The Lara Croft star moves to the Final Four of HD Hottie Hysteria. By Allison Moore
Washington, D.C. (March 24, 2008) -- Angelina Jolie has defeated Jennifer Love Hewitt in the Plasma division finals of HDTV 'Hottie Hysteria' -- TVPredictions.com's elimination tournament to determine who's the hottest female in High-Definition TV.
TVPredictions.com is posting a daily reader poll pitting one celebrity babe against another. Readers are being asked to vote on which female looks best in high-def. Then, based on their votes, each winner will move to the next round until only one woman is left standing.
In the Jolie-Hewitt contest, Angelina, the star of the Lara Croft films, captured 58 percent of the vote to Jennifer's 42 percent. (2,601 readers voted in the poll.) Jolie, the top seed in the Plasma division of Hottie Hysteria, will now face the winner of the Scarlett Johansson-Maria Sharapova contest in the Final Four!
HOLD the front page - a pregnant woman is stressed. You know that it's a quiet week when the glossies have no option but to revert to that old chestnut, Angelina Jolie's baby bump.
It's not new, and the twins it is rumoured to house are showing no signs of checking out any time soon, but there are covers to fill and magazines to sell, so who better to splash with than Hollywood's most prolific kiddy-collector since Mia Farrow.
Famous reports Brangelina are shelling out $20,000 a month to lease a secluded ranch in Texas, which they are turning into a high-security fortress as the birth approaches. While babydaddy Brad Pitt works nearby on a new movie, Ange "may be suffering heartburn", an obstetrician reveals. NW has found a way to rehash the serial adoptress's murky past, saying she is plagued by concerns her sproglets may grow up to be addicted to drugs or sex. In other words, they should fit right in in La La Land.
"She's terrified of what DNA she's going to pass on to her babies," a source said. Even if they are head cases, at least the little mites are unlikely to be forced to wade in the shallow end of the beauty gene pool.
From ladypilot to man eater, Jennifer Aniston has assumed the mantle of a suicide risk with really good hair. She is pictured strolling on a beach reading a script with her Marley & Me co- star, Owen Wilson. Famous reports that pals of Wilson, who last year apparently tried to kill himself, fear he's not in the right place emotionally for a new romance, "not least with a woman with Jen's romantic history".
Why has the former Friends star been labelled a relationship no-go zone? Has she stalked her man-prey or forced them to colour co-ordinate outfits at awards nights? No, nothing so heinous. Turns out she just managed to accumulate a couple of exes by the time she hit 39, thereby ruling her out of girlfriend material contention.
This week's Who springs to her defence with an Elephant Man-inspired cover proclaiming: "I am not a victim". She may not be, but one rumoured beau, the Sex And The City actor Jason Lewis, deserves our sympathy. "Jason was trying to look hot but he had a major spray-tan going on," an observer remarked.Meanwhile, there is trouble in TomKat paradise, with photos of Scientology's favourite gnome embracing a mystery brunette. Woman's Day sees NW's brunette and raises it a blonde, showing Tom Cruise kissing a second woman behind a bush. The bigger mystery is that he looks taller than both women. A trick of the lens perhaps.
Angelina Jolie may be very pregnant but the one time vampy Hollywood sweetheart still understands that there is nothing like a little make up sex to ease the tensions between partners, a report from the National Enquirer claims. According to the published report Brad Pitt was not very happy with Jolie jetting off to Iraq and he is also not pleased with the lack of time joie is spending with him of late, the report claims. Back to Mr. and Mrs. Smith for Angelina Jolie?
“Things were rough enough between Angelina and Brad before she became pregnant. But lately, she’s been a bundle of nerves and feeling incredibly insecure about her looks,” an insider told The Enquirer. With four kids and twins on the way, “they’ve also had problems finding enough ‘alone time’ for each other. Due to her pregnancy and all the anxiety, their sex life has suffered.” But Jolie paid a visit to an adult store and picked up some pretty wild items to spice things up according to the magazine.
"Angelina spent about 30 minutes browsing in the Coco de Mer store on Melrose Avenue. She bought a peek-a-boo black bra, plus special tape used for bondage games," said a source. (She also bought one other item, which is even more personal and better left unprinted, the story from the Enquirer claims!). Back to Mr. and Mrs. Smith for Angelina Jolie? The chatty insider claims, "Angelina feels sex is the only way to ease the fighting with Brad. So she put together a little bag of tricks to keep him busy in bed." It surely can't hurt.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt could finally have a child born in the United States! The couple has temporarily set up shop in the rural town of Smithville, Texas, where Brad is shooting his latest film, OK! Magazine is reporting this week with their cover story. Does that mean they will stay in the state for the remainder of Jolie's pregnancy.
The magazine has the couple on the cover in what will run polar oppisite of earlier predictions that the baby would be born overseas. Many have already picked France as the birthplace for the couple that used Namibia for the birthplace of baby Shiloh.
