As we discussed, the 2020 Golden Globes felt like the 2002 Golden Globes, because it was all about Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The Jolie Years have been erased from the narrative, which annoys me but I bet it doesn’t annoy Angelina Jolie all that much. Brad did not make any kind of reference to the Jolie Years in his acceptance speech, and some Brad & Jen diehards really wanted him to say something to or about Jennifer, his one true love (apparently?). Brad didn’t even make any reference to his kids. Which was noted in some of the coverage, like on this blog. Well, Brad went to TMZ to let us know that he made a conscious choice to exclude his six children… because privacy!
Brat Pitt thanked all the usual suspects after winning a Golden Globe — except his children, which was an intentional and strategic move for their well-being… He shouted out fellow nominees, director Quentin Tarantino, costar Leonardo DiCaprio and also his parents — but he made no mention of his 6 kids. It was a curious omission, but our sources closely connected to Brad say this is par for the course — he never mentions them publicly and wants it to remain that way. We’re told he feels this is the best way to maintain their privacy, because he knows simply acknowledging his children in a speech could attract unwanted attention.
Our sources say Brad has never used his kids as a publicity tool … as those around him feel his ex, Angelina Jolie, has at times. As for his relationship with their children … we’re told it’s the same as it has been since he and Jolie reached a custody agreement in late 2018. He sees them regularly, even 18-year-old Maddox, though we’re told that relationship is still a little strained.
“He sees them regularly, even 18-year-old Maddox, though we’re told that relationship is still a little strained.” Yeah. So strained that Maddox refused to see him ever since the 2016 plane incident. So strained that Pax wants nothing to do with him, and now that Zahara is old enough to make her own visitation decisions, she’s been avoiding him too. The one thing I’ll say is that I do think Brad made a conscious choice not to speak about his kids publicly, on the record or in a speech. But it’s not about respecting their privacy. It’s about avoiding questions on Brad’s part, and using all of this to constantly smear Angelina. But hey, at least Brad and Jen are back together again, right?
Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt attended the same 2020 Golden Globes after-parties on Sunday. The 50-year-old actress and the 55-year-old actor were at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. for Netflix’s big soirée. An eyewitness told E! News Pitt sat at a booth with Leonardo DiCaprio and the rest of their Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood cast. Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro joined them, as well.
“Brad was in a great mood and very social with everybody—except Jennifer Aniston, who kept her distance at a booth a level up behind Brad,” the insider said.
Later on in the evening, Pitt made his way down to the dance floor, where he spoke with a few fans who approached him and posed for some selfies. Aniston sat at a booth with Jason Bateman’s wife, Amanda Anka, and Sandra Bullock. Party guests enjoyed a number of appetizers—including egg rolls, fried chicken sliders and zucchini noodles—and sipped on Moet and Chandon champagne.
However, the exes did “briefly interact” during the CAA after-party at Los Angeles’ Sunset Tower. “They said hello very quickly,” a source said. “Jen arrived after Brad. It was brief, but [they] were very cordial and friendly and seemed happy to be there. They approached each other once they saw each other inside and looked happy as they started to hug and say hello. Jen whispered something to Brad, but it wasn’t in an affectionate way. They both didn’t seem like they wanted to make a big deal about being together in the same room although it was a private party. They were trying to be low-key. Brad left shortly after and didn’t stay at the party long.”
Again, Pitt chatted with DiCaprio while Aniston hung out with Bateman and Anka. “Jen was in a great mood,” the insider said. “She seemed so happy to be out and mingling.”
They’ll be remarried by the spring! Or whatever. I’ve said before that I feel like Jennifer has sort of outgrown a lot of these shenanigans, and now she’s in a place where Brad seems to be using her for a good hit of publicity. Those CAA agents are probably desperate to make it happen.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Good lawd he’s holding that thing like a slightly offside phallus in the top pic.
omg you’re so right, what were they thinking w the design haha.
TMZ is so full of it.
Agreed, always mansplaining away shitty male behaviour
He could have said hi to the kids except perhaps he is keenly aware that they’d call him on it and despise him for being obviously fake and for the cameras
Maybe this was his thinking it through
He’s looking older in these pics.
