Vanity Fair finally published Graydon Carter’s full essay about “The Paltrow Affair” – in the beginning of the month, VF published only some of it, but now the whole thing is online and you can read it here. There’s nothing really groundbreaking in there – Carter shades Gwyneth for sending out that blanket email to her friends and colleagues, or as Carter writes: “She asked that they not speak to Vanity Fair about her, or about anything else ever again. Ever. Never. Kim Jong-un couldn’t have issued a more blanket demand.” Carter goes on to somewhat objectively describe the online kerfuffle that arose as we (and other sites) tried to guess what Gwyneth had to hide.
Among the Goop gossip we discussed/theorized about last fall were the rumors of Gwyneth’s alleged infidelities. There were stories about her alleged affair in 2008 with billionaire Jeffrey Soffer. There were stories about an affair with a “mystery literary figure”. Carter referenced the “affair” rumors cryptically, but he basically says that he decided against covering all of that in VF. And now there’s a new piece of information swirling its way through the intertubes. The basic gist is that there’s a new “secret-sharing app” called Whispers where people can share rumors, info, gossip anonymously. Someone on Whispers shared this:
Kevin Yorn is kind of hot. You can see of a photo of him here. So, is Goop hitting that? Blah, who knows? Goop’s rep told Gossip Cop that the rumor is “100% false” and the same rep told The Daily Mail, “The story is completely false. Gwyneth knows Kevin casually through business contacts. She is not at all romantically connected to him.”
But Gawker contacted Neetzan Zimmerman, Whisper’s editor-in-chief, and asked him about the source for this rumor. He tweeted: “I can’t reveal their identity for obvious reasons, but it’s a person with extremely close ties to Gwyneth who came to us directly after Graydon Carter wrote that missive about why VF walked away from the Paltrow profile last year. I have no reason to suspect they’re lying about this, and if anyone would know the truth, this person would.” Fascinating. Seriously, this is really interesting.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Now THIS is good gossip.
Yes it is. Pretty juicy
I wonder if the ‘secret source’ is Graydon Carter himself.
@Lindy: I was wondering if it was Carter as well. Since he couldn’t jeopardize Vanity Fair’s connections with celebs, he could have given the info to someone else to spread. This would be his big FU to Paltrow for making him seem like a punk by backing down from the original story.
I was also thinking it could be Chris. What better way to lay the ground work for a divorce than make it seem like she was the only one cheating in the relationship. If those rumors of his not wanting to stay in Cali are true , he maybe making his escape plan. I know that Lainey’s always going on about Chris and Gwyn being in a better place in their relationship, but maybe that all a part of Chris’s plan. Lull Paltrow into a false sense of security, even be seen with her at events ( like he recently has) all so that this new behavior could erase his own stories of infidelity, so that when he makes his break everyone will see him as the dutiful husband that was disrespected.
Anyway just a thought.
Well Lainey just outed her as having more than one side-piece in her article on this today, this is gonna be good.
Yes!!!! I’m more interested in all the clues Lainey just dropped.
Someone piece that sh*t together!!!!!!!!
@layla: The only person I can think of is Matthew Morrison because of the “music taste” comment. Didn’t Morrison put an album out not long after Glee became a hit.
@jinni and@layla
Lainey posted a blind about this a while ago and I think the general Internet consensus was that Goop fooled around with a producer from Glee, probably Brad Falchuck. MM was just a red herring.
@ mia girl
Brad’s cute but in a dorky kind of way, so I can totally see them two hooking up, good guess
@mia girl
Thanks.
I think the source is Chris Martin. 🙂
Hmmm…It seemed to me that Lainey was insinuating that Kevin Yorn has a connection with the other person Gwyneth was having an affair with (and also that this person is involved with Glee), A quick Google search shows that one of Kevin’s clients is Adam Anders, the executive music producer for Glee (who is married to Nikki Anders, a vocal arranger for Glee, who was on the Glee Project and who seems lovely). Somehow I feel like this may be who Lainey was insinuating.
I think the juiciest and biggest point is what Lainey pointed out. The information about her emailing her friends HAD to come from someone in her inner circle! This also lends credibility to this new information is also from the same informant from the inner circle.
I could care less about Gwennie, but this DOES make for some entertaining gossip!
Yes it is. And one of the things in the Gawker story that I found very interesting is the timing of the Whisper post — it went up immediately after Graydon Carter posted his full editor’s note. So whoever it was that posted this was watching and waiting.
Oh, and also the denials of her publicist were cluelessly hilarious. Four emails sent with various levels of denials and sent really fast. Doth protest too hard.
A gossip APP?! I’m so into this!
Yep and then Lainey put some cryptic mess out there which makes me think that Goop is definitely messing around with someone on Glee. I am shocked since Lainey usually loves all things Goop.
This is this year’s gossip holy grail.
*grabs a seat and a bag of popcorn*
I would think she wouldn’t give the story any more tread by acknowledging it?
Nope? Ok then…
Oh my gosh, scoot over and let me sit next to you with a large soda!
