Brangelina: Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Gossip

Friday is World Refugee Day.

It’s that time of the year again and Angelina has another video message for us all:

What’s amazing is that so many are on the watch for a pair of celebrity twins to be born. Meanwhile, there are currently 67 million people who have been forcibly displaced (2007 year end estimate)!

Read up on the UNHCR statistics here.

On Twitter, follow UN Refugee Agency coverage of major crisis from the field.

Sometimes I can’t help but to be mean. Maybe I’m just impatient waiting for the twins to be born.

Anyway, with Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer starting to light it up, I thought I would point out the facts. These facts are undisputable. Google has a nice tool that graphs the amount of world wide web search traffic they get on any given topic. If you compare Jennifer with Angelina over the years, according to Google, you might could say Angelina is twice the woman Jennifer is.

... I’m just saying.

First off:

Happy 33rd Birthday Angelina !!!

The New York Times has a great article concerning last week’s drama:

Five days after “Entertainment Tonight” reported that Angelina Jolie had given birth to twins, it is starting to look more and more as if the syndicated show — which is on every weeknight, primarily on CBS affiliates — made a serious mistake.

A law firm representing Ms. Jolie says that an impostor claiming to be the actress’s assistant misled some news organizations. According to Ms. Jolie’s camp, the birth report was false.

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For news organizations, many millions of dollars hinge on the pregnancy of Ms. Jolie
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Although “Entertainment Tonight” pumps out light fare, it does have a respected place in the world of infotainment, so the apparent mistake left some analysts wondering about a risk to its reputation. Many tabloids have a history of rushing to press with flimsy stories that turn out to be fake, but “Entertainment Tonight” has historically acted with caution.

“Entertainment Tonight” is a moneymaker for the CBS Corporation, although the company does not release financial details. The show, which has been on the air for 27 years, draws an average of 6.5 million viewers every night, twice as many as its most popular rival, “Access Hollywood.” And much of its brand is built on credibility.

The producers know how damaging a blunder can be. The show “can never afford to be wrong,” Ms. Bell Blue told the trade publication TV Week in 2004. “If it means we’re not first on a story, then we won’t be first. We make sure it is right.”

But that was before the Internet became a major player in the gossip game. Since then, sites like Time Warner’s TMZ and Yahoo’s OMG have made the format of a half-hour evening show seem sluggish.

Wow, Wow, Wow !
If Angelina is still pregnant (which she most likely is), she has a lot of power in her hands right now. All she has to do is walk outside their chateau during a helicopter flyoff and “poof” Entertainment Tonight is ruined.

This is from MSNBC:

... despite hinting that Jolie won’t give birth until later this summer — the Jolie-Pitt twins’ debut is actually right around the corner.

One source close to the couple said that three nurses were summoned from Los Angeles and flew to France on Wednesday. “They’re the same nurses that helped out with Shiloh, and one of them was to be serving as Angelina’s doula,” said the source.

... Regardless of when the Jolie-Pitt babies make their public debut, their nursery abroad has been set for weeks. “There is a lot in there that was custom made in Cap d’Antibes, everything is natural and organic, and much of it came from Petit Tresor,” said a source who was privy to the planning. “They’re nothing if not well prepared.”

Sorry folks. People magazine has stepped in and said the rumors flying around today are false. Angelina Jolie has not given birth yet. Sorry ET, you lose.

Update (4:50PM EST):
Wow, what a day! I never saw Entertainment Tonight back down from their story. Now, their web site seems to have crashed. It’s probably due to the amount of traffic they’ve been getting. I can’t wait to see what ET has to say on their TV show tonight. One thing is for sure. Someone’s head is going to roll. There’s still a chance it might be someone from People Magazine but I doubt it. Its possible Angelina’s official rep gave misinformation to People in order to protect Brangelina’s privacy. This, of course, would be a serious breach in the good relationship the magazine has had with the Jolie-Pitts. I have a feeling that this story will be a major blow to the Entertainment Tonight franchise. The magnitude of this story may permanently cripple them.

It’s amazing. Angelina and her family are at ease snuggly secure far away in their French fortress guarding their privacy. Meanwhile on the outside, there’s a vicious war being fought to be first at getting any true information concerning what really is currently going on in their lives.

This from metro.co.uk:

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie could get hitched ‘within days’, according to new reports.
The powerhouse couple are rumoured to be on the brink of tying the knot in France in a low-key ceremony before the birth of their twins.
“Brad and Angelina are planning a small wedding to be held within the next couple of weeks and that means having it in France,” a source told Grazia.

(... rest of the article)

I give this a 5% chance or maybe ‘slim to none’.

According to the Guardian, “metro.co.uk saw the slowest growth, rising 9% to 488,000 users in March this year”. Oh my gosh! Quick! Run another Brangelina’s getting married story! It’s the only way to keep up with the other rags.

The important thing is that we have reading material to occupy us as we sit in the baby delivery waiting room for the next month.

This from the Salt Lake Tribune in Utah:

Forget about “High School Musical” – how would you like to be an extra in a movie starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn?

“Tree of Life,” a fantasy-adventure starring Pitt and Penn and directed by Terrence Malick (“The New World,” “The Thin Red Line”), will be shooting for a few days in June around the Great Salt Lake and the Bonneville Salt Flats. A casting company is looking for extras of all sorts – “families, spouses, siblings, children, grandparents and people with expressive faces between the ages of 5-65 with timeless, non-modern or unique looks,” according to a company news release. An open casting call is scheduled for May 31 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Deseret Peak Complex Firefighters Museum, 2930 W. Highway 112, Tooele. Bring a nonreturnable photo. Call 512-637-9782 or e-mail extrascastingcall@gmail.com for more information.

It sure does look like those babies dropped sometime between these last 2 pictures! They may be coming into this world sooner than you think. Ain’t no way she’s due in August.

Watch this morning on NBC’s Today show and see Jack Black confirm the obvious. Later in the day, search YouTube for the behind the scenes video of Angelina Jolie scratching Jack Black’s eyes out.

This version of the story from the Sydney Morning Herald:

Actor Jack Black let the news slip while doing a joint interview with Jolie in the French Riviera to promote their movie, Kung Fu Panda.

“You’re going to have as many as the Brady Bunch when you have these,” he said during the chat with the Today show’s Natalie Morales.

Asked by Morales if she was indeed having twins, Jolie replied, “Yeah, yeah, we’ve confirmed that already. Well, Jack’s just confirmed it, actually.”

I’m still calling boy/girl.

On another note, I just found that the polar opposite of my blog linked to me: ihatebrangelina.com I’m returning the favor. Now, go to the corner and shrivel up and die.