Thanking loved ones isn’t generally viewed as using your kids in Hollywood. It’s viewed as thanking your family. What a dumbass…
I agree that Brad didn’t mention the kids because it would bring attention. Attention to the fact he had supervised visitation for 3 years. It’s laughable that he and his fans are claiming privacy when it wasn’t an issue during the relationship and divorce with Angelina.
I don’t think it’s fair to hold Brad accountable for what happened in that plane. After all, he did not hit Maddow on the head, OKAY?
I don’t know why someone WOULD thank their kids in a speech made after winning an award at work.
I wouldn’t.
I think in terms of celebrities I get it a bit more. Where filming means long hours, sometimes far away from your home and family, or possibly uprooting your family to make things work out, it makes sense to throw in a “thank you to my family for the love an support – I know you all have to make some sacrifices for me to do this” or something along those lines.
But it’s not something that I would consider a litmus test on whether or not someone loves their family.
I would, but that’s me.
I would, because I love my kids more than anything and they are ALWAYS on my mind. It would be weird for me NOT to thank them.
Same. It’s work event.
When some colleagues won an industry award at a conference last year, not one thanked their families. Not a single one.
If he had thanked his kids, he would’ve gotten criticism too.
THIS, completely. if he had said something, people would say he was being manipulative, trying to get sympathy from the public so that they’d be on HIS “side” in all this, or that he was trying to manipulate the kids, or using them for sympathy, etc.
I think not saying anything was the smartest move to make.
I don’t blame his kids AT ALL for not wanting to see him or feeling uncomfortable (or outright unsafe) around him, but FFS, he did the right thing in this situation.
For sure. He would have been accused of dragging them into his narrative despite his strained and awful relationship and how dare he bring them up when he’s a deadbeat dad who doesn’t even TRY to visit Maddox and yada yada yada… This was a no-win.
right, if he had mentioned them, people would have been all “how dare he thank them when he doesn’t even have a relationship with them!!!”
dude was in a no-win situation and made the best play he could.
If he was really interested in their privacy, he would have kept his mouth shut to TMZ.
but he didn’t speak to TMZ.
the excerpt above quotes “sources closely connected to Brad”, the standard “source” that EVERY tabloid, including Star, US Weekly, etc. use for their stories. and those are always trashed around here as BS. so why would anyone give more weight to THIS publication than any given tabloid? isn’t it possible that TMZ has seen what every other person has, and reported accordingly? that is, everyone in the gossip-sphere is talking about how he didn’t mention his kids, so OF COURSE tabloids are going to jump on that story, and since they don’t have access to the actual people involved, they make up quotes from someone “close to” the subject, or from someone in the subject’s “camp”.
Of course. No matter what he does, he’ll be criticized.
I said that yesterday too, it was a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation for him, and given how strained things are, not mentioning them was probably the right course.
But following it up with this utter BS from TMZ is the WORST, making him out to be some concerned father protecting their privacy. PUH-LEASE. His PR is so lame these days, including trying to hitch him back to Jen.
“Our sources say Brad has never used his kids as a publicity tool” Um…no. He used those kids from the day he became a father.
Yeah, I think it was for the better than he didn’t. I’m not buying this “privacy” excuse but it’s very obvious – everyone knows the relationship with his kids is strained, it’d be awkward (especially for them) if he thanked them in the speech acting like it’s all cool.
But yeah this “privacy” excuse is ridiculous, he should’ve just not thanked them and let it be.
Precisely. The same ppl dogging him out for not mentioning them would be attacking him. I wouldn’t mention them either under the circumstances.
Why even go to TMZ and say something? Were that many people questioning why he didn’t acknowledge the kids? If anything this just brought the attention to the kids that he claims he was trying to avoid.
Brad’s true love is weed.
Brad’s true love is Brad.
Touche!
Good call-
That some weird emotions on those pics. Like those rubber masks for Halloween. That ugliness inside him is finally arrived on his face.
He’s getting that meaty jawline that I’ve seen attributed to “Japanese potatoes” a la Olivia Munn. I’d still like to know what causes that – all the fillers sinking to the bottom?!? I jest. But I will not be eating any Japanese potatoes…
I really did like Brad Pitt at one point, but those days are long gone. Of course his behavior was questionable when he got together with Jolie, but it seemed that Angelina was the one vilified in the media as the “homewrecker” … but ever since that plane incident in 2016 and whatever went down to make Jolie up and leave, ugh!! And the fact that now his three older children pretty much want nothing to do with him, says a lot to me. Not really surprised he didn’t mention them in his acceptance speech, but I also think it speaks volumes. And if he (or his publicist) really did run to TMZ with this bullshit story about “respecting their privacy” – that is laughable!! No one has been respecting those children’s privacy for YEARS!!! LMAO
So happy that Angelina and the children are away from this mess.
