Should we even make fun of Gwyneth Paltrow anymore?

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As I mentioned during our Oscar coverage, at some point over the past month, I’ve just started feeling bad for Gwyneth Paltrow. Like, I have genuine sympathy for her because she just seems so tragic these days. It’s not even a schadenfreude situation where I can be like, “Haha, Gwyneth’s husband hates her and she’s desperate for attention, how deliciously pathetic.” It’s more like Gwyneth is trying much, much too hard and I’m embarrassed for her and how badly she seems to be doing. Take her overall appearance at the Oscars – I liked her first red carpet dress, a metallic Calvin Klein, and then she changed into this beige Michael Kors that made her look thick-waisted and Real Housewife-y. And then she had to sing after Florence Welsh. And Gwyneth’s voice… isn’t as strong as she thinks it is. Taken with everything else – the fact that her husband couldn’t care less, her faltering career, her Botoxy face, her snotty, lie-filled musings on Goop (in an attempt to be elite), and her general aura of sadness – should we even make fun of Gwyneth anymore?

With that question in mind, I present you with Gwyneth’s latest performance on Glee. She covers Joan Jett’s “Do You Wanna Touch Me”:

She’s just so… unsexy. The leather pants, the jacked Goopy tittays, the bony ass trying to strut, the lack of rhythm, the fast cuts used to mask how gross and weird all of this is. I feel like Gwyneth is trying to project this image of new herself: the woman who has always been fun and “hip” and is even more fun and hip now that she’s hanging out with the cool teenagers on the “coolest” show on TV. You know what it what reminds me of? My mom talking about how 50 Cent is a “sellin’ out”. I just want to shake Goop a little and yell at her: “You’re almost 40 years old. It’s fine. You can go home and be with your kids and you don’t have to work so damn hard to be ‘cool’ anymore.”

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  1. whitedaisy says:

    I don’t know that I feel sorry for her, exactly. She is blissfully unaware of how embarrassed we are for her.
    That being said, I would not miss her if she never appeared in the news again.

  2. Crash2GO2 says:

    Yeah…that performance was pretty sad. And I DO feel sorry for her. Now that she’s putting herself back ‘out there’ it’s clear how desperate she is for attention and validation. She needs to stick to venues where she actually has talent. This dancing and singing stuff is just crap.

  3. mln76 says:

    Did anyone else notice that she was introduced by Jennifer Hudson? That pissed me off Jennifer should have shoved Gwyneth of the stage and sang the damn song for her.

    I do feel sorry for Goopy though. She wants something she can’t get back and Chris Martin is a D-bag.

  4. Robocop says:

    Go back to your goopy blog, Gywneth, with all those calorie-rich recipes that you NEVER prepare, much less eat!!

  5. guesty says:

    As long as she’s making a complete ass of herself…she’s fair game.

  6. TeeTee says:

    if she’d just stop giving advice, maybe I’d feel sorry for her.

  7. Rita says:

    Actually I give the Goopmeister a lot of credit. Who among us wants to attend any social function without a date; much less the Oscars, Grammies, or Globes. She’s realizing that all glory is fleeting and given how the Lilos of the world have handled it, I think she’s okay. She’s putting herself into any kind of work while her marriage dissolves which is preferable to exposing her neglected biscuit like a pet gerbil whimpering beneath a cotton tarp.

  8. Jen D says:

    I wonder if there’s anyone in her life being honest with her. She needs someone she trusts to tell her exactly how she comes across.

    I can almost deal with the singing, the bad dancing, and the fashion, which in my opinion isn’t horrible, just not as good as she’s capable of. It’s GOOP. I can’t believe she thinks it’s okay. It’s a terrible idea. The name is terrible. The content is so incredibly sanctimonious. Does she ever read any of it?

  9. Nanea says:

    Goopy seems to have no clue how cringe-worthy she’s getting.

    Isn’t there anyone in her circle of friends who’s embarrassed for her and tells her she’d be better off if she gave her voluntary over-exposure a rest?

