HOUR LIMIT FOR DISTRAUGHT STAR

BRAD Pitt will only be allowed to spend four hours with his kids on Christmas Day. His estranged wife Angelina Jolie has agreed he can deliver gifts in the morning and early afternoon, we can reveal. U.S. Editor living in a rented £9.4million beachfront mansion in Malibu with Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, 10, and eight-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, inset, while she and Brad, 52, battle over legal custody. The Fight Club star has been cleared physical custody of the kids with visitation rights only for Brad, whose lawyers have filed a counter-claim.

As part of the Family Services probe, he was ordered to undergo anger management counselling and submit to random drug tests prior to agreed visits with the kids.

Our source said: “He bit his tongue and suffered through all of that in the hope Angelina would allow him more time with their kids.

“But he was really choked when he didn’t get to spend a single moment with them at Thanksgiving last month.

“And although he can’t wait to see them at Christmas, he’s dreading how hard it will be for him to leave them again after four hours.”

Last year the family spent Christmas Day together in a 10-bedroom rented villa in Phuket, Thailand.

Brad faces further heartache in the New Year when he and Angelina renew their legal battle over the kids amid reports she wants them to live with her in London