Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s charity foundation is to donate $1million to help victims of the Haiti earthquake.
The Hollywood couple – who have previously visited the country with Fugees star Wyclef Jean – vowed to do all they could to help after a devastating 7.0-magnitude quake hit the impoverished Caribbean nation.
“It is incredibly horrible to see a catastrophe of this size hit a people who have been suffering from extreme poverty, violence and unrest for so many decades,” said Jolie in a statement.
Pitt added: “We understand the first response is critical to serve the immediate needs of countless people who are now displaced from their homes and are suffering trauma, and most require urgent care.”
The Jolie-Pitt Foundation is donating the funds to Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres.
Its three hospitals in the capital Port-au-Prince were severely damaged, forcing the staff to work out of open-air hospitals.
Atonement star James McAvoy has revealed his fans send him hand-knitted gifts instead of saucy underwear.
McAvoy, 30, was last seen on screen opposite Angelina Jolie in the movie Wanted, which was released in 2008.
He said: “The small but very nice fan-base I have is very lovely. I don’t even get sent weird stuff – I don’t get sent underwear. I’m more likely to get sent a scarf someone’s knitted because they want to take care of me.”
He will return to movie screens next month in the UK when he stars alongside Dame Helen Mirren in The Last Station.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had a recent movie night with their six children and watched Karate Kid.
Pitt, 45, recently attended an industry screening and Q&A for his movie Inglourious Basterds in Hollywood.
The screening was also attended by 1984 classic Karate Kid director John G Avidsen and when he asked a question, Pitt said: “We just watched Karate Kid with the kids.”
Pitt and girlfriend Jolie, 34, have six children together – Maddox, eight, Pax, five, Zahara, four, Shiloh, three, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16 months.
Star Trek actress Zoe Saldana has said she was inspired by actresses Sigourney Weaver and Angelina Jolie to become the queen of sci-fi.
The 31-year-old played Uhura in this year’s Star Trek movie and will play Neytiri in James Cameron’s upcoming CGI movie Avatar alongside actor Sam Worthington.
Saldana said to Details magazine: “I’ve always gravitated toward the Sigourney Weavers, the Linda Hamiltons, the Angelina Jolies. I just love strong women that are in tune with their bodies – that don’t just use their bodies as sex tools. I’m very dominant – feisty. I’m not a man-hater, just a very proud woman.”
Saldana admitted that she had fun filming motion-capture movie Avatar as it was different to shooting a regular film.
She said: “Motion capture isn’t like shooting. You’re in a suit with all these dots on you, and whatever you do, they get it. If you burp, your character burps. I’d shake my booty, and you’d see my character shaking her booty.”
Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have designed a jewellery collection to raise money for a children’s charity.
The power couple have teamed up with UK jeweller Asprey and designed the new Protector Collection for women and children – all proceeds will be donated to the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict.
A source said: “During Angelina’s first pregnancy with Shiloh, someone gave her a protective snake ring to guard her and her unborn child.”
It is claimed that she kept the ring and wore it again during her pregnancy with twins Knox and Vivienne.
The price range for the collection starts at £312 for a silver spoon with a snake-shaped handle and also includes pendants, bracelets, rings and an egg cup.
Unscathed by his motorbike tumble, Brad Pitt has repaired with Angelina Jolie to an intimate Italian restaurant for a cosy dinner date.
The Hollywood power couple were seen out in Tinseltown together dressed in black. They were seen to hold hands as they walked together and appeared to be having fun.
The sighting showed Pitt was no worse for wear after the accident. Circumstances around the incident remain hazy but one report said his mirror was clipped by another vehicle, while others claimed he was nudged forward by a paparazzo.
Pitt has taken a second set of digs in LA and is also keen on a man cave he reportedly keeps at his family home with Jolie.
The couple, whose relationship was said to be straining, have six children ranging from 15 months to eight years old.
Amid claims Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are about to end their relationship, Pitt has sought the counsel of his ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston.
Pitt and Aniston held a secret meet-up at a New York hotel, the second such pow-wow in the city this year. A source told a US celeb magazine: “She arrived at his hotel suite a matter of hours after they had spoken. Brad was unloading his emotional baggage on Jen, which isn’t exactly fair considering their history.”
Pitt was staying at the Essex House Hotel next to Central Park. The source added: “She was quick to tell him she wanted no part in his breakup with Angelina.”
Aniston was said to be initially loath to meet with Pitt, who was in the US to sit on a green energy panel with former US president Bill Clinton. He was accompanied by his son, Maddox.
Pitt is said to have rallied his mother, Jane, to the cause and got her to persuade her former daughter-in-law to agree to the tete-a-tete. Aniston was said to be brutally honest, telling Pitt he was being selfish and had to figure things out. Later that day Brad flew back to France, where he shares a US$55.6 million chateau with Jolie and their six children.
Some reports have Pitt moving to Berlin. He has recently purchased bachelor digs in Los Angeles as an apparent respite from a family home the couple keeps there.
Angelina has lent her voice to a public service announcement for World Refugee Days. It is an emotional appeal.
She’s been a very high profile Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, for the past several years. As well as the video, she is writing an article for a “major” US paper, also due out Friday.
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