CAPITAL GAINS

2005 1998

2017 1998 Brad –a Hollywood superstar –and Jennifer, TV’s most famous actress, are set up on their first date by their agents. September 1999 They walk the red carpet together at the Emmy Awards as an official couple. July 2000 The pair marry in Malibu in front of 200 guests, saying their own handwritten vows –her promising to make his favourite banana milkshake, him vowing to always split the difference on the thermostat. January 2004 Brad begins filming Mr & Mrs Smith with Angelina Jolie. February 2004 Jennifer tells The Guardian she’s ready to start a family, saying “it’s time”. January 2005 Just days after paparazzi photos showed the pair in loving embraces during a romantic Caribbean holiday, Brad and Jennifer release a statement, announcing their separation. April 2005 After nearly a year of rumours that Brad’s relationship with co-star Angelina was more than a friendship, the pair are photographed on a beach in Kenya together. Later that month, Angelina denies their relationship began while Brad was still with Jennifer. September 2005 Jennifer covers Vanity Fair magazine, where she says Brad is “missing a sensitivity chip”, thanks to a glossy magazine spread in which he and Angelina pose as a happy suburban couple surrounded by children. October 2005 Brad and Jennifer’s divorce is finalised. October 2006 Angelina gives birth to her and Brad’s first biological daughter, Shiloh, in Namibia. With a brood of six children, the couple finally marry in 2014. August 2015 Jennifer marries her love of four years, Justin Theroux, in a secret ceremony. September 2016 Angelina files for divorce from Brad. February 2017 Brad reaches out to Jennifer for her birthday and the pair begin to reform a friendship. Brad reportedly leans on Jennifer for support, a friendship her husband wholeheartedly supports. February 2018 Jennifer and Justin announce their separation, remaining close friends. MEMORY LANE!

Brad & long-aw a reunion ‘COMP IN S IN S YNC’

CELEB UPDATE

she turned around and they embraced and congratulated each other.” Brad is riding a wave of success and picked up another gong for his role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – which has also seen him earn an Oscar nomination. Jennifer picked up an award in the hard-fought category of Best Actress, winning for her TV role on The Morning Show. Brad (56) was backstage as Jennifer (50) accepted her award, murmuring “Oh wow” as he saw her take to the stage, and bystanders jumped at the chance to record him on their phones as he watched the screen, beaming. I t was the moment fans had been waiting for. Fifteen years after their split, friendly exes Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were finally publicly reunited. The duo showed they’re very much on good terms, warmly embracing at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards as they congratulated one another on their mutual success that night. Photographer Emma McIntyre was backstage taking photos of Jennifer after her win and says she was about to leave when she saw Brad coming down the hall. “I sensed there would be a photo-worthy moment,” she says. And boy, was there ever.

“He called out ‘Aniston!’ and Jen’s a ited D THEY BE IENDLIER?! C OU L D A NY FR LETELY YNC’

It’s long been thought that the pair quietly renewed a friendship in recent years, after Brad’s marriage to Angelina Jolie dissolved – a love triangle that you’d have to have spent the last 15 years living under a rock to not know about.

Social media exploded at images of the pair hugging, while body language experts weighed in on the interaction. Dr Lillian Glass described the pair as “two magnets reaching towards each other”.

“They were completely in sync in one another’s eyes, and that’s huge,” she said. “It’s completely mutual and that’s what’s so beautiful about it.” #