The new Lara Croft

The latest incarnation of Lara Croft is a former gymnast who has performed at a national level.

Alison Carroll, 23, from Croydon, follows in the footsteps of models like Nell McAndrew in the promotional role of the action heroine, as well as Angelina Jolie, who played the part in the film version of the Tomb Raider video game
From Croydon with love: The new Lara Croft has been revealed as 23-year-old Alison Carroll from none too glamorous Croydon
Alison follows in the footsteps of actress Angelina Jolie (right) and Nell McAndrew to portray the iconic video game character
Action heroine: Alison has represented Great Britain as a professional display gymnast, and has performed in front of Prince Charles

Miss Carroll has represented Great Britain as a professional display gymnast, and has performed in front of Prince Charles.

She is also a coach for younger gymnasts and recently choreographed the routine for the junior team that won the British National Championships.

Miss Carroll, who beat hundreds of others to be Lara Croft, has now left her day job as a receptionist to start on a gruelling training regime.
Ready for action: The new Tomb Raider game 'Underworld' comes out in November

She will appear at promotions and conferences in character, performing stunts such as back flips, and will play the part in TV commercials.

Miss Carroll will even answer questions on chat shows as Lara, after taking a crash course in archaeology. She said: "I've always wanted to be an action hero."

The new Tomb Raider game 'Underworld' comes out on November 21, 2008

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Angelina Jolie strikes a classic pose in the new spring campaign

With none of her trademark tattoos in sight, Angelina Jolie models the new range of clothing brand St. John - looking a world away from her tough action girl role.

A demure-looking Angelina looked every inch the old school Hollywood beauty with her shiny brunette hair piled loosely on top of her head, while wearing a classic LBD from the American luxury label.

The shoot took place several weeks ago, before the actress' bump confirmed reports that she was pregnant with twins.

Angelina Jolie adopts classic Old Hollywood look in stunning new ad campaign

U.N. goodwill ambassador Angelina took the modelling job along with a spokesperson role as the voice of the company's charity, which was created in support of children's issues and causes.

"She's a mother, actress and a philanthropist," said Richard Cohen, chief executive officer of St. John.

Jolie, 32, signed with St. John in September 2005. At the time, she said she was excited about working with the clothing line.
Old Hollywood glamour: The actress looked every inch the old Hollywood starlet dressed in a little black dress and with her brunette locks loosely piled on her head

"I am a working mother who has set goals to accomplish a lot in this world," she said.

"I want my wardrobe to be beautiful, sexy and comfortable — all at the same time. St. John is all of those things."

Brad Pitt and Angelina are also adoptive parents to Zahara, three, Pax Thien, four, and have a biological daughter Shiloh Nouvel, 21 months.

In preparation for the birth this summer, Pitt has been rescheduling his work so he has enough time to spend with Jolie and the children.

A friend of the couple told the Mail Online: "They're having twins, Angelina is healthy, and he's thrilled that he's going to be a father once again.

"Brad's telling everybody close to him, because he's having to change around his work schedule to get ready for the birth.

"They didn't exactly plan this pregnancy, but they wanted more children and Brad says Angelina was very willing to have them herself."

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Battle of the red carpet baby bumps

It is difficult enough to get a plus-one ticket to the most prestigious showbusiness awards ceremony of the year.

But three of Hollywood's biggest stars managed to sneak in an extra guest or two.

Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman were both carrying little stowaways at the biggest event on the movie calendar last night.
Looking swell: Best Actress nominee Cate Blanchett, who is expecting her third child in April, wore a brilliant aqua marine gown by Dres Van Noten to last night's event

Miss Blanchett won the baby bump stakes on the red carpet. The best actress nominee, who is expecting her third child in April, wore a brilliant aqua marine gown created for her by Dres Van Noten.

Miss Kidman, 40, who is almost four months pregnant with her first baby, also dazzled in her custom Balenciaga gown and Bottega Veneta clutch, and a glittering diamond necklace designed by L'Wren Scott.
Proud mother-to-be: Nicole Kidman dazzled on last night's Oscars red carpet in her custom Balenciaga gown and a 1,399-carat diamond necklace designed by L'Wren Scott

The sparkling necklace included a total of 7645 rough, faceted and polished diamonds totalling 1,399 carats.

