do you realize how far apart ninth cousins are? Most people of the same race that have lived in america their entire life are related to brad and or angie with in 15 cousins.
Tuesday March 25, 2008

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Presidential candidates don't just have star supporters – they have celebrity cousins!
Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society discovered that Barack Obama is distant cousins with Brad Pitt and Hillary Clinton is related to Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Alanis Morissette, and Celine Dion.
Obama – who wrote his own Just Like Us captions last month – is also distantly related to six presidents, including George W. Bush.
Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins, linked by Edwin Hickman, who died in Virginia in 1769, the researchers found.
Clinton – who revealed her worst outfits ever to Us – and Jolie, meanwhile, are ninth cousins, twice removed because they are both related to Jean Cusson who died in St. Sulpice, Quebec, in 1718.
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I wonder if they know their releted and why are they looking things like this up??
10:28 PM Anonymous Says:
and i believe them when they say that...
just like the SOME believes JA when her rep said she didn't date that married man...
JULIA ROBERTS has been through so many guys it is absurd to start typing all of them. Before her adventures with Mr. Moder she helped wreck Keifer Sutherland's marriage (2 small children) and then left him practically at the altar and ran off with his friend to Ireland. Tom Cruise was married when he and Nicole K. did Days of Thunder and hooked up. Bye-bye Mimi. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson met while filming Volunteers and wham he leaves his wife and two kids to marry Wilson. Wilson recently said "When love shows up you can't deny it." WTF???
What is the difference you might ask between these fine folks and Angelina and Brad. AJ/BP say THEY DIDN"T HOOK-UP before Brad and JA separated.
5:00 -- I think your right. There is absolutely nothing new about Brad, Angie or Jen. Everyone's just regurgitating the same old crap over and over. What used to be interesting (3 years ago) has become predictable and boring.
How about Madonna and Guy -- they seem to be going through some interesting times. Many believe they've split but are keeping it quiet while they deal with their new adopted son. Could we speculate on that for a change? How about Lindsey Lohan?
The world is full of celebrities that we can gossip about. -- but please let it be fun gossip and not down and dirty mean gossip.
i agree with you 4:39 after all, it's NOT our lives!! is their's. all three parties seem happy. angie and brad always look happy together, jen seems to be doing fine. so let's move on to another hollywood couple, wacha think?? how does.....hhmmmm....who's interesting??...hhmmmm.... does anyone has any suggestions??
For those who gripe b/c they “think” angie and brad cheated(just b/c they were together b4 the divorce was final)… get a load of your other idols who may or may not have cheated…
Julia Roberts and Daniel Moder were together while he was married to Vera and they got married just 2 months after his divorce was final…
Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz started dating in 2001 while they were filming vanilla sky. His divorce from Nicole Kidman wasn’t final until August 8, 2001… vanilla sky was released December 24, 2001…
Elizabeth Taylor’s divorce from Michael Wilding was final on Jan. 30, 1957 she remarried on feb. 2, 1957 to Michael Todd… Her divorce to Eddie Fisher was final March 6, 1964 then she remarried Richard Burton on March 15, 1964 their divorce was final August 1, 1976 she then married John Warner on December 4, 1976
Jennifer Garner and Michael Vartan were seen “looking like a couple” weeks before she filed for divorce on March 30, 2003 from Scott Foley… They met on the set of Alias, and admitted to be dating shortly after she filed.
J.Lo was engaged to Ben Affleck in October of 2002… her divorce from Cris Judd wasn’t final until January 26, 2003! She married Marc Anthony on June 5, 2004 just 4 days after his divorce from Torres was final.
Courtney Cox dated Michael Keaton dated from 1989-1995… his divorce from Caroline McWilliams wasn’t final until 1990
Aniston started dating Vaughn on May 28, 2005 her divorce from Brad wasn’t final until October 2, 2005
So… just because all of these people were “dating” before a divorce was final doesn’t mean they cheated… and some… it’s pretty clear that they did. Get over it. Let the people who cheat deal w/ it themselves or else go to every post with these people in it and trash them about being adulterers.
I don't think the brad/jen split was simply just brad's fault. Or jen's fault either. They both said they are different people. Brad wanted kids, Jen didn't. Jen is more friend oriented, brad isn't. They both wronged each other and drifted apart. Personally, I think their marriage was over way before angie came in the picture. Now, I think they're both happy and I still don't understand why people talk and argue so much about their split. It's over. I don't know why the world was in complete shock from the split. They're just normal people.They live completely different lives, and they're fine with it. Now they're both doing what they wanted to do and they don't have a bitter relationship. (They've both said so). Some of you say that's not why you're arguing. Yet, it seems that is what has most fans still mad at each other. I think people need to calm down. There's no need to get all worked up over one couple's split.
last night i watched mr. and mrs., and it reminded me of why i love this hot sexy couple. there's no denying that brad was enamored with angie thru the movie. you can see it, even in his acting when he was trying to be rough on her, he would look at her with these puppy-love eyes. let's not forget the sex scene, i love angie, but it made me a little jealous to know that that's how brad really gave it to her when they made beautiful baby shiloh!! so hot and sexy, ooh- lala!! ayyyy
LL, AMEN TO THAT. I REST MY CASE AGAINST THE LOONIFERS!!
