Brad Pitt will reportedly be spending Christmas with just three of his six children, three years after splitting from their mother, Angelina Jolie.
Entertainment Tonight reports that the actor – who will turn 56-years-old on Wednesday – will be joined for his big day by Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne. However, his three adoptive children with Jolie – Zahara, Pax and Maddox – are thought not to be attending Pitt's festive celebrations.
The publication reports a source claiming the star’s three biological children ‘will be with the actor at his Los Angeles area home on Christmas Eve day’. The source adds that ‘all six children will be with Jolie on Christmas Day’.
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As for Christmas Eve, they state that the Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood actor’s adoptive brood are ‘not expected to spend the holiday with their father', but that they are ‘always welcome at Pitt’s Home’.
In 2016, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’ and has since legally dissolved his surname from her own.
News of Pitt’s Christmas plans come weeks after he discussed public interest with his private life and his romances.
‘I don't go out of my way to avoid it; I just don't seek it out,’ the father-of-six admitted to The New York Times while discussing tabloid rumours about his romantic relationships.
‘I don't know how many women they've said I've been dating the last two or three years, and none of it's true.’
The California-based star has recently been linked to jewellery designer Sat Hari Khalsa, MIT Professor Neri Oxman and Arrested Development actress Alia Shawkat.
Last month, during a discussion with actor Anthony Hopkins for Interview magazine, Pitt reflected on what he has learnt from his mistakes over the years.
‘I'm realising, as a real act of forgiveness for myself for all the choices that I've made that I'm not proud of, that I value those missteps, because they led to some wisdom, which led to something else,’ he told Hopkins.
‘You can't have one without the other. I see it as something I'm just now getting my arms around at this time in my life. But I certainly don't feel like I can take credit for any of it.’
The Mr & Mrs Smith star also opened up on his previous dependency on alcohol, admitting that it was a ‘disservice’ to himself and a means of ‘escape’.
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