A spokesman for designer L'Wren Scott yesterday confirmed that Nicole Kidman's stunning diamond necklace had been custom made for the actress but would not comment on how much the piece was worth.

However, an expert from Hatton Garden - London's jewellery quarter - said that the necklace would have a retail value of around £3million pounds.

Actress Jessica Alba, who is pregnant with her first child, wore a strapless empire line Markesa dress with Cartier jewellery.
So proud: Nicole's husband Keith Urban accompanied her to last night's event and kept a protective arm around her

Two nights earlier, Angelina Jolie had shown her bump for the first time on Friday evening at the Independent Spirit Awards.

She beamed as her partner Brad Pitt, 43, wrapped an arm around her waist. "I do not want people bumping into me so Brad is my protector," she joked.

The couple have yet to confirm the pregnancy, which will be her second, but speculation is rife that the 32-year-old is expecting twins. Judging by the size of her bump at this early stage, the rumours could be well founded.
Bumps ahead: Pregnant stars Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman both dazzled on the red carpet at last night's Oscars
Purple reign: blooming Jessica Alba wore a strapless Markesa dress with Cartier jewellery

Baby bumps weren't the only stunning accessories on the red carpet. Actress Rosamund Pike sparkled in diamond jewellery created by H Stern.

The star of screen and stage led the beauty stakes for Britain on the Oscar red carpet last night wearing a stunning canary yellow off the shoulder dress designed by Roland Lauret.

The London-based actress was with fiance the director Joe Wright who made the film Atonement which was up for seven academy awards including best picture.
Angelina Jolie with partner Brad Pitt: The actress's growing bump fuelled speculation she is expecting twins at a pre-Oscars event

Rosamund said that she and Joe started their morning with a French toast for breakfast and a three-hour drive to get the ceremony at the Kodak theatre in time because of heavy traffic.

Actor James McAvoy, leading man in Atonement, arrived at the ceremony with wife British actress Ann-Marie Duff wearing a blue gown created by Mosquino and matching saphire and diamond earrrings and ring.

The 28 year-old British actor said it was "incredible" to be at the Oscars.

He added: "What a great night for really intelligent film-making."

He said Americans found Atonement "depressing and humorous" while most Britons laughed less at the film.

Best actor winner Daniel Day-Lewis arrived with his wife Rebecca. Day-Lewis said he was feeling "like a British rail sandwich, a little curled up at the edges."

He added: "It's been a great ride but you do set yourself up for unknown surprises at the Oscars."

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Angelina steps out, looking skinnier than ever

She claims to love tucking into a fry-up every morning.

But judging by these pictures, Angelina Jolie could do with a hearty lunch and supper as well.

The 32-year-old shocked onlookers with her startlingly thin appearance on a day out in New York. Her twig-like legs looked fragile enough to snap in two, and while she once boasted voluptuous curves, her stomach was instead a hollow.

Her arms and forehead showed prominent bulging veins indicative of extreme weight loss and over-exercise.

Were it not for the colour change, it would almost be hard to tell where Angelina's stick thin legs end and her stiletto heels begin

Miss Jolie is said to weigh less than eight stone with friends and family becoming increasingly concerned about her drastic thinning.

She has insisted she is simply still struggling to cope with the death of her mother Marcheline Bertrand from ovarian cancer earlier this year.

The actress has said: "I have always been lean and this year I have lost my mother and gone through a lot.

"I have four children and I finished breastfeeding. It has been hard to get my nutrition back on track."

Miss Jolie - who has a one-year-old daughter Shiloh with Brad Pitt and three adopted offspring - sparked speculation she could be taking her diet a step too far.

In June this year bulging blue veins - a telltale sign of over-exercising - popped up on her arms, hands and forehead.

Gone are her voluptuous curves: Angelina's stomach is hollowed out and the veins bulging on her arms are a sign of over-exercising

And a fortnight ago as she made a red carpet entrance at the Toronto film festival, the audience's eyes were drawn to her knobbly knees.

She was so determined to prove she is not on a mission to lose weight that she recently declared she loved nothing better than to tuck into fried eggs, bacon and sausages every morning.

Miss Jolie added: "I have never been a fitness fanatic. I am lucky I can eat pretty much what I want."

But pro-dieting websites pointed out the combination of foods could lead to weight loss as they are low in carbohydrates.

One, theskinnywebsite.com, said: "Those are not the foods to add unwanted poundage.