Yeah, I know 3:24. Pretty hypocritical, huh?
JA went on a date with a married man.. and jen and brad had been seperated for months when SHE filed for divorce
OOOOPS!!! 2:34 should be titled PART FOUR and THE END.
Sorry about the length but it's kind of nice to gossip without resorting to four-letter words and hate thoughts.
No need to rehash the rampant infidelity speculation – the MiniVan swears by it, the Brangelunatics believe the opposite. What IS true is that 20 Century Fox made a killing on Mr & Mrs Smith and was the ultimate beneficiary of all rumours about a Brad/Angelina hook up. Put it this way - it was an easy job for a publicist working to promote the movie. Coincidence or conspiracy?
Jennifer subsequently told Vanity Fair she chose to believe her husband – she chose to believe he did not cheat. On the day they announced their split, they were in Antigua together with the Arquettes, photographed kissing on the beach (attached)… one last holiday before parting ways. It was amicable for the time being.
Until Brad and Angelina showed up on the sand in Africa with her son. And the infamous W Magazine photo shoot. Jennifer quickly retreated into victim mode and the tabloids have cashed in ever since.
This is the Brad Effect. He falls in love so spectacularly, everybody takes notice. He falls out of love so dramatically, everybody has an opinion. There are stars who make more at the box office, who wield more clout, who might even be better looking, but only Brad Pitt’s love life inspires this kind of fascination, now multiplied a thousand-fold with Angelina Jolie.
PART THREE
Looking back though – there were signs. Beyond the rumours that he and Angelina Jolie were electrifying on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith, there were indications that all was not well between the Golden Couple. Public fights, stiffness on the red carpet, and an argument caught on camera – rarely seen photo attached of Jen and Brad leaving a party in the middle of a heated discussion, she stalked off with him trailing behind... word is, things had been testy before Angelina came along.
She was tired of him pressuring her to get pregnant, he was tired of certain habits she wasn’t serious about cutting, and confused about her relentless ambition for more than Friends.
PART TWO
But Gwyneth was young. And by her own admission, she was an assh*le. She wanted more, she took him for granted, she cheated on Brad Pitt, pretty much confirming it to Diane Sawyer a few years ago, saying she was the “architect of her own misery” and that she behaved very badly. The candidates? Ben Affleck, Guy Oseary, Chris Heinz, and a rumour that Brad walked in on her servicing Harvey Weinstein in exchange for Shakespeare in Love which has since been written off considering Gwyneth’s pedigree and a new wrench thrown into the story that that was actually, allegedly, Charlize Theron.
Brad was reportedly devastated and bitterly disillusioned after breaking off the engagement. This is the shadow Jennifer Aniston stepped into. Painfully insecure and now occupying the taller, thinner, more talented vacancy Gwyneth left behind, it apparently took a while for Jen to find her groove. But he was totally into her. And they were able to keep their relationship relatively undercover for the first few months so that by the time news broke, both were contentedly committed and ready for marriage.
Their wedding was the event of 2000. A star studded guest list, elaborate logistics, a tent in Malibu, fireworks, helicopters, it was a fairy tale Hollywood affair.
And then came the baby waiting. Year after year, he’d make no secret of the fact that he wanted them, year after year she said it would happen soon. At the end of Friends. Even though at the conclusion of the series, she had at least 5 or 6 projects in the works, she kept insisting that the babies were coming.
He kept believing it too, telling Diane Sawyer that little girls broke his heart, that he couldn’t wait to be a father.
PART ONE
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The regular girl who got The Guy, the God, the Brad…the demise of their marriage was a major bombshell and its ramifications are still reverberating across the gossip universe. But the truth is, the smuttiest splits involve Brad and anyone.
Before the MiniVan Majority hung its hopes on Brad and Jen however, there was Brad and Gwyneth. They fell in love on the set of Se7en. After Se7en, they were inseparable. And Brad fell hard. A Midwest modestly raised boy who finally found his princess – Gwyneth Paltrow whose mother was a Tony award winning actress, whose father was an Emmy winning producer, who played at Steven Spielberg’s house when she was a girl, who was born in California and raised in upper crust New York among the privileged and the proud who still believe that status that is inherited is preferable to status that is earned. Gwyneth Paltrow is the super snob of all super snobs. She was his trophy. I worship her. And so did he.
In all fairness, it did go both ways. They looked perfect together. They were ridiculously in love. Which is the why the press was ridiculously in love with them. Needless to say, those photos didn’t hurt. She the tall cool blonde with the classy good looks, on the arm of Hollywood’s Sexiest Man Alive, Brad and Gwyneth not only filled the void of Johnny and Winona, they took the concept of the modern supercouple and made it a supernova.
