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Lazy minds think alike.

This week, In Touch editors borrow a page from the gang over at Star, lifting rumors from low-grade Angelina Jolie biographer Ian Halperin that suggest Brad Pitt has engaged in an “ongoing flirtation” with a French flight attendant named Racine.

Of course, in its continuing, laughable campaign to create the illusion of a Brangelina rift, In Touch takes the story in a slightly different direction.

Halperin informs the tabloid that Pitt speaks with the Air France flight attendant “several times a week,” and that someone who “has seen Brad and Racine together say they are an amazing pair.”

Did this “someone” forget that “Racine” supposedly works for a private jet company – not Air France — according to Star‘s version of the same “flirtation”?

Just asking.

Because there are no actual facts behind this story, In Touch pads the nonsense with a veritable Pu-Pu platter of its previously debunked theories for unrest between Pitt and Aniston.

The mag recycles last week’s notion that Pitt is “looking better than ever,” making Jolie worried that she’ll lose him. There are also references to the end of a supposed feud between Jolie and Jane Pitt, as well as Jolie’s mending of fences with dad Jon Voight, itself an example of In Touch-concocted tension.

The tabloid writes of these imaginary events as though they’re instances of Jolie “bending over backward” to keep Pitt.

But along with the “Racine” rumor, they’re actually just In Touch‘s flights of fancy.

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Does Star magazine translate its stories into English from obscure foreign sources?

It might explain why the tabloid seems to have so much trouble with the meaning of words.

For instance, Star‘s claim that Brad Pitt has been “caught” in a cheating scandal, as the tabloid blares on this week’s cover, would lead one to believe that the accompanying story actually explains how the actor is caught in a cheating scandal.

Too bad the mag kind of forgets to include that part.

In fact, despite the cover promising to give “the incredible story” behind Pitt’s alleged affair, the tabloid provides nothing of the sort.

Instead, it supplies a ridiculous bait-and-switch about as tasty and filling as airplane food.

A French model named Racine who moonlights as a flight attendant “may also be Brad Pitt’s secret lover,” reports Star, which cites discredited biographer Ian Halperin‘s vague blog scribblings about the woman’s sexual history.

Racine supposedly works for a private jet company that A-listers “including Brad” use when flying between France and the United States. “It’s during those flights that Halperin says the stunning woman likes to have sex with married or attached men,” relays the tabloid. Halperin quotes the attendant as saying that she’s “slept with at least three men [Angelina Jolie] slept with.”

That’s it.

The flight attendant never says she’s had an affair with Pitt.

No one else says the flight attendant has had an affair with Pitt.

In fact, the only thing Star says is “certain” is that “women like flight attendant Racine are always going to be a threat.”

To recap: Star magazine goes from claiming on the cover that Pitt’s been “caught” in a cheating scandal with a flight attendant to saying that the woman — whom it’s possible Pitt has never met — poses a “threat.”

Gossip Cop has “caught” the tabloid making yet another Mile High Flub.

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Is President Obama going to turn the White House over… to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie?

He just might, according to preposterous rumors floated by Showbiz Spy and others.

(Hey, we can’t even make this stuff up.)

The site picks up a “world exclusive” from discredited Brangelina biographer Ian Halperin that claims Pitt “is planning to leave Hollywood to embark on a full political career.”

“There’s not much left for him to do in Hollywood,” one of Pitt’s “close associates” supposedly tells Halperin. “Brad feels there’s a lot more for him to do in politics, especially considering the rough years the world has experienced recently.”

And what are his specific plans?

A Jolie “friend” claims Pitt “will run for Senate and if all goes well will mount a bid to become President in 2016.”

Ohhh-kay.

According to the source, one of Pitt’s first presidential actions to revive the economy would be to legalize marijuana. “He’s obsessed with legalizin (sic) pot,” Halperin’s “source” says. “He believes it would be the biggest moneymaker since the Internet.”

If making up stories means making money, that could be true.

However, a source close to Pitt assures Gossip Cop the alleged Commander in Chief aspirations are bunk.

Sorry, but this rumor goes up in smoke.

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Refusing to leave well enough alone, OK! Magazine continues the recent barrage of “bullsplit” Brangelina buzz in a big way, declaring in a cover story that Brad Pitt still loves ex-wife Jennifer Aniston and is only staying with Angelina Jolie for the kids.

Ugh.

As Gossip Cop reported, Pitt and Jolie were together, laughing and happy at the Directors Guild of America Awards. To OK!, though, the couple’s good cheer and displays of affection were just an act. They “appeared to be the very picture of romantic bliss,” the weekly claims, but it was all “a well-orchestrated illusion.”

How does OK! know?

Brangelina biographer Ian Halperin, who for months has sold books on the faulty premise that Pitt and Jolie are splitting, insists the two are “leading 100 percent separate lives.”

What’s more, according to a so-called “source” for the mag, Pitt thinks leaving Aniston was a “terrible mistake” and has told his friends, “I’m still in love with Jen.” OK! then trots out as an example of his continued infatuation the “warm conversation” Pitt and Aniston shared at the Hope For Haiti Now telethon… a conversation that never took place, as Gossip Cop reported.

But this fictional “reunion” “only doused more kerosene on Brad’s already burning torch,” reports the mag. He would “do anything to have his old life back,” but won’t “turn his back” on the children he has with Jolie, says their “source.” Aniston, meanwhile, might not take Pitt back, because even if she “hasn’t quite moved on” (and the mag suggests that she has, to Gerard Butler), she’s “no longer playing the role of wounded victim” and happy not to have the drama Pitt has in his life.

Uh huh.

Let’s review.

OK! says Pitt is desperate to leave Jolie, but won’t because of the kids, and that Aniston probably won’t take him back, anyway. All of which is a very convenient “out” for the magazine should Pitt not, you know, leave his relationship for his ex-wife.

The evidence offered for Pitt and Aniston “spending more time” together? A conversation that never happened, and that would have been extraordinarily public even if it had.

And the explanation for what everyone in the world did see, Pitt and Jolie being perfectly happy together at an awards show? Well OK! says that was all an act.

Gossip Cop wonders how long the tabloids can tie themselves into knots trying to prove the “bullsplit” Brangelina stories before they pull a muscle.

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On the cover of this week’s Star, “Angie & Brad’s Dark Secrets Exposed!” the mag also touts, “A shocking new book reveals their fairy tale life is a sick sham that’s about to explode.” 

It is true there is a new book coming out soon by Ian Halperin about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie titled, “Brangelina Exposed.” What’s entirely not true, however, is that the Star had special access to the book, which reportedly contains some eyebrow raising details about their private lives.

In fact, Halperin himself told UsMagazine.com that when he saw the Star story, “I was stunned… I never spoke to [the magazine].”

Wait, it gets worse. Halperin says, “I finished writing the book… hours after the Star story broke!” Oops.

As opposed to the Star’s attempt, if you want to know what’s actually in the book, says Halperin, “I urge people to wait until the real excerpts from the book are published to get the real story.”

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