Showing posts with label Brad Pitt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brad Pitt. Show all posts

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Brad And Angelina Donate $1 Mln To Iraqi Kids

$500,000 to go to educate 8,000 children in Iraq.

Brad And Angelina Donate $1 Mln To Iraqi Kids

Pitt and Jolie have donated millions of dollars to charity over the years.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated one million dollars to support the education of 8,000 children in Iraq and the United States affected by the war, a charity said Wednesday.

The iconic Hollywood couple made the donation to the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict via their charity, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.

A statement from the Education Partnership said the money would be split evenly between U.S. and Iraq non-profit groups.

Money will pay for basic necessities, including books and supplies to help send Iraqi children to school. Aid will also go to refugee kids, and to school rehabilitation programs.

The foundation will also help children in the United States who have a military parent killed in Iraq, or who are separated from a parent stationed in the country.

“These educational support programs for children of conflict are the best way to help them heal,” Jolie, who has visited Iraq twice in the past year, said in a statement.

Pitt added: “We hope to encourage others to give to these great organizations.”

Pitt, 44, and Jolie, 33, have donated millions of dollars to charity over the years. Jolie has long been an advocate for refugees and is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Friday, March 28, 2008

Brangelina baby pics worth 10 million

If Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt want it, they could get a whopping 10 million dollars for pictures of their baby or babies when the actress gives birth, says a magazine editor.

Brangelina baby pics worth 10 million

Leading magazines have started dishing out the cash in millions for the first pictures of celebs’ babies.
People paid Christina Aguilera a reported 1.5 million dollars for pics of her newborn son Max, and shelved out a whopping 6 million dollars for those of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s new twins, Max and Emme.
National Enquirer Executive Editor Barry Levine said that the whole process had become a big business nowadays, with magazines going the extra mile to make sure the paparazzi don’t obtain the photos.
"It's become big business now. It's outrageous, they've gotten very sophisticated. The rights are bought up now even before the celeb enters the hospital. They hire extra security so it's impossible to obtain a photo illegally," the New York Post quoted him, as saying.
He added that the people who would command the highest price would be Angelina Jolie and partner Brad Pitt.

Brangelina baby pics worth 10 million

Added American Media Editorial Director Bonnie Fuller: "If J.Lo really did get $6 million, then I think Angelina can now command 8 million USD. I can't think at this point who could command more money than Brangelina."

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Hot Celeb's With Hottest Body Tattoos

Hot Celeb's With Hottest Body Tattoos

Becks uses his tattoos to make sure his family is always with him. The football star has his sons' names on his back, and a tattoo in Hindi of what was meant to say 'Victoria' but oh-so-tragically turned out as 'Vihctoria'. David has also just added a picture of his wife on his forearm.

Hot Celeb's With Hottest Body Tattoos

Brad Pitt is relatively new to the tattoo club - in 2007 he had his left arm tattooed with the outline of the Iceman. Underneath it is a line in French that translates to 'Life is absurd'.

Hot Celeb's With Hottest Body Tattoos

Victoria Beckham has turned her body into a tribute for her family. The tattoo along her spine is Hebrew for 'I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine'. She also has her husband's initials on her wrist and five stars on her lower back - one for each family member. Ah.

Hot Celeb's With Hottest Body Tattoos

Angelina covered up an unwanted tattoo on her left shoulder that said 'death' in Chinese with a prayer for her adopted son Maddox. 'Know your rights' is tattooed on Angelina's upper back, representing her role as a humanitarian.

Hot Celeb's With Hottest Body Tattoos

Angelina Jolie's tattoos are almost as popular as her pout. Here you can see the roman numerals on her left forearm. Inside her left wrist is a letter H, representing her close relationship with her brother, James Haven.

Hot Celeb's With Hottest Body Tattoos

Kevin Federline and Britney Spears will always be linked by their children... and their matching tattoos. They both have a pair of dice - hers pink and his blue - to remind them that marriage is a gamble. Funny how things work out.

Hot Celeb's With Hottest Body Tattoos

Pink's ever-growing tattoo collection includes a guardian angel on her back, military dog tags from her father and brother on her foot, a barcode from one of her albums on her neck, and the phrase 'what goes around comes around' wrapped around her wrist.

Hot Celeb's With Hottest Body Tattoos

Some of the more interesting tattoos on this 'good girl gone bad' are the Pisces sign behind Rihanna's right ear, the star in her left ear, and a Sanskrit prayer down her hip. There are no signs of any umbrellas.

Hot Celeb's With Hottest Body Tattoos

Amy Winehouse says she gets tattoos so she has something to look at when she's bored. The singer's 13 sailor-like tattoos include pin-up girls, naked women, a horseshoe, an anchor, and a shirt pocket on her chest with 'Blake's' written above it, for husband Blake Fielder-Civil.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Angelina Jolie fuels pregnancy rumours by turning up to awards ceremony in loose dress

Angelina Jolie fuelled rumours she is pregnant with Brad Pitt's twins when she picked up an award wearing a floaty loose dress at the weekend.
The actress, who already has three adopted children and one biological child with Pitt, was honored for her role in the film A Mighty Heart at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.
However, her decision to wear such a loose dress will cause fans to suspect she was hiding her growing bump.