What will Brad & CAA do if one of the children writes a tell all book or just gives a statement about how he treated them?
Sorry but both Brad & Jennifer are playing the PR game and milking this. The good thing is that the real world had actually moved on and no one really cares about them hanging out together.
how is Aniston “milking” this? sounds like she’s staying out of it as much as she can. she didn’t sit near him, and said a quick hello at one party. and honestly, I don’t even see Pitt working this angle. he made one comment about how they’re good friends, and that was it. there’s been no coyness that I’ve seen.
to me, it’s the tabloids milking this. they know they get hits/clicks with stories about these three people, they know people still have strong feelings about it and will buy/read their stuff.
Yeah I don’t see her encouraging this either. I really feel like his team is pushing this narrative.
Lol i agree she isn’t milking shit.
She is actually doing the best she has career wise in a long time.
She finally stopped with those shitty ass rom coms and is actually fantastic on the Morning show.
I was genuinely surprised.
This is all Brad.
But you know some stans will never expect that she is actually content without out a man and is actually doing good work lol.
Same ol,same ol.
“because he knows simply acknowledging his children in a speech could attract unwanted attention.”
Unlike not mentioning his kids.
Brad’s one and true great love before Jolie was Paltrow, no? Didn’t he fell apart when she had an affair with another guy?
@Mary-Jo Brad Pitt was engaged to Paltrow yes. And it was rumored that she cheated or something and that was what ended their relationship. I think Paltrow has even spoken about how she was very young then, and definitely made mistakes in the relationship. I don’t know about him “falling apart” but yes, it seemed he loved her. But honestly if you look at Paltrow vs. Aniston they seem pretty different to me, Paltrow is ultra high-maintenance (I am trying to be nice here haha!) and Aniston is a low-key, California beach babe. Seems like he went for the complete opposite of Paltrow – I don’t know? Just my observation 🙂
Did she cheat on Brad with Ben Affleck, or did he come around later?
Are you serious, that low-key California beach babe takes a lot to maintain, it like having short hair, takes much more maintenance than long hair, but people assume because it’s short it’s easy.
Peg, I’ve had short hair since I was 6, so 40+ years…and it’s NEVER been high maintenance.
wash, comb, small amount of product applied with fingers to the curls in front and VOILA, done. literally takes me a minute.
length has little to do with level of maintenance. I’ve know long haired people who wash/comb/go, and ones who wash, comb, blow dry and straighten and it takes an hour or more. ditto for short hair. depends on the cut style, the texture and the person MUCH more than the length.
@Genessee … Yes, Gwyneth Paltrow cheated with Ben Affleck and then started dating him. Gwyneth and Brad broke up in 1997. She and Ben dated from 1997 until 2000. The day she left Brad she flew to NYC and stayed with Winona Ryder, who was dating Matt Damon at the time. I recall seeing a picture of Gwyneth and Winona together at a party in NYC the week after her break up with Brad. She and Winona were laughing an appeared to be having a grand time.
Brad & Jennifer is a PR game playing well during the awards season . end of March everyone will forget about it , even Pitt will never look back at Aniston .
« Thank to my family « cost nothing and please stop with this BradJen reunion.
Jennifer Aniston is not past all this. She along with Pitt is loving all the atttention & those two & CAA are milking it for all it’s worth.
Pitt said “be kind to someone tmrw” and first thing he does is run to TMZ & slander Jolie again. As for respecting his kids privacy? He spoke about them the day before in a podcast, It’s all BS.
yes, he so wants to protect their privacy that he goes straight to TMZ to tell them he won’t talk about them, while also trashing his ex for being a full time parent. the gaslighting and irony are absurd…
I fundamentally do not believe Pitt is barred from mentioning his children in public in even the most oblique way. Revealing private or personal information, sure. But acknowledging they exist? Please.
And if he’s going to take shit either way, then err on the side that doesn’t make you look like you’re pretending your six children are just a phase you’d rather forget.
