All this week's BrAngelina drama.

Publications: Weekly Life & Style, National Enquirer

Date: 12 Dec. 2011

Two very different stories this week, mainly about Angelina Jolie, but Brad and daughter Shiloh get mentioned as well, so they count as BrAngelina.  Here are the headlines.

• Weekly Life & Style:  Angelina: Desperate to be skinny
  She's surviving on just 600 calories a day
  Brad begs a stressed and frail Angelina to stop starving herself
• National Enquirer: Brad rages at Angelina for raising Shiloh as a boy!
  All the details
  Put her in a dress! Brad orders Angie!

Bun in the Oven Alert™: Brad confirms baby # 7

Publication: Weekly Life & Style

Date: 5 Dec. 2011

The headline only mentions Brad Pitt as a source for a rumor that the Jolie-Pitt clan will be adding another member, but the picture on the cover is of BrAngelina, so this story gets a label mentioning both of them.   With these two, it may not be a Bun In The Oven Alert™ per se, but that's the only label I have that fits.

It should also be noted that a new addition to the Jolie-Pitt clan is a rumor as popular as the Kardashian pregnancy stories, and we haven't had one of those in at least two years.

All this week's BrAngelina mishegas before Turkey Day.

Publications: OK!, In Touch

Date: 28 Nov. 2011

I have written it before but it bears repeating. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie don't actually have to do anything newsworthy to show up on the covers of the gossip rags, they just have to exist.

Here are this week's headlines.

• In Touch: Angelina ruins Thanksgiving!
• OK!: Brad & Angie: Wedding rehearsal

While only Angie is mentioned in the cover headline of In Touch, the picture is of both, so it counts as a BrAngelina story instead of a solo.

On the rocks alert: Angelina smacks Brad.

Publication: In Touch

Date: 21 Nov. 2011

Fresh trash on Thursdays!  After going a week BrAngelina free, the gossip rags are back on the crack pipe, dishing stories about BrAngelina that may or may not be true.  Technically, smack could mean hit and it could mean kiss.  Knowing In Touch, I suspect it's the former.

Damn You Skinny Alert™: Brad begs Angie to eat.

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 24 Oct. 2011

We get another "friends fear" headline this week, this time about Angelina Jolie being addicted to diet pills and Brad trying to get her to eat. Once again, we get news of her being at a ridiculous weight, this time 93 lbs., the lowest number yet reported for her.

On the rocks alert: Angie and her bodyguard too close!

Publication: Star
Date: 17 Oct. 2011

Fresh trash on Thursdays! All things must pass and there will come a week when all will be silent forever more on the BrAngelina front.

This is not that week. Next week doesn't look good either.

This time, it's the Star saying Angie is up to her old tricks, this time with the bodyguard and Brad is in a jealous rage.

It's always something with these two, isn't it?

Annoying label bookkeeping for Jen and Brad and Angelina and Justin story of 3 Oct.

Link to the story above.

Bells Are Ringing Alert™ and Fussin' and Feudin' Alert: Angie plans to ruin Jen's wedding.

Publication: OK!
Date: 26 Sept. 2001

OK!, the most positive scandal rag if not the most reliable, doubles down on the cover story with two unsubstantiated rumors, the marriage plans of Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux, allegedly planning to wed in December, AND the wedding plans of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Of course, their take in the situation is that the witch Angelina is planning on getting married just to ruin Jennifer's wedding.

Damn You Skinny Alert™: Obsessed with dieting

Publication: Weekly Life & Style
Date: 19 Sept. 2011

Yet another grab bag story about female celebrities who are way too skinny, this time from Weekly Life & Style. Here are the particulars.

• Brad begs Angie to eat as the frail star drops to her lowest weight ever
• Delusional Katie: I'm too fat to make it in Hollywood
• Devastated Taylor: barely eating
• LeAnn: Starving to keep her man
• Stars' Dangerous Tricks for Not Feeling Hungry
  
  

On the rocks alert: OK! continues to push the story of Brad Pitt and his assistant.

Publication: OK!

Date: 5 Sept. 2011



OK! continues to push the story of Brad Pitt's relationship with a young assistant on the set of World War Z, first leaked in early July. Here are the new headlines.

• Brad's mystery woman revealed
• (OK! exclusive)
• She shows off in a sexy bikini
• Parades around in her underwear
• Her x-rated message to Angie

Her name is not mentioned on the cover, but on the website OK! outs Lara Marsden as the culprit.

Growing up Jolie-Pitt!

Publication: People

Date: 29 August 2011



People devotes most of the cover to a story about the Jolie-Pitt brood. Ignoring Angie and Brad, from left to right we have 6 year old Zahara, 10 year old Maddox, the 3 year old twins Knox and Viv, 5 year old Shiloh in back and 7 year old Pax, working on his swagger.

