She used to be such a nice girl: Gwyneth Paltrow shatters her clean cut image by dropping the C-word

By Marcus Barnes


Can C it going wrong: Gwyneth Paltrow used the c-word during an appearance on the Chelsea Handler show


Gwyneth Paltrow may have been keen to cultivate an image as a domestic goddess.

However, on chat show Chelsea Lately, she killed it off in one fell swoop.

The actress has been dismantling her clean cut, butter-wouldn't-melt public persona.

But her latest effort to break the mould may have gone too far after the actress used the much maligned c-word during an appearance to describe her grandmother on Chelsea Handler's chat show.

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The 38-year-old actress was invited on the show, which goes out at 11pm every weekeday, to speak about her cookery book My Father's Daughter.

Midway through their chat Gwyneth and Chelsea came to the realisation that they both had German grandmothers who were mean, and with the same first name.

After Chelsea, 36, said her relative was "a real bitch", Gwyneth retorted: 'Mine was a real c***'.

The word was bleeped out but eagle-eyed viewers will still be able to lip read and work out what she'd said and the reaction of those around her was a testament to that.

After the actress dropped the C-word, Chelsea recoiled with laughter and the audience broke out into a round of cheers and applause.

You've changed: The actress also explained her change in lifestyle giving up on eating healthy when she was pregnant with daughter Apple


When they died down Gwyneth went on to explain that her 'Mutti', her mother's mum, was full of spite.

Gwyneth said: 'She just hated my guts, basically, and she tried to poison my mother against me.'

'She must not have been very happy and she must have had a lot of pain because she was as mean as hell.'

During the chat Gwyneth also explained why she kicked her macrobiotic diet to adopt a more 'normal' approach to eating.

She cited her late father Bruce Paltrow's battle with cancer as inspiring her to eat healthier.

Family: Gwyneth with her late father Bruce Paltrow and mother Blythe Danner in 2002


Gwyneth told Chelsea: 'The reason why I started eating healthy was because I was trying to get my dad to eat healthy when he was diagnosed with cancer.

'He was disgusted by all my health food, he was like "This is disgusting, this is like biting into cardboard, I hate this food".

'I was trying to get him to cure his cancer by eating and I got into eating healthy too. Then, when I got pregnant with Apple, I could not eat any healthy food I was like Baskin Robbins, french fries and I never looked back.'

In recent months Gwyneth has been chipping away at her holier-than-thou image and putting herself out there - proving to be a lot more fun and edgy than it may have seemed.

Gwynning formula: The actress' recent forays into singing and comedy have shown a whole new side to her


She's tried her hand at singing and comedy, with appearances in U.S. musical smash Glee - as well as working with Cee Lo Green and recording her own album.

At the Oscars she was asked who she'd like to work with, and she answered Jay-Z, explaining: 'I think we’d be a good combination. He is a genius — and I’m his biggest fan.'

And, in a possible attempt to prove she's got the necessary skills to collaborate with the rap mogul, Gwyneth had a go at rapping on the Ellen Degeneres Show last week.

She rhymed along to the infamous track Baby Got Back by Sir Mix A Lot while shaking her backside.




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Why so shy Gwyneth? Coy Paltrow hides under silk scarf on secret night out with Matthew Morrison

By Daily Mail Reporter


Why so shy? Gwyneth Paltrow hides under her silk scarf while out with Matthew Morrison in London


She plays his love interest while guest starring in Glee but Gwyneth Paltrow was playing it coy on a night out with Matthew Morrison in London.

The actress tried to hide from photographers as she was seen leaving the five-star Grosvenor House Hotel at 2am with the 32-year-old hunk.

Morrison, who plays Will Schuester in the hit show, joined Miss Paltrow, 38, for a meal at the Locanda Locatelli restaurant in Marylebone before heading to the hotel for drinks.


But despite the friends catching up while both in London, Miss Paltrow wasn’t happy to be seen out with the actor and covered her face with her silk scarf.

However Morrison seemed more relaxed about being seen with the mother-of-two while heading to the hotel in a taxi.

The pair became friends last year when Miss Paltrow landed her guest role as substitute teacher Holly Holiday on the show, and has since been a hit with fans.

The fellow singers might be spending more time together soon, as Miss Paltrow may also be joining Morrison on his solo tour this summer.

Catching up: Matthew Morrison joined his friend, who he met on the set of Glee, for a meal and drinks in central London


The Glee star is taking to the road in the U.S. on June 18 and is keen for the actress to join him on stage, alongside Elton John.

He said recently: ‘We’re talking about it, it’s just gonna be if our schedules match up.

‘Elton’s really interested and Gwyneth’s interested as well. I’m still in Glee mode right now.

‘We’ll be done at the beginning of May and then we’ll go right into rehearsals.'

Morrison's self-titled album will be released on May 10 and he will be touring more than 20 cities in the U.S during the summer, starting with Minneapolis and ending with Los Angeles.

