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Brad's pounds 50,000 ger-bill.


Byline: Clemmie Moodie; Danielle Lawler

HAS crazy guy Brad Pitt been on the wacky baccy again?

The Inglourious Basterds star admitted last month he used to smoke so much pot when he was young it turned him into "a doughnut".

We only ask because news reaches us that Brad, 45, has coughed up pounds 50,000 (yes that is pounds 50,000) on a run for his kids' gerbils!

It's a curious case for the father of six, who has joined the list of A-listers with bonkers hobbies. While Robbie Williams has been hunting for aliens, Beyonce and Kanye West have thrashed it out on Connect 4 and Prodigy hellraiser Keith Flint is a secret gardener, now Brad is revealed as a rodent rodent, member of the mammalian order Rodentia, characterized by front teeth adapted for gnawing and cheek teeth adapted for chewing. The Rodentia is by far the largest mammalian order; nearly half of all mammal species are rodents.  lover.

Says our source: "He oversaw o·ver·saw  
v.
Past tense of oversee.
 every aspect of the construction on the family's estate in France.

"He got the idea after sons Maddox and Pax picked up the gerbils last month, when they took them to a local pet store. "The funky gerbil gerbil (jûr`bĭl), small desert rodent found throughout the hot arid regions of Africa and Asia. Also known as sand rats, gerbils have large eyes and powerful, elongated hind limbs upon which they can spring. Gerbils are 3 to 5 in. (7.  quarters will include tunnels, platforms, seesaws and mazes."

Let's hope for Brad and the rat pack's sake that Angelina's a gerbil fan...

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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Sep 12, 2009
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