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Angelina Jolie has confirmed that she will replace Tom Cruise in the espionage thriller Edwin A. Salt.

Asked in an interview with BBC Radio on Monday about her next film project, she said, “I’m working on a film called Salt. And it’s with [Bone Collector director] Phillip Noyce. And that’s it.”

It had first been reported in August that Jolie was in talks for the role after Cruise dropped out. Writers had reworked the lead character — a CIA officer falsely accused of being a Russian agent — to be female.

In a separate BBC News interview last week, Jolie said she returns to work in February, but after that, she won’t work for a year.

“I like being home a lot,” the mother of six said. “First and foremost, I have a lot of children, and I need to make sure they’re growing right and they’ve got us there for them.”

She said she plans to “fade away” from acting in the years to come.

Said the star, “I’m not so worried that I want to keep this pace up and try to be something and be a celebrity.”

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Angelina Jolie says she plans to give up acting to be a full-time mother.

“I don’t plan to keep acting very long. I’m ready to do a few things now and fade away and get ready to be a grandma one day,” she tells BBC News in a new interview. “I’m not so worried that I want to keep this pace up and try to be something and be a celebrity.”

She says she’s lucky to take on great roles but “everything comes in seasons.

“I hopefully won’t be needing to do that later in my life anyway,” she adds.

The 33-year-old Changeling star — who says she won’t work for a year after she returns to work in February — stresses, “I don’t think I’ll ever say I’m never, ever gonna work because maybe there’s that interesting project where I feel creative.

“I like being home a lot,” the mother of six adds. “First and foremost, I have a lot of children, and I need to make sure they’re growing right and they’ve got us there for them.”

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The new Vogue magazine interview with Jennifer Aniston has again revived chatter about the breakup of the actress’ marriage to Brad Pitt.

Though the former ”Friends” superstar has universally — and justifiably — been seen as a victim of Angelina Jolie stealing her man, a source close to the Brangelina camp says Aniston’s ex-husband called her to complain about the Vogue piece.

I know, that call seems unbelievable — given Aniston went out of her way to praise Pitt, saying she and the actor are on good terms now and that she has ”nothing but absolute admiration for him.”

One would have to assume Pitt’s irritation was due to Aniston’s comment that it was ”uncool” Jolie came clean about falling in love with her married co-star in ”Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”

But still, it was Pitt who cheated on Aniston — leading to a horribly public split that was clearly humiliating for the popular actress.

Another source, close to Jolie, said Wednesday that Pitt and Jolie were ”totally thrown” by Aniston’s Vogue interview, thinking she had already ”moved on … and wouldn’t want to reopen this old wound.”

At any rate, Aniston’s spokesman is not commenting on the alleged Pitt call to Aniston, simply e-mailing, ”That’s personal information. … That really is no one’s business.”

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Battle of the Vogue covers!

Who’s hotter?  Angelina on the January ’07 cover, or Jennifer on the December ’08 cover?

A rep for Angelina Jolie confirms to Usmagazine.com that she’s not pregnant.

In Touch claims the mom-of-six is expecting again, but Geyer Kosinski tells Us: “This is not true.”

Jolie hasn’t ruled out more kids in the future, but for now, she’s focusing on her three-month-old twins.

Knox and Viv “are doing great,” Jolie, 32, told Usmagazine.com Sunday at the Kung Fu Panda DVD release party in L.A.

Their different personalities are starting to shine through even though, “they are so little,” Jolie told Us, adding that she took the kids to see Madagascar 2 on Saturday (beau Brad Pitt has been in NYC to promote his new movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button).

Asked what their favorite family activity is, she laughed and told Us, “Go see Kung Fu Panda. No, we do lots of things. We like to stay home and be together, be normal, play.”

She said her kids get a kick out of the fact that she voiced the character Tigress in Panda.

“My kids do love it,” Jolie told Us. “They are very, very proud. They have mom dolls everywhere. They have the Tigress. They love Tigress. They have a big Tigress doll that they keep putting diapers on! They love Tigress!”

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She looks gorgeous!