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Despite paparazzi up on the rooftops and horrible, scary rumors of paparazzi renting helicopters in a desperate attempt to capture the first photos of Knox and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt on the sly, all the people behind the cameras were foiled. Angelina Jolie, Knox, and Vivienne were discharged from the Lenval hospital and arrived home safely.
Well thank goodness for that, because thoughts of paparazzi chasing down a helicopter departure immediately reminded me of Princess Di being chased for a photo op right before she died.
The family – and presumably Brad Pitt was with them – left in the dark hours, heading out at about 4 am on Saturday morning. Rather than leaving in a helicopter, which was how she arrived, she slipped out by car. According to People, an observer said, “We saw the cars and we thought it was her but we didn’t see anything.”
That’s so wonderful to know that they were able to leave quietly. My theory was that they would slip her down to the emergency room and transport them out by ambulance. The idea would be that no one would think it was Angelina or the Jolie-Pitt twins, that it would just look like an ambulance heading out on an emergency call.
They did, however, elude the press by slipping out the back way. You can read the full story of their well-organized departure here.
Dr. Sussmann, Angelina’s doctor was the one who broke the news to the disappointed paparazzi, saying, “You can go home. The story is over.”
What a relief to know that Angelina Jolie, Knox, and Vivienne are safely at home at their chateau.
I’m french, and as a fan I’ve always thought from the beginning that Brad and Angie should have not chosen France to give birth to the twins for the main reason that our paparazzi are at least as harsh as the american ones. BTW do you know people that the main paparazzi agencies in L.A, like x17 online and their kinds are ALL run by french people? Unfortunately if Brad and Angie wanted some privacy in France they failed for paparazzi in here are particularly mean, invasive and have no respect for anyone.
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i wonder if they are all sleeping together in one room tonight to welcome the newly added twins.
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Fan from Vietnam, I also saw the story about the children visiting and each giving her a flower and my heart melted. I also have a vision of them all having a sleepover last night. Now they can start just being happy everyday away from the paps. I can’t wait to see the pictures, but I do not want to see any shots of them that the paps might take from a helicopter. This is their life not a circus.
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God bless mom and pappa pitt, I read some where that they were there for the birth and they are proud of angie and brad. I am glad that they are home safely, mom and dad can get some kind of rest. God bless the jloie-pitt family. They are always in our prayer.
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Welcome home little Jolie-Pitts
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Ha ha ha, Victoria. Maybe all of us Pittwatchers can take turns being Moderation Queen every month. It’s only fair, right? ;-)
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Kari, I’ve been thinking about this for a long time too. Can anyone think of any current celebrity who’s under as much media assault as the JPs? Britney Spears & Paris Hilton at their worst came close. I still remember the sea of shark-like paps surrounding their cars, banging on the windows, climbing on the hood. But it wasn’t 24/7/365 for them like it is for the Jolie-Pitts.
Maybe it was like this for Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton when they got together – I don’t remember if each of them were married. It was a huge scandal but there weren’t as much paparazzi & tabloids then as now. I’ve seen documentaries & the Beatles were subjected to this kind of hysteria. Crooners lie Frank Sinatra. Marilyn Monroe. I think the Dionne Quintuplets & Shirley Temple too. Baby Jessica who fell into that narrow hole. And for a sadder reason, the Lindbergh baby.
Still, in terms of number of paparazzi & tabloid media, the entitlement they feel to invade private & physical space, hours stalked, advanced technology, it seems to me that the JPs have it the worst of all celebrities of all time. What do you think?
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Ha! My comment on Kari’s post about media attention is under mod – that’s 3 out of 10.
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God, I am so glad that the paps were fooled like that. Total humilliation. Bravo Brad and Angie.
