Vanity Fair Interview - Jack Black - and ET Apologizes…or Do They?
To begin with, my lovely Isa made a comment yesterday about the Vanity Fair interview that Angelina did a short time ago. There are tons of beautiful photos and the interview is great. You know that I’m never one to do the norm, so instead of the photos, here’s a YouTube version of the interview!
Jack Black, the lovely actor who slipped and let the world know about Angelina’s twins, said in an interview to Extra that he honestly didn’t realize that the twins were not common knowledge.
“Then I thought [the twins news] was common knowledge.” but was Angelina upset that he let the news slip? “She was relieved because she and Brad didn’t want to hold in the secret.” the actor said. And a belated CONGRATULATIONS to Jack and his beautiful wife Tanya on the birth of their second baby, a son named Jack.
Now on to ET. As everyone knows a week or so ago ET made a huge, HUGE mistake. They swore that Angelina and Brad’s twins had been born and set the entire internet into a frenzy. They have now commented on this gigantic mistake and here is what they have to say:
“This is an absolutely huge, huge story for us,” said Sarah Ivens, editor in chief of OK! magazine. “Essentially you have two of the most beautiful, famous people in the world. We’ve all seen they’ve had one baby, Shiloh, and it is the coolest, most adorable baby on the planet. And this time they’re having two? It can’t get any better.”
It was “pandemonium” at the offices of Us Weekly when the “Entertainment Tonight” report was posted, said Dina Sansing, the magazine’s entertainment director.
People magazine was first to report that the story was not true. Us Weekly checked its own sources and concluded the same, Sansing said.
On Monday, Jolie’s attorneys advised news organizations that someone was posing as Holly Goline, Jolie’s personal assistant, and had sent out false information about the movie star. The source for the “Entertainment Tonight” report was an e-mail supposedly from Goline, said an executive at the show who did not want to be identified for competitive reasons.
Was “Entertainment Tonight” punk’d? Perhaps not, the executive said.
The show initiated its own contact with Goline after hearing rumors the babies had been born in France, said the executive. The person who made the contact was an “ET” producer who had worked with Goline while at CNN and kept Goline’s e-mail address, the executive said. The executive forwarded an e-mail exchange that appeared to support this version of events.
In the e-mails, Goline - or the impostor - said she was there for the deliveries and everyone was doing well. Pressed by “ET” for more information, the person said she could say no more.
“Entertainment Tonight” had removed its story from its Web site after the questions were raised. No mention was made of the story on Monday’s show.
“Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are friends of ‘Entertainment Tonight.’ We have spent years cultivating that friendship, working with them side by side on many of their projects,” Linda Bell Blue, executive producer for “Entertainment Tonight” and its sister broadcast, “The Insider,” said in a statement Monday. “We wish them and their children well. We are waiting to see how this story plays out.”
Does this sound like an apology to any of you? It doesn’t to me! Why can’t they come out and say, “we erred and would like to apologzie to the entire Jolie-Pitt family”? Is that too difficult?! And why are they saying that Shiloh is the “coolest, most adorable baby on the plant”? Hello! They’ve got three other children who, in my eyes, are just as adorable and cool. What do you think of ET’s “apology”?
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:05 am
Hi this isn’t a comment really about this post but about the blog! I love it! I tend to just scoure the internet myself for info but you have it all here! This is great and i want to thank you, you must put in a ton of time doing this.
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:12 pm
ET producers must be hitting their heads on the wall with this fiasco. I saw their (and The Insider’s) report a little late (the show is shown here one night later than in the US) and was laughing my head off. I feel kind of bad for them actually, but I guess this is their fault, they should’ve really checked the facts first before making an announcement. Perhaps this is just another proof of how popular and influential B&A has become, this rush to get the news in first. You’re right Randi, that is no apology at all. Oh well, they lost a bit (if not a lot) of credibility with this mistake.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
it must be really embarrassing to their part but i agree, they should’ve just apologized, i mean such errors really happens in real life.