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

Posted Aug 29th 2006 11:05AM by TMZ Staff

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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61. You people who think you know Angelina personally and the reasons she isn't speaking to her father crack me up. No one knows the reason she isn't speaking to her father and what she does with her children is her business. Get a life people.

Posted at 1:10PM on Aug 29th 2006 by L.A.

62. Angelina...stop preaching in your underware!...make peace with your father remember that what goes around comes around!!THINK ABOUT IT

Posted at 1:13PM on Aug 29th 2006 by Girah

63. on a side note, i think brad is the unstable one. look at him, he's turning into angie...he wants to BE angie. it kinda gives me the willies and totally makes him less attractive. she can have him.

Posted at 1:27PM on Aug 29th 2006 by CP

64. You dont have to be a genius to see that their is more to the story on why Angelina isn't speaking to her father. Frankly she probally has a good reaon. It take a lot for a child not to speak with their parent, think about it people. She dont want that man around her or her children.
Good Going Angelina, you do what you have to do for yourself and your family.

She's a great person and sometimes in life you have to get the negeative people out so that you can have a healthy life.

Posted at 1:15PM on Aug 29th 2006 by Lisa

65. There is always more than one side to every story...in this case..the only one speaking up publicly is Voight....maybe a little to publicly if you know what I mean..it is hard to believe either of them as both good actors...but if you are gonna do that..REMEMBER THE NAMES!!!!! He really wants to meet his grandkids SO MUCH he cant remember the names...whatever!

Posted at 1:20PM on Aug 29th 2006 by Amy

66. Not that it's any of my business but i think she should NOT forgive him! He's a JACKA** looking for some publicity. he is not healthy for her. Just my opinion!

Posted at 1:21PM on Aug 29th 2006 by What the hell

67. I dont have nothing aganist the broad beacuse i dont no her but on and outsider note maybe there is something wrong with her. Is it me or is she always getting typecast as the same semi on the verge of destruction character even on mr.and mrs. smith she was out there. taking lives, girl interupted, gia just to name a few but let me not dissapoint her fans i love angelina your so beautiful why do people hate on you gosh i just dont understand! sike!

Posted at 1:26PM on Aug 29th 2006 by yeahrite

68. #55, you make a very good point.

Posted at 1:32PM on Aug 29th 2006 by kathryn

69. Hey#47, Are you talking to me? That would be 42, not 46. I think unadopted is a word. If you have such a problem with it look it up. How about blood-related? Happy now? Maybe Voight was thinking Shakazulu, Zahara, Shakira, Shaka, one of those....

Posted at 1:35PM on Aug 29th 2006 by h8er#1

70. Yeah he waits how long to try to a birthday greeting and of course it is "on camera' yeah he so sincerely wants a relationship with his daughter and her children....NOT...I call bullshit on Mr. Voight

Posted at 2:57PM on Sep 14th 2006 by Tabitha

71. You heard that ol' saying "The apple doesnt fall to far from the tree". Angelina is as crazy as her dad is. Example. Billy Bob. Need I say more.

She should at least try to work with her dad. She runs all over the world promoting World Peace and yet cant even get along with her own father. Other than being a little cooky, the guy hasnt really done anything seriously wrong. Believe me, there are kids with parents out there that have not much worse, and they would give their left arm to have a dad like hers. At least she has a father.

My parents are a bunch of crazy asses to, but I havent cut them off from their grandchildren, nor out of my life. I just tell them when they are getting to pushy or to personal and they give me my distance.

Life is to short for Angelina to be like this. If somthing were to happen to her father and she didnt get a chance to make peach with him, I bet she would regret it. Jillian

Posted at 1:45PM on Aug 29th 2006 by Jillian

72. People who complain and use the public to express setinments are publicity seekers. This man is a joke...an unfunny one

and Amy I am glad that it worked out for you but my parents where full of it and when I tried to let them be a part of their kids life they repeated the same behavior with them. It wasn't worth it.

Posted at 3:34PM on Sep 14th 2006 by He is a clown

73. Amy great for you in letting your father around your children but don't be so quick to judge. My father repeated the same demeaning behavior. I respect the rights of parents and they trump the rights of grandparents.

I wish I would have used caution it would have helped. I gave in to please my husband but it didn't work. Now we are all dealing with the after effects of letting that demon into our lives

Posted at 3:42PM on Sep 14th 2006 by Kiley

74. Yikes this man is nuts. Does he have other children, grandchildren?

Posted at 3:44PM on Sep 14th 2006 by Tyra

75. #44 -- I think you were referring to #40, not #42. It's sad to hear about your story -- and I'm not saying you were putting it out here to get pity. However, it's important to remember that yours is by its nature YOUR OWN PERSONAL STORY. For any of us to generalize from it and ASSUME that your story is Maddox's story, Zahara's story or the story of any (and all) other adopted child out there is simply a mistake. I should think all of us realize the damage and gross inaccuracies resulting from oversimplified generalizations.

Also, I agree with another poster who said (essentially) that there's no excuse or justification for not knowing your grandCHILDREN's names. Especially not with you spouting off at EVERY (staged) opportunity about how dearly you would like to reconcile with your child. Saying that these names are faddish, stylish or crazy is just a pathetic copout. It really doesn't take that much effort to learn "different" names . . . if you SINCERELY try to do so. And I guess that's my problem with JV in a nutshell: everything about him smacks of insincerity. to me, he's smarmy, opportunistic and grossly self-centered. none of us knows the real reason Angie cut him off (whether it was solely based on what he said 4 years ago or not), but I for one am perfectly ok with ridding one's life of people like him -- blood relative or not.

Posted at 1:47PM on Aug 29th 2006 by rapt

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