I’ve been really bored with Gwyneth Paltrow’s last few Goop newsletters, but this week’s is pretty good. She goops all over Nashville and she actually writes about all of it! You know, instead of handing it off to one of her “friends”. She calls living and working in Nashville an “incredible experience” and claims that she’s “never met such warm people, heard such good music, eaten so much fried chicken.” She also thinks Nashville is “kind of smack dab in the middle (well, not really, but almost).” Not really, Goopy. Here’s the full Goop newsletter, and here’s People summary:
Has Gwyneth Paltrow gone country?
The big-city-loving actress, who usually resides in London and New York City, recently spent several months in Nashville, Tenn., filming Love Don’t Let Me Down – and apparently fell in love with the country music hub. In her latest Goop newsletter, she wrote: “Never have I met such warm people, heard such good music, eaten so much fried chicken. I could go on and on.”
And she does go on and on with recommendations about her favorite Nashville restaurants, nightclubs and hotels. Among them: the iconic Grand Ole Opry, honky-tonk Robert’s Western World and Swett’s. The down-home, meat-and-three restaurant was recommended by country crooner Tim McGraw, Paltrow’s costar and husband of Faith Hill, with whom Paltrow has palled around in Nashville.
The city’s Southern-style cuisine has made quite the impression on Paltrow, too. Known for promoting a strict diet and regular detoxes to quickly shed pounds, she might be ruffling the feathers of her nutritionist with a newfound passion for poultry – not the grilled kind – and other local culinary staples.
“The fried chicken here is superb … crunchy and not oily on the outside and juicy on the inside,” she writes about Swett’s. At the Loveless Café, “their food is delicious, a traditional southern heart attack.”
And about the Whiskey Kitchen, Paltrow raves: “the sweet potato fries are delicious, the fried chicken sliders do the trick, the biscuits are the best I sampled in the city of Nashville, and the oysters on the half shell come with a shot of Bloody Mary. What more could you ask for?” Perhaps one of those detoxes once she returns to big-city life?
[From People]
Oh, yes. After eating all of that fried chicken and good ol’ Southern food, you know Goopy is going to be constipated. And she’s going to have to go on a massive detox bender, probably involving a month’s worth of coconut-grape-prune-strawberry juice (blessed by rose petals) and some kind of rabbi. But I’ll say this – don’t all of those rumors about her “piling on the pounds” make sense now? She’s down South, eating her heart out. Bless her. Southern Goop is my kind of snotty.
Are she and Chris Martin still together?
WTF! Nashville is in the US! It’s not like visiting some exotic island?!
Pretentious cow.
I thought she was a vegan or something? Make her go away.
Great. Now I wanna get some KFC. Dammit all I was on a diet.
Fried chicken *slider*? Bleeurgh
What? I thought this annoying woman was on a raw food diet? I distinctly remember her espousing the virtues of it somewhere awhile back. Surprise, surprise that didn’t last.
This is goopalicious!!!
She suddenly discovers that good ole all-amurican food is gooood.
And she’s making a movie in Nashville. How convenient. How opportune.
She seems so regal, but she’s just like us, after all. What’s next? Dating Dwight Yokum?
Even in print, this twatwaffle annoys the sh*t out of me.
I love Nashville so much and it will never be the same for me now that this snooty bitch is all over it.
Oh now, come on. You know she just went and threw it up after she ate!
I don’t believe for a second she ate anything other than her own macrobiotic food.
Goopy eating fried chicken & biscuits? Yeah, right! That’s far too plebian for the Princess of Goop.
@ the other mel: I concur. I love that place. I’m just glad she didn’t discover Monell’s…
Hate her.
everybody hates her. she’s a snotty stuck up beeyotch.
@annaloo: Or Tootsies. But I love Robert’s also, and it just bugs that she’s ‘discovered’ it.
shes probably pregnant again…
She looks like crap.Tired looking and too pale.
And really what kind of marriage does she have? They are never seen together ever and they lead seperate lives.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they broke up
Look,look I eat fried chicken just the common people do.
Oh f**king please!
I want to slap her with a brick.
I thought she was too busy pretending to be British?
I feel sorry for her, she knows her time has come and gone. She’s trying to be a blogger and only writes one story a week. Can’t even hack that. Could you imagine if she tried churning out as many articles as Kaiser does? Paltrow could never cut it. Not everyone can blog successfully, you know. Paltrow was given the platform, she didn’t earn it like CB.
