Celebrity Gossip

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt welcomed their twins into the world - and into ravenous demand for first photos of the celebrity offspring.

Baby boy Knox Leon and girl Vivienne Marcheline were born one minute apart Saturday night via Cesarean section in a hospital on the French Riviera.

Pitt, 44, “was my assistant,” quipped obstetrician Dr. Michael Sussman, who delivered the twins. “He was very happy . . . the emotion was very strong for him.”

And the babies - who each weighed around 5 pounds - “are doing marvelously well,” Sussman said.

Twins are the best! Ive got the best pair of identical twin girls a dad could ever have in Sophia and Gabriella. If Brad and Angelinas twins are half as great as mine have been, they are in for a real treat! Those twins will be running the Bradalina empire soon enough!

When the moment finally came to welcome their newborn twins into the world, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were as calm as could be.

During the labor and delivery, the couple “were talking, they were together,” Dr. Michel Sussmann told reporters outside Fondation Lenval Hospital in Nice, France, where twins Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon were born on Saturday. “It was an epidural, so [Angelina] was awake and speaking and laughing. They were happy.”

Pitt never left Jolie’s side – “he was my assistant!” Sussmann said jokingly – and even cut the babies’ umbilical cords.

“He was … perfectly calm, totally determined, very pleased to be at the birth of his children, very moved and very emotional,” said Sussmann.

Asked whether the birth had been a textbook delivery, Sussmann replied, “absolutely no problems.”

When will Jolie and the babies leave the hospital? “I don’t know,” he said. “She will stay for a few days. You know, in Europe it isn’t like in the United States, where the patients go home after three days. They will stay a bit longer until everything is okay.”

He added: “The babies are fine. The babies are with the mother and father and they are fine.”
Source

Brad and Angelina haven’t confronted any pregnancy rumors, but today at the Film Independent’s Spirit Awards, the two decided to use a more passive approach — just show the bump!

Source

Though Angelina Jolie has been keeping quiet about the news, her manager Geyer Kosinski was overheard talking abut her pregnancy at a party on January 25. Another close insider says that the actress is expecting twins with her longtime love Brad Pitt. “They run in the Pitt family - his sister, Julie, has twin girls,” the friend explains. The pregnancy news has made Angelina, who reportedly had been seeking fertility treatment, very happy. But that’s not all. The couple still plans to adopt an Ethiopian girl later this year. “They decided long before they learned Angelina is expecting,” the insider says. With a possibility of three babies in 2008, in addition to Maddox, Pax, Zahara and Shiloh, their home will be noisier than ever.

Source

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were in prime seats at the Pretty Boy Floyd Mayweather and Ricky Hatton boxing match in Las Vegas this Saturday.

Brad Pitt hasn’t seen this much fight action since the glory days of Fight Club.  Its good to see Brad get out to  a normal guy event and that Angelina at least lets him do something these days.

proudly told CNN’s Anderson Cooper about her adopted daughter, Zahara. “She’s from Ethiopia. She’s an AIDS orphan,” Angelina said. But Zahara’s adoption papers, which an In Touch representative was shown on November 12, clearly states that Zahara has a grandmother and extended family alive in Africa - and the grandmother introduced In Touch to her daughter, who claims to be Zahara’s mother. Now, Angelina’s worst nightmare may come true. “I want my daughter to come home to see where she is from,” the woman who says she’s Z’s mother, Mentewab Dawit Lebiso, tells In Touch. “Her grandmother and I both tried very hard to raise her, and I want her to come home to regain her identity.”
Source

Brad Pitt came to his girlfriend Angelina Jolie’s rescue at the European premiere of her new film Beowulf on Sunday, by helping her cover-up when her leather trousers split at the back.

Pitt and Jolie were on the red carpet in London’s Leicester Square when the actress’ skin-tight black leather trousers started to unstitch around her bottom.

Quick-thinking gentleman Pitt shielded Jolie’s embarrassment from photographers by covering the exposed area with his hand.

Jolie didn’t have the best entrance to the event - she also stepped in a piece of chewing gum which stuck itself to the heel of her $1,200 (€1,700) Christian Louboutin stilettos.
Source

Actress Angelina Jolie has cancelled plans to give a lecture in Italy this week, amid reports she is pregnant with her and Brad Pitt’s second biological child.

The ‘Tomb Raider’ beauty was due to give a talk at the Pio Manzu Centre near Rimini as part of a conference entitled, ‘The Flight Of The Hummingbird - The Future of Children In The Mind And Society Of The World’ - but pulled out at the last minute.

Local newspaper reports claim Jolie cancelled the appearance after discovering she was expecting - and a spokeswoman for the Pio Manzu Centre appeared to ‘confirm’ the media speculation.

Letizia Manjani says: “Angelina cancelled last week. Due to her privacy I can’t confirm her pregnancy, but I can say that the Italian newspapers are correct in their reports.”

Jolie and her boyfriend Pitt have their own biological daughter, 16-month-old Shiloh, as well as their adopted children Maddox, six, Pax, three and Zahara, two.

Pitt recently expressed his desire to expand their family once again by saying: “We’re ready for another one.”

Source

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are teaming up to produce a new TV series based on the lives of aid workers.

The couple is working on a new small screen project - their first together - for US TV network HBO, which will go behind the scenes of an international aid organisation.

The series is being written by ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ co-writer Scott Burns, who also produced ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.

Source