On the rocks alert: More trouble for BrAngelina!

Publication: OK!

Date: 22 August 2011

Last week, OK! said that Brad and Angie had a 26 day fight, a statement that makes it sound like the fight is over. This week, they say the fighting continues and Angie has left Brad behind.

The news in reputable sources says Angie is working on a movie, so that may be the kernel of truth behind this story.

Demon Drugs Alert™: Brad Pitt caught in dirty drug den.

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 15 August 2011

The Flagship went after both Justin Theroux and Brad Pitt as drug addicts this week. They claimed Theroux was addicted to coke and heroin, though they used the phrase "his dark past". Brad Pitt's situation is made to sound present tense. Here are the headlines.

• Brad caught in dirty drug den
• Angie's rage
• How he got busted

I admit sheepishly I opened the Enquirer this week looking at the story about Chaz Bono's life threatening problem, a 2,000 calorie a day diet to lose weight.

Not life threatening.

I also browsed the Brad Pitt story. He was caught smoking marijuana.

That doesn't impress me much either, in terms of scandalous behavior.

Stay classy, Enquirer.

On the rocks alert: BrAngelina's 26 day fight over marriage and the kids

Publication: OK!
Date: 15 August 2011

Three stories this week about Brad and/or Angelina. OK!, the nicest if not the most reliable of the supermarket rags, says they had a 26 day fight, which we can assume means that it's over.

Love Bird Alert™ and On The Rocks Alert: More trouble in paradise over Brad's mystery woman.

Publication: OK!
Date: 1 August 2011

OK! is following up on their story from two weeks ago that Brad Pitt is flirting with some woman on the set of World War Z, a movie he is filming in Malta. She is an assistant and not an actress and it's allegedly causing a kerfuffle. Even at the OK! website, she does not have a name. Here are the new headlines.

• Angie can't take it: Brad's mystery woman!
• Shocking new photos inside
• They flaunt their happiness in public
• What she did to win Brad's trust
• Why Brad can't stop seeing her
  

On the rocks alert: BrAngelina fight over Shiloh!

Publication: In Touch
Date: 1 August 2011

Once again, there is trouble in the BrAngelina relationship, as they are fighting over Shiloh.

It's always something with these two, isn't it?

Bells Are Ringing Alert™: BrAngelina getting married!

Publication: Us Weekly
Date: 25 July 2011

Us Weekly joins the chorus of gossip rags saying BrAngelina will finally tie the knot. The headline reads "Finally! Why Angelina and Brad decided to make it official this summer."

In Touch had stories that they are already married at the beginning of the year. OK! has said they would marry three times this year. People, the reliable one, reported that Brad said "we might marry".

As usual, the couple does not bother confirming or denying anything.

On the rocks alert: Brad flirts with a woman on the set of his new film and Angie fumes!

Publication: OK!
Date: 18 July 2011

Yet again, rumors of trouble in the BrAngelina relationship make the front cover of an American supermarket rag. Brad is shooting World War Z, a movie about the world after a zombie apocalypse is averted, and OK! says he was allegedly "intimate" with a woman on the set, who gets in a picture on the cover but is not named.

Angelina is so upset she has stopped the wedding, an event she has never confirmed is going to happen in the first place.

Non scoop of the week! BrAngelina's secret wedding in France!

Publication: In Touch
Date: 4 July 2011

Fresh trash on Thursdays! In Touch goes with one of the standbys, BrAngelina getting hitched. Actually, the majority of stories saying they have had a secret wedding already have been peddled by In Touch. Just in case they think someone has noticed, on this story they have a special "It's Official!" headline.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think if something the only people allowed to keep things both official and secret are governments.

Here's the rest of the headlines.

• Secret Wedding in France
• Angelina's stunning L'Wren Scott gown and vintage ring
• Brad's emotional vow to his new wife
• The surprising celeb guest!
  

Of course, it's already been denied. If you don't know the name L'Wren Scott, she's the towering designer and love interest of the much older Mick Jagger.

Meanest Story nominee: Angelina's miscarriage drama!

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 20 June 2011

Last week, the Enquirer won the Meanest Story of the Week vote hands down writing that Angelina was anorexic, weighed 99 pounds and was hooked on heroin. This week, they go with a story that may be even worse about the favorite topic of the gossip rags, that she had a miscarriage. Here are the headlines.

• The secret they're hiding
• Brad finds her on the floor covered in blood
• She begs him: "Save our baby!"
• Pregnancy dream shattered as weight continues to drop
  

Because of the gruesome details, this is a nominee for Meanest Story of the Week.