It’s no secret that Gwyneth “GOOP” Paltrow was born into Hollywood royalty with a silver spoon inserted in a very dark place. She never lets us forget how many famous and fabulous friends she has, how well she eats, how great her shoes are (some of her shoes are pretty amazing, I have to admit), and how generally better she is than all of us peasants. In case we forget, we can always literally sign up for the newsletter to read her smugness.

As it turns out, one of The Goop’s first famous connections came from her mother’s work in the annual Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her mother, Blythe Danner, hired a son of another famous actor to babysit The Goop. The actor? Donald Sutherland. The son? Keifer Sutherland. Keifer used to babysit The Goop. My head just exploded.

Kiefer Sutherland has admitted he struggles to believe that Gwyneth Paltrow is the same girl he used to babysit when she was young.

Speaking on the red carpet at the premiere of Monsters Vs Aliens, the 24 star spoke about the times he looked after Gwyneth when he worked with her mother.

He said: “I was working in a theatre with her mother in Williamstown Massachusetts, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and I believe on a couple of occasions I was asked to look after her for an hour or two. I think it was very funny because it’s unbelievable how fast someone goes from 13 to 18 and obviously they look so different that when Gwyneth started to work I thought ‘Well that must be another girl because I always remember her as being 11 or 12 years old.'”

[From The Press Association Hosted By Google]

Aw, that’s a cute story. Even though I think Keifer is probably a pretty screwed up guy, he’s a wonderful actor and his babysitting efforts towards The Goop are better than she deserved. I have to admit, whenever I see Keifer these days, I only see his dad. Their resemblance is so striking, I always do a double-take to make sure I’m actually looking at Keifer.

Here’s Kiefer Sutherland with Reese Witherspoon at the ‘Monsters Vs. Aliens’ Photocall at Hotel Adlon on March 10th in Berlin. Images thanks to Fame.com.