There were the nude photos on holiday (have you seen them?) and the public declaration of his love at the Golden Globes – do you remember? “My angel, the light of my life”. People Magazine called her the Luckiest Girl in the World. He proposed and everyone wanted to be her. Looking back, it was much too much. And she wanted her own identity.
#12:27 Debbi:
I totally agree with you re the confusion. Julia Roberts even denigrated Vera Moder, wearing a t-shirt saying "A Low Vera" (obviously a dig on the wife), because Vera wouldn't divorce Danny. It was even rumored that Julia paid for the divorce so she could have Danny all to herself. But she never ever suffered any consequence, people still revered her as "America's Sweetheart". And now she is a respectably married woman and her past is never ever held against her. Such double standard!
To 12:30
Michael Keaton was with two other women BEFORE he started a relationship with Cox. Wether he was legally divorce or not, he wasn't with his wife when they began the relationship. Who knows why Keaton didn't file for divorce before, probably money, but certainly he and his wife had move on before he started dating Cox.
Crowe also met Lance after he had split from his wife NOT when he was still living with her.
so she had to create this huge drama of some forlorn little girl-next-door burning her wedding dress and baying at the moon.
This is tabloid crap!!!
WELL SAID 10:29.
Angelina has NEVER been known to lie about this kind of stuff, break up relationships, be promiscuous or unfaithful. She is more known for being a hard-working, shy homebody. If Angelina said she didn't sleep with Brad, in my book she is way more credible than Aniston, who was fine with the separation and filed for divorce but then had second thoughts 6 months down the line when Brad moved on too quickly for her ego, so she had to create this huge drama of some forlorn little girl-next-door burning her wedding dress and baying at the moon.
Hogwash!
12:18, you are so right.
Also, just for fun, add to the list:
COURTNEY COX (Jen's best friend) who was living with MICHAEL KEATON when he was married.
SHERYL CROWE who was seeing a MARRIED MAN she used to tour with.
LAURA DERN who BILLY BOB left his WIFE for to be with her and then BEN HARPER who was married and his WIFE WAS PREGNANT!
Must have been a slow news day yesterday because this story broke months ago. And who cares if they are distant relatives? Does the relation mean that Obama or Clinton are more or less suited for office?
I'M CONFUSED!!!
Isn't Julia Roberts called "America's Sweetheart?"
But wasn't Danny Moder married when Julia started seeing him romantically? Maybe I'm wrong. Can someone clarify for me (too lazy to Google it!)
So, if Julia "stole" a married man and Angelina "stole" a married man, how is it that one is called "America's Sweetheart" and the other is called "America's Slvt?
I just don't get it. Do you? Maybe it's just me.
Rhonda Mckinnie, you say Angelina is a homewecker.
Please tell us what you call these people . . . Antonio Bandaras, Jennifer Lopez, Tori Spelling, Britney Spears, Hugh Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, Usher, Tom Hanks, Kobe Bryant, Jude Law, Eric Bennet, Prince Charles, David Beckham, Tony Parker, Sarah Evans, Gwenyth Paltrow, Sean Penn, Denise Richards, Julia Roberts, Ryan Phillipe, Rose McGowan, Chris Robinson, Elizabeth Taylor . . . and on . . . and on . . . and on . . .
Angelina as never been known to lie .
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Angelina is nothing but a huge lie. I can definatly see why she is realted to Hillary, she is a liar too.
10:30 AM "Angelina and Brad are the by far the worse people in the world."
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Are you bleeding serious? Get some effing perspective on the world, please! Have you not heard of Thomas Lubanga, Nepal, Tibet, Radovan Karadžić, Burma, Darfur, Chechnya, Charles Taylor, Rwanda, Osama Bin Laden, Ratko Mladić or The Shining Path, just to name a scant few.
Angelina and Brad are wonderful people, great parents and admirable humanitarians. I can understand why a right-winger wouldn't understand those concepts.
10:30 AM "Angelina and Brad are the by far the worse people in the world."
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Are you bleeding serious? Get some effing perspective on the world, please! Have you not heard of Thomas Lubanga, Nepal, Tibet, Radovan Karadžić, Burma, Darfur, Chechnya, Charles Taylor, Rwanda, Osama Bin Laden, Ratko Mladić or The Shining Path, just to name a scant few.
Angelina and Brad are wonderful people, great parents and admirable humanitarians. I can understand why a right-winger wouldn't understand those concepts.
You all are so crazy when it comes to Angelina vs. Jen. You act like they are personal friends of yours or something. None of you even KNOW for certain if Angelina had anything to do with Brad and Jennifer breaking up. It probably would have happend anyways even if he NEVER met Angelina. And you certainly don't know if there was any cheating. Why don't you all take a chill pill.
9:15, uh, what does that mean?


