Bloody Jolie And The Cricket

Angelina Jolie (who is in no way mental) has a wonderful way of ensuring that her adopted son Maddox will feel at home in his native Cambodia, where he spent his early years before being spirited away by the Hollywood child-snatcher.

When Angelina takes her son 'home' for a visit, she insists that he walks around on stony ground without shoes, so as to harden his feet; an act that even little Maddox thinks is totally deranged, crying his little eyes out as his Nikes are abandoned in the people carrier and he is sent out on a forced march with his equally-barefoot mother.

"When we go to Cambodia I always say, 'Take our shoes off,' and we walk across the rocks. There was a time he would whine about little things like that and I'll say, 'Everybody in Cambodia can walk with bare feet. They get tough Cambodian feet.' So the two of us will take our shoes off and walk across the rocks and go eat a cricket." Mmm, crickets, the jammy little bastard!

Bet he loves that, and that her other poor kids can't wait to experience famine and flies and the like. Actually, Angelina is VERY mental, and Brad Pitt's silence probably means he is hiding in a dark corner in fear of being sent back to his dad's cellar to recreate HIS upbringing.