Gwyneth: Just Exactly What Kind Of Dud?

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Just got off the phone with my friend George, an artist who made teeshirts and handbags which went out as gifts to people going to the BBC4 launch a few weeks back. These are cute and red and she's saving me a set 'cos I didn't go. Anyway, George got a call from Gwyneth Paltrow's 'people' asking if GP could have a set. Hilarity ensued. Me: 'So you did tell them to suck your left one, right?'

George: 'Well, d'oh!'

Me: 'And is it totally my imagination, or does nobody outside other sons and daughters of showbiz actually liker this stupid woman?'

George: 'I bloody hope not, they'd have to be bent in the head. Yucch.'

Me: 'And I have no *real* reason to hate the silly cow, yet I am consumed by a dislike so extreme I cannot quite explain it. And I'd go see the Royal Tenenbaums but she's in it, and it's getting like my No Scientologists film viewing policy.'

George: (Laughs)

Well, nyah, nepotist colonic-irrigating, irritating bitch won't be joining OUR club anytime soon.

― suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Creeping, simpering, NO YOU ARE NOT GRACE KELLY New Answers, yo.

― suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was talking about this GP aversion the other day after watching The Royal Tenenbaums. Yeah yeah, everyone 'in the know' hates her for being a showbiz daughter and crying in a silly way at the Oscars.

The thing is, she's a fucking good actress so I don't really care. Hollywood is a vomfest. What's new, rockists?

― N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what exactly has she done wrong, she looks nice, acts reasonably well, seems rounded, I have no problem with her whatsoever.

― chris, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think she's alright apart from THAT Oscar speech. She's moving to London accoring to the paper today which will no doubt illuminate this fair city even more.

― Jonnie, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like her acting in TRT, but she comes off as a total spoiled brat snob in real life. In that Vogue article she was talking about changing the wardrobe of an unnamed boyfriend because he "dressed like a townie", and she won't wear vintage clothes because "other people have worn them -- ew!". Just damn irritating.

― Nicole, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I do resent all the bollocks Elle cover side of it: 'oh I eat loads and just do yoga, I'm just like you, my love life is terrible too and I get so tired with all this flying aand parties' Please fuck off. She might be alright outside of the sappy gaze of her interviewer though.

I don't mind her as an actress, and she is not the worst offender in the above stakes, she seems to have a brain in her head. I have a J-Lo and Maria Carey boycott, so much so that when I accidentally bought a magazine with bloody Jennifer on the cover (it didn't look like her) I took it back, causing staff in Borders to think me mad. Okay - maybe these are the actions of a mentalist.

― Anna, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i larfed non-stop, and so did dr vick

― mark s, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's basically the whole Daddy, I Want A Pony ethos embodied in a single human being. Also I can't help, after seeing the Mario Testino show with a whole room of her gob, thinking that she sees two other famous people doing something and decides she wants a piece of that action too. Or someone: she has BOYFRIEND STEALER written all over her, according to pals who went to Spence School in NYC.

― suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The more I hear about her, the more I like her.

― N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And why does she act like she's so educated, when the extent of her schooling is Spence School? It may be a private school, but it's still just high school.

― Nicole, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't hate Gwyneth Paltrow that much. Having watched that programme about Oscar fashion last night I must say Helen Hunt is quite scary, her cruel beak and high forehead are bizarre in the worst possible way. Also I hated that shite film with Jack Nicholson.

― Ronan, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Helen Hunt is Satan - the high forehead is the mark of the beast.

― Nicole, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She *is* the kind of girl who would nick your botfriend and then try and make you feel bad about it.

― Anna, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gwynnie in Tatler = I buy Tatler (I nevah bought Tatler before)

― Jeff W, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jack nicholson is way more useless than gwyneth paltrow

― mark s, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

N: what a surprise; you're falling in like with Frigid Bitch Actress no. 32468. ;-)

I *knew* Nicole would be with me on this one, rational hatred or not, but suddenly I'm feeling more rational about said hatred. She's just an Upper East Side snob as far as I can tell - and anyway, compared to your real Park Avenue debs she's total trailer trash.

― suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

girls = hataz

boys = loverz

I'm spotting a pattern here, is anyone else?

― chris, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, girls are silly.

― Ronan, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She *is* the kind of girl who would nick your botfriend

One day, every girl will have a botfriend.

Suzy, you're calling her frigid. That's so cool! It's like school again. Actually, one part of the bad press I heard about her was from a schoolmate who said she was a complete slapper..

― N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Blinded by hormones...

― Anna, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Point taken, Cabbage. Boys find that snobby blonde woman thing very appealing (paging: Alfie Hitchcock) but girls just plain find it irritating, especially if it seems like she's not One Of The Girls.

― suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suspect it would be the other way around if we were discussing, ooh, let's say Ralph Fiennes.

― Jonnie, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they are acTorZoR = they are damaged self-absorbed mentalists [yes yes i know there are exceptions]

i fancy her like zero: i fancy JN more in fact (though ew! btw), but he is way lamer...

― mark s, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nah, Ralph Fiennes is baw-ring. I can't be bothered to care.