"Someone can eat those three foods all day long and lose a bunch of weight."

Yesterday she was showing the effects as she left her home in a black suit which hung off her gaunt frame while her Christian Louboutin stilettos only served to emphasise her wiry legs.

Later, as she took her brood of four to a play centre, her cropped top and loose jogging bottoms drew attention to her disappearing midriff.

An onlooker said: "I know she has lost a lot of weight recently but even so, she was shockingly thin. Her legs looked like sticks from behind."

Her actor brother James Haven, 34, has claimed her weight loss has been caused by her guilt about eating well in the face of Third World poverty.

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Angelina Jolie gets virtually naked

She regularly tops Hollywood's best dressed list but Angelina Jolie has abandoned clothes all together for her latest movie.

In scenes sure to set pulses racing, the much lusted-after star emerges from a lake completely naked except for dripping gold liquid.

Midas touch: Angelina almost bares all for her latest role

For the adult fantasy film Beowulf, Jolie plays the mother of Grendel the monster, who is the father of all evil from Anglo-Saxon mythology.

In her transformation for the role, the actress appears to have regained her famous knock-out curves, perhaps with a little digital assistance.

Filmed in a photo-realistic animation style, the release has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a "hyper violent and highly sexualized tale".

Naked truth: the actress strikes a sultry pose in a promotion shot for her new blockbuster.

Jolie stars alongside British actors Ray Winston, who plays her evil son, and Sir Anthony Hopkins who plays King Hrothgar.

With Beowulf set to hit cinemas in the UK on November 16, the actress has already started work on her next project, the action movie Wanted.

The 32-year-old, who lost a considerable amount of weight following the death of her mother earlier this year, has welcomed the return to action films.

Best dressed: a fully clothed Angelina joined Brad in Venice earlier this week

She said: "It seemed like a good thing for me – and my family agreed – to have a reason to get strong and do something that was not serious."

Away from the big screen, Angelina and her partner Brad Pitt are preparing to add to their brood, which already includes Maddox, 6, Pax, 3, Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 1.

When asked at the Venice Film Festival if they were ready for another child, Pitt answered: "Yeah, we're ready."

Watch the trailer herr. Rated 18 - contains scenes of violence

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Naked Angelina turns to the dark side for new film role

Her back is turned to camera, her face shrouded in murky shadow and hair menacingly styled to resemble a spitting snake. But there's still no mistaking the sexy superstar posing in this racy shot from her new film.

Angelina Jolie has been transformed into the mother of Grendel the monster, the father of all evil from Anglo-Saxon mythology, for the adult fantasy film Beowulf

The actress stars alongside British actors Ray Winston, who plays her evil son, and Sir Anthony Hopkins who plays King Hrothgar.

Angelina strikes a sultry pose in a promotion shot for her new blockbuster.

Winstone has also been given a virtual Hollywood makeover, losing his beer belly, to remake his portly British frame into that of a comic book superhero with the help of skilled digital imaging. Described as "'Lord of the Rings' meets '300', the long-awaited adaption of the the oldest story in the English language, "Beowulf" is described by the Los Angeles times as a "hyper violent and highly sexualized tale".

The warrior Beowulf (Ray Winstone) must slay the monster Grendel (Crispin Glover). Later, Grendel's mother (Jolie) seduces Beowulf so that she can produce a replacement heir that will allow her to re-establish her dominion over the kingdom.

Winstone has become a fixture in Hollywood since his breakthrough role in Gary Oldman's Nil By Mouth. And is currently filming the fourth installment of the Indiana Jones series with Harrison Ford.

Die-hard fans of the comic book genre will get a sneak peak at the 3-D digital version of the film at a comic convention, Comic-Con, in San Diego tonight.

Action man: Ray Winstone with his digitally enhanced body as warrior Beowulf

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The secrets behind Angelina's tattoos

She is one of the most photographed women in the world - and now one of the most tattooed.

After attending the world premiere of her latest movie, Angelina Jolie revealed her latest set of body art - geographical map coordinates accurately detailing the countries of birth of each member of her "rainbow family".

Walking down the red carpet in Cannes to promote her movie, A Mighty Heart, the 31-year-old actress kept the new tattoos hidden, using her boyfriend, Brad Pitt, as a human shield.

