Brad, Angelina And Jen
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1996: Angelina Jolie marries Jonny Lee Miller, after they meet on the set of Hackers. The bride displays her husband’s name on the back of her shirt painted in her own blood. Despite this show of devotion the pair decide to divorce in 1999.
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PA PhotosMarch 1998: Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt start dating after they meet on a blind date, bizarrely set up by their agents.
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PA PhotosMay 2000: Angelina Jolie marries Billy Bob Thornton and becomes the actor’s fifth wife. The couple, who were separated by a 20-year age-gap, are renowned for their very public declarations of love, including wearing phials of each other’s blood round their necks.
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July 2000: Brad and Jen have a $1m wedding at the Malibu mansion of TV producer Marcy Casey. Over 200 guests, including Courteney Cox, Cameron Diaz and Salma Hayek, watch the ceremony, during which Jen promises to make her new husband’s favourite banana split and Brad promises to find a balance on the thermostat.
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PA PhotosMay 2003: Angelina Jolie divorces Billy Bob Thornton, citing their age-gap as a contributing factor. "It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common,” she says.
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PA Photos2000-05: Brad and Jen are the toast of Hollywood: they buy a $13.3m French-style mansion and hang out with their famous friends, Courteney Cox and her husband David Arquette.
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PA Photos2003: Angelina admits that she’s bisexual and reveals she had a physical relationship with her Firefox co-star Jenny Shimizu. “Honestly, I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street."
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Rex Features2004/2005: Brad meets Angelina on the set of action-thriller Mr & Mrs Smith. Critics slam the film’s weak writing, but can’t fault it in one respect. “The chemistry generated by on-screen couple Pitt and Jolie is palpable enough to make this a thoroughly enjoyable summer action flick," writes Rotten Tomatoes.
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PA PhotosJanuary 2005: After spending New Year’s Eve with Courteney Cox and David Arquette, Brad and Jen look to be making plans for their year ahead with a stay at a luxury resort in Anguilla. But the next day...
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PA PhotosJanuary 2005: Brad and Jen announce that they are splitting after “much thoughtful consideration”. Tabloids speculate that the reason behind the break-up is Jen’s reluctance to have children – something she later denies.
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Rex FeaturesApril 2005: Pictures emerge of Brad playing on a beach in Kenya with Angelina and her adopted son, Maddox. The fact that Brad jetted 10,000 miles for a three-day holiday with the actress raises a few eyebrows.
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PA PhotosJuly 2005: Angelina announces that she’s adopting an Ethiopian baby called Zahara, but denies the addition to her family has anything to do with her relationship with Brad.
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PA PhotosAugust 2005: Jennifer Aniston gives a tearful interview to Vanity Fair magazine, her first since the break-up. "Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely," she declares, before saying that Brad has “a sensitivity chip missing”.
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PA PhotosJanuary 2006: Brad and Angelina still haven’t officially confirmed they’re a couple, but that doesn’t stop friends revealing the actress is pregnant with Brad’s child. Those long, black dresses don’t hide much for long and eventually the actress confirms she is expecting – and Brangelina becomes official.
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Rex FeaturesMay 2006: Brangelina cocoon themselves in a Namibian resort ahead of the birth of their first child. Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt is born at The Cottage Hospital in Swakopmund and her birth is met with dancing in the streets by locals.
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PA PhotosSeptember 2006: Jennifer Aniston starts dating actor Vince Vaughn, whom she meets on the ominously titled The Break-Up. Rather bizarrely Vince co-starred with Angelina and Brad in Mr & Mrs Smith.
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PA PhotosOctober 2006: Brad announces that he will marry Angelina – but only when everyone in America is also allowed to tie the knot.
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Rex Features2007: Angelina stars as Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart, which is also produced by Brad. Before her divorce, Jen was set to take on this role, and reportedly hoped it would be her ticket to Oscar glory.
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PA PhotosFebruary 2008: Brad and Angelina jointly adopt Pax Thien from Vietnam. He is given the surname Jolie-Pitt on official documents, cementing the couple’s commitment to their family.
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PA PhotosApril 2008: Jennifer Aniston steps out with musician John Mayer. Unfortunately for her, the serial dater isn’t known for settling down, and we find it difficult keeping up with whether they are on or off again.
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PA PhotosJune 2008: Despite the upheaval in her personal life, Jen’s best friend Courteney Cox says the actress is happy now.
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PA PhotosJuly 2008: After debuting an enormous baby bump in Cannes, Angelina gives birth to premature twins in a Nice hospital. The 5lbs babies are named Knox Leon, after Brad’s grandfather, and Vivienne Marcheline, after Angelina’s late mother.
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PA PhotosOctober 2008: Angelina inadvertently admits that she fell for Brad on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith (i.e. when he was still married to Jen). “Not a lot of people get to see a movie where their parents fell in love,” she let slip in an interview with the New York Times.
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PA PhotosNovember 2008: In an interview with US Vogue, Jen breaks her silence on Angelina’s Mr & Mrs Smith comments. “I felt those details were a little inappropriate to discuss,” says Jen. “That stuff about how she couldn't wait to get to work every day? That was really uncool.”
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Rex FeaturesJanuary 2009: Jennifer Aniston’s career is on the up as her romantic comedy, Marley & Me tops the box office, raking in $14.8m on Christmas Day. To make her achievement just that bit sweeter, the film beats off competition from her ex-husband’s movie, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.
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PA PhotosJanuary 2009: Brad and Angelina both receive Oscar nominations. Angelina is up for Best Actress for her role in Changeling, while Brad gets a Best Actor nod for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
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PA PhotosJanuary 2009: Brad says he still checks in with “sweetheart” Jennifer, and says that the alleged feud between the two women in his life is “so created”. He also defends himself, saying his relationship with Angelina was not an affair. “What people don’t understand is that we filmed [Mr. & Mrs. Smith] for a year,” he says. “We were still filming after Jen and I split up. Even then that doesn’t mean there was some kind of dastardly affair. There wasn’t. I’m very proud of the way it was handled. It was respectful.”
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PA PhotosFebruary 2009: The trio come face to face for the first time at the Oscars. Jen presents the award for Best Animation, which Angelina’s film Kung Fu Panda is up for. Brad and Angelina politely clap and smile at her scripted jokes.
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Rex FeaturesMay 2009: Rumours emerge that Brad is meeting Jennifer in secret while she’s filming The Baster in New York. Both reps denied the reports, calling them a “complete fabrication”.
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PA PhotosDecember 2009: Angelina Jolie tells German magazine Das Neue Magazine that she believes in open relationships - if both parties agree. "Neither Brad nor I have ever claimed that living together means to be chained together. We make sure that we never restrict each other,” she said. "I doubt that fidelity is absolutely essential for a relationship. It's worse to leave your partner and talk badly about him afterwards." Hmmm. Who knows what 2010 will have in store for these three?
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