TIGHT security at Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's hotel is fuelling rumours they are about to marry.
Huge cloth screens have gone up outside the Namibian hideaway in southern Africa prompting speculation it will be a beach ceremony.
Heavily pregnant Angelina, 30, told her squad of body-guards to keep everyone off the beach, angering locals.
The Lara Croft star and Brad, 42, have been seen visiting private lodges that specialise in beach weddings.
Relatives are expected to join them within days.
An insider said: "We've heard Brad Pitt's brother Doug is flying out and some of her family, too. Everyone's wondering if they're going to get married here before the baby's born.
"It's only a month to go until Angelina is due to give birth, so they don't have much time left if they want to be married first."
The pair have rented every room at the Burning Shore beach lodge in Langstrand, Walvis Bay, costing #20,000. A private jet has been on standby since they flew in from Paris two weeks ago.
And a nearby bar owner has been paid to stay away until Brad, Angelina and her two adopted children, Maddox and Zahara, want to leave.
But their bodyguards' heavy-handed approach has angered locals.
One said: "It's ridiculous. This is Walvis Bay, it's a small town. They have all this security but they're safe here. Nobody here cares if it's the Pope himself."
Another said: "They're being so aggressive, such bully boys."
Among the bodyguards is Mickey Brett, 49, who was accused of murdering a tycoon in 1993. Charges were later dropped.
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