years of marriage when the actor met his Mr. & Mrs. Smith costar, the once-wild Jolie, in 2005. Six children later, Pitt has called the UN ambassador his “soulmate,” and Jolie has said that her kids “get to see a movie where their parents fell in love” — a comment that the former Friends star, who’s currently single, said “was really uncool.”
Kaiser, you have outdone yourself! From the headline to the last line — outrageously funny.
This may be a really dumb question but–what does DH stand for?
People are so gullible. Look, he’s not smiling, it MUST be over! Projection much??? Please remember that pics are not everything, Brad and Jen were smiling till the day the divorce was signed, sealed and delivered. It means nothing.
What does mean something is that if these two are as miserable as these tabs claim, they would not be going to a foreign country together for months on end, nor would they be out shopping together looking as normal as possible. Yes he’s in a grandad outfit and she’s wearing black again but so freaking what? Are they not allowed to dress down when they go round the corner to a petshop?
This is sheer absurdity and stupidity. According to the tabs, these two have been on the verge of a breakup from the second they got together. 5 YEARS AGO!!!!! What I can’t believe is how many people wish it were true. Shame.
ok lets try that again:
OK OK, EVERYBODY BACK OFF BRADLEY AND STOP PICKING. Look, I’m new to the Brad Pitt fanclub but I’m growing into liking him more and more over the years as he gets better at being more comfortable in his skin. I think after spending most of his life focusing on his looks he’s done. And I’m liking him all the better for it. His sense of humor about his aging is KILLING ME. He was on Maher’s not too long ago and he was SO FUNNY I fell madly for him – FINALLY. And I smoked a joint with him in the park on Motor across from Fox when he was fliming Seven, many years ago even though I didnt know who he was until I saw the movie and realized the kinda cute guy with the acne scars and the bomb ass chronic was THE Brad Pitt. Cracked me up. He was chill as hell and we chatted for about an hour. Puffed and joked. But I’m loving the outfit and apparently so is he. How cool is he that he’s just PAST all the superficial crap, cracks me up. Good for him.
Her? Meh. I’ve always felt that she was affected and superficial, so he may just be outgrowing her emotionally, afterall they’re over 10 years apart in age and you change emotionally after 44 or so, and stuff that you used to get riled up over easily doesnt so much anymore.
I’m just liking him more and more the older he gets.
She has sucked the hot out of him once and for all.
DH is corny-speak for “Dear Husband”. Eye roll mandatory.
Zoe, you’re blaming Angie for Brad’s aging? He’s 45 w/6 kids. He’s also a pothead, used to smoke, and still drinks. Of course, he’s going to look old, unless he becomes the Botox King. So sad some people believe it Brad’s job to STILL be the hot stud of old. And, if he loses his looks, well that means he’s worthles, right? What a shallow and pathetic view of life.
Ditto. And it’s not like that stupid logic of some can be reversal in the case of Angie whose beauty is sucked by Pitt.
Is Brad into NASCAR now?
hey I never said they were over at all, I just said Brad and the kids look unhappy. My kids get excited when the get a new pet, and me and my husband usually smile at each other, even if we are at a docters apt. So yeah they all look unhappy but Krazy skeleton woman.
Oh all you Brangie fans, FYI Brad flew the heck out of France a few days ago, he is in NO. away from the nutcase. Still not saying they are over by any means, just that he got his A$$ out of there bet he has a smile on his face now.
Karen go back and look at pics just 2 1/2 yrs ago, the change is unreal, it is like he aged 15 yrs in 2.
And he has been a smoker and pot head for decades, I don’t think that is what has caused the change in his appearance.
I think it is funny as heck, Angie thought she was getting the sexiest man alive, now she is stuck with that. haha.
Yo Zarah, just wanted to make sure you saw the part in my post that said
BRAD HAS ALLREADY BLOWN OUT OF FRACE AND BACK IN THE USA, hahahahaha, he flew to NO over the weekend, probably to have some fun and get away from that scary bony witch he keeps seeing in the castle, ahahahahaha.
LMAO @Sunny! 🙂
If BP went to Nola he didn’t attend any Katrina related anniversary activities .Where is your proof he flew to Nola,Shanny the voices in your head? Congrats BP and QT IB has made over 132 million worlwide in 10 days according to Variety
Shanny–blaming Angelina for Brad’s looks? That’s just SAD. I think it’s because Brad stopped using Botox and he has 6 kids. When he was with Aniston, the tabloids took pics of him going to the plastic surgeon for touch-ups. He probably quit that. I really doubt Angelina is into being with the sexiest guy ever. This is Billy Bob Thornton’s ex we’re talking about here. Try again
The man is galloping towards middle age and has stopped doing all the primping and dying-of-hair he used to. He’s finally gotten some character to his previously blank looking head.
But dad-socks and shorts will always be a no-no. Empress Z should sort him out on that one.
And Brad couldn’t possibly be in New Orleans for work, no? Jesus, what am I thinking 🙄
Just to address something else that was said earlier – the “admission of animal abuse” video was where she said she overfed her rabbit lettuce when she was a kid and it died because she didn’t realise you shouldn’t feed rabbits… er… “rabbit food”. My cousin and I did the same thing when we were 5 as we never heard the like until recently.
The video is on youtube I’d say, but I wouldn’t recommend watching it as Angie does chatter on and on and on and….
Shanny, blaming Angelina for Brad’s looks? How seriously sad. His looks probably declined b/c he stopped using botox. The photogs took pics of him going to the plastic surgeon when married to Aniston. And, I doubt Angie cares THAT much about his looks. She certainly wouldn’t of dated Billy Bob Thornton if she were that shallow. Try again
We have lost the King of Pop but we got the KING OF POT!
I’m just wondering when they do break up what are all you Brang-Loonies going to blame?
Probably Jen, not sure how you’ll spin it but I bet it will be a “Jolie got tire of all his “HemP” smoking ways around the kids!!!! Team Angie.
I am not talking about wrinkles I am talking about looking unhappy KAREN.
He did not bolt to NO, he bolted to Spain, my bad to talk archicture with his art. frineds. He is smiling in the pics with his friends in Spain and looks happier, I must say.
Shanny
But in those pics above where he is not smiling, don’t you know he’s smiling on the inside.
He has his INSIDE SMILE on.
Let’s not talk about the body language at all but he’s not smiling on the outside because of the papzi taking pics of the kids.
Funny how all the pro Ang/Brad people keep throwing Jen’s marriage to Brad as he didn’t love her, he loves Jolie now, seems not to comprehend that, he might not love your St.AngJolie one day either, since all of you hang on to the “people change how they feel they can’t be blamed for falling out of love” crap
I hope she doesn’t encourage the children to kill the poor animals like she did when she was a child.
whatever, Shanny. He looked happy with Jen, but that was obviously not the truth. He wouldn’t have left if he was SO happy. He’s an actor and you don’t know what he’s feeling on the inside from a few pics. But somehow you think you know it all.
Does Brad have his shoes on the wrong feet?