    … while wondering what kind of arrangement she and Chris have, if there’s a divorce in the future or if they go on pretending self-deceivingly ever after?

  10. Yasmine says:

    I’ve got to agree with you Kaiser, I kind of feel sorry for her. But it’s like a cocktail mix of feeling patronizing pity with still despising her goopy pretension. Another reason to feel bad for her is that Chris Martin’s parents are splitting and she’s supposedly stuck in the middle trying to help him out.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1353388/Gwyneth-Paltrow-comforts-Chris-Martin-end-parents-30-year-marriage.html

    That said, in a month when she does something ridiculously pretentious again, I’ll be back on here to read your hilarious post on it. Oh how the mighty have fallen……

  11. Micki says:

    I remember that she complaned once that the british guys don’t queue to invite her out. The nonchalance of Chris Martin was so refreshing then. Now 2 children later he hasn’t changed but she has and the Holliwood habits are chatching up. But nearly 40 and no major films for how long…? I can’t remember… she is kind of forgetable.

  12. Gabriela says:

    OMG ahahahhaha she’s always been kinda boring to me, now they’re trying to sell her as sexy and cool. bitch, please

  13. Marjalane says:

    Seriously? Feel sorry for the Goopster? While she’s insisting on foisting herself upon us from every medium? Her newsletter is HIDEOUS; It’s like she deigns to be charitable by sharing her wisdom with the lowers. One of my biggest annoyances with some celebrities is their refusal to evolve- physically, mentally. You can still be “hot” and relevant, but Glee, Gwyneth? Really?

  14. Estella says:

    I think people will always out talk about Gwyneth Paltrow. Mostly out of jealousy. She’s almost perfect. As a woman, I sometimes find it difficult to like her because I – admittedly – envy her so much.

  15. lachica says:

    i’m largely indifferent to her but GOOP crossed a line that remains unforgivably annoying. so much pretentious crap. GOOP’s middle name is clearly denial.

  16. The Truth Fairy says:

    Listen to the original and then you’ll realize how shameful this is. She is a terrible singer and I will never get her appeal …..

    On a side note, if you have to fake that you are sexual and pretend like you are sexy, you are just setting yourself up for ridicule. It would be better for her to just go with her true uptight, asexual self. At least it would be more honest.

  17. crtb says:

    Feel sorry for her?
    Fcuk No!!!
    She dated Brad Pitt
    She won an Oscar
    She did a great job on Glee with Dancing in the Rain.
    Why do you think they asked her back?
    She seems to be doing it all: movies, music and TV!
    I’m embarrassed by my pathectic life.

  18. Debra says:

    It is a long slide from Brad to Chris.
    No wonder she is restless.

  19. Tiffany says:

    I agree with the majority here, Gwyneth at this point is making herself a punchline. I also believe that she knows what is being said because she has responded before. What I don’t understand is how is how this happened. It was like once she was involved and then dumped by the Spanish prince she would settle for any European. The TV show this is just a stepping stone for here headling a show. Oh, the mighty have fallen she never thought that her career would result in thios. It is not the fact that she wanted to take a break to raise her children, it was all the crap she was saying in between that turned people off. She pissed off the very people that made her a millionaire to begin with. Just because you godfather is Speilberg and you know people in the business, if you are not bankable you will not get movies greenlit.

  20. brin says:

    @lachica….co-sign.

  21. Mia says:

    Feel sorry for her? Princess Gwynnie? Hell no! Pretentious twat doesn’t deserve nor want my sympathy.

  22. Hmmm says:

    The girl (I won’t say ‘woman’) lives in a privileged bubble. Serves her right. She’d be better off volunteering in a soup kitchen for several years to gain some substance. The more she flounders the clearer it becomes that she’s deeply shallow. I still think this musical stuff is a desperate attempt to hang onto hubby/compete with him.

