Voight: 'Jolie-Pitt kids are spectacular'

Jon Voight has reportedly described daughter Angelina Jolie's children with Brad Pitt as "spectacular".

The Midnight Cowboy star was recently photographed visiting his grandchildren in Venice where Jolie is currently filming new movie The Tourist.

Speaking to US Weekly, he said: "The grandkids are quite spectacular, as everybody knows."

Jolie and Pitt are parents to six children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne.

Voight, who was estranged from Jolie for several years, was recently quoted as saying he spent "quality time" with his daughter in Venice, describing the trip as "wonderful".