Voight in dark about Jolie, Pitt wedding
Not only did Jon Voight not walk his daughter Angelina Jolie down the aisle when she married Brad Pitt on the weekend, he didn't know anything about the wedding.
The Oscar winners were secretly married by a US judge on Saturday in a small chapel at Chateau Miraval in the southern French village of Correns, a spokeswoman for the couple confirmed on Thursday.
But when Voight was asked for comment a few hours later, the 75-year-old Hollywood actor said he wasn't aware they'd tied the knot.
"That's nice," he told CBS' Inside Edition.
Voight was in Los Angeles at the time of the Jolie-Pitt wedding to attend Monday night's Emmy Awards, where he'd been nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a drama for Ray Donovan.
After the news broke he released a statement on Thursday saying he was not at all upset to have been kept in the dark, rather was "very happy for them".
"It sounds like it was a wonderful wedding, it must have been very beautiful with the kids participating," he said.
"I know it was during Emmys week and they were able to do it very quietly."
Voight, who starred with Jolie in Lara Croft Tomb Raider, said he was heading to Europe to see the newly weds this week and babysit his grandchildren.
The duo have been in Malta filming their latest movie By The Sea.
Jolie was previously married to actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton.
"Well, she's been together with Brad for a while, so they must be happier than she was with the other husbands," Voight told the Daily Mail.
"I really like Brad, we get to bond by playing golf together."
Voight and Jolie, 39, were estranged for nearly a decade after they famously fell out in 2001 when the actor publicly said his daughter had "serious mental problems".
An upset Jolie responded with a public statement saying she did not think it was "healthy" for her to be around her father.
But the pair reconciled in 2010.
Jolie was walked down the aisle on Saturday by her eldest sons Maddox, 13, and Pax, 10.
Her daughters Zahara, 9, and Vivienne, 6, threw petals, while the couple's other two children Shiloh, 8, and Knox, 6, were the ring bearers.
