Nothing like enjoying a little theater in the West End while in London!

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie attended a recent matinee of Billy Elliot the Musical at the Victoria Palace Theatre, a source tells us, for themselves and several of their children. (The source could not confirm which of the Jolie-Pitt kids attended the show, though seven tickets were booked in total.)

The family, who recently visited the U.K.’s Legoland together, sat in the dress circle – not separated from the rest of the audience for the 2:30 p.m. performance. After the show, Brad and Angelina went backstage to meet Adam Vespermann, a Seattle-native, who played Billy. When it was time to go, they left via the stage door and also signed autographs for some fans who were assembled.

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Brad Pitt is keeping busy amidst all the wedding planning — the actor was just announced as the new face of Chanel No. 5. The French fashion house confirmed the news to PEOPLE earlier this morning.

The Academy Award-nominated star is reportedly shooting his first ad in London sometime this week, according to E! News.

It’s the first time in history that the house has chosen a man to represent the fragrance. Pitt joins the likes of Nicole Kidman, Vanessa Paradis, Audrey Tautou, Ali MacGraw and Lauren Hutton.

According to reports, Pitt will be paid seven figures for his work; his ad will be released overseas later this year.

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It’s the kind of bling worth waiting for.

Robert Procop, who collaborated with Angelina Jolie on “The Style of Jolie” jewelry line, designed her engagement ring – with a lot of help from her new fiancé Brad Pitt.

“Brad had a specific vision for this ring, which he realized over a year-long collaboration with Robert,” says the jeweler in a statement. “He wanted every aspect of it to be perfect, so Robert was able to locate a diamond of the finest quality and cut it to an exact custom size and shape to suite Angelina’s hand.

“Brad was always heavily involved, overseeing every aspect of the creative design evolution,” the statement continues. “The side diamonds are specially cut to encircle her finger. Each diamond is of the highest gem quality.”

Jolie was spotted wearing the ring Wednesday at a private viewing at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Chinese Galleries, according to The Hollywood Reporter, who first reported on the ring.

Jolie attended the event with Pitt and their son Pax.

Rumors that Jolie, 36, and Pitt, 48, were planning to marry intensified earlier this year when Pitt told CBS News that they were “getting a lot of pressure from the kids.”

“It means something to them,” he continued. “We will [get married] someday, we will. It’s a great idea. ‘Get mommy a ring.’ ‘Okay, I will, I will.’ ”

But Jolie later told PEOPLE at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, “I think anything said tends to be blown out of proportion.”

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Move over, Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

For the first time since that 2005 action-romance, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie may be set to burn up the big screen together again.

Deadline.com reports that the couple is in talks to appear alongside Shame’s Michael Fassbender and No Country For Old Men’s Javier Bardem in The Counselor, to be directed by Ridley Scott.

According to reports, filming is set to begin in the next few months – and the movie will shoot in Europe. Both the Jolie-Pitts and Scott have homes in the south of France.

Fassbender will play the title role of a respected lawyer who gets tangled in the drug business, notes Deadline.com.

The film may deal with gritty themes, but it will likely be a family-friendly set: Unlike when they shot Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Jolie, 36, and Pitt, 48, are now parents to six kids. Until now they have alternated film projects so one parent is always off.

“We’re not ones to repeat ourselves, but we’d like to, because right now, we’re hopscotching with films so one can be with the kids and one’s free to work,” Pitt told the Associated Press last May of reteaming on screen with Jolie, who is also set to appear as a horned witch in Disney’s Maleficent.. “And why aren’t we doing [movies] together? Why aren’t we doing everything together?”

Perhaps now they’ll get their chance.

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Perhaps Brad Pitt’s good cause began about a decade before Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans in August 2005, flooding 80 percent of the city and killing more than 1,500 people.

Long before Pitt himself surveyed the devastation in 2007 and, frustrated with the progress in the Lower 9th Ward – hit the hardest by the hurricane – founded the Make It Right foundation to rebuild the community, he already had a special place in his heart for the city.

“It was a bit of a blur because New Orleans will do that to you,” Pitt, 48, talking about a trip he made to the Big Easy in the early ’90s, says on Tuesday’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “I fell in love with the place. The people. The music. It’s in the air.”

He also tells DeGeneres: “It’s something you can’t describe on camera.”

Pitt’s do-good persona may have rubbed off on his children’s career aspirations – or so he hopes, he says.

A little architecture in the brood?

“I think I got one … I’m pushing them that way,” says Pitt, who has six kids – Maddox, 10, Pax, 8, Zahara, 7, Shiloh, 5, Knox, 3, and Vivienne, 3 – with Angelina Jolie. “When you see them drawing crayon houses, ‘That’s a beautiful house, honey.’ ”

All kidding aside, Pitt is humble, even hesitant, about accepting praise for the progress of his foundation.

“It took the families determined to come back and their resilience and their defining what this thing was going to be,” he says. “I get far too much credit for bring some really smart people together.”

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A who’s who of entertainers are looking to make it right for Brad Pitt.

The Moneyball actor has recruited an all-star lineup including Rihanna, Sheryl Crow, Dr. John and Snoop Dogg to perform at a charity gala he’s holding at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans on March 10 to benefit his Make It Right foundation, formed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg as far as the star quotient’s concerned.

While Pitt will cohost the event with Ellen DeGeneres, among his celebrity pals due to attend and are doubling as Host Committee members are Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Spike Lee, Blake Lively, Djimon Hounsou, Chris and Jada Paul, Bennett Miller and Randy Jackson and Drew Brees who will be co-emceeing the musical side of the fund-raiser, which is being sponsored by the Hyatt.

Parks and Recreation funnyman Aziz Ansari is on board to headline the afterparty, which will also feature performances from Seal and Kanye West. And a team of celebrity chefs including Emeril Lagasse will craft a dinner paying tribute to the Big Easy’s long culinary tradition.

The event will raise funds for the completion of 150 sustainable homes for low-income residents in the storm-ravaged Lower Ninth Ward as well as celebrate the achievements of the charity thus far.

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