Disheveled Brad Pitt chats to 16 dog roommates as he exposes bleary morning routine in bonkers ad

Brad Pitt swapped out his scrubbed movie star glamour for a blearily disheveled look in a new ad for De'Longhi espresso machines.

In the commercial, directed by acclaimed Her filmmaker Spike Jonze, the 62-year-old is seen living with 16 dogs whose barks are subtitled.

Every morning, as he trundles drowsily through his living room to use his De'Longhi machine in the kitchen, the dogs needle him about waking up late or being grouchy.

At one point, they rage at him for leaving his dirty dishes out, to which Pitt - who recently confessed to being 'off the wagon' after seven years of sobriety - protests that he 'got in so late last night' before relenting and doing the washing up.

Even when he puts on a snappy outfit that prompts his canines to tell him he looks 'nice,' one of them then asks snidely: 'Did you put deodorant on?'

By the end of the ad, he has successfully procured a cup of coffee, and as he sips it and sighs the De'Longhi slogan: 'Perfetto,' the dogs snigger: 'He said it wrong.'

Pitt is awaiting the release this month of his film Heart of the Beast, which centers on the relationship between a Special Forces officer and his retired combat dog.

He revealed in an interview published last month that he had turned his back on seven years of sobriety and begun drinking again.

Pitt gave up alcohol after the rancorous collapse of his marriage to Angelina Jolie, who filed for divorce in September 2016 after a mysterious dispute on a private plane in the presence of their son Maddox, who was then 15.

Early in the proceedings, the FBI looked into allegations that Pitt became 'physical' with Maddox on the jet, but the investigation was closed with no charges filed. 

In a new profile, Pitt offered his interviewer a glass of wine and noted with a laugh: 'I was sober for seven years. And then I got back off the wagon,' via Esquire.

'In a more restrained manner. I got overconfident a couple times, went: "Yep, nope, not good for me." Not in big quantities,' he clarified.

According to Pitt, he was able to indulge in 'a few' glasses of wine but had to restrain himself from consuming 'a lot. I have to be professional about it.'

Jolie leveled sensational accusations about Pitt's behavior during the 2016 private plane flight in a court filing she submitted in 2022.

'At one point, he poured beer on Jolie; at another, he poured beer and red wine on the children,' she alleged in her court documents.

A source close to Pitt retorted: 'All parties have had this information for nearly six years and was used in previous legal proceedings. There is nothing new here and serves no purpose other than being a media stunt meant to inflict pain,' via CNN.

Jolie and Pitt biologically conceived their daughter Shiloh, 20, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 18, and also adopted Maddox, 25, Pax, 22, and Zahara, 21.

Pitt is said to be estranged from his children, all of whom, other than Pax and Knox, are now publicly known to have submitted legal documents to drop his surname.

In 2020, Pax furiously denounced Pitt as a 'world class a**hole' who made his younger children 'tremble in fear,' and when the 'nepo baby' was in a dirt bike accident four years later, his father was reportedly unable to visit him in the hospital. 

However a source alleged this summer that Pax still meets with his paternal extended family and has not filed to excise Pitt from his name, according to Page Six. 

After getting sober amid the wreckage of his marriage to Jolie, Pitt remarked: 'I enjoy wine very, very much, but I just ran it to the ground,' in a 2017 profile for GQ.

'I had to step away for a minute. And truthfully I could drink a Russian under the table with his own vodka. I was a professional. I was good.'

Pitt spent a year and a half in Alcoholics Anonymous with what he described as 'all these men sitting around being open and honest in a way I have never heard.'

He added: 'It was this safe space where there was little judgment, and therefore little judgment of yourself,' in an interview with the New York Times.

'It was actually really freeing just to expose the ugly sides of yourself,' the Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood actor shared. 'There’s great value in that.' 

Jolie and Pitt are also still entangled in a legal conflict over the Chateau Miraval, the winery they once shared as a couple in the South of France.  

The feud over the property stems from the fact Jolie sold her half to Russian billionaire Yuri Shefler for $62 million in 2021, amid her divorce proceedings.

Shefler presides over a vast international alcohol empire including Stolichnaya and once sold a superyacht to Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman. 

Pitt sued Jolie over the Chateau Miraval sale, insisting she was contractually obligated to obtain his consent as co-owner before offloading her portion.

Jolie has brought up her abuse allegations and custody battle over the course of her years-long battle of wills with Pitt over the winery.

She has asked Pitt to 'end the fighting' and drop the Chateau Miraval lawsuit against her so that their family can have a chance to 'heal.'

Jolie has also alleged that her decision to sell her stake was partly motivated by the impact of Pitt's 'acknowledged problem of alcohol abuse on their family.'