  23. someone says:

    I could never understand why she was made fun of in the first place…shes an okay actress, and a pretty good singer…

  24. someone says:

    micki??? no major films in how long????HELLO..Ironman

  25. lili says:

    I agree, estella. The haters are just jealous. She is definitely near-perfect as a woman. Am not a jealous person, but if I were to be jealous of someone, it would be her. They just hate her bc she is classy, and has squeaky clean record…She is not amazing at anything she does, but she makes the most of what’s she’s got, and is always both a lifestyle inspiration and a pleasure to look at. Here is an example of someone who continuously grows and takes on new challenges. She is authentic, refreshing and has a great bikini body too 🙂

  26. Runs with Scissors says:

    For me, and I think for many others, it’s not jealousy.

    Here’s what bugs me about Gwyneth: for some reason, she has always seemed like the embodiment of white privilege.

    Someone so far removed from average culture on so so so many levels, that she is oblivious to her own outrageous privilege.

    She might say something like ‘I’ve been so blessed in my life,’ but I get the feeling she really has no idea whatsoever HOW ‘blessed’ how pampered, how coddled, how easy the world has been for her. It’s not really her fault per se, but it’s not like she hasn’t had ample opportunity to go out in the world in a meaningful capacity, to really get her hands dirty (beyond a nutrient-rich mud bath in Spain). She doesn’t seem to have any real experience in the world on which to base her new, ‘hey, I’m just one of you, I feel you!” image.

    That’s why I admire people like Damon, Clooney, Jolie,etc. They seem to at least see the irony, the ridiculousness and randomness of being famous. They seem to get it.

    To see Gwyneth strutting around trying to act, I don’t know, soulful, or sexy, or even, in her acting, capable of deep feeling, just comes across as contrived and false and somehow condescending.

    Soulfulness and sexiness come from knowing yourself to your core. Questioning yourself, striving for understanding and meaning, changing, learning, progressing. If someone’s never really been challenged, never faced great obstacles or witnessed the painful obstacles of others in more than a passing, vague way, they can’t know themselves beyond what people tell them.

    She’s like a great, demanding, pretender to the throne of the common woman and she just can’t see how ridiculous that demand is. Just my take.

  27. Runs with Scissors says:

    just read your comment hmmmm, I couldn’t agree more!

  28. Chloe says:

    Maybe it’s the heels.. that make people walk like that. I mean people who can’t walk wearing such heels. I mean.. it sure looks bad. Like there’s a critical heel mass you can’t exceed. Or shouldn’t.

    I mean. Poor Goop.

  29. OtherChris says:

    No, we shouldn’t feel sorry for her. Shame on you for asking! As much as she sucks, she’s still rich and very, very blonde.

  30. everlyo says:

    while watching the above clip all I could think was: desperate and pathetic. Plus she’s old enough to be the other castmates mom– which is fine but glaring in the light of the song and choregraphy choices.

  31. DGO says:

    I think he cheats on her but she’s staying with him for the kids. Whenever someone’s involved in a cheating relationship and stays, they tend to get a little desperate for validation. That seems to be what’s going on here. My humble two cents.

  32. Susan says:

    She’s healthy, fit, attractive and seems able to keep her sanity despite the insane pressures of “Hollywood” – however more peripheral her career has become. She has two healthy children; who is anyone to judge what compromises she makes to keep her family intact? She’s not hitting on someone else’s husband or getting loaded with her kids. So she’s ambitious – so what?!

  33. Crash2GO2 says:

    @Susan: I’m not completely sure a sane person would sing and dance like that, with no obvious talent. She was wonderful when she did uptight Jane Austin acting – she really needs to stick with what she is good at! Oh, and remember how good she was in ‘Flesh and Bone’? That was her break out role! She was grungy and sexy. Hmmmm. What’s happened to our Goopy??

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6GOrzhkNY8

  34. Dana M says:

    Heck, I’ll take her “thick-waisted, housewife-y” body anyway.

  35. original kate says:

    the shark, she is jumped.

  36. JenJen says:

    “7 reasons why people hate Gwyneth Paltrow”

    1. “I don’t really have drunk friends. My friends are kind of adult; they have a drink. But they hold their liquor. I think it’s incredibly embarrassing when people are drunk. It just looks so ridiculous. I find it very degrading. I think, ooh, you’re really degrading yourself right now, to be this pissed out in public.”

