Two tell-alls set to expose the 'real' Brangelina

GET ready for Brangelina Exposed -- and no, that's not a reference to another photo spread in W.

Hollywood's most glamorous co-brand has reached a career milestone more prestigious than the inevitable adoption of their 37th Third World orphan: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are the subject of not one, but two, tell-all books that are due in the next few months. And luckily for you, the authors are already leaking some of the juicy-ish details to the gossip mags.

First up, celebrity biographer Andrew Morton (you may remember him from tell-alls about Princess Diana, Madonna and Tom Cruise), claims that Jolie, now 34, had an affair with her mom's live-in boyfriend when she was just 16. Considering she grew up to play with knives, make out with her brother at award shows and collect vials of blood, our jaws are hardly left slack by this news. However, Morton tells the Daily Mail that her life story is nevertheless "fascinating."

"AJ is one of the most fascinating women on the planet," says Morton. "Hers has been an extraordinary journey and an extraordinary story. I'm looking forward to telling it."

Another dirt-disher, Canadian author Ian Halperin, will beat Morton to the bookstores. His book, Brangelina Exposed, is due Dec. 1 and according to Us Weekly, the tome claims to explain how these two genetically blessed actors "have successfully manipulated the public into believing a glamorous fairy tale that bears little resemblance to the reality of the pair's life together."

Halperin -- who wrote this summer's bestselling MJ tell-all, Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson -- promises dirt on the "real reason" for Pitt's split from Jennifer Aniston, and also suggests that there may be cracks in his relationship with Jolie.

The book reportedly mines stories from Jolie's heroin-taking, suicide-attempting, Billy Bob-humping past, and also suggests there was a "key figure behind the scenes who orchestrated her makeover into a United Nations Goodwill ambassador."

"Jolie's personal lifestyle choices are not only affecting her growing family, but causing potentially irreparable tensions with Pitt," says the book's news release.

-- Canwest News Service

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 29, 2009 D2