‘ET’ finally retracts Jolie twins report. Oops.
Hollywood Newsroom is now Buzz Newsroom! Visit and bookmark our new site. Buzz is bigger and better, including sports, world news, gadgets and the entertainment news that you're used to. Same staff, just more stuff! Why Fark, Drudge and Huffington when you can Buzz!?The birth of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s twins is turning into the type of mystery that might make a good movie one day.
The executive producer for “Entertainment Tonight” said Monday that she wanted to “see how this story plays out” before retracting a report that the twins had been born, despite a denial from Pitt’s manager and a claim that someone might be posing as Jolie’s personal assistant to fool reporters.
The TV show reported Friday that twin girls had been born, identifying its source as a person in the delivery room, and quoted another Web site giving the babies’ alleged names.
Rival news organizations quickly shot the story down. The Associated Press, which had picked up the “Entertainment Tonight” report after talking to executives at the show about their source, later quoted Pitt’s manager saying the “ET” story was not true.
“Entertainment Tonight” had removed its story from its Web site after the questions were raised. No mention was made of the story on Monday’s show.
- From NYDailynews