The tattoo on Angelina Jolie's left arm show's the map coordinates for the birthplaces of her children. The actress also appeared to be bruised - a common side effect of tattooing.

But as the couple made their way down the festival's famous Croisette in a chauffeur-driven car afterwards, the four-part scribing on her left shoulder was plainly visible.

Each line, it has emerged, represents the very international map coordinates detailing where their four children, three of which were adopted, were born.

From the top down, and from left to right, is the longitudinal and latitudinal location of Cambodia, where the Oscar-winning actress' eldest son, Maddox, five, was born.

Next are the coordinates pertaining to Ethiopia, the country from which Miss Jolie plucked two-year-old Zahara.

Angelina's tattoos have special meaning for her

Third on the list is Namibia, where the Tomb Raider star gave birth to her ten-month-old biological daughter, Shiloh, whose name in Hebrew means "the peaceful one".

Last but not least is a reference to the latest addition to the couple's rainbow family - Pax Thien, who is Vietnamese by origin.

The three-year-old boy was taken from an orphanage in March, amid claims that the Hollywood couple had unfairly fast-tracked the adoption process.

Interestingly, beneath her latest ink inscriptions, Miss Jolie appeared to be sporting some heavy bruising - a common side effect of tattooing.

"Most of Angelina's tattoos are pretty discreet but these map coordinates really stand out," said a festival onlooker. "When she made her way up the red carpet, she kept her arm hidden behind Brad, and looked really elegant in a demure black dress and peep toe heels.

On the red carpet: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt arrive at the world premiere of 'A Mighty Heart' in Cannes

"But when she unearthed them later in the night, she really did look like a bit of a bruiser. While the significance of these tattoos is undoubtedly poignant, this probably wasn't the look she had in mind when she got the coordinates done."

The latest tattoo is understood to be Miss Jolie's 13th to date.

She already has a discreet M on the palm of her hand - a tribute to her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died earlier this year.

On top of this, she has a Buddhist Pali prayer written in the Khmer script for Maddox as well as a Tennessee Williams quote, "A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages".

Angelina Jolie's new tattoos have been inscribed in the same spot where a tribute to her ex-husband Billy Bob Thronton once lay.

His name was tattooed onto her left arm along with a Chinese dragon - the remnants of which are still faintly visible even after laser removal surgery.

She said at the time of the laser treatment: "I'll never be stupid enough to have a man's name tattooed on me again."

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Angelina's secret sadness - by her brother

Even by the standards of Hollywood it is an extraordinary project. When three-year-old Pham Quang Sang explores his new home for the first time this week, he will become the latest addition to what must be one of the fastest-growing families on the planet, not to mention the most colourful.


Little Pham, from Vietnam, joins Maddox from Cambodia, Zahara from Ethiopia and Shiloh, born in Namibia last May. Equally remarkable are the parents, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, a superstar couple prepared to embrace domesticity on a heroic scale.

Ms Jolie has promised to adopt babies from every corner of the globe, without limit, and this is no empty threat. Already she has collected a family that resembles the United Nations.

Family: Angelina Jolie, dad Jon Voight, and brother James Haven Voight

She faces constant criticism, claims that she is a publicity-seeker, and demands that she take American babies instead of looking to the developing world for children. But the 'Brangelina' circus rumbles on, unperturbed, which on past form is no surprise. Since she first hit stardom, she has been defiantly unconventional, whether it is boasting about unusual sex, showing off her collection of knives, or her large, and some will feel disfiguring, collection of tattoos.

Although recognised the world over, she is a woman truly known by very few, but her brother, 33-year-old actor and director James Haven Voight, can honestly claim to be one of them.

A reticent man who has spent much of his life in the shadow of his famous younger sister, he rarely seeks the limelight. But with concern mounting about Angelina's behaviour, he has used his first-ever newspaper interview to defend her reputation and shed some light on the damaged and dysfunctional upbringing which has shaped them both.

In a fascinating insight into a very private world, he blames the bullying and manipulation of their handsome movie-hero father, Jon Voight, star of Midnight Cowboy, for blighting both their lives. And he says it is the trauma of their childhood which has driven his sister to create a huge and independent family of her own.

Already emotionally vulnerable, the death of their mother in January of this year has left 31-year-old Angelina shattered. She is eating little and already seems to be losing her famous curves. Now, more than ever, says her brother, she is determined to place her faith in the lives of the children - and who knows how many more there will be - she is gathering around her.

