Brad And Angelina: Wedding Of The Year!
Is it just us or does it not seem a little pretentious of In Touch magazine to declare the possible union between Brad and Angelina as the "wedding of the year" when it is still January?
Brad and Jen and Angelina, ad infinitum
As a former member of the broadcast news media, I understand a little about what type of story resonates with readers and viewers. A lot of recent stories that made a big splash on TV and in the tabloids I knew would be big, and I could see why. The runaway bride story? No doubt people would be interested in that. A young, healthy sex symbol like Lindsay Lohan showing up looking like a skeleton? I understand why people want to know what happened. The Weekly World News reporting that Bat Boy has run off with Hillary Clinton again? Hey, let me read that.
But there is one story that remains at the top of the news list for TV and magazines that for the life of me I can’t understand. It’s the story about the love triangle between Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie. For those of you just emerging from a 50-year stint in the bomb shelter, here’s the basic story: Brad marries Jennifer, Brad takes an interest in Angelina, Brad dumps Jennifer for Angelina. Jen feels bad, Brad and Angelina are happy. Angelina gets pregnant. That’s it.
Now, I understand why all of that news would be of great interest to the media eager to fill pages or 30 minutes of air time a night. But why, oh why, is the story still apparently the hottest thing around, long after the big revelations have already been made, and analyzed, and analyzed again? It’s been many months now since the original infidelity and subsequent switcheroo took place. So why is this story apparently the No. 1 news event in the solar system?
You think I exaggerate? I do my family’s grocery shopping each week, so I see all the tabloids and magazines at the checkout counter. Last night, I wrote down what each one had as its cover story. Not a cover story, but the cover story, the one with the huge headline and the cover photo. Here’s this week’s roundup:
People: "Brad and Angelina: Inside Their Love"
US: "How Jen Found Out"
Star: "Pregnant Angelina COLLAPSES" (and a secondary cover head: "Humiliated Jen Proposes to Vince!"
In Touch: "What She’s Not Telling Brad" (she being Angelina)
Celebrity Living: "Brad and Angelina: TWINS!"
OK!: "Who Really Told Jen?"
There was not a single magazine on the stand that did not have the Brad-Jen-Angelina story as its cover. And believe me, it’s like this almost every week. Another story will occasionally grab the covers for a week here and there — the Lindsay Lohan anorexia revelations, the Jessica and Nick divorce — but after those stories burn out, it’s back to Brad and Jen and Brad and Angelina and Jen and Angelina.
I truly can’t fathom that there are significant numbers of people in the United States so caught up in this non-story that they have to spend good money each week to avail themselves of every scrap of gossip and every idle speculation by "unnamed sources" about what Jen might think about what Brad and Angelina are doing, or what Brad might think of what Jen is doing, or what any of them think about anything at all.
Can any of you readers help me figure this out?
I tell you, it’s almost enough to make me wish for another O.J. trial.
In February…
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie certainly are busy bees.
The word on the street now is that the beautiful couple are planning on getting married before Jolie gives birth to their baby/babies.
According to In Touch magazine, a date and venue has yet to be decided on but are hoping that the event can take place in February.
An insider said: “They’re giving this a lot of thought,”
“They’ve considered all the options — from the extravagant to the basic.”
The wedding will be a very small one, with no one then a handful of friends and family members in attendance.
The ceremony will incorporate Jolie’s Buddhist beliefs and Brad’s Baptist upbringing…
Should be quite an event.
By: Lowri Williams
Brad Pitt Best man Guy Richie
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
It is being reported that Brad Pitt has ask Guy Richie to be his best man at his upcoming wedding to Angelina Jolie. This all happen when Brad and Angelina took Guy and Madonna out to dinner at Locanda Locatelli. Also present at the dinner was chef Jamie Oliver, who will be helping out with the catering. A source tells the Sunday Mirror:
All the talk was of the forthcoming nuptials. And then Brad said to Guy he would like him to be best man. Guy was absolutely thrilled. He thinks it’s a real honour. Brad and his ex Jennifer Anniston were great pals with Jamie and they loved his food.
| Tabloid Tuesday: Angelina Jolie Wedding, Pregnancy and Due Date |
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| By Staff Jan 31, 2006 |
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This Week’s BIG Stories: Angelina Jolie Is Pregnant (she’s either due on May 2, June 6, or sometime this summer, depending on which tabloid you read) and either will or will not marry Brad, Vince Moves In With Jennifer Aniston…. (seems rather sparse, doesn’t it? Oh well, that’s what the tabs are offering…)
TABLOID TUESDAY officially declares the feeding frenzy over Angelina’s pregnancy is in full-swing! This week, she scored a perfect 4 OUT OF 4 – her impending motherhood was the main story on all 4 of the tabloids, with lots of !!! and *** and BIG headlines. So you might as well get used to it – that’s all you’re going to be reading about for the next 4 months…
She’s either due on May 2, June 6, or sometime this summer, depending on which tabloid you read
The Details:
US WEEKLY starts the parade with the headline SHE’S DUE MAY 2!… ANGIE & BRAD MOVE THE FAMILY TO EUROPE … HIS PLANS TO TAKE A YEAR OFF … THEY KNOW THE SEX! IT’S A … (it’s a what?…. flip, flip, flip… trying to find the story… here it is….hmmmmm, well, you have to read this for yourself… “…two sources tell US, it’s a boy. (Remember, though: This is the same secretive pair who swore she wasn’t pregnant until the announcement. So anything is possible.”
