Angelina Jolie Confronts Critics

The Hollywood A Lister Angelina Jolie has retaliated at critics of her charity work, asking them to go through global poverty themselves before they make remarks about her charitable deeds.

The Mr and Mrs Smith star - who visited Africa last month to raise awareness of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan - has toured some of the world's most deprived countries in her role as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.

But she has regularly come under fire from parts of the media for using her celebrity status to highlight her charity work - a critique Jolie is particularly enraged with.

She says, "Because I do care about the opinion of the aid worker, I do care about the opinion of the refugee.

"I care less about the opinion of the person who's never been in the field but has an opinion about celebrity."