"I have no memory at all of my mother shouting at me or at my sister," James explains. "But I do have horrible memories of my father and the way he behaved. He was so tough on our mother.

"He lived in the same town. We saw him around Christmas time or at school recitals. He was always around but he never did his job as a father. I think one of the reasons Angelina and I care so much for other people is his treatment of our mother. Angelina and I were very protective of her for that reason."

It was their mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who provided the emotional underpinning to their lives, he says - the one point of stability amid the chaos. Her loss to cancer, aged just 56, has been devastating.

"Angie has become very thin because she's grieving," he admits. "It's even difficult for her to eat. I keep saying to her, 'Don't forget to eat'.

"But you know she doesn't pay much attention to food anyway and she's been going through a process of grief like me. She has not wanted to eat, nor has she been able to."

It ought to have been a privileged childhood for James and Angelina. Born in 1973 and 1975 respectively, they were members of Hollywood aristocracy. As teenagers they were educated at the Beverly Hills High School, alma mater to the stars - a school made more famous still by its central role in the long-running series Beverly Hills 90210.

Certainly, James remembers the domestic security of his mother's routine with affection.

"There was very much that home feeling when we came back from school," he recalls. "Angie and I would walk in and comment on how we could smell things cooking and baking in the kitchen.

"My mum was methodical in making sure we did our homework perfectly. She would do outlines to help us. When we were younger, she used flash cards.

"Or she'd be in the middle of cooking and pick up a carrot and teach us about the vegetable or the fruit so that it was visual as well. Angie is now the same with her kids."

Marcheline, a beauty of mixed French-Canadian and Iroquois heritage, was an actress in her own right when she married Voight in 1971. But it was a brief partnership. They separated in 1976, shortly after Angelina's birth.

James and Angelina refuse to talk about the reasons for their parents' break-up - although there have been persistent rumours of womanising.

For all Marcheline's efforts to create a happy home, it was impossible to escape the destructive influence of Voight.

Money was one of many battlegrounds, although there should hardly have been a shortage of cash. By 1975, he was a household name, handsome, blue-eyed and in demand.

Yet according to James, it was a constant battle - to the point that Angelina and her older brother were reduced to pleading with him to pay the child support he owed.

"I tried hard when I was alone with him," recalls James. "The alimony was always an issue. He would claim he was taking good care of her.

"But in reality Mum was stressing out and we had to tell him he was causing the problem. This would be when I was 13 and Angie was 11.

"We definitely had a taste of his manipulative behaviour. But it was when he dealt with my mother that we really saw him pulling the strings.

"And that made us very sad and angry. Angelina and I saw my mum oppressed. Now we're protective of women on their own and, of course, of children." It was an experience which drove brother and sister closer and even today their relationship borders on intensity. H for 'Haven' is tattooed on Jolie's wrist.

Notoriously, she gave him a long and passionate kiss when celebrating her Oscar success for Girl, Interrupted in 2000.

James, who has the same striking looks as his sister, travels with Brad and Angelina on many of their foreign expeditions, and spends hours in the company of her growing brood. Growing up, they never went hungry, but there were hardships. No one in Hollywood walks - Los Angeles is not built for the convenience of pedestrians - yet neither Angelina nor James could afford a car.

He explains: "One of the saddest things in my life happened when I was 16, which is when you can get your permit to drive in LA. I did not have a car in High School and neither did Angelina.

"Try to imagine. You go to Beverly Hills High, one of the wealthiest High Schools in the nation. Even the cheapest car that anyone has is brand new. All my friends are well off. I have a movie-star father and no car.

"It was debilitating. I did not to go to the prom [the social highlight of an American high school career] because I felt uncomfortable that Dad would have to drive me. It's an embarrassing thing.

"The significant years of dating and getting to know yourself, I didn't experience any of that. I didn't experience what I think is one of the most important times in a person's life, and neither did Angelina. It affected both of us.

"When I was in college and finally dating I went to my dad and told him what it was like for me in High School. He didn't try to understand at all. He said he didn't have money."

It was a lesson that neither of them forgot. James says: "Angie has been driven to be an independently wealthy woman now because we saw what it was like to be at the mercy of someone who controls the money and pulls the strings.

