Happy Chinese New Year! We are entering the Year of the Rabbit, for those who care. And Gwyneth Paltrow wants us to know that she’s down with the Chinese too – she probably refers to them as “My dear friend, the Chinese people, who have always supported me…” Gwyneth’s Goop newsletter today is all about Hong Kong and how cool it is and what we should do when we visit. Hint: lots of shopping and luxury hotels and fine dining, of course. Which brings me to a question that CB and I were just debating: just how did Gwyneth become so insufferable? CB’s opinion is that her mother, Blythe Danner, must be insufferable too, or that Blythe is simple an insufferable-enabler. Blythe just gave an interview about her daughter too!
Is there anything that Gwyneth Paltrow doesn’t do these days? Probably not.
And that makes Blythe Danner sometimes worry about her overachieving daughter…
“She’s a multitasker,” Danner told me the other day at the Standard Hotel in West Hollywood, where she was promoting her new film, Waiting for Forever (in theaters tomorrow). “We had dinner last night and I said, ‘Honey, please, it’s great that you multitask, but it’s a lot of stress to do that, and I want you to take care of yourself. You’ve just got to.'”
One of Paltrow’s most recent accomplishments? Singing and playing guitar in County Strong. One of the movie’s songs, “Coming Home,” is up for an Oscar. In other words, Gwynnie will be performing the tune at the Academy Awards next month, Danner said.
“She was nervous when she performed at the Country Music Awards, but once she got into it, she was fine,” the proud mom boasted. “They stood up—these 2,500 professionals! She’s singing in front of the industry and she got a standing ovation. I was thrilled for her. She loved it.”
When asked if Paltrow and rocker hubby Chris Martin’s kids, Apple and Moses, have the show business gene, Danner smiled, “I think it’s inevitable.”
[From E! News]
It does seem like Blythe is enabling Gwyneth’s snotty behavior, because honestly, Gwyneth is not that frigging busy. Her “Day In the Life” Goop proved that definitively. The bitch just wanders around for half the day, trying on clothes, working out, and “working on a deadline” for her weekly Goop newsletter. Maybe all of this really is Blythe’s fault.
Going back to the Chinese New Year – CB and I were also comparing our Chinese zodiac signs. I’m a Horse, she’s an Ox. Oh, and Gwyneth is a Rat. According to Wikipedia, the Rat’s bad qualities can be: manipulative, vindictive, self-destructive, envious, mendacious, venal, obstinate, critical, over-ambitious, ruthless, intolerant, and scheming. Hmm… Goopy? What are you?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I’ve always liked Blythe very much. I assume she got her raspy voice by screaming “You don’t drink fine wine with gorgonzola cheese” when the Goop was just a child.
On a side note, if looks count that Rat thingy explains a lot about LeAnn Rimes.
I know she was a “daddy’s girl” and I’m sure her mom thinks she can do no wrong, too so she probably gets her “insufferablitity” on both sides.
She just seems like a spoiled brat.
stories like this irritate me.
everyone in this world is busy and multitask, and gwyneth has the utmost resources to compensate (massages, manicures, the healthiest foods, nannies, cleaning ladies, etc. etc.)
i’m glad blythe is proud but don’t make her holier than the rest of us for having things to do.
horse ftw
bloody hell, I’m a rat too
me to.
I’d have to give Blythe a pass on being proud of her daughter. My mum was always stupidly proud of me for no reason.
I think Blythe Danner is just being like alot of moms would and being protective of her daughter…
She always seems so cool and its not like shes gonna pipe up that goopy is a pain in the ass…
BTW -Goopy in that pale pink dress is horrible!
The colors totally wrong for her and its meant for someone with a body-not someone who resembles a stick insect…
Goopy looks best in jeans.
I’m a monkey! Wtf?
Happy Chinese New Year to you too, Kaiser! ^-^ I’m not usually too interested in Chinese astrology, but this is supposed to be my year(Rabbit)so I’ll buy all of the good predictions in store for me =).
Anyhue…Blythe always seemed like a nice, charming lady to me, but she could totally be enabling her daugther sense of superiority. What chinese sign is she…? =D
YUP, that’s where she gets it ALL from.
