Brad and Ang split ‘so slow’
BRAD Pitt and Angelina Jolie still haven’t thrashed out their divorce details almost two years after their marriage ended.
The Hollywood A-Listers announced their split back in September 2016 but can’t agree deals on custody of their six children or how to divide their enormous joint fortune.
And now a new court showdown is looming over plans by Angelina, 42, to take the kids with her to London for “several months” while she shoots her blockbuster sequel Maleficent 2.
Brad, 54, is reported to be “bitterly opposed” to the move and his lawyers are demanding that he has regular access to the youngsters even if he has to fly to and from the UK to see them.
A source close to the actor, who has been dating the US architecture professor Neri Oxman, 42, said: “He’s fully aware that Angelina needs court permission to take the kids out of the country while their divorce continues.
“He intends to oppose that unless they can agree between them a schedule that will allow him at least a reasonable amount of time to be with them.
“Angie thinks he’s being ridiculous and should just wait until they all get back to America.”
A GROWING band of hunters are regularly scouring the British countryside in a bid to find a real-life Bigfoot.
They are part of an organisation that reckons a huge “apeman” is at large in the UK.
The British Bigfoot Sightings group has around 2,000 online members and probes claims that people have encountered mysterious beasts.
I joined a trek with an intrepid pair of Bigfoot enthusiasts in the South Downs, close to the scene of a number of recent sightings. Andy McGrath, 42, and Trevor Cornwall, 38, reckon they will one day find Bigfoot.
Andy, from London, said: “I became interested in Nessie as a child and pursued my interest by collecting records of sightings during my teenage years.
“When I hit 40, I became very intrigued by modern sightings of unknown Nessie-like animals, British Bigfoot, flying owlmen and out-of-place animals like big cats, crocodiles, bears, scorpions and snakes. They are out there.”
Strolling around Harting Down in West Sussex, our eyes were peeled for a hairy and muscular 8ft-tall creature with a face described as halfape and half-man.
The hunt was unsuccessful but some spookily placed fallen tree branches were enough to spark speculation over possible sasquatch activity.
Healthcare worker Andy said: “I have always questioned whether once I found myself face to face with an unknown creature, would I still want to be?
“It is, of course, all very well wanting to prove they exist here in the UK, but what do you do when you have one standing right in front of you?
“The hunting part of this venture is fairly new to me but I have already travelled the UK in search of all sorts.”
A man claimed that he saw a Bigfootlike creature while on a train from Exeter to Bristol Temple Meads last year.
The witness said: “We were travelling through an area and in the fields to my right I saw something large in the middle of the field walking.
“It was walking kind of hunched over and all I could tell you was it was a black figure. I was watching the way the ‘thing’ was walking, almost towards the side of the field, it was edged right up to the hedgerow as if to walk alongside the hedge, almost like it was using the hedge for cover.
“To my eye whatever it was seemed to take massive strides.”
The most famous
Bigfoot was snapped in northern California in
1967 by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin, inset.
On a mission to the Himalayas in 1951, the British explorer Eric Earle Shipton snapped a photo of a giant footprint believed to have been left by a yeti. In 2014, the photo was bought for almost £4,000. One UK Bigfoot researcher, Deborah Hatswell, said it was possible a a similar creature could still exist in Britain.
She said: “People who are openminded about whether such a creature could exist in the vast forests of North America might think Britain is too built-up, but it’s actually not.
“When you look at the reports of sightings in this country, they tend to follow rivers and forests. “There have always been folklore stories about wildmen living in the woods in this country – they date back centuries and those stories have continued.”