This Lainey hint was EVERYTHING.
Gwyneth is DUMB when it comes to people and relating to them at large. That website “GOOP” during a recession should be a full out confirmation of it. She has been so coddled by her people, she has no clue. I think Lainey is right, that someone is stabbing her in the back, and I think she is a philanderer bc she’s always been coddled.
Who from Glee, though…?
Gwyneth’s new name should be Goopid. She has been allowed to be stupid all her life (ask ANYONE from Spence) by her enabling clique of Hollywood people. Sh’s been handed things over and over, and it looks like it might be catching up to her now.
I agree her being dumb when picking boyfriends and husbands (ugh could not stand Coldplay music all day), but she sure has a way with keeping her in the news. Who knows, maybe all these stories float around to deflect from whats really going on in her private life.
goopid is perfect. i think that and gwynsufferable are my favorites.
Goop, you are a fool for denying this. Just ignore it. I don’t understand how hard that is….because a denial because another story.
And Jesus Goop, are you Queen of all….how do you tell your friends in Hollywood, who depend on magazines like Vanity Fair for their career, to never, ever speak to them?? God. Or shall I say Goopus….nah, that looks dumb.
Edit: Gesus!
She really should have ignored it. Her email bit just makes people feel they’re on the right track.
And I thought early in her marriage it was understood both her and Chris got 1 freebie pass a year to cheat.. Does anyone remember reading that?
But as always you’re on point Virgilia. She should have ignored it outright.
Wait! DIdn’t it say it was someone very close to Gwyn who revealed this rumored affair?
I’m looking at you RDJ? I knew you secretly hated this bitch.
Maybe it was Clooney. Especially since we know he didn’t appreciate that he was dragged into her nonsense feud with Vanity Fair. Plus it’s pretty obvious that Clooney is a gossip; probably whittled the info out of Graydon.
@jinni, well, Clooney was right there front and center of the Hollywood issue, so he was not listening and didn’t he diss her in some conversation with J. Roberts? And didn’t she cheat on Pitt, Clooney’s buddy? So, George seems like a good possibility. Huvane is busy these days with denials for his clients this week. I guess he is making his money.
I would LOVE if it was RDJ….but he’s probably too nice for all that.
My money’s on Bey or Jay spilling the beans
Yeah guys but remember RDJ was publicly accused of being “Himmm” a source over at CDAN for ditching dirt about the dark side of Hollywood. Including rumors of Haden Panettiere being a call girl and part of “Diane Jenkins” Room 23 book. Himmm also discuss Kirk Douglas assault on Natalie Woods .People were assuming it was Downey because he talks about working with Wood’s daughter Natasha on a film in the early 90’s. If you remember RDJ did a movie with Natasha Wagner and Heather Graham called “Two Girls and A Guy”
It’s a good read I tell you but I don’t for one minute believe that Himmm is RDJ. But it would have been awesome if it was.
hes extreamly hot, hi fives in the lockerroom goop! she looks good in that dress
Does anyone really care? It’s obvious both Gwyneth and Chris cheat on each other all the time. *yawn*
So many of them work so hard to control their press. Silly Celebrities!
Why oh why do they always mention the lawyers?! It just gives the story more credibility when you don’t sue. Remember when they were going to sue over the “false” story about her husband’s affair with Kate Bosworth? Gee, I wonder why they never did. 😉
Well he is good looking. Juicy!!
Knock that limp noodle off her high horse. I’ll get popcorn!
I’m having a difficult time imagining Goop having an affair. Or engaging in any physical closeness, for that matter. She looks so cold and WASPy.
Is it wrong that, I want the source to be her trainer, Tracy Anderson? 🙂
Is it wrong that I want the source to be Chris Martin?
You never know though. Tracy does like to mean girl her a lot.
Rumors were that Tracy was helping Goop trying to cheat on Martin with Madonna’s ex Guy Ritchie. Why they had the huge falling out. Seems like Tracy would have enough sense not to mess over Goop this way. Especially since she went to the trouble of trying to set up Goop with that affair.
Lol! Didn’t Tracey split with her husband? Maybe she wants a single Gwyneth to pal around with.
I don’t know about CM. On the one hand it would level the playing field after the Bosworth rumours. But if he was looking for a way out or some room to cheat, starting a rumour like this doesn’t seem like a good idea. They will be forced to put on a good show of it more than ever now.
Just Goop’s command to her “friends” to never, ever talk to VF again, makes me think she has much to hide…That guy is smokin!!!!
They obviously cheat on each other all the time, not sure why it would be so scandalous.
I would say it’s like she and Chris had some sort of arrangement, they see other people while staying married for the sake of the children and her image. So maybe that doesn’t really count as “cheating”? Cheating involves some kind of deceit, but then if two people agree to see other people…
I can’t get over something she said in an interview, something like: “I look up to people who cheat?” I forget the context, she was promoting a movie maybe. How can anyone look up to people who cheat?
(I really liked them in the beginning. I thought they made a nice couple.)
