You know news out of Hollywood is truly huge when it manages to cross your parents' radar (cutting through lunch time G&Ts, runs to the supermarket and yes, even Gardeners' Question Time).

And when we were hit by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's divorce announcement earlier this week, what we *really* wanted to know was not the opinion of endless pundits and commentators - but WWMS (What Would Mum Say)?

Or OK, What Would Dad Say too...

Here, fair readers, is the result - from a very much random collective of mums and dads.

From the breathless to the couldn't-care-less (and with absolutely no basis in fact whatsoever), their reactions make for golden reading.

Brangelina break-up: what our mums said