    2. “Every woman can make time (to workout) – every woman – and you can do it with your baby in the room. There have been countless times where I’ve worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.”

    3. “I would rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a -Soup.”

    4. “We have great dinner parties at which everyone sits around talking about politics, history, art and literature—-all this peppered with really funny jokes. But back in America, I was at a party and a girl looked at me and said, ‘Oh, my God! Are those Juicy jeans that you’re wearing?’ and I thought, I can’t stay here. I have to get back to Europe.”

    5. “I’m really fu—ng good at my job, and people who are interesting and good know that, and that’s all that matters.”

    6. “I like living here because I don’t fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.”

    7. “I am obsessed with chopped salad.”

    She’s still the same obnoxious snob, no sympathy from me. So she married some guy she didn’t even know and it turns out he doesn’t like her, shock, boo hoo.

  37. Rita says:

    @Jenjen

    That was a great post!!! I don’t follow her much so I didn’t know these quotes.

    In response:

    #1: I only expose my gerbil when drinking to excess.

    #2: Agree. Look at Celine. She did 5,000 sit ups a day while a baby suckled on each breast to get into that Oscar gown.

    #3: Send her a case laxatives and Cup of Soup.

    #4 Her dinner parties sound much like Kaiser’s Coffee Klatch.

    #5 Good “and” Interesting. Boring good people don’t count.

    #6 That’s why the Brits want you to leave.

    #7: You are what you eat.

  38. Kat says:

    Bravo, JenJen.

  39. Hautie says:

    No I do not feel sorry for Gwyneth.

    At all.

    She spent the better part of her life being a mean girl. Now she is 40 and being a mean girl does not work like it did when she was 25.

    So she is out there hustling harder than Lohan. Which is highlighting she was never that talented.

    She had parents in the industry. Who had family friends, who hired her. So she worked.

    She was never some great talent. And now she is 40. When all actress figure out that in LA that is like being 60.

    Maybe had she been a little more pleasant in her youth. She would have the friends to help her relaunch her career.

  40. Rita says:

    In the next edition of Goop, look for the following quote.

    “My husband can’t stand pretentious people.”

  41. Belle Epoch says:

    OUCH – that Glee video is painful!!! It’s just wrong in so many ways. They figured out that she can’t dance, so they choreographed a lot of stomping and hair tossing. Did anyone else cringe when she went up to a teen in a wheelchair taking off her clothes and singing “don’t you want to touch me there?”

  42. Bad Fairy says:

    I would love to admire or feel sorry for her. Unfortunately the priveledged, pretencious born with a silver spoon and telling us how to live thing makes it impossible for me to feel anything but disdain. It matches the disdain that she secretly feels for us.

  43. Melinda says:

    Just yesterday I told my husband that as much as I hated to admit it, I feel like I shouldn’t mock her anymore. This all came up when hearing a coldplay song on the radio. I declared my hatred for him because he is such an assh*le he is making me feel bad for goopy. Thanks jenjen. You helped bring me back to reality a bit.

  44. lauralee says:

    I usually do not post but this time I feel like I have to…I met mrs Paltrow not so long ago, and I was humbled by her class and beauty…
    Yes, she is 38( which is still young!) but in real life she looks like she is 28.
    She is far more beautiful in person than on screen. She was very polite and nice to everyone on set. I am sorry but she is more beautiful than 90 p 100 of all the girls in her twenties that we cross daily on the streets…
    It seems to me quite unfair all the criticisms and negativity! She is honest and does not lie about her age (hello Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts, Catherine zeta Jones…) which is quite something in hollywood nowadays…she does not look craving media whore (Charlie Sheen,kim kardashian and so many others…) Wake up people!