@Arianna…yeah, we’re too busy multitasking to read about Goop’s multitasking…lol.
I’m a piggie 😀 😀 you can call me oink LOL
I blame her father…and her insufferable friends.
I like that pink dress but I think it’s a bit young for her.
I’m a ram. Various Chinese almanacs can’t seem to agree on whether the ram is a sheep or a goat. It could be either one or the other.
Snakes rule!
As for Paltrow. I don’t hate her, and I guess I am in the minority. She doesn’t bother me in the least and there are many other “insufferable” celebrities out there, dispensing advice and bragging, yet they don’t get the hell Paltrow does.
I’m a goat. I hate that; the garbage scow of the universe.
Dragon here. The personality traits listed for me in the other zodiac (Gemini) are mostly spot on as well.
Oh funny! “The bitch just wanders around for half the day, trying on clothes, working out, and “working on a deadline” for her weekly Goop newsletter.” I thought the same thing when I read that. Most moms, like me, work full-time and take care of our kids plus our house with no help. Well, maybe my husband picks up a sock once in awhile. Chick should live in the real, busy world for a week. She’d have a heart attack. Hilarious!
“‘Honey, please, it’s great that you multitask, but it’s a lot of stress to do that, and I want you to take care of yourself. You’ve just got to.’”
ummm, last i checked all goop does is take care of herself! let’s see: she only works about 4 months a year, has a shitload of money, a nanny, a housekeeper, a PA, a trainer, a nutritionist and a huge circle of geniuses for friends. of course, we all know she works out 27 hours a day and eats only organic food grown by pixies in the english countryside. she probably sleeps on a pile of matresses with a pea in between, too. and when she needs to unwind she jets off to luxury hotels in marrakesh and barcelona and hong kong, getting colonics administered by unicorns.
mother & daughter are insufferable, but at least blythe can act.
Happy Chinese New Year! I am a Dragon and a Capricorn. Someone I met once told me that was supposed to be and extremely lucky combination but I have no clue. As for Goop is anyone really surprised that her mom thinks she is the best thing ever???
I don’t find Blyth insufferable at all but a talented actress who deserves moe respect than she’s given. Gwyneth is another story totally
see? I have never liked blythe and never understood why ppl would say gee, goopys mother is so elegant and classy….and down to eart.
i have always found her blue blood in a semi snotty way-reserved only b/c she is superior. i dont dislike her ‘actively’ at all-just don’t like her as an actress/persona….and am not surprisesd that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree…no pun intended.
but,i used to like goopy-and was in denial that she was like her mother, actually.
i am a rabit… and this is supposed to be my year? see you at feb 2012 for a resume.
for goopy? please whats wrong with her? isnt acting enough? she seems like she always needs to proof something for someone.
Oh brother, this is all starting to ring very hollow. Can everyone just move on from the Gwyneth hating? Surely, there are other people out there who deserve it more. How about Heidi Klum and her soon to be Goop-like column on AOL? Or the root of all evil, Gwen (I never met a photo op I didn’t like) Stefani?
Tiger and Cancer here….they seem to be pretty similar and fairly accurate as far I am concerned.
What year is “pain in the ass”? Because that’s what Goopy is.
I’m a Dragon!
I’ve always liked Blythe, but I’m sure a lot of Goopy’s qualities came from her parents.
I’d love for either of these women to walk a day in a regular working mom’s shoes, and then talk about multi-tasking.
Its totally the mothers doing. And father. Both Highbrow, old-class Hollywood. They almost couldn’t help it, nor could she. A princess from day one.
Maud:
It cld be worse…Im a Cock =0(
Arf, arf. It’s never to early or late to hate on Goop-she provides so much material!
NO! Say what you will about Goopy, but I refuse to believe anything bad about Blythe!! NONONONO!
Until reading this it never occurred to me that Gwyneth might be somehow compensating for her marriage, and in a most competitive way with hubby, Chris, with her sudden ascent into the music spotlight. Seriously, she got a standing ovation? For singing adequately at best? Her mother may be proud, but coming from a rarefied, privileged atmosphere, she too is deluded.
