Celebrity digital publication Lainey Gossip — known for its blind items and commentary on all things pop culture — recently ran a piece claiming Brad Pitt is a long-standing player of the ‘paparazzi set-up’ game.
And you know what? The theory is pretty compelling.
Rumours of both Pitt and his ex-wife Angelina Jolie staging pap shots are nothing new. In fact, these whispers have largely followed them ever since they were first spotted together in 2005, just months after Pitt announced his split from Jennifer Aniston.
The pair had been connected ever since they starred in the blockbuster spy romance Mr. & Mrs. Smith, so when pictures showed them happily frolicking on a beach in Kenya with Jolie’s then-infant son Maddox, it was the scoop that made headlines around the world.
Was it a coincidence that a paparazzo scored the million-dollar shot on a secluded beach in Africa? Perhaps. But Pitt’s latest paparazzi sighting seems a little more heavy-handed, giving credence to the notion he may have orchestrated an appearance in order to change the current media narrative about himself.
Less than a week ago, PEOPLE magazine and The Daily Mail published images of Pitt and his girlfriend of two years, Ines de Ramon, walking along a beach in Santa Barbara. By all accounts, it was the picture of domestic bliss, the pair walking with interlocked fingers and seeming at ease in each other’s presence.
The pictures are a far cry from the image of Pitt that has been painted in court rooms over recent years, as his ongoing litigation with former wife Jolie continues. The former spouses have been battling it out legally over the ownership of their French winery Château Miraval, and throughout the case there have been many explosive claims made about the 60-year-old actor.