  45. Erica says:

    Not all of us feel sorry for her. Some of us think she’s beautiful, talented and witty. We think she looks like a good mom and supportive wife. We don’t get all the snarky nit-picky speculation about someone who appears to be handling the scrutiny with grace. Gwyneth Paltrow. Really? This isn’t Lindsay Lohan or Snooki or frickin’ Camille Grammer. The constant barbs at everything from her singing to her acting to her newsletter to her husband to her eyebrows for Gods’ sakes… enough with the hating already. Some of you people need to take a good long look in the mirror.

  46. Alice says:

    As long as she’s putting herself out there and trying to act like a know-it-all source of all righteousness in the ways of how we all should be living and trying to push herself as a singer, yes, we should make brutal fun of her.

    She can’t sing, can’t act, she isn’t pretty, and despite how serious osteopenia is, I think it’s hilarious she gave it to herself with the diets and exercise regimes she pretends are the end-all to achieving perfect health. The fact that she advises working mothers to purchase $82 pajamas for 5 year old kids is ridiculous at best, and at most, infuriating. She pretends like she understands where regular people are coming from and then she runs her mouth talking about how Spain is so wonderful and so much more family-oriented and how socially advanced Europe is.

    So yes, I’m all for making fun of her.

  47. karma says:

    Stick to the ice queen acting.

  48. rkintn says:

    I just watched her Glee performance over on youtube. OMG. Joan Jett should punch her in the throat for doing that to her song. That was horrendous and I think I am scarred for life. That was painful to watch and listen to.

  49. sandy says:

    to be fair, she’s not the only desperate over the hill actress, Jen A, Julia R., they all need to just get a clue, but in all fairness, I’d rather see gwen than that no talent hack, Jen Aniston, anyone but her.

  50. lh says:

    Wow, I don’t think being 40 or over is ‘over the hill’… we’re all aging so it’s time to accept this. [ /rant]

    She looks great and her body is in great shape but it’s her personality that rubs me wrong.
    Every time she does this sort of thing (i.e. singing and dancing, going to an event all made up) she’s putting herself out there to be judged.
    That’s why I can’t feel sorry for her.
    For years, she perpetuated this ‘ice queen’ image and now she would like to come across as ‘down to earth’.
    She’s probably a mix between the two but she still seems to lack an understanding of what the world is like outside of Hollywood and what’s frustrating to me, her musing about trying to help people comes across as inauthentic at best.
    I’m not a huge fan of Angelina Jolie but at least she seems to genuinely care about others and puts her money and time where her mouth is.

  51. Henriette says:

    Meh. I hate her. Limousine liberal, “I don’t have a nanny” nanny-employing, self-righteous person.

    HOWEVER, I don’t loathe the fact that she’s trying to write a newsletter or sing and dance. I think what she writes in GOOP is stupid and poorly-edited, but I don’t begrudge anyone trying to create a blog or write about things that interest them, even if it doesn’t interest me. And good for her for trying to sing and dance, even if she isn’t especially good at it. I’m always trying to teach my kids that you don’t have to be the best at soccer/ math/ cooking/ story telling/ etc. but that it IS important to just put yourself out there and try.

    So, yeah, Gwynnie isn’t the best at a lot of things, but I don’t despise her for trying. I DO despise her for having a snotty attitude about her home country, making stupid comments to the press (see her quotations above: thanks JenJen) and MeanGirling Winona Ryder, amongst a million other things.

  52. rachael says:

    I hadn’t realized that Joan Jett really does have a good, powerful voice before this. You hear the intro, expect to hear Joan, and then Paltrow comes on sounding tinny. She just has a thin, hollow voice that didn’t fit this song.

    The woman is pretension and vanity personified. I don’t feel a bit sorry for her.

  53. lila says:

    Yes you can make fun of her. After all we are keeping her “alive”! (professionally, of course!)

  54. the original bellaluna says:

    I’m of the firm belief that if someone doesn’t want to be made fun of, they shouldn’t make it so easy.

    (Her whole arrogant superiority act really chaps my ass.)

  55. No Sensei says:

    She 100% belongs on Glee.

    That show’s the sort of thing a modern-day Travis Bickle would sit watching while pointing a gun at the TV.