Now, regarding the babies, I’m happy that they finally got home safe and the whole familly is now out of the world’s eye. I bet the other litle ones missed their mommy very much and it was probably a very seweet “welcome back, mommy”!:) God, cand you imagine the quantity of love in that house now? :p As big as the property:))
I was thinking about something funny today? When she had shiloh, angie said that it was a liitle bid difficult when she breastfed, in the sense that she cannot sit still very well. Imagine her now, with two! :))))
Can you post a link to the site where you read the news about the kids bringing flowers to angie? If this is true, it’s the sweetest thing ever :)
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darl, I agree with what you say about the kids never having the joy of joining any youth teams. This is so much a big part of growing up. Could you image the uproar if Madd was to join little league, his poor team would not stand a chance, it would be like a three ring circus. Kari, do you ever wonder why the whole world is so into this family? I would be interested to read other thoughts on this. I also hope that Angie’s brother James is able to talk Angie into extending an invitation to Jon Voight. The house is certainly big enough and with Brad’s family there maybe they could have a chance to try and talk things out. There would be enough other people around that Angie would not have to entertain him 24/7.
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Lara, I posted this on the “Brad emotional” thread:
Jul 17, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I’ve no idea if this is true, it’s a sweet, sweet story anyway:
Angelina Jolie Gets Flowers From Children
By Adam Nutburn, July 17 2008
Staff at the Nice, France, hospital where Angelina Jolie gave birth Saturday were left with lumps in their throats — after the Hollywood superstar’s children presented her with flowers.
Accompanied by beaming-father Brad Pitt, Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and 2-year-old Shiloh each handed mom a single flower.
“It was a blessed sight,” one staffer at the Fondation Lenval tells Us Weekly magazine. “I had a lump in my throat.”
Tomb Raider star Jolie, 33, got more support from her family Thursday when her brother James Haven popped by for a visit.
Meanwhile, Angelina has received so many bouquets of flowers during her hospital stay, staffers had to store them in her security guards’ rooms.
http://www.showbizspy.com/showbiz/07172008/angelina-jolie-gets-flowers-from-children
The sad thing is Star has Shiloh on its cover with the same story except leaving out her sister & brothers – Zahara, Pax & Maddox. As if they didn’t give their mom flowers too, as if they didn’t exist.
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Mary Ann,
I don’t really agree that Jon Voigt should visit. I read some things on the web (can’t remember where I found them anymore… I think I googled Angie’s mother’s name and it came up) which talked about the truly disturbing and awful things Jon Voigt did to Marcheline when Angie and James were growing up. The problems Jon and Angelina have are not just your typical child – parent fight, they run very deep and at a fundamental level. He pretty much disowned his kids, except for sending them minimal child support payments, but Angelina was able to work her way up into Hollywood without his help. Angie has said, your family is the family you earn and I totally agree with her. Blood ties aren’t everything. Sometimes in fact, they make things worse because you expect to have a bond with someone but they don’t reciprocate, so it’s very painful.
I think the family is so famous because what they are doing is truly pushing the envelope in terms of Hollywood celebrity behavior. They are really working towards social change in their way and they’ve done it wish such style that it’s won everyone over ! Now everyone wants to adopt a multicultural family ! They are basically behaving with their lives the way socially and morally we all think we should, but we make excuses for ourselves like, oh it’s too hard, it would never work… But the beautiful thing and the great thing is that they’ve shown that it can work, and beautifully. Also on a more superficial front, they are both drop dead gorgeous of course… so we are all curious to see what their progeny will look like… But it’s especially awesome to see a family emerge that has a kid from Africa, a kid from Vietnam, a kid from Cambodia…and to see them morph into this beautiful, unified family that actually LOOKS like they belong together… it’s an amazing thing.
That’s why I got fascinated anyway. And you all?
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Why is the world so into the Jolie-Pitts?
The perfect media-hype storm. Take Angie – the whole of her. Take Brad. Each of them attracts super-media attention by themselves. Each of them the sexiest & most beautiful & talented in the universe. Put them together. Spicy, sizzling hot, caliente – sex on a stick. The tabloids have made lots of money on them already, but they smelled blood & mega-sales in their invented “dark homewrecker-All American Girl-All American Boy” triangle. The tabloids whip up a frenzy about everything Angelina & Brad – with Angelina being designated “bad girl.” It’s because Angie & Brad are the parents that their children – especially their biological children Shiloh, Vivienne Marcheline & Knox Leon – are at the center of an almost mob-like hysteria.
