What's in the women's mags: Jude, Brad and Becks' antics keep them in dogbox

A weekly look at the gossip hitting news-stands


Brad Pitt must be grateful to Jude Law for taking some of the heat off him this week.

You know those kids that he supposedly longed for, the ones that Jennifer Aniston was supposedly too selfish to supply - well, now he's got his ready-made family courtesy of Angelina Jolie, he is finding the children as annoying as other people's kids usually are.

According to New Idea, Brad is sulking because he is not getting enough attention from Angelina. Even ardent Pitt fans will find their upper lips curling at the idea of him being jealous of a baby.

Meantime, Angelina is pictured one hand placed protectively across her baby-Brad belly, her beatific smile in the vein of the Madonna tinged with a hint of cat who got the cream.

It's this backdrop of grubbiness that gives Aniston a dream run, with her masterful PR via Vanity Fair, carried to varying degrees by all the magazines this week, and in which we learn that she did want kids and still does.

Woman's Day devotes its cover and four pages to the interview, and has Jens recollecting her meeting with Angelina and passing on the hope that she and Brad have a great time working together.

So back to Jude. All the magazines give their sympathy vote to his erstwhile fiancee (she's no longer wearing the ring) Sienna Miller with variations on how dreadful it must be to be pregnant to love rat Jude Law, who romped with his attractive young nanny.

The one person we don't get to see a photo of is the new nanny, obviously chosen with care, who has been labelled a "homely 50-something" in New Idea.

Woman's Day has gone local with actress Katrina Devine looking about as far from Minnie from Shortland Street as she can get. In her new look she appears to have borrowed Liz Hurley's hair and lips, which will hopefully assist her as she tries to make it in Hollywood.

And to prove that it's not just celebrities who have interesting lives, Woman's Day carries a treat of a story with the headline "I'm 70, he's 31 but I love my toyboy husband", in which the couple in question are photographed re-enacting iconic poses from such films as Titanic and Pretty Woman, but thankfully not 9 1/2 Weeks.

The Woman's Weekly's only excuse for a cover story about Victoria Beckham seems to be to get some use out of the headline "Desperate Housewife" and run last month's photos of David's bare foot with big toe partially obscured due to its position inside the hem of a jeans leg.

The woman whose trouser is being invaded in a one-way game of footsie is remarkably calm and appears to be listening attentively across the dinner table to something Victoria is gesticulating about, a skill that deserted David long ago.

Men eh?