  56. lachica says:

    OK i change my mind. i am sorry for her because she obviously has not been laid in a looooong time.

  57. tooey says:

    Yes, we should continue to make fun of Goopy. In fact, I would argue that you should unleash with both barrels. This stick-up-her-bony-ass-over-privileged tightass had the nervy audacity to cover Joan Jett. PUH-LEEZE! Maybe you should give Joan a little tap for allowing this crapfest to occur.

  58. Shay says:

    I think Paltrow is yesterday’s news on dumbness.
    Lady GaGa is the next celebrity who is becoming ridiculous by the day.
    She is planning legal action against a company that makes ice cream from breast milk because they call their product Baby Gaga.
    But Miss Germanotta forgets that she used Queen’s ‘Radio GaGa’ as her inspiration for her own stage name.

  59. Claire says:

    I know of someone who worked on a set with her and said of anyone she had worked with she was amazing at her role, memorizing lines – never had to do 2 takes kinda thing. Although did get very upset when she had to eat another bowl of pasta (was when she was doing that strange diet thing). She used to be my favourite, still think she is stunning. Also I like Chris Martin – he always comes across really funny and nice. Can see people’s issues with her – the whole Madonna friendship thing was a bit sickly. But give me Gywneth anyday over the likes of Liz Hurley or Eva Mendes

  60. Confuzzle says:

    Should we even make fun of Gwyneth Paltrow anymore?

    Yes. It’s the only way to make her stop.

  61. lucy2 says:

    Jen Jen, I think your post sums up quite nicely why I’ve progressively liked her less and less over the years.

  62. poppy says:

    has bitchy left celebitchy?
    if the snark has left the building that will be a sad day for me.

    anyone thinking she’s classy: she talked about having her pubes waxed. on the record. after she was photographed “unawares” butt nekkid with brad pitt and her rug was dark and bushy. talking about brazilian waxes to the press is NOT classy. or flashing your goop while exiting a hired car after 15 years of being able to manage not to.
    you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. no matter what paltry wants you to believe.

  63. fix it says:

    She’s definitely very needy – she claims she desperately missed her kids while filming, but could have brought them (& her beloved hubby) w/ her like many other actors do OR not taken the role. She whines like those people on survivor, except she has tons of money and doesn’t need the money. I guess her getting attention is more important than anything else. Yes, her dancing is elephantine- she not fat, just not very graceful.

  64. Dea says:

    “She’s just so… unsexy” I think she was always sexy when she was not trying so much. She seems to work hard to come out of her comfort zone and that is a big change for people to see. Myself and I assume the public, have envisioned her as a conservative woman, someone who left Ben Affleck because of his drinking problems and as she has said it “Ben Affleck’s idea of heaven is a stripper with a beer in each hand”. (I love this quote so much). But maybe this is who she really is…not quite conservative but it was her upbringing that affected her behaviors during her younger years and now she understands that she is not that type of person or just wants to let herself go (stress relief 🙂 )

  65. Maritza says:

    I’d love to see her on DWTS someday.

  66. CB Rawks says:

    Apparently she was just quoted as saying that “people think she’s so sweet (thefuck?), but she’s actually a tiger in the bedroom”. Bleeeeeurgh. Thanks a lot Goops, I was already feeling nauseated.

    I can remember another quote from like ten years back that said “she gots to have it regular”, which kind of made the partner sound irrelevant, as long as she got pronged. Again, nauseated.

  67. GT says:

    Wow, I must be the only one on here that thought she did a great job. I really don’t get what you all hate about her? Time to move on….

  68. crtb says:

    3. “I would rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a -Soup.”

    Sorry but I said that kind of stuff when my daughter was little. Pop tarts never touched her lips. I’d die before I’d let her eat cocoa cocoa crispies. This list was long of junk foods that I would never ever feed my child. Now once she became a teen-ager, I lost all control of what she put into her body. However as an adult she eats very little crap.

  69. jinni says:

    Am I the only one weirded out by the fact that she’s playing an teacher (adult) teaching people that are supposed to be high schoolers (children) sex-ed to a Gary Glitter (convicted paedophile) song?