"There were times when our dad was awesomely good with us, but my biggest and most abiding memory is that he would look more to our faults than to our strengths."

It must, then, have been particularly hard to follow him in the movie industry. Certainly for all his sensitivity and good looks, James has scored only modest success with parts in the 2001 movies Original Sin - starring his sister - and Monster's Ball, which starred his sister's then husband, Billy Bob Thornton.

James says: "Look at what Angelina is doing - her work with the United Nations, raising awareness of refugees. It would just be great if Dad would commend her, or send her a message of encouragement. But she's never heard those words from him."

However, it did nothing to blunt her ambitions or her determination. In fact, the young Angelina was precocious in many ways.

This was a girl sufficiently confident to start a sexual relationship at the age of 14 and bring her lover back to live under the same roof with the tolerance, if not the approval, of her mother.

James denies that his sister is a domineering character, claiming that her famed decisiveness is, like her love of knives and her boasts about sadomasochistic sex, an attempt to be independent of other people's control. But he is not ashamed to admit he is under her influence, in all sorts of ways.

"She's always been very protective of me with regards to my romantic life, which I love," he smiles. "She wants me to be with the right woman. When you come from a divorced home, divorce is what you desperately want to avoid.

"Maybe I haven't found the right woman because my sister is too picky for me. Any woman has to go through two filters, me and then my sister.

"I'm a perfectionist by nature. Then, because I'm so close to Angie it's like I've already got the perfect woman in my life and it's hard for anyone else to live up to that.

"I go to Angie for advice and won't do anything without her because we were so close as children."

Her influence on him is so profound, he claims he has even been persuaded to adopt a child himself - provided he can find a partner first. Angelina has even brought about a change of career, persuading him to spend large parts of his time campaigning for charity. He is currently preparing to take part in a major US campaign to fight the AIDS pandemic in Uganda.

James is outraged by the claim that their relationship might in any way be inappropriate - claims prompted by 'that' kiss after the 2000 Oscars.

"I did not give Angie a French kiss, it was something simple and lovely," he insists.

"She was about to go off to Mexico to finish filming Original Sin with Antonio Banderas. I congratulated her on the Oscar win and gave her a quick kiss on the lips. It was snapped and became a big thing round the world."

It seemed at one point the fractured relationship between Angelina and her father was on the mend. The pair took part in the 2001 movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, for example, with Voight playing her on-screen father.

But Voight spoiled it by going on Access Hollywood, a prime-time US talk show, and accusing his daughter of having 'serious mental problems'. Jolie responded by legally erasing her surname, Voight, and banning him from seeing her children. They have not spoken since.

Voight's relationship with his son, meanwhile, is a little better. But not much. Voight has yet to talk to James in person following the death of his mother, an omission the son finds barely able to believe.

"My dad left a voicemail message that was very kind, wishing condolences to me and my sister. That was what he did," says James, his voice heavy with sarcasm.

Now, with the death of their mother, the wound is red raw.

"He was very tough on my mum for years and then the person he was tough on has gone. He can't do anything now, he can't fix that and it's very painful," James says.

"At some point I've got to be able to let my bitterness and anger towards him go and I'm working on that now. I believe my mother's in a better place. What I have to deal with is that there's no such thing as him making amends now - he's lost his chance and that just makes me and Angelina even more upset.

"When I first lost my mother, I couldn't stop crying. Fortunately, I was with Angie when we heard. It was such a big moment.

"If Angelina understood something about missing parents before, she understands completely now. Angelina and I are orphans too, in a way. When you see those kids in orphanages, they cling to each other. And that's exactly what they have - they have each other."

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A kiss and tears for Angelina's new orphan son

VIDEO: This is Angelina Jolie's latest adopted child.

Pax Thien Jolie, the latest addition to the Tomb Raider star's multinational family, appeared to be shy with his mother-to-be when she came to collect the three-year-old from the Vietnamese orphanage where he has spent much of his life.

Video...Angelina collects her new son from the orphanage

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Insert the first picture of Angelina's adopted son Pax Thien Jolie; and Jolie with her eldest son Maddox, after arriving at the Ho Chi Minh City International Airport

Dressed in yellow t-shirt and shorts, Pax Thien Jolie

Jolie arrived with five-year-old son Maddox, whom she adopted in neighbouring Cambodia in 2002.

