Story About Angelina Jolie Baby Names May Have Sparked Fake Birth Rumor

June 5, 2008

Story About Angelina Jolie Baby Names May Have Sparked Fake Birth Rumor

I knew that Angelina Jolie’s twins’ baby names had to be in there somewhere!

By now, everyone knows that last week’s report broadcast on Entertainment Tonight, claiming that Angelina Jolie had given birth in France, was false.

In a story on CNN today, the nightly entertainment show is revealed to have been suckered into running the story, based on email messages sent by someone impersonating Jolie’s assistant. Oops! Furthermore, the CNN story says that E.T. knew the story was fake. (I don’t quite get the logic there, if that’s true).

Anyway, one interesting tidbit in the CNN story is that:

“Even before the Entertainment Tonight report, there were international rumors of the twins’ birth, possibly started by an OK! magazine story that did not report the babies were born, but speculated on possible names.” (emphasis mine).

I wonder if the journalists at OK! magazine may have seen my speculation about Jolie’s baby names? Is that what started all this? I posted back in February that I’m guessing Jolie and Pitt will go with Irish names this time around — and I’m sticking with that guess!

Time for a guess-athon!