Celebrity Feuds
Voight to Jolie -- "Regards to....What's Her Name?"

Angelina Jolie's estranged father Jon Voight sent a shout out to his grandkids Saturday, but it seems like absence makes the memory grow weaker -- he royally screwed up one of the names.

At the fourth annual BAFTA Tea Party (BAFTA is the Oscars for Brits), Voight was talking with a reporter on the red carpet when he decided to send birthday wishes to Maddox, Angelina's five-year-old child. That went well, but then things took an ugly turn. Voight also sent well-wishes to "Shakira" -- problem is, he was talking about Angelina's 1 1/2-year-old daughter. Shakira is considerably older -- 29. The correct name -- Zahara. Close, but no cigar. Actors are famous for always getting another chance, and take two was perfect.

Jolie and her father haven't spoken since he went on "Access Hollywood" four years ago, urging her daughter to get help for her "mental problems."






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271. If I were Brad Pitt, I would be very careful around Angelina. What if she suddenly decides Brad is not suitable anymore, and withholds the kids from him like what she is doing with her Dad? Sure, Jon Voight may be too public for Angelina's taste in the way he vents his concern about his daughter, but his heart is in the right place. Give the old man a break. How can he remember the names of grandchildren he hasn't seen? I hope he is not estranged from his son, James Haven. I admire Angelina Jolie for her philanthropy, but I don't appreciate her not patching things up with her Dad for a moment of foolishness on air. She better not bring up again the divorce from her mother and her life of relative poorness growing up as an excuse to exclude her father from his grandchildren, since they have since reconciled after that early in her career. The best way for Angie to keep Voight quiet is to calmy sit him down and tell him how to make it better for her. Her avoidance of the issue is just going to make a poor old man more desperately vocal in the press, becausae that is probably the only way he knows how to reach out. She will just hate herself when God forbid Voight is suddenly not on this earth anymore and she did not get a chance to patch things up with him. He is almost 70! She should think abut he children, and the family structure that they need, which includes grandparents! Her selfishness just diminishes her beauty, talent and humanitarian work, so I have ceased being a fan when she ignored her Dad's last public plea.

Posted at 1:24AM on Nov 17th 2006 by eleanor r.

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