Us Weekly: Team Aniston “Went Ballistic” Over “Rude & Inappropriate” Interview
September 21, 2011 by Hollywoodite
Us Weekly also use the Brad Pitt comments about Jennifer Aniston for this week’s cover. They’re going for a slightly different angle than OK! Magazine though. Us Weekly is focusing on how Pitt and Aniston’s shared representation, CAA, is angry Pitt made comments about someone on the same “team.” Yeah, that’s a pretty big part of the problem, he’s still sharing reps with his ex-wife, not the same literal people but the same agency and Us Weekly looks at their reactions after the Parade interview.
Brad Pitt made a big-time boo-boo. He’s garnering Oscar buzz for his role in Moneyball, but Angelina Jolie’s man sparked a public relations catastrophe last week — all for a Parade interview in which he casually slammed his five-year marriage to Jennifer Aniston, which ended in 2005.
(In the interview released Sept. 15, Pitt, 47, sniffed that he “wasn’t living an interesting life” before Jolie, and that he was “trying to pretend my marriage was something that it wasn’t.”)
And, yes, his 42-year-old ex-wife got wind of the catty comment. “She was annoyed,” a pal close to the Horrible Bosses actress tells the new Us Weekly, out now. “She thought it was rude and inappropriate.”
Team Aniston — her agent and publicists — “went ballistic,” a Pitt insider reveals, and angrily reached out to Pitt’s camp.
“They got his team involved and Brad was read the riot act — the only way you can read the riot act to Brad Pitt,” the source says.
Within 24 hours, Pitt had surprisingly released a statement lamenting that his words were misinterpreted, and that his former love “is an incredibly giving, loving and hilarious woman.”
Still, the Pitt source says, “no one believes his words were taken out of context — he said what he said. I do hear that he’s remorseful.”
And although Pitt is clearly blissed out with Jolie, 36, and their six kids, “We think he’s jealous she’s in love,” the source says.
Indeed, Aniston hasn’t let her ex’s harsh words get in the way of her hot romance with Justin Theroux, with whom she’s now spending time with in NYC. “Justin’s The One!” an Aniston pal says. – via Us Weekly.
Okay, so Pitt was smacked on the back of the hand and reprimanded for getting out-of-pocket. Team Aniston sound like they over-reacted a little to the whole scandal. Pitt already apologised once. And whatever trouble he’s in, he’s apologising again on The Today Show tomorrow – speaking to Matt Lauer.
And Aniston was “annoyed” about the comments and a random source supposes she felt Pitt was “rude and inappropriate”? That sounds unlikely. According to Pitt, he and his ex-wife are still close friends and she knows his temperament and humour – despite his missing “sensitivity chip” – well enough to shake this off. That sounds more like the source talking for her, literally.
And he’s jealous? Ha, this source is really Team Jen, right? Pitt has six children with one of the world’s most-beautiful women. Where in his day working and raising six children does he find time to simmer with jealousy about a new, child-free, semi-serious relationship between “home-wrecker” Aniston and the guy who had a long-term girlfriend when they met? She and Justin Theroux are probably in love. They’ve spent every day since the Parade interview walking around in circles in NYC so the paparazzi can see how happy they are – there are photos of them yesterday with Theroux holding his umbrella over his own head, as Aniston wears a hat, not being very gentlemanly or making sure she’s dry. Nice dude she’s got there. Nice, probably, but hilariously-inattentive.
IMAGE CREDIT – US WEEKLY MAGAZINE