― Nicole, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

JN = Judd Nelson?

― Nicole, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

naaaah Jimmy Nail

― chris, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, Ralph Fiennes is a twunt and no, I don't feel irrational or rational hatred for any other actresses. I think your theory would work more on either Jude Law or Ewan McGregor, who were nice enough guys when I met them but I bet most men consider dickheads.

Nicest actor I've met in aeons though is Paddy Considine who's in A Room For Romeo Brass and 24 Hour Party People. Lots of joie de vivre.

― suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wouldn't you love to smear shit in Gwyneth Paltrow's face?

― Alfred Hitchcock, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, but I'd like to see her get 'pied'.

― suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jude Law is very pretty but obv a bit daft (see Final Cut and marriage to queen smug bitch Sadie Frost).

― RickyT, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am a girl (oh yes I am) and I don't mind her. I think she's a bit funny looking but anyone who has met my friends should know I don't hold that against people. Anyone who is saddled with a name like Gwyneth and goes on to Hollywood success is doing ok I reckon. Also my dad fancies her which I think is sweet.

― Emma, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not too keen on Jude Law just cos of all that posturing (and the bad acting), but after seeing Ewan in the jungle with Ray Mears he became my hero for a while, that was an ace programme.

― chris, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I still don't quite get this Hitchcock thing, I can't understand it, though N accused me of it recently.

Women seem far more discriminating when it comes to discussing celebrities, is that fair?

I sometimes get the feeling my female friends have constructed personalities for various celebs.

― Ronan, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More evidence that Emma is a geezer bird.

― N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Naah, Ricky, Sadie's okay (reason I met JL was because SF invited me to her house for a meeting about a project I was doing). She also, on her own steam, invited Katrin Cartlidge and Kate Hardie to come along as well even though she didn't know me from Adam. Yeah, she does the cafe society thing and chooses friends I wouldn't go near, but is probably a good person.

Alfred Hitchcock: had a passive-aggressive relationship to his leading ladies. On the one hand, he put them on pedestals, but on the other hand he took advantage of his position to debase them while they were up there.

― suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i wouldn't piss o0n gwynth even if her third nipple were on fire.

― Queen G, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

LEAVE ME ALONE.

― Emma, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'd piss on emma though if she asked nicely

― Queen G, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thanks but no thanks. I meant for N to leave me alone.

― Emma, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All this talk of celebrity coffee mornings is making me feel queasy.

[Emma, OK. I will leave you alone.]

― N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Gwyneth Ploptrot's nice. Can I have a bag too?

― PM, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CROCODILE SHOES!

― jel --, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

cowboy dreams

― Jonnie, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gwyneth = not my friend. And Mr. Macgregor seems a nice sort. Have I transcended gender now?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gwyeth = HornXOR.

― Dr. C, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She just seems sort of blank (same expression, same voice) except for her bizzarre-interesting jawline. If I were a female celeb I would hate her cos she's always voted top spot in those best-dressed lists. I find it odd that so many boyz here like her, she seems very asexual. Regarding celebrities you-hate-but-the-opposite-sex-adores my personal aggravation lies with Jessica Alba of Dark Angel fame.

― Evangeline, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, but the world loves Gwyneth! Or at least the UK, it seems.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I agree with Evangeline re-being surprised that so many men fancy her. Especially my dad, who was drooling over Catherine Zeta JOnes on the same day as he revealed his lust for Gwynnie. Which is it dad - skinny blonde angular-faced ice maidens or curvaceous brunette Welsh temptresses? (My mum is neither though I suppose curvaceous brunette is closer than skinny blonde).

― Emma, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dark Angel? She doesn't annoy me, but the promos for the show have become really desperate-ish.

― Nicole, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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the whole "we shouldn't eat nightshades because they're native to the americas and we're not" bit had me dying

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:12 (nine years ago)

"we're"

― nomar, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:12 (nine years ago)

well, consider the audience

― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:13 (nine years ago)

imo it all comes from a realization that no matter how Goop you are, you still are a mortal human with human problems so you spend money on a bunch of shit that claims otherwise

― mh, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:23 (nine years ago)

Goop does not exist
But if it does
It costs $500

― a butt groove but for feet (DJP), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:26 (nine years ago)

goop is dead
no one cares

― mh, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:38 (nine years ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/14/gwyneth-glows-like-a-radioactive-swan-my-day-at-the-goop-festival

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 16:59 (nine years ago)

She occupies an interesting niche in the culture -- a niche that is an object of rage

it's pretty easy to find a celebrity on the internet that people complain about how is this an interesting niche

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:33 (nine years ago)

oh gwyneth is a particularly hated celeb. makes ann hathaway seem like chris pratt

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:50 (nine years ago)

i always see people saying that about anne hathaway....i thought she was america's sweetheart but i guess at some point she turned into miles teller.

― nomar, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:05 (nine years ago)

i never really got why ppl hated anne hathaway?

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:08 (nine years ago)

princess diaries 2 was a real disappointment

― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:15 (nine years ago)

Basically, Anne Hathaway was too earnest in an interview and every hipster in America decided she was faking it.

