Jon Voight: Sending His Love to WhatsHerFace

Jon Voight has been trying to reach out to estranged daughter Angelina Jolie these last few months by making public appeals requesting to see his grandchildren. So it’s all the more unfortunate that he totally messed up an on-camera red carpet shout out to granddaughter Zahara last week, mistaking the one-and-a-half-year-old for a 29-year-old singer whose hips don’t lie.

TMZ has the video from the BAFTA Tea Party on August 26, honoring Emmy Award nominees, but here’s the crux of the awkwardness:

Voight: “Maddox just had a birthday. Happy birthday, Maddox! 5 years old-it’s a big one! You’re getting to be a young man, and I send my love to you. And send my love to…uh…Shakira…and…Shahira… [To reporter] Is it Shakira or Shahira?”

Reporter: “Zahara.”

Voight: “Shahara! Shahara!”

This isn’t likely to have Angie climbing out of her Range Rover and into his arms anytime soon, but Voight shouldn’t feel too bad. Everyone knows adopted children don’t count anyway. Angelina (hypocrite) doesn’t talk to her father, so I don’t see how he is supposed to remember children he can’t even see.