In a celebrity divorce saga that keeps giving, the latest chapter of the salacious split between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reveals that one of their former bodyguards acted as a near surrogate dad for their stable of adopted children.
Former bodyguard, Mark Billingham, says that he practically “fathered” the couple’s six children in a new interview.
The former SAS officer, who worked for the globetrotting Hollywood couple as their head of security for 18 months and that the former couple’s primary concern was the safety of their children — Maddox, 15, Pax, 12, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, 10 and 8-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
“The biggest concern for them was the kidnapping of the kids, it’s all about money,” Billingham told the paper. “Angie and Brad are very worried about who goes near the children.”
“It was clear from the start we had a great chemistry and they trusted me with the kids,” he said. “We got very close, I was living with them all the time. I could take the kids anywhere I wanted to on my own. No one else was allowed to do that.”
“I took them swimming. I fathered them, basically.”
“She (Jolie) recently went into Iraq for the UN and I looked after her beforehand, got her ready for it and looked after Maddox when she went in,” he said.
When his duties did extend beyond the children, Billingham said, they involved making sure that Jolie and Pitt were always looking presentable and feeling comfortable in social settings.
“What surprised me was their low level of common sense,” Billingham said. “I found it crazy when they would ask me questions like, ‘How do I go down to that bar?’ and ‘What do I need to do to get there?’ They’re not stupid, but because of the world they live in they just haven’t done something like that for so long. I found that weird.”
But based on Angelina’s accusations about Brad, the last place he needed to be was at a bar…
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