What? US WEEKLY is saying that they’re basing this part of the story on two of their sources that were wrong about the whole pregnancy issue? Doesn’t it seem more likely that you’d get the fact that someone is pregnant a lot easier than finding out the sex of the baby? TABLOID TUESDAY can’t quite figure out what US WEEKLY is trying to do…
THE STAR jumps in with almost the entire cover of the issue dedicated to Angelina…… the headlines begin ANGELINA SPEAKS!… FINALLY, IN HER OWN WORDS! WHY SHE’LL NEVER MARRY BRAD! REVEALS BABY’S EXACT DUE DATE! WANTS 13 KIDS! (Oh, Oh – looks like a !!!! alert – remember the rule: The more !!! the less substance in the story. Of course, we have to take a peak inside…
Angelina met Robert Rodriguez, director of “Spy Kids” at the hotel Bel-Air because he wanted to talk with her about starring in one of his upcoming films. During the course of the conversation, Angelina told Rodriguez that she’d like to have 13 kids – adopting the rest and that she and Brad weren’t going to get married because they’ve both been divorced. She also told him that she’s due on June 6, 2006.
Star gets points for getting Rodriguez to tell them about his meeting with Angelina and for the opening design of the story – a series of photos that looks as if they were taken during the interview – they weren’t, but it’s a good try. STAR delivered what the headlines promised.
IN TOUCH announces WEDDING OF THE YEAR .. THE FLOWERS, THE DRESS, AND HER RING – CREATED BY PRINCESS DI’S JEWELER! (Wait a minute – TABLOID TUESDAY is confused again— didn’t Angelina just say in a “world exclusive” interview in STAR that she and Brad were NOT going to get married? Let’s look inside…..
Yup, there it is, page 14 of IN TOUCH –FINALLY, A WEDDING! ANGELINA JOLIE AND BRAD PITT’S BIG DAY IS THE EVENT OF THE YEAR. HERE’S THE SCOOP ON THEIR SPECIAL CELEBRATION.
Mark it down on your calendar – oops, there’s no date, but the wedding will be at their home. Well, we’ll keep track of the doings’ and see who turns out to be right….
THE ENQUIRER goes down a different road – the headlines scream REVEALED … BRAD & ANGELINA’S BIG SECRET! IT’S A BOY! INSIDE: WHY SHE’S FURIOUS OVER THIS SONOGRAM…
The inside story says IT’S A BOY! FOR BRAD AND ANGE … AS WE REVEAL THEIR SECRET, COUPLE VENT FURY OVER SONOGRAM SOLD ON EBAY! Okay, here’s what the ENQUIRER did …. Some idiot sold and another idiot bought a sonogram on eBay that said it was of Angelina Jolie’s baby – the ENQUIRER ran the picture of the sonogram on the front page.
But here’s where it gets to be dicey – every single person quoted in the story (except the buyer) says that the sonogram is NOT of Angelina’s baby – and there’s no way to prove it is because Angelina or her doctor didn’t give them the sonogram. But that didn’t stop the ENQUIRER … even though their own story casts serious doubt on the legitimacy of the sonogram, the opening to their story reads: “Now we can exclusively unveil the secret they were hoping to keep until the summer birth – that it is a boy.”
Three of the four tabloids tell us that Vince has moved in with Jennfier Aniston. US WEEKLY says JEN & VINCE MOVE IN, while STAR says VINCE MOVES IN WITH JEN and IN TOUCH asks TOO FAST? JEN LETS VINCE MOVE IN! (We just couldn’t bring ourselves to read about this so if you’re interested, pick which version you want to read and enjoy!)
And that’s about it… ENQUIRER offers up AMERICAN IDOL ROCKED BY NEW SCANDALS! SHOCKING GAY SECRET EXPOSED! CONTESTANT BUSTED BY COPS! (No, we couldn’t read this story either – we don’t find ‘gay secret’ to be scandalous.)
The ENQUIRER’S final story is HONEYMOON CRUISE MYSTERY… BOMBSHELL NEW EVICENCE… PLUS: NEVER BEFORE SEEN WEDDING PHOTOS… (Yawn…)
THE MEN.COM WORST OF THE WEEK: ENQUIRER
Hey, we love gossip but the sonogram was WAY over the edge – your own story pointed out that there was no way to prove that it was Angelina’s – and everyone in the story (except the buyer) said it wasn’t real. It’s nothing but a cheap shot.
Brad and Angelina leaving Switzerland (a couple of days ago)
Thanks to Ivy @ JJB for pics!
Angelina and Brad on their way back from Switzerland
No rest from the Paparazzi by the look of these shots