Jolie greeted Pax Thien, meaning Peace Heaven, with a kiss and held him.

Nguyen Van Trung, director of the Tam Binh orphanage on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, said: "They tried to make friends with the Vietnamese boy, who cried when he saw them because for him, they are strangers. Jolie was very moved. Both of them tried to comfort the little boy."

Angelina Jolie pictured holding her adopted daughter Zahara, while partner Brad Pitt carries her eldest son Maddox

Van Trung said the boy was healthy and liked to play soccer. The child had been abandoned at a local hospital and was admitted to the orphanage in 2003, Trung added.

Jolie and Pitt visited Ho Chi Minh City last November and met children at the orphanage. They have one biological child, Shiloh Nouvel who was born last year, and two adopted children - son Maddox from Cambodia and daughter Zahara from Ethiopia.

Jolie and Pitt, who starred in the 2005 movie "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", have said they have no plans to marry but are committed to raising their children together. They are also working together on the film "A Mighty Heart" about the killing of a U.S. journalist by Pakistani militants.

Jolie won an Oscar in 1999 for best supporting actress in "Girl, Interrupted". She starred in the 2001 movie "Tomb Raider" which was filmed in Cambodia, neighbouring Vietnam.

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Angie's prickly Golden Globe Performance

The Good Shepherd star clams up when scribes ask her about her plans to expand her family at the awards ceremony

Angelina Jolie has been pretty open about the fact that she wants a large family with beau Brad Pitt.

However, when she faced a few more questions about the topic on the red carpet at the Golden Globes recently.

The actress got quite a bee in her bonnet. The good Shepherd star was being interviewed by American Idol host Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet, but refused to answer any of the question that were being directed towards her.

And when the topic turned to her three kids, and the couple's plans to expand their family, Well that's when things got a bit sticky for Seacrest before Pitt came to his rescue and said, "the answer is 'no comment'", reports the New York daily News.

Then it was Brad's turn to be stared down by Jolie when he answered Seacrest's queries about their children, telling the host that they wanted a whole soccer team of kids, and his nominated film, Babel.

However, Jolie's frowns did turn to smiles later on the night when Babel won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama.

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Jolie calls Madonna's adoption 'illegal'

The Tomb Raider actress feels Madonna's controversial adoption of David Banda from Malawi was wrong

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has criticized Madonna for the way she adopted a 13 month old child from Malawi, calling it "illegal".

The Tomb Raider actress, who has herself adopted babies from Cambodia and Ethiopia of David Banda from Malawi was wrong.

She said that the singer should not have paid a visit to an impoverished African country last year with the sole intention of picking up David Banda.

"Madonna knew the situation in Malawi, where he was born. It's country where there is no real legal framework for adoption. Personally, I prefer to stay on the right side of the Law.

I would never take a child away from a place where adoption is illegal," the daily mail quoted her as telling Gala magazine. her comments follow accusations that Madonna used her fame and money to speed the adoption of one year old David Banda late last year.

Jolie, 31, also made clear she was shocked by Madonna's decision to take David from the country where his father still lives.

However, she said that she still felt sorry for Madonna, 48, who has been harshly criticized since taking David back to London to live with her husband Guy Ritchie and her children, Lourdes and Rocco.

"I have been horrified by the attacks she's been subjected to. All that should count is the happiness of her little David," She added

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On FIRE ! Janice Dickinson

Ex - Super model Janice Dickinson recently said she'd love
to have a fling with Angelina Jolie Super model Janice
Dickinson dreams of having a Lesbian fling with Angelina Jolie.

Dickinson, who rose to fame in the 1970s, has had sexual
encounters with a long list of celebrities, including Slvester
Stallone and Jack Nicholson. And she has now turned her
attentions to Brad Pitt's lover.

She say's, "She's gorgeous. She could have my babies.
I'd do her in a heartbeat !" However, The Oscar-winning
actress is not the only one Dickinson is eyeing ! She has also
told American Idol judge Simon Cowell to ditch his girlfriend
and go out with her.



The 52 years old beauty earned herself a reputation as a
straighttalker when she appeared as a judge on television
programme America's next Top Model, alongside host
Tyra Banks.

Dickinson says, "He's the sexiest man on TV.
I adored grabbing his saggy white ass when
I appeared on American Idol."

Angelina Jolie , Janice Dickinson