A simple, “and to my family, I love you”, wouldn’t have hurt shit.
100% agree
“A simple, “and to my family, I love you”, wouldn’t have hurt shit”
Exactly, he did not have to say my kids or name anyone. And why explain to TMZ, did anyone ask?
And if he’s going to take shit either way, then err on the side that doesn’t make you look like you’re pretending your six children are just a phase you’d rather forget.
This, thank you. Not rocket science. If you can shout out your parents in the Ozarks you can sure as shit send a signal to your kids you are thinking of them as well.
“A simple, “and to my family, I love you”, wouldn’t have hurt shit.”
I agree, THAT would have been ok. and honestly, that would have been the ONLY thing that was even slightly appropriate. thanking them would NOT be.
Yesterday someone in the comments claimed he mentioned his kids when he was promoting Ad Astra.So I guess that wasn’t true since he respects their privacy and of course sees six of them regularly.
When/ if he wins oscars then he might thank them for them being one of his motivation to do good etc…at the globs he didn’t need to unless he wanted to…even at the oscars its not a must …not everyone said my kids in their acceptance speech.. Get over it..
Why his threads always has to bring aj for they have no contact…he need a new woman in his life … New talks..vu
Whats the problem if they even milk this he and ja that is? Noting for aj to burn about imo
Getting a new man and getting married didn’t work for Jennifer. The tabs have completely bypassed Justin Theroux and are back to calling Brad her ex-husband.
Brad Pitt conversations are too try-hard these days. I feel like a young Cersei at the witch’s hut, “You’re boring.”
I’m getting some very pathetic vibes from him. Loneliness, aimlessness, desperation to apppear relevant, or some of all three.
Agreed. The hanging out with Leo and, one assumes, a bunch of twenty-six year olds. That just sounds sad
TMZ likely asked his people why he didn’t mention his kids. They need to fill up their gossip website too (likely after looking at this one and finding an angle to follow up on.)
All I know is, if I were Jen, I’d be having ex sex with him for sure. But I get the vibe that Brad isn’t interested in her at all.
Not much of a Pitt fan, so no stake in this, but it does seem like he’s damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t kind of a thing. If he mentioned them this article would be about him exploiting them. Since he didn’t mention them, he’s a douche. I have no doubt that he is a douche, but he’s in a no win situation here.
LMAO
Did Brad really state he has never used his kids for PR.
He really erased the last 15 years out of his life.
The little dig at Angelina, why?
They are trying desperately to get a response with Angelina, and she is like, I’m so done with this nonsense.
I think its unrealistic to expect him to have what we think of as a normal father-child relationship with his kids. He was in a marriage where both people had more money than anyone needs to be comfortable, and his partner in that marriage is a self-proclaimed Ayn Rand lover who has a weird white savior complex and likes to travel around doing “diplomacy” for the cameras without having any rigorous higher education in international relations or related studies. As part of that career, she adopted more children than the average American can support financially from a bunch of the countries she was white savioring around in. The kids were undoubtedly raised by nannies, and both parents had the luxury of deciding how often they felt like doing or not doing the labor of parenting. It seems like being their mother was fulfilling to Angelina and she participated emotionally in their parenting consistently through their lives. I would guess Brad was a lot more removed as a parent, and that adopting children and parenting them when she felt like it was kind of “his wife’s thing.”
Sorry but you are stunningly rude towards people who adopt.
As for white saviour complex, so what? Aren’t thousands of people getting the help they need/needed?
So much going on here but none of it is good
What BS…I Look forward to Maddox & Pax “Daddy Dearest”Chronicles & What life With Pitt has been like.This guy is such a poser.
Me too
I definitely feel Maddox will be the first one to write a tell all and possibly Z.
Where was the privacy when he went on Oprah in 2008 and told a story about a 2 year old Shiloh who wanted to be called John? Every week there is a new tabloid story about Shiloh officially going by the name John and Shiloh officially transitioning. Where was the privacy then? The ONLY reason he isn’t talking about the kids as much as he used to is because he doesn’t want to have to explain what happened on that plane and why he isn’t that close to them anymore. Nothing to do with privacy. As always his team throws that angelina shade in there. Also lol @ the lies about him seeing all the kids.
