LONDON:

Celebrity super couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie helped Seth Mascareno, an eight-year-old boy who was being crushed by autograph hunters at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

Seth was trapped under a crowd greeting the couple as they arrived at the festival, contactmusic.com reports. Jolie was being honoured with the Performance of the Year award. The couple saw the kid in trouble and lifted him to safety.

The boy’s mother said, “The crush of people was overwhelming. Jolie and Pitt rushed over and she helped pull Seth under the barricade while Pitt yelled for the crowd to back up. Then Jolie took Seth aside to make sure he was unharmed. When she was sure he was all right, she signed a ‘Tomb Raider’ photo he was carrying. She stroked Seth’s hair and said, ‘There, there sweetheart, you’re okay now’.”