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Rows tearing Pitt and Jolie apart

Exclusive by Dominic Utton 04/08/2007

It should have been the highlight of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's romantic French holiday.

But the exclusive table reserved for the couple at double Michelin-starred restaurant Chez Bru near Aix-en-Provence sat empty.

Instead, Hollywood's golden couple were locked in yet another furious row, their dream stay at a chateau deep in the French countryside in tatters after just four days.

As the Mirror revealed this week, the pair were spotted arguing so ferociously in France that Angelina threw a glass of red wine over Brad.

It seems that after two years together, the world's most beautiful couple can't stand the sight of each other.

"The spark has gone but they have a bond because of their children," confirms a source. "They want to call time on their relationship but they are working out how to do it."

Friends say that the pair have already hammered out a plan to share custody. "Angelina has no desire to take the kids away from Brad," says one. "Regardless of their issues, she thinks Brad is a fabulous father."

Although there have been rows before, things have become so serious that last month Brad, 43, informed his family - parents Bill and Jane, his brother Doug and sister Julie - that a split could be imminent.

Their four children - 14-month-old Shiloh, as well as adopted Maddox, six, Pax, three, and Zahara, two - are currently the only thing keeping them together.

"Brad only has to look at Angie right now and she seems to lose her temper," says a friend of the pair. "She doesn't care who's there or who sees it.

"I was at their rented house in Prague when suddenly Angie started tearing into Brad for asking if she wanted something to eat.

"Brad's always seemed so besotted with her and from what I have seen she treats him so badly. I've even heard her telling friends things like Brad's always too busy highlighting his hair to keep up with her UN briefs.

"And when she's reading she demands that he sits in silence and not speak to her."

At home, it's Angelina, 32, who wears the trousers. With Brad being the one who cooks and cleans and changes Shiloh's nappies, Angelina is often to be found with her feet up and a glass of wine in her hand.

According to friends, the root of their problems is their fundamentally different characters. Once you get past the drop-dead gorgeous looks and the millions in the bank, Brad and Angelina are very different people.

At first they both relished their differences, with Angelina recently confessing: "Brad's cool, playful and organised - completely the opposite of me so we balance each other out".

But the things that initially proved so attractive are now driving them apart. "Angelina hates answering to anyone and craves time alone," confides a mutual friend.

The loss of her mother Marcheline Bertrand to ovarian cancer in January this year has affected Angelina's mood too.

An insider said: "The couple's only conversations are about which child's diaper needs changing or who needs dropping at school." The holiday in the Chateau de la Couronne in the Charente region of France last month was meant to be a relaxing family break before Angelina starts filming her new movie, Wanted, in Chicago in early August. But the reality was the opposite.

The couple had row after row - one so serious that Brad stormed off to Berlin to hole up with his friends Lars Krueckeberg and Thomas Willemeit, who helped design his Malibu home.

He returned on Friday, July 20, and the next day, the pair pulled up on motorcycles outside a small coffee shop in the tiny village of Villebois-Lavalette.

"They were speaking in hushed tones," says an onlooker. "It seemed as if something was wrong and they were hammering it out."

After half-an-hour, the pair got up to leave. Then fellow customer Alexandre Sallee, 19, pulled out his mobile phone and took a picture. "That was it," says the witness, "Angelina turned on her heels, got on her bike and roared off without saying a word to Brad."

Angelina arrived "stormy-faced" back at the chateau and was later seen locked in intense conversation with a nanny, waving her arms in frustration, says an onlooker.

Still, the couple were determined to salvage their trip. On July 24, the family paid a brief trip to a bowling alley called le Palace Vert in the town of Bussiere-Badil, where Brad shocked onlookers by drinking beer and smoking at the bar. "Angie hates him smoking," says a source.

The holiday ended in tears. During one emotional bike ride the pair finally realised they had exhausted all their options. "Brad and Angelina stood by their motorcycles in the gorgeous, lush countryside and both cried like babies," said a close friend.

The next day the family boarded a private jet for Avignon, cutting short their trip by nine days. "Angie wants to run away from everything at the moment," says the friend.

For his part, Brad is feeling the strain too. And it seems that one of the primary causes of tension lies in their fundamental disagreement on how to raise the children.

Friends say that Brad has had enough of following Angelina around the globe. He wants their children to grow up in a stable environment, to forge strong friendships and see their grandparents and cousins.

"He hates when his tiny kids are jet-lagged and waking up at 3am in a strange country in yet another hotel," confirms one insider.

"Just this year Maddox has been in school in New Orleans, LA and Prague. Brad has put his foot down and told Angie they have to move back to the States."

Angelina, however, has other ideas. When asked where she saw herself in 10 years' time in a recent interview with French magazine Public, she said: "Not in Hollywood that's for sure! Maybe in an isolated farm in Cambodia."

This inability to agree on a future has been a continuous source of disagreement.

Meanwhile, Angelina believes Brad is putting himself first. "She keeps bringing up the fact that Brad didn't make time to go with her to Vietnam to pick up Pax," says the friend.

"She doesn't feel they have bonded and she told Brad she's not sure if she even wants to adopt another child with him. And as soon as she said that, Brad packed his bags and headed for Germany. It was as if she'd put a knife through his heart."

The tensions reflect just how different they actually are. When Brad and Angelina met on the set of Mr And Mrs Smith in 2005 the sexual chemistry was explosive - but the spark has fizzled into a damp squib.

Now sources say the relationship may have run its course. "It sounds terrible, but it seems like she's simply bored of Brad," says a friend.

Another source agrees: "Brad got into the motorbikes and taking flying lessons and getting tattoos just to impress Angie, whereas she's genuinely into all that stuff.

"He's much more of a takeaway in front of the TV guy. He misses his friends in LA and his simple carefree guys' nights out. They've only just realised how mismatched they really are."
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