    When you think about the lyrics of that song + the predilections of the man that wrote it + the entire over-the-top sexual nature of the preformance = really creepy.

    What were Ryan Murphy and crew thinking when they decided to use that song? They could have used the Divinlys “I touch myself” instead.

  70. GeekChic says:

    As irritating as she is, I have to admit that she is pretty easy to ignore. She isn’t a Lohan or Kardashian and always in your face. She has her ridiculous GOOP thing, but no one is forced to read it. She’s not out going to the opening of an envelope or stealing jewelry to keep her name in the news. Her only real crime is being a pretentious snot.

    My verdict is that Goopy is much like the Earth: Mostly Harmless.

    (I wonder how many Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans CB has to get that joke!)

  71. Blank says:

    And here I thought that you were bringing up this:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1362534/PIERS-MORGAN-Oh-Im-very-nice-said-Gwyneth-Paltrow-Except-bedroom-My-kind-girl.html

    I always thought that Piers Morgan was really lame, but in this he actually comes off better than Gwyneth Paltrow.

  72. Kloops says:

    Don’t feel sorry for her. Am not jealous because we’re not in the same “class “. Sure, if I was an A or B list actress you could say I was jealous, but I’m not. My career is in academics and it doesn’t pay nearly as well. Lame. However, that doesn’t mean that I don’t find her singing and dancing absolutely painful. I do. I don’t mind some of her acting so long as she doesn’t veer too far from her natural ice princess persona. And there in lies my issue with Goop: when she’s being her normal elitist bitchy self, I dont mind her. When she’s trying to be sexy or country or edgy or “regular” I can’t stand her. Enough already.

  73. tracking says:

    I’ve never felt sorry for this grotesquely privileged woman. That is until I saw “Country Strong.” Then I felt compassion. For a whole minute I think.

  74. Isa says:

    Nice post #26 Runs with Scissors.

    The woman can’t help who she is or how she grew up, priviliged or not. She is just trying to make her way and we all now as a woman who is nearly 40 it’s not easy, esp. in the entertainment industry.

    This song is a faux pas, but I’m willing to let it go because as someone else said, she is not in everybody’s face trying to sell herself and I can’t be bothered by it….

  75. EdithP says:

    I get this thing where when I’m embarrassed for someone I get all flushed and sweaty. Remember when Xtina et al did the Lady Mamadale video and they looked so HORRIBLE? I felt it then, and I just felt it when watching the clip above.

  76. mollination says:

    I think you only get all of this if you follow her on goop and in her personal life. I got my friend into Glee (construction worker who doesn’t read celeb gossip, and hasn’t seen Gwenyth since the last thing she did that was relevant to him, so probably Se7en or something) and he thought Holly Holiday was hilarious and awesome. I tried to tell him, no! Gwenyth is only annoying. But then I watched objectively and he’s right IMO. She’s a great character, and Paltrow does a really good job.

  77. Isabel says:

    Does anybody have a link to the most recent photograph of she and Chris in the same vicinity of eachother? I’m thinking it’s from at least over a year ago…

    Completely serious…when were they most recently photographed?

  78. Greenraygirl says:

    Do You Want to Touch Me There was originally recorded not by Joan Jett, but British glam rock star Gary Glitter, now unmasked as a paedophile. Knowing this makes the entire spectacle even more creepy.

  79. Cha Cha Loca says:

    Better yet can’t we just ignore her completely and pretend she dosen’t exist?!

  80. LuckyLilGem says:

    Love Goop, but have to agree singing & dancing ain’t her thing. Hmm… not sure why producers are encouraging her to do this stuff.

  81. Micki says:

    To: someone 24- Sorry you are right- but it seems she hasn’t impresed me there and as I said: forgetable.

  82. Elleh says:

    I honestly don’t think The Goopster realizes how haughty she comes across in her newsletter. The world is in economic crisis and this twat is hawking $2,500 flip flops and relentlessly trying to convince us all to disembowel ourselves with flax seed oil and Drano.