There have been articles about why we obsess about celebrities’ kids. Basically, it makes us feel closer to the celebrities since we have kids too.
The people who buy/read the tabloids don’t seem to notice or care that the JP stories are recycled & repeated over & over again, often contradicting themselves.
Whereas all their true fans – like us – enjoy & appreciate accurate coverage & photos of their family and their activities, and support them when we can by donating to their causes, watching their movies, posting comments in blogs by posting the truth & exposing the lies, etc.
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Mary Ann, my comment answering “Why is the world so into the JPs?” is – guess what? – under mod! That’s 4 out of 11. You can read a form of it in the “JP twins photos” thread.
Also, part of my answer is in this thread posted at 3:21 pm – OOPS! I did it again – under mod.
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OK, I realize there may be a problem word here – I’ll delete and see what happens:
Why is the world so into the Jolie-Pitts?
The perfect media-hype storm. Take Angie – the whole of her. Take Brad. Each of them attracts super-media attention by themselves. Each of them the sexiest & most beautiful & talented in the universe. Put them together. Spicy, sizzling hot, caliente – sex on a stick. The tabloids have made lots of money on them already, but they smelled blood & mega-sales in their invented “dark hw-All American Girl-All American Boy” triangle. The tabloids whip up a frenzy about everything Angelina & Brad – with Angelina being designated “bad girl.” It’s because Angie & Brad are the parents that their children – especially their biological children Shiloh, Vivienne Marcheline & Knox Leon – are at the center of an almost mob-like hysteria.
There have been articles about why we obsess about celebrities’ kids. Basically, it makes us feel closer to the celebrities since we have kids too.
The people who buy/read the tabloids don’t seem to notice or care that the JP stories are recycled & repeated over & over again, often contradicting themselves.
Whereas all their true fans – like us – enjoy & appreciate accurate coverage & photos of their family and their activities, and support them when we can by donating to their causes, watching their movies, posting comments in blogs by posting the truth & exposing the lies, etc.
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My track record: 5 of 12 under mod.
I saw photos Maddox in a cute blue soccer outfit playing a game. He must have been 4 or 5. Conner & Isabella had no problem playing team sports. But most of the time we never saw their pics. So I don’t think Suri & the JP kids will be able to do that. Maybe they can play team sports but only in elite teams made up of supr-famous kids.
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I am so happy for them that they are home now. Brad must be in seventh heaven. Some comments after the article were nasty. Anyway, majority are good. I don’t know about the flowers because Us Weekly (is a tabloid headed by Janice Mean) a very unreliable mag. If this is true, that is so sweet.
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Lara, I also say, bring Grandpa Jon into the fold~~I do not judge because I do not know the whole story or them for that matter but I do not blame him for some of the things he said about Angelina to the press. God love her, she did do some crazy things in her younger days that would have made me cringe as a parent. But she has lost her mom and I believe it would be healthy for all involved to heal that relationship!!
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I agree with Kari about Jon Voight. What I remember Angelina saying is that she & Jon had made contact, started talking & that they were working on a relationship as adults – not as father & daughter. I thought it was a HUGE step given that Angie had banished Jon from her children’s & her life. There’s the old saw about learning to crawl before walking, and walking before running. Some things just can’t be rushed – like good soup & fine wine.
Angie’s just given birth, just gotten home, has not one but 2 newborns to nurse & care for, plus the 4 musketeers, James, and Brad’s parents. They’ll be a tremendous help, but still Ange will expend emotional energy on them. This might not be the best time to force/rush Angie for a total reconciliation. Angie knows what’s best for her and at what pace. And IMO, Jon had best make peace with Angelina for herself, not just to gain access to the grandkids & play nice grandpa.
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Ligaya,
As to your question about whether I/we think that Angelina and Brad have the highest attention of paparazzi obsession ever, yes, I think it has reached unprecedented heights. It’s probably kind of overwhelming and frightening for them !
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