Angelina Jolie: Proposal Details, She’s Wearing The Ring Around L.A.
April 17, 2012 by Hollywoodite
There’s a noticeable quiet before the storm, as everyone except People Magazine is sitting on an exclusive until Wednesday’s cover reveal.
People already released its cover. Its online story claimed the engagement ring was worth $1 million at around 10-carats. In response, Us Weekly, who’d spent the weekend combing over every publicly-available detail, upped its estimated ring cost from $250,000 to $500,000 and the size of the center stone from six to seven-carats. Us Weekly neglected to explain its discrepancies, simply aligning its information with People’s a little more neatly (which is reactionary, telling, and disappointing).
With the news broken, Angelina Jolie went to a few business meetings and did a little shopping in Los Angeles on Monday. She was accompanied by security, not by her fiance. And she appeared to be doing some kind of staged pap-walk so the photographers and fans could get their shots.
It would also appear the couple staged last week’s announcement, giving jeweller Robert Procorp the go-ahead to release the news to The Hollywood Reporter. At which time Brad Pitt’s manager was suitably-quick to respond with confirmation.
And now Life & Style claims the couple has been engaged since Christmas. Which somewhat tallies with tabloid reports, at the time, that the couple were planning to marry/ planning a wedding/ looking at rings/ looking at dresses etc. So some of the tabloid stories were correct on that front, in retrospect. Although OK! Magazine remains the broken clock relying on boilerplates knowing that, at some point, the fabrications may come to fruition.
In short, Life & Style claims that Jolie and Pitt have been engaged for months although they withheld the news so as not to pull focus from the series nature of/ Oscar campaign for In The Land Of Blood & Honey.
A source says that Brad proposed to Angelina at Christmas and that the couple decided to keep it a secret until the timing was just right.
“Brad had the ring designed last year and made sure it was ready by Christmas because he wanted a romantic Christmas proposal… and he got it,” a friend of Brad’s [says].
“They didn’t announce their engagement sooner because Angie focused so much on promoting her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey,” says the insider.
Instead, Brad waited until after the December premiere before getting down on one knee.
“She was very busy with the movie and her Oscar campaign. She also worried that the engagement would take over press on her film and detract from that. There was some negative press on Blood and Honey that bothered her a lot, and she didn’t feel the timing was right. So they waited,” reveals the source. – via Life & Style Magazine.
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