Okay I may be alone here, but I’m in Nashville and I like her a little bit right now. We are warm, dammit.
@isabelle – lol, yeah what the hell?!
Also lol at constipated goopy – how does that show up from normal?
Twatwaffle – genius! I intend to steal this word and use it as frequently as possible. Now can someone refresh my memory: Why is Paltrow called Fishsticks?
I can totally see her being delighted by the South.
I’ve always liked her.
Some people just never like privileged people. Gwyneth, don’t worry about them. Just be yourself.
bubbles: i can’t remember who coined the term, but goopy is called fishsticks because she is about as exciting as a frozen stick of fish.
thank goodness she gets off her sassy-horse once a year to interact with us troglodytes. she IS one of us!
Is that a bucket of KFC? Crap. Now I am going to have to have a KFC fix in the next 24 hrs.
@20 – She isn’t “trying to be a blogger” she is putting out a newsletter, which was her goal. She started on September 23, 2008 according to this site. I do give her credit for how long she has kept going, I thought she would be done by this point. honestly. Everyone made fun of her newsletter when it started and she knew that but didn’t change what she was doing. She knew what she wanted to do and did it and remained consistent about it. She did not want to make it a full time job. To turn out numerous stories a day you have to choose to commit like that. She is successfully fulfilling her goal as far as her web site. If she had to write multiple stories a day, I think she could do it.
A lot of things you can hate on her for but GOOP Newsletter isn’t one. She found something that she wanted to do and went and made it happen, which is commendable. (Wow! I just stood up for her.)It is entertaining, usually unintentionally and trying to be informative.
And just to play devil’s advocate… First, she knows it is in the United States and is not all that exotic (to many of her readers anyway) but some people haven’t been there before and she did point out great places (I love Nashville, too!) Plus, you can say enough great things about the food and people in the South. She wrote it in her news letter because that is where she was at the moment (and name drop the film.) I bet Tim and Faith were great guides to the city, I wonder if she was more laid back with them. They seem so different from each other.
Second, don’t let anyone, especially someone you do not know, ruin a city or place you love. If you are there at the same time as you, that understandably could impact your experience.) The Tennessean sun is great at killing pretenses left behind by visitors that aren’t down home! Plus, where is your Southern hospitality… So glad you enjoyed our city, happier that you have a home elsewhere and hope you return there safely and soon!
Blythe, that’s the problem…when she is her uneducated self.
That food sounds great, can somebody buy me Nashville for my birthday? Don’t worry, it’s still…seven weeks away, so you have time to save up.
why didnt i know she was here sooner? i thought for a second that i was seeing an obivious out of towner…dwight yoakam does not live here, btw. he resides in LA. though he did come out here to train once for a music video which was kinda before my time..still, really sucks she’s spreading her pristine filth all over my heart..
bubbles- I think she got her nickname from the movie Running with Scissors. She had a very minor part in which she played one of the daughters of a kooky family. During one meal, she was cooking fishsticks and I don’t remember the details but I think her onscreen sister was making fun of how she was like the fishsticks: cold and bland.
I’m not a huge fan of hers but I kind of liked this one. I’m from the west and never been to Tennessee and I find it kind of cool that she actually tried out those places. She came across as pretty friendly in this one. Like she would eat at a place if you recommended it.
Ever wonder if people who defend the celeb on this blog are actually personal assistants of the celeb who have the celeb standing over them with a yoga mat as a potential weapon if the assistant doesn’t write something positive?
Surely “hating” Gwynnie is a bit like hating celery – she’s way too bland to induce any kind of emotion. That said, I do kind of admire her for keeping up with the Goop, having been so roundly ridiculed for it.
She just doesn’t bother with her hair any more, does she? That hairstyle would look better and cuter on apple.
She really looks like a nephilim in the second to last pic. lizard bitch.
I usually can’t stand Gwyneth, but I think it’s great that someone so publicly health-conscious can relax every now and then and enjoy her food and drink. It’s all about moderation, after all, and she seems to be proof that you can maintain a nice figure while still indulging in fried food and red wine once in a while.
The people of Tennessee are warmest in all of U.S.A.
She looks like a pale skinned boy, and the ‘woman’ ah fuck it you all said it perfectly in the older postings, and Lopez said it right. She spread her legs many years ago for Brad and too bad she is still lingering around by her doing not by us the public choice. Get over yourself