^^ I remember her saying that she has friends/knows people who she looks up to and admires who have had affairs, meaning that it isn’t all so black and white.
Thanks for that! It makes sense.
I remember this because I thought it was a shockingly sensible thing to say coming from her, although of course very non-committal.
I remember now, she was promoting Contagion, she was the cheating wife in that movie.
Since Goop’s rep has issued a very specific and unambiguous denial, I’m guessing the rumours are false. Normally, if the rumours are true but the celeb wants to deny them, they issue a non-denial-denial, saying things like ‘these rumours are ridiculous’, which makes it sound as though they are denying the rumours, without doing so explicitly.
A PR rep’s very vehement denial does not mean an allegation is necessarily false. The list of official PR rep denials that were later proved to be lies themselves is too long to list.
Who knows what happened? Given both histories (Chris and Goop), I wouldn’t be shocked at all if this marriage proved to be “open”.
this particular publicist is notorious for denying rumours that are later proven true. His denials are always specific rather than non-denial denials.
Lainey just spilled the tea that Gwyneth has had an affair, but with someone on the Glee set. And maybe others… interesting. I guess her and Chris decided on a more European arrangement because we know he steps out.
And she’ll lord over the peasants once again, as the European style of marriage is much superior to the constrictive, unevolved and gauche (of course!) American style!
Maybe the Martins do have an open marriage, but what about the other couple involved, Kevin and Julia Yorn?
If cheating is defined by deceitful behavior, and this is true, goop & KY (jelly) are in fact cheating. GPM can add homewrecker to her list of accomplishments. You know she gives 100 percent to everything she does. Girl is getting as much action as Tiger Woods.
I’d by that for a dollar!!!
He’s hot enough for Gwynnie to jump on. She strikes me as the type that needs constant attention and fawning, never-ending reassurance of her physical appeal. So I totally believe this to be true.
But I also believe that her infidelities were kept discreetly by most of her crowd because they are all probably guilty of the same thing, and no one wants to start an avalanche of “blowing their wad”. However, now with the relative anonymity of the inter webs and a site like Whispers, expect a lot of s**t to hit the fan. She’s old school enough to think she can control her image when she and almost all celebs lost that control within the last decade.
Ha, the title of Goops next post will be:
How to crap your pants without the help of a cleanse..
Have Coldplay got a new album coming out? because this stinks of Chris Martin wanting sympathy for his dull, my songs all sound the same. He is male version of Taylor Swift.
If I was Gwyneth I would be cheating on Chris, seriously he is dull, way to politically focused and is a total Duracell- Bunny [to much coke, allegedly]
Any relation to musician Pete Yorn and his manager brother Rick?
Wasn’t Goop’s hubby caught cosying up to Kate Bosworth once upon a time? Maybe they’re casual about this sort of thing. He’s on the road a lot and they never seemed to have that much in common. I sometimes wonder if grief over her father dying wasn’t the catalyst for their relationship going as far as it did.
A “secret-sharing app” has an “editor-in-chief” and she’s not above stripping away some of the anonimity of a secret sharer when it suits her purposes? Not saying this couldn’t all be true, but how many were familiar with this app before now? And who’s to stop anyone from using it to spread malicious rumours for their own means?
Last October Lainey had a blind item titled ‘Two Unfaithful wives’ in which she hinted that the affair that one of the two wives had, led to an award for her and to a divorce for the guy who she had the affair with. On another site someone then guessed that Gwyn’s affair had been with Ian Brennan, a a co-executive producer of Glee. He certainly is the ‘hot geeky type’ that Lainey suggested had been the object of Gwyn’s affection, and she got an award for her role in Glee. But I don’t know whether Brennan got divorced…
I believe the more common guess at the time was Brad Falchuck, a Glee producer.
Ages ago I read a blind item, so I am a little skeptical, but it seemed to imply that G and Jay Z had an affair, albeit a breif one years ago. Beyonce found out and the couples have not been as close since. Just out of curiosity I checked and for a while there they did lots of stuff together, including vacations etc, not so much anymore. Keeping this in mind I found it interesting that soon after G issued her don’t talk to VF order Jay Z appeared on the cover. I couldn’t help but wonder if Graydon Carter heard the rumors too and let Jay know if he played ball his name would be kept out of it.
With all that being said this line of thought all started from a blind I happened to remember reading so I could just have one amazing imagination. But what a story if it were true!
I recall reading that blind too about Goop and Jay-Z.
I find it hard to believe it’s a coincidence that the article itself is called “The Paltrow AFFAIR”. Cheeky, VF.
Exactly!
Well, of course she does!! Otherwise, she’d get fired!!
meh, she planted all the rumors herself because nobody gives a fart about her unless she “screwed up” in some way.
sad when the most attention you can muster is pure schadenfreude.
what was truly hysterical and very telling was tracy “troll face” anderson’s refusal to talk to the reporter when she was never even contacted.
just a bunch of make-em-up PR bull larky.
she’s definitely hitting the botox again.
After reading the denail I think it’s true. It was sooo specific mentioning the air plane trip.