Angelina Jolie fuels pregnancy rumours by turning up to awards ceremony in loose dress

Pregnancy rumours started last month when Angelina, 32, turned up to the Critics' Choice awards and looked like she had gained some much-needed weight.

A source told Star magazine: "Brad and Angelina are absolutely ecstatic.

"But I still think there will be more adoptions to come."

The couple's publicists have not yet commented on the report.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Angelina Jolie looks blissfully happy. But are health fears troubling her paradise?

Angelina Jolie looks blissfully happy. But are health fears troubling her paradise?

Never one to be upstaged, Angelina Jolie spent much of Sunday evening submitting herself to the sort of intensive ministrations from a small army of stylists, hairdressers and make-up artists that might seem a touch excessive even on one of her big budget movies.

The results were, unsurprisingly, traffic-stopping as she glided up the red carpet on the arm of lover Brad Pitt for an awards ceremony in Hollywood.

Not least because her billowing Hermes gown did an inadequate job of covering the "baby bump" that - if reports in the U.S. are correct - contains twins.

Her glittering display at the Screen Actors Guild Awards was, however, a marked transformation from her appearance earlier at the couple's Malibu home.

She is said to have spent the day in tears as she, Pitt, her actor brother James Haven and her four children commemorated the anniversary of her mother's death.

This was a manifestly different Angelina from her date with photographers the same evening. Make-up free, visibly shrunken and pale, friends say she spent the day reading poems and looking at pictures of Marcheline Bertrand, her actress mother who died of cancer a year ago.

An American source told the Mail last night: "It was a sad day, but Angelina knows her mother would have wanted her to carry on working and this was a big event."

As a bonus, the occasion afforded the couple the chance to put on a loved-up display for the cameras as they giggled and canoodled at their table.

One U.S. magazine reported last week that the couple are "ecstatic" after learning that they are expecting twins to add to their three adopted children and a biological daughter.

Certainly, there did appear to be the telltale signs of a tummy beneath Angelina's floor-length frock and she appeared oddly buxom given her slight arms.

What is undeniably true is that she has been trying for a child for several months. In September friends revealed doctors had advised her to put on weight if she wanted to get pregnant.
Angelina Jolie looks blissfully happy. But are health fears troubling her paradise?
At the same time the couple are said to be planning to adopt a girl in New Orleans left orphaned by Hurricane Katrina to add to her rainbow family of adopted children (the couple already have sons Maddox, six, a Cambodian, and Vietnamese Pax, three, plus daughter Zahara, two, as well as Shiloh).

The move to adopt in the U.S. comes after Angelina is said to have been left heartbroken when her attempts to adopt another baby from Ethiopia were turned down eight weeks ago, after African authorities decided to crack down on foreign adoptions.

The decision came as it surfaced that, while Miss Jolie had publicly stated that Zahara was an orphan whose mother had died of Aids, the child's mother is, in fact, alive and - unbeknown to the famous couple - been the subject of a campaign of threats and intimidation from the local man who arranged the adoption.

But those around her are convinced that having a pregnancy to focus on couldn't be more timely for the actress.

Many in her circle had become concerned in recent months about her health as her weight plummeted worryingly to below seven stone. Her actor brother James went public over his own concerns, telling a magazine: "Angelina's life changed after she visited Ethiopia. Whenever she's there, there's often no food for her and she goes without.

"It's hard for her to sit in an expensive restaurant and order freely. She feels guilty about what she eats compared with so many starving people whom she wants to help."

All of which is perturbing, particularly when, as she continued to lose weight, Angelina was telling friends that her and Brad, 44, were trying for a baby.

Meanwhile, rumours have abounded in Hollywood in recent weeks that she collapsed twice on the set of her latest movie - Clint Eastwood's The Changeling (which might, of course, be explained by her early pregnancy).

She is also said recently to have confessed to being "depressed" about what she sees as her lack of progress in solving world hunger.

Another reason to celebrate her pregnancy is the positive effect on her relationship with Pitt, who is reported to have tired of her insistence on trailing their children around the Third World on her charitable missions.

Just weeks ago he was allegedly telling his family that his three-year relationship with Miss Jolie was so troubled he was considering applying for joint custody of the children.

But they quelled the gossip by putting on an over-the-top display of affection this month at the Critics' Choice awards in California. Then, as on Sunday, Angelina gave every impression of being a woman in love.

But, this being Tinseltown, some remain unconvinced, not least because their attempts to silence the chatter come at the same time as Brad is said to be preparing to put his acting career on hold to run for political office.

Sources in the Democratic Party say he has been approached to run for mayor of New Orleans, where he has set up his own foundation to build homes for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

The break-up of another relationship so soon after his divorce from his first wife Jennifer Aniston (Pitt left the Friends actress after meeting Miss Jolie on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith in 2005) could hamper help his chances of election in two years' time.