Two things I find irritating about Blythe Danner:
1) Just as Gwyneth needs to name-drop and tell us how to live, Blythe needs to tell us how great her daughter’s marriage is.
2) Actually, she also needs to tell us how to live. The two of them were the centerpiece of a “volunteering” PSA, yet that’s not a big part of the public persona for either of them. If Matt Damon or Angelina Jolie or Edward Norton wants to tell me about giving back, well, they’ve got some credibility. But when it’s Gwyneth and Blythe, well, it just feels like a lecture from someone who hasn’t shown me that they do as well as say.
But most of the time, I don’t really think about Blythe Danner. She’s a competent but not mind-blowing actress who just doesn’t seem to come up all that often unless she’s talking about her daughter.
I never liked Blythe Danner until she was Will’s mom on Will & Grace. But Goop has to get this attitude somewhere.
Snake and Cancer! Sounds awful, doesn’t it?!
hstl1 Or the root of all evil, Gwen (I never met a photo op I didn’t like) Stefani?
That made me laugh.
Snake and Scorpio here. I am lethal, apparently.
I looove Snakes.
But they dont love me 🙁
I always gave Blythe a pass too until I watched a GP documentary where Blythe said GP sang in high school and invented noted and invented half notes. Then I knew she was nuts..just like her daughter.
@Chelly: 😆 That was awesome.
Horse and Virgo here – apparently, that justifies being solitary, detail-oriented and slightly OCD.
Blythe Danner is one of the most down to earth and lovely women I have ever met. If she sings her daughter’s praises, it’s because she loves her. My mom sings my praises and I don’t even do anything to deserve it!
i think paltry’s father helped keep her in check just a tiny bit. i’d like to think he would have had her rectify all her condescending and contradicting statements she’s made since he passed.
some say the danner is a royal twee. he’s not around to keep her mouth shut either and it seems to be getting worse.
why either parent didn’t insist that she finish school might have been their biggest disservice to her. dumb as rocks and pretentious as hell.
that and telling her she da bomb 24-7.
she da bomb alright, da stink bomb.
i’m lame!
also, pig/taurus. double whammy of stubborn as hell.
Snake/Sagittarius here, well I am still a Sag, until some jerk wad tries to say that I am some new Zodiac sign I refuse to convert to!
Devilgirl – I know, right? I’ll be so disappointed if some jag decides I’m no longer a Virgo. I define “Virgo”.
She looks gorgeous in that first pic.
So what if she recommends fine dining and shopping?! What is she supposed to talk about, Ross, Marshalls, TJ MAX? Maybe some McDonalds too? Stop hating already.
ihad always liked blythe and could not stand the GP and wondered how the apple could fall far from the tree. saw blythe at a very small laid back restaurant and she was wearing huge black sunglasses. it was totally overcast, so of course she was drawing attention to herself.
or maybe she had eye surgery that day or something, but seemed kind of annoying.
Blythe acts arrogant and entitled and so does Gwennie. Apple doesnt fall far from the tree. Gwennie will pick up in the rolls that Blythe has in a few years.
@originalkate- “ummm, last i checked all goop does is take care of herself! let’s see: she only works about 4 months a year, has a shitload of money, a nanny, a housekeeper, a PA, a trainer, a nutritionist and a huge circle of geniuses for friends. of course, we all know she works out 27 hours a day and eats only organic food grown by pixies in the english countryside. she probably sleeps on a pile of matresses with a pea in between, too. and when she needs to unwind she jets off to luxury hotels in marrakesh and barcelona and hong kong, getting colonics administered by unicorns.”
BRILLIANT. You should write your own celebrity blog, that was hilarious!
I’m going to have to agree with the anti-Gwyneths, she just can’t seem to stop bragging about herself. And her suggestions on Goop make me ill- gee, let me check my budget and see when I can jet off to Hong Kong for some shopping and fine dining… Oh, that’s right, never, I don’t have a couple thousand dollars to spare. She needs to get her head out of her butt.
