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Less than a month ago, reporters desperate for Brangelina copy swarmed the shores of Italy's Lake Como, hoping that the couple would show up to George Clooney's villa and oblige the tabloid press's thirst for a "surprise" wedding. But it seems that the globetrotting lovers have recently zigzagged to Namibia, where local journalists tracked them down in short order:

Jolie and Pitt have booked out an entire luxury beachfront lodge at the coast, with a contingent of security guards patrolling the area. It has been speculated in the international media that Jolie, who is reported to be eight months pregnant, is going to give birth to her and Pitt's child in Namibia.

Two Namibian journalists sitting on the beach near the lodge yesterday morning were approached by Jolie's personal bodyguard. In what sounded like a Scottish accent, the stocky, grey-haired muscleman politely asked the two female reporters to leave the scene.

Introducing himself as Micky, he stated firmly that no photographs were allowed of the couple, as they were on a "family visit".

"This is a family affair, and Angelina is having a baby, so they are entitled to their privacy," he told the reporters.

"They are the most accommodating people in the world, but we ask you kindly not to take photos."

This return to the continent should prove less scandalous than last year's Sexy African Beach Romp of Sexual Sex, if for no other reason than Jolie's advanced pregnancy might make another villa-rocking lovemaking session requiring an intervention by machete-wielding resort personnel a little harder to pull off.