He didn’t want to mention anything that was related to Angelina. Thanking the kids would be like thanking her, in his mind.
You all do know that BP knows everytime there is a story about him in TMZ. His sources are CAA. Stop w/ this BP doesn’t run to tabloids he clearly does. My goodness, you have to be quite daft to believe this man doesn’t know by now. Also, look up how Hollywood PR works. Some play into it more and BP certainly has and still does. TMZ, Page Six, US Weekly, those are his favorite places to go.
Also, he mentioned his kids right after the GGs when he spoke at a podcast so this nonsense he’s putting out there about caring about his kids privacy is just that. Dude cares about himself first and foremost. Kids are only used when it benefits him. On stage, he didn’t think about them (like most parents who love their kids would) b/c they are not the first thing on his mind which is sad but it shows why they aren’t even in his life anymore. His agent tho, he loves that person. Lol.
“On stage, he didn’t think about them (like most parents who love their kids would) b/c they are not the first thing on his mind which is sad but it shows why they aren’t even in his life anymore. His agent tho, he loves that person. Lol.”
Again, a lot of projection happening here from people suddenly developing mindreading powers.
He thanked his agent because he was responsible for getting him the job in the first place. As far as Hollywood is concerned: You thank your agent, your manager, your publicist, your accountant, and your lawyer as they are the reason you have a career in Hollywood in the first place. In that order. The director, producers, the studio, and supporting cast/crew next.
The kids weren’t even involved in his getting hired in this movie. I don’t see why people feel the need to thank everyone and their mother during speeches. It’s not necessary, especially in this situation he is in where regardless if he mentions the kids or not he is going to get raked over the coals.
And I know how Hollywood PR works. I spent a lot of time in the industry doing just that. We didn’t always clear every single move with our clients, especially if it’s tabloid related. I’m actually quite positive that his PR rep suggested he NOT mention the kids in the speech. No good can come of it from a crisis management perspective.
He mentioned his parents and they had nothing to do with this movie.
F you are in the industry then you you know what’s really going on. He didn’t mention them because he didn’t want to bring attention to his relationship with them at that moment! However 3 words would have melted the hearts of many. His choice. It’s a game. I don’t think he personally told TMZ it was his team and they took a dig at Jolie on his behalf.
Pitt wanted his children to be in his life.
Jolie on the other hand … is herself a child of divorced parents and apparently her daddy didn’t treat her mommy in a fair way and she sided with mommy.
Lolol yeah he sure wants those kids in his life. That’s why he was a drunk who according himself had already checked out. SMH. Bet Zahara is happy to nit have hin at her birthday today
Pffft he would sell all his kids for that acting oscar he so desperately wants
ALL actors want an acting Oscar.
some of the best actors never got one.
Brad Pitt never sold out his kids for pr and he doesn’t do that now either. Jolie did. Repeatedly.
“Brad Pitt never sold out his kids for pr and he doesn’t do that now either”
LOL, of course he was forced to photograph his children and publish it in W magazine
The last few years have been difficult for this family. Let’s hope they all move forward and heal. Brad seems to be trying to do that. I applaud him for that.
Dude is aging badly. Grow the eff up Brad. Your beauty had its limits and you are way past them now. Be accountable for your actions, which have consequences. You yourself screwed up your own life. You make it right.
Well isn’t his team smart. I think just stupid. Sometimes it’s best not to say anything!!!
His agents told the press not to mention the kids being that when with Jolie that was their first question. This is why they went the angle of bringing in JA. I feel sad they are using her like this but she let them.
I respect Brad Pitt for that.
Surely Angelina disrespect this person, because he hit his son on the head, what a prick and fake, fake happy to have an award,
The optics of daddy dearest in NYC since yesterday working hard ass-kissing the industry doing his non-oscar campaign with fellow misoganistic people like him. Instead of being in LA for his daughter’s 15th birthday today.
I guess he will get the media to bury that news, after going on damage control for ghosting his kids from his speech .
I’m over him completely & fairly annoyed that the major media outlets continue to coddle & court him as some kind of Hollywood heart-throb & poster boy & golden example or something. It seems to me that those days have passed.
Caa pay them well with access to their other clients
I vividly remember stories Brad told Oprah of how Shiloh wanted to be called John when she was a kid . Now privacy? Sure. Stroll out ur kids when. It suits you