The Best of The Talk of the Town, 2011
Dinner guests included people who do know her: Jay-Z, Cameron Diaz, Alex Rodriguez, the Seinfelds, and assorted food-world worthies. Most guests saw nothing unusual about getting cooking advice from a stick-thin actress; in fact, many said that they associated Gwyneth Paltrow with food. Mario Batali, in pink cargo shorts, was talking to Ruth Reichl. “She eats like a truck driver,” he said of Paltrow. He recalled being in Valencia, Spain, and “watching her eat an entire pan of paella as big as a manhole cover.
Michael Stipe added, “Once, a duck she was cooking caught fire, and she threw it in the pool.”
—Lizzie Widdicombe, “Gwyneth’s World,” (April 25, 2011)
You know, famous people, trying to convince us to like her only makes us hate her more.
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