His decision to follow fellow actor Arnold Schwarzenegger into politics would certainly explain the couple's decision to buy a £2million home in the disaster-hit Louisiana city after announcing that they are quitting LA and their Malibu mansion.

It is all part, say insiders, of the actor's attempts to distance himself from his reputation as a motorbike riding good-time guy and cement his reinvention as a man of the people.

He has hired his own "philanthropic adviser", Trevor Neilsen, who worked for President Clinton's Washington administration, to boost his humanitarian credentials and set up his own "Make It Right" campaign to build ecohomes in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, which was hardest hit by the floods.

But the family's relocation to the city's French Quarter has not been without its problems for the couple. Friends say life has become intolerable because they are mobbed by hordes of gawping locals wherever they go.

One source told the Mail: "It's bad enough in LA with the paparazzi, but at least in California there are loads of celebrities, and people leave you alone. But in New Orleans they are the only stars among a lot of very poor people who have never seen anything like them. The whole situation is beyond a joke."

An illustration of the goldfish bowl lifestyle the couple and their children have come to endure came on Boxing Day when Pitt drove Angelina and the children to a drive-through burger bar in a working-class neighbourhood after an afternoon at the cinema.

Soon the couple's white people carrier was surrounded by an mob of locals all attempting to take pictures with their mobile.

Eventually a bodyguard - part of a security team which always travels with them - was forced to confront the crowd and ask them to back off for the sake of the couple's scared children.

Despite the inconvenience, being visible on the streets will do no harm to Brad's bid for power (nor will the PR of adopting a New Orleans orphan). However Pitt, who took on his charitable causes after meeting Angelina, has not turned his back completely on his film star lifestyle.

As a refuge from his mercy missions to New Orleans, he has taken over a £50,000-a-month lease in Manhattan's ultra-glamorous Waldorf Towers.

He is said to retreat there for some "Brad Time" away from his new family. The star is said to be exhausted because he is expected by his lover to take over the bulk of child care, while she continues her filming schedule.

Associates say Pitt is tasked with getting the children up for school, so Angelina can have a lie-in. She also demands quiet while she is reading and recently left him alone with their brood, while she checked into a Beverly Hills hotel suite for several days.

At the same time she is said to have only half-joked to friends that Brad has not been able to keep up with the reams of UN briefing papers she insists they both read because he spends too much time having his hair lightened.

Nor has he been able to give up the boys' toys to which, like his taste for cigarettes, he remains addicted.

When he has found time to take a break from looking after the children, Pitt has been having helicopter lessons and has just taken his private pilot's exam to fly his own plane.

At Christmas he also added a 165mph Yamaha to his collection of motorbikes. They have come in useful. After one row during an ill-fated holiday to France in September, he is said to have ridden one of his motorcycles from the chateau they were renting in the Dordogne all the way to Berlin.

But their touchy-feely performance at the weekend would suggest they have put their problems behind them.

Angelina is also said to be keen to reconcile with her actor father Jon Voight after a six-year feud. Voight, who walked out on her mother when she was six months' old, was cut off by Angelina after he begged his daughter to seek help for her "serious emotional problems" on a TV show in 2002.

But, after Voight publicly lauding her humanitarian work, she is said to have called him on Christmas Day and told him she was prepared to try to repair their relationship.

With those rumours that she is expecting twins, perhaps Angelina feels it is time her ever-increasing brood got to know their grandfather.


Monday, January 28, 2008

Radiant Angelina Jolie fuels pregnancy rumours with a billowing red carpet gown

Radiant Angelina Jolie fuels pregnancy rumours with a billowing red carpet gown



The eyes were on a radiant Angelina Jolie at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last night, with her billowing vintage Hermès gown further fuelling rumours she's pregnant.

The star sashayed along the red carpet with partner Brad Pitt in tow, and once inside, the pair were inseparable, stealing kisses and holding hands through-out the ceremony.

Baby news? Angelina Jolie, who arrived on the red carpet at last night's Screen Actors Guild Awards with partner Brad Pitt, did little to quash pregnancy talk in her flowing Hermès gown

Angelina, who lost out a best actress trophy for A Mighty Heart to Julie Christie, appeared to sip only water, passing on the expensive champagne and wine on offer.

Radiant Angelina Jolie fuels pregnancy rumours with a billowing red carpet gown

Last week, US reports claimed the 32-year-old is expecting twins, with sources telling Star magazine the couple are "absolutely ecstatic" at the news.

The arrival of twins would bring the Jolie-Pitt brood up to six children, all under the age of seven.

She already has three adopted children, Maddox, 6, Pax, 4, and Zahara, 3 and a biological daughter, Shiloh, 1.

Radiant Angelina Jolie fuels pregnancy rumours with a billowing red carpet gown

While Brad's spokesperson refused to comment, the couple have not hidden their desire to have more children.

When Angelina was asked how many she'd like to have, she responded: "Hmm, it fluctuates between seven and 13 or 14. Four is kind of kicking our ass, but we kind of feel like, damn it, we're up for the challenge!"

Brad has said: "We're looking for a soccer team. I want to compete in the next World Cup."

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