People: Angelina Jolie is not dating a handsome real estate agent or anyone else
March 28, 2018
Yesterday, we discussed the Entertainment Tonight exclusive that Angelina Jolie has been quietly seeing a “handsome, older-looking” real estate agent, presumably in LA. I believed it could be possible, because Entertainment Tonight isn’t known for completely pulling lies out of their ass, like many tabloids. I thought ET probably had a source somewhere who basically told them that Angelina went out to dinner with a real estate agent or something. Well, as it turns out, it was a lie? From People:
Angelina Jolie isn’t interested in getting back in the dating game just yet. Despite a new report she’s seeing a real estate agent, a source tells PEOPLE the actress hasn’t begun to think about her love life since her split from Brad Pitt.
“She is absolutely not seeing anyone and will not be,” says the source.
For now, Jolie is most content to be with her kids and looking forward to their life together.
“She will focus only on their children and being with them,” adds the source. “She has no interest in dating at all.”
Jolie, 42, and Pitt, 54, announced their separation in Sept. 2016. They share six kids together — Maddox, 16, Pax, 14, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 11, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 9.
I’d like to look at this in two very different ways. One, the head-on information of “Angelina’s not dating right now and she will not be.” That makes me sad. I get that her children are her priority and she really wants to be the parent they can count on, and always present for all of their needs. But I hope she knows that she can also start dating and her kids will be fine. She doesn’t even have to really start dating – she can go to hotels and met up with a hookup for a few hours, a few times a month, and that’s fine too. I just worry about her and I want her to know that it’s okay to have time for herself too, you know?
I’d also like to look at this information from the media-relations and gamesmanship angle. Lainey at LaineyGossip suggested that the Entertainment Tonight story might have been planted by Brad’s team, because there does seem to be an effort by Team Brad to slowly, painstakingly roll out The New Brad: 2018 Version. The thing about Brad’s Lady Gaga-esque transformations is that usually those transformations come with a new girlfriend. So is Brad already getting serious with someone and these are the preliminary stages of the Brad’s 2018 Girlfriend Rollout, and is he trying to make it look like Angelina is “moving on” too, so he won’t be the only one?
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