Brangelina comes to town!

Before leaving for my trip, various friends had speculated that I would meet a hunky game ranger while I was there - experiencing a touch of "khaki fever" as the locals refer to it. In one such conversation, a friend checked up on my progress while I was away, to which I flippantly replied: "Nothing's going to happen - not unless Brad Pitt flies into town."

Well, dear reader, he did..

Brad, Ange and the whole brood descended on Namibia for Christmas to stay at the Naankuse Wildlife Sanctuary itself. The owner of the sanctuary has apparently known Angelina for some time and I assume they met when Angelina filmed some of the sequences for "Beyond Borders" in Namibia. The sanctuary sometimes provides animals to be used in films and photo shoots and the owner accompanies them as the handler.

It is well-reported that Brad and Angelina returned to Namibia to give birth to their daughter in 2006 and the subsequent publicity gave a significant boost to tourism. Brad and Angelina came back to Namibia this Christmas to strengthen their daughter's links with the country she was born in and also made a generous $2 million donation to the sanctuary when they left.

For security reasons, the volunteers had no idea that Brad and Angelina were staying. Indeed, we had thought it somewhat rude that none of the staff had joined us for our Christmas dinner the evening before. They were instead at the lodge meeting Brad and Ange..

Some of us went to the lodge to have lunch on Boxing Day, but the celebrity guests had already gone by then. But we did wonder whether Brad was offered the opportunity to go on a walk with the adult baboons before he left.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/usshowbiz/article-1342263/Brad-Pitt-Angelina-Jolie-Shiloh-birthplace-family-mix-Christmas-charity-Namibia.html