P.S. I’m a rooster, or cock! :/
@Mln76 i am also a “dragon” and a capricorn ……… however because our birthdyas are before the Chinese new Year we are actually rabbits 🙂
I have suspected that Gwyneth spent her entire life being told that she was perfect.
By her Father.
That she was smarter than everyone else. And her Mother played second fiddle to her since her birth.
But didn’t Gwyneth get married without her Mother being there. And Blythe learned of the marriage after the fact. From the press.
(I am a Sheep/Ram plus being a Virgo.)
I worked in production with both Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner… Both wonderful lovely and very talented people… I have always (even before working with same) I loved the talent of Blythe… and sorry people … I love Gwennie too…. call me a goopy girl… by the way never read goop last part just based on observation..come on people give the girl a break!!
I remember on that E! All about Goopy show, it said no family where present at her wedding. I haven’t ever heard that Blythe lives in London, I thought she was a New Yorker. Maybe they aren’t really that close but of course, appearances!
@original Kate: Matress with pea in between them, Colonic administered by unicorns”
Bahahahaaha that shit was epic, you are a genius and I will forever pay attention to you posts, loved it!
Blythe is a mom so of course she is going to praise her daughter. I refuse to believe Blythe is responsible for her daughter’s foolishness. You don’t hear about Blythe talking mad stupid shit in public.
Dina Lohan,though? Yeah, she is an asshole mom who created (or helped create) an asshole daughter.
Snake and Pisces, and some traits I have / am; some not … don’t believe in this stuff at all, though!
I kind of crushed on Blythe Danner for a little while after watching her in Meet the Parents, but I haven’t watched her in anything else since. For what it’s worth, it’s just lovely when your mother affirms you, and when you know you’re unconditionally loved by mum. My relationship with my own mum was rocky was a number of years, and you know it takes two to fight, so I partly blame my immaturity for that. But now that I’m a mummy, I sort of realise how hard this gig is! And that gives me perspective and respect for my mum, all mums! So thumbs up to Blythe Danner (even if she is an enabler of Goopy’s bad behaviour! LOL)!
I like Gwyneth. I don’t see why people call her insufferable? (I don’t follow her that closely).
@jemshoes:
wow. that one made me stop in my tracks.
I LOATHE GP and, in particular, her cloying anecdotes about her father’s adoration of her: “the first man to take you to paris should be a man that will love you forever” or words to that effect.
Just hit me like a slap to the face that i’m jealous… sigh. no such adoration at home for me. but, on the up-side, when i look at my children i see a serious case of uncritical, insane, crazy, unconditional, “you are awesomeness personified” coming on. so maybe, fingers crossed, i am about to unleash a couple more goopies on the world!!!
I’ve been a big Blythe Danner fan before her darling daughter Gweneth came onto the scene. Blythe rarely talks about her private life in interviews. She’s one of the more discreet stars of her age…and stature. I really wonder what kind of mother/daughter relationship they have; b/c GP always seemed much more bonded to her father… I still think Blythe is far more beautiful, and graceful, than her daughter.
Im a horse. She’s a princess from day one and she’s gushingly told us this many times in interviews “Im a daddy’s girl” “Yes Im Jewish Im a Jewish American Princes”
i’m a cock too, which is the best sign ever.
blythe and i were in yoga together some years back and she was surprisingly fine – no histrionics, no drama, nothing. and it was old lady yoga, so she wasn’t taking regular hatha, let alone super type-a yoga.
living in la for 40 years – i’ve seen much bigger celebrities act like much bigger dicks. histrionic oscar winners you wouldn’t imagine needing the kind of attention they were provoking. (bosom buddies tom hanks was way more normal than oscar-winner tom hanks. don’t get me started.)
it was refreshing, actually.
Blythe Danner and Ivanka Trump are the only two who described their then yet to be famous daughters in a way that didn’t sound odiously bragging and obnoxious but made me look forward to seeing what they looked like. I wasn’t disappointed. I’m not someone who can boost their daughter’s ambitions, I’m more a watch your upper arms and sun damage kind of parent.
Rats tend to have a pretty easy streamlined time of reaching their goals as being first (they hopped on the back of the Ox and jumped off at the finish line) and having no real obstacles. It’s a good year to be.