― a butt groove but for feet (DJP), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:20 (nine years ago)

she isn't blonde and comes off as confident most of the time

― mh, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:29 (nine years ago)

or, I guess, too earnest? idk, people make weird judgments of these actors they can never know

― mh, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:30 (nine years ago)

yes i don't understand the anne hathaway thing. i don't particularly enjoy her work but not sure that she's remotely hateful

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:35 (nine years ago)

at some point she turned into miles teller.

― nomar, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:05

What wrong with him?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:06 (nine years ago)

Hathaway hate came with the mass realization that America's Sweetheart was really America's High School Drama Club President, or maybe the whole she was in a LTR w/a noted swindler thing...

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:13 (nine years ago)

When I'm married to Anne Hathaway this thread is going to be an awkward artefact

― May o God help us (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:46 (nine years ago)

i stand 100% behind my comment on princess diaries 2, there'll be no grace and favour here

― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:49 (nine years ago)

Wow rude

― May o God help us (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:49 (nine years ago)

i'm sorry, it's just the way i feel

― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:50 (nine years ago)

But deems and Anne will run away to another galaxy, you know.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:56 (nine years ago)

xposts esquire ran this Miles Teller interview a couple years back and he sounds like an enormous douchebag. It's kind of notorious, that piece.

― nomar, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:01 (nine years ago)

Whatever do you mean with a title like that

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/interviews/a36894/miles-teller-interview-0915/

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:02 (nine years ago)

He recounts a direct message he—a twenty-eight-year-old actor still trying to find his place in his profession—sent to five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant through Twitter

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:02 (nine years ago)

He should found his own wellness thing, Plop.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:03 (nine years ago)

Now Carey Mulligan. You guys still haven't explained that one to me.

Hathaway hate came with the mass realization that America's Sweetheart was really America's High School Drama Club President
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:13

What's wrong with that?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:10 (nine years ago)

This may be as good as you get for Mulligan

http://www.thegloss.com/beauty/celebrities-we-irrationally-hate-carey-mulligan-594/

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:10 (nine years ago)

Such a short article. She's hotter than Megan Fox.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:18 (nine years ago)

iirc the only problem with hathaway was that gabbneb ~luvved~ her?

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:52 (nine years ago)

Is that a tilde or an attempt to blend

― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:00 (eight years ago)

drama club is bad, it's all coming back to me now, but I can forgive anne

― mh, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:19 (eight years ago)

carey mulligan in Shame as this woman who seems like a normal person who has some problems with an extremely fucked up brother who drove her to the edge still makes me feel bad

― mh, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:21 (eight years ago)

tbh maybe gwyneth is looking for the perfect spiritual cleanse to get that coldplay dude's stench off her soul

tbh he's no worse really

― mh, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:22 (eight years ago)

I feel sick that movie was even approved. Every Michael Fassbender movie should have a scene in which Fassbender makes love to himself so he doesn't have to connect with other people on screen.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:22 (eight years ago)

pvmic

― mh, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:31 (eight years ago)

Was she good in the Sylvia Plath movie ? I don't remember

― calstars, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:48 (eight years ago)

Maybe she's a good example of when celebrities tend to overshare. Just shut up and make movies?

― calstars, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:50 (eight years ago)

I really like Carey mulligan

― calstars, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:51 (eight years ago)

Was she good in the Sylvia Plath movie ? I don't remember

― calstars,

she was OK playing a Plath-esque character in The Royal Tennenbaums.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:54 (eight years ago)

I like all eccentric, out of touch movie stars, the zanier the better

― Treeship, Thursday, 15 June 2017 01:27 (eight years ago)

― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Thursday, 15 June 2017 11:01 (eight years ago)

this will always be hilarious

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/06/15/21/416CDA0500000578-4608850-image-m-134_1497557864589.jpg

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 15 June 2017 20:58 (eight years ago)

the odd couple

― mh, Thursday, 15 June 2017 21:05 (eight years ago)

http://nypost.com/2017/06/11/inside-gwyneth-paltrows-ridiculous-goop-summit/

― attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:35 (eight years ago)

'm pro-Gwyneth. Efforts to demonize her for being out of touch or stuck up or too impressed with herself often strike me as hostile in a specifically sexist way. Not accusing Gwyneth haters here of sexism, but in general, it seems like she is a target because she is a woman who very clearly likes herself a great deal.
Or... maybe she is an anti-science grifter fraud.
http://nypost.com/2017/06/11/inside-gwyneth-paltrows-ridiculous-goop-summit/
― a butt groove but for feet (DJP), Tuesday, June 13, 2017 7:13 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― André Ryu (Neil S), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:37 (eight years ago)

Apologies, 'twas above the fold on my view.

― attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:44 (eight years ago)

probably deserved a re-post TBH

― André Ryu (Neil S), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:45 (eight years ago)

Tbf, reasonable people have begun to caution against Advil/Aleve. But on most other things, yeah, she's a nut/naif.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 June 2017 12:47 (eight years ago)

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