One thing is certain about Jolie, she is still a celebrity, like Jennifer Lopez and Christina Aguilera before her just recently, despite a pronounced baby bump she is trying to use the pregnancy for publicity and to keep some sort of a public relations buzz going. So far it has worked. She has supplanted Jamie Lynn Spears and her sister Britney and is back where she belongs as a tabloid cover queen.
OK! Promises that they will have all the details on the Brangelina search for the perfect Texan home, who’s picking out the new baby’s name (they’re leaving it to one of their kids!) and why Brad doesn’t mind changing diapers.
NEW YORK - Actress and humanitarian activist Angelina Jolie said Thursday that the reinforcement of U.S. troops in Iraq has created an opportunity for humanitarian programs to boost assistance for Iraqi refugees. In an op-ed piece published by the Washington Post, titled "A Reason to Stay in Iraq," Jolie details the plight of refugees and says their conditions have not improved since she visited the country last August to urge governments to provide more support.
Jolie, who has been a U.N. goodwill ambassador since 2001, was in Baghdad earlier this month to again highlight the refugee problem. She talked with Gen. David Petraeus, the American military commander in Iraq, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the U.S. Embassy said. Petraeus "told me he would support new efforts to address the humanitarian crisis" as much as possible, "which leaves me hopeful that more progress can be made," the actress wrote.
She said she stressed to Iraqi officials there must be a coherent plan for helping some 2 million Iraqis who are taking advantage of the downturn in violence to begin trickling back to abandoned homes from havens elsewhere in the country. A similar number fled Iraq to escape the bloodshed. "It will be quite a while before Iraq is ready to absorb more than 4 million refugees and displaced people," Jolie wrote. "But it is not too early to start working on solutions."
The actress, who works on behalf of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, urged America's presidential candidates and congressional leaders to step up financing for aid to displaced Iraqis. UNHCR has asked for $261 million this year — "less than the U.S. spends each day to fight the war in Iraq," she wrote. Addressing the question of whether the "troop surge" has worked, Jolie said that "I can only state what I witnessed."
"When I asked the troops if they wanted to go home as soon as possible, they said that they miss home but feel invested in Iraq," she wrote. "They have lost many friends and want to be a part of the humanitarian progress they now feel is possible."
Angelina Jolie suffered a terrifying health scare 20,000 feet in the air - and collapsed in her plane seat, according to U.S. reports. Jolie was on the last leg of an 18-hour journey from Iraq home to L.A. when someone sitting close to her insists she went through the terrifying scare.
And she was reportedly given oxygen when she landed before medics gave her the go-ahead to leave. The reports are all the more alarming because Jolie is widely reported to be at least three-months pregnant with twins. “She started to get swollen ankles and nosebleeds and started having leg cramps,” the onlooker told Life & Style magazine in the U.S.
“She fainted into her seat.” She was encouraged to get out of the pane for a break on her journey, with the option of it landing an hour north of L.A. “Angie said no - she didn’t want any more delays,” the insider said. “She said she’d promised her kids she’d be home to make them lunch.”
According to Life & Style, Angie has been worried about her health - but is refusing to slow down. “She refuses to let fatigue dictate her schedule,” a friend told the magazine. “She reminds herself that there are pregnant women who work in fields for 10 hours a day, an then she feels guilty for even thinking about complaining.”
Angelina Jolie wants to adopt and also have another biological child in 2008. First though, she needs to come to terms with the loss of her mum Marcheline Bertrand who died in January. Her brother James, 34, told Now last week: 'When we lost our mom neither of us could stop crying. 'She fought it [cancer] for a very long time, 8 years on and off, but she got to see her grandchildren. That was the best – seeing her with Angelina's children.'
Now Angelina, 32, and partner Brad Pitt, 44, have told friends and family that they want to add to their brood of three adopted children – Maddox, 6, Pax, 4, Zahara, 2 – and 17-month-old baby daughter Shiloh. A close family friend says: 'They're adopting another child within the next three months. Pax and Mad are both from Asia, but Brad and Ange want Zee to have a companion from Africa.
'Ange is also going to try for another baby. She did have a movie role lined up, but that's been delayed, so she's trying to get pregnant straight away.' Angelina's also set to see a grief counsellor as she struggles with the pain of losing her mother. Almost a year on, she's still breaking down in tears and having trouble sleeping.
Her weight has plunged and she's become haunted by a fear of dying. Plagued by grim thoughts about her own mortality, she's been forced to look long and hard at her life. A close friend says: 'Ange's so down right now and in a really dark place. We're worried that she's suffering from depression. She's showing all the classic symptoms. Brad is aware of the problem and has persuaded her to get help.'
The Lara Croft star moves to the Final Four of HD Hottie Hysteria.