On set: Gwyneth Paltrow getting into character on Glee as sexy subsitute teacher Holly Holiday


And despite his friend Miss Paltrow being happily married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, Morrison has recently insisted he is single and not gay.

The former Broadway star told the Daily Mirror: ‘I sing and dance for a living and there is that connotation associated with me. I don’t care, I know the truth.

‘Does it make it difficult to get with women? No. It makes it easier. My time on Broadway was the best.

Co-stars: Matthew Morrison and Gwyneth Paltrow performing 'Singing in the Rain' and 'Umbrella' on Glee


‘There was a lot of beautiful dancers – and being one of the only straight guys… I kinda had lots of options.’

While Morrison was in the UK, he took some time out to back the launch of a Government campaign that could see Glee clubs started in secondary schools across the country as part of a plan to develop greater musical education and urged people to sign a petition that would help make this possible.


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Madonna's African school dream left in ruins as £2.4m is frittered on luxuries

By DAVID GARDNER IN LOS ANGELES

Breaking ground: Madonna seen in 2009 turning the soil for the foundation of the multi-million dollar girls' school in Chinkota, Malawi which has now been abandoned


Madonna's dream of building a school for girls in poverty-stricken Malawi has collapsed after £2.4million was frittered away without a brick being laid.

Funds raised by the singer from celebrity friends such as Tom Cruise and Gwyneth Paltrow were squandered on luxuries including golf course membership, and a car and driver for the school’s director, according to details of an audit revealed yesterday.


Friends: Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow at a 2007 benefit night for Raising Malawi


Madonna also plunged her own money into the school project which was going to cost £10million but which has now been officially abandoned because of the financial scandal.

The charity Raising Malawi, co-founded by Madonna and once run by the boyfriend of her former personal trainer, was behind the plan to build the academy.

But its board of directors has been ousted and replaced by a caretaker board which includes the singer and her manager, according to the New York Times.


Breakdown: Madonna's plans for a girls school in Malawi have been dropped. The singer is seen here in April 2010 with daughter Mercy


Madonna was not implicated in the financial scandal and was not on the original board.

The newspaper claimed yesterday that auditors called in to examine the charity’s finances found that the budget overran by hundreds of thousands of pounds because of ‘outlandish expenditures’ that also included design fees to architects, salaries, cars, office space and free staff housing – all for a school that was never built.


Charity work: Madonna in Malawi with her adopted son David

In one case, two cars were bought for employees that hadn’t even been hired. Some of the £2.4million still hasn’t been accounted for, said the audit.

The academy for 400 girls was supposed to be the jewel in the crown of the charitable foundation’s work in Malawi.

Madonna, 52, who adopted a daughter, Mercy, from Malawi last year and a son, David, in 2008, said she was proud of other work the charity has carried out in the African country, but admitted being disappointed at the school setback.

‘I’m frustrated that our education work has not moved forward in a faster way,’ she told the newspaper. She added that she was still determined to use the charity to continue helping to feed, educate and provide medical care in the country where about 500,000 children have lost a parent to Aids.

Madonna co-founded Raising Malawi in 2006 with the Los Angeles-based Kabbalah Centre International, a Jewish mystical movement with which she has been associated for years.


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Why is Gwyneth trying to reinvent herself as a country music star?

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Singing sensation? Gwyneth Paltrow reminds us that she's now a music star in a new rock-inspired photoshoot


She's an Oscar-winning actress, mother, runs a lifestyle blog and has released her own cookbook.

Most would say Gwyneth Paltrow is quite the over-achiever. So why is the 38-year-old moving in on husband Coldplay rocker Chris Martin's turf?

After a film about a country music singer and two appearances on Glee, Gwyneth appears to have been bitten by the music bug... and she's just revealed she's in talks to sign a record deal.

And in case anyone was still unsure that she is now a rock star, Gwyneth has posed amongst guitars, a keyboard and old records in a new photoshoot.

The actress is interviewed by her good friend Faith Hill for the new issue of InStyle magazine, and talks about performing onstage with her pal Jay-Z, dance parties at her and Martin's London home, and ditching London for Nashville.

Gwyneth got to know Faith, 43, while working on Country Strong with Tim McGraw, the singer's husband. 'We've been friends for a year,' Gwyneth says of the country music star. 'But now we're soul mates.'



Country Strong: After starring in her new film as a country music singer, Gwyneth is in talks to sign a recording contract


While Miss Paltrow and her children Apple, six, and Moses, four, spent many nights at the Hill-McGraw household during filming in Tennessee, Faith was keen to know what goes on in Gwyneth's abode across the pond.

'I like having dance parties at my house and being super-goofy with my girlfriends,' Gwyneth says.

'We just play dance music like whatever is on the radio and then old stuff - Michael Jackson, disco - and new stuff; we mix it up. It's fun.'


'What's a typical Saturday night at the Paltrow-Martin house?' Hill asks.


'Well, last Saturday night, I made turkey meatballs and we all had dinner together, then put the kids to bed and watched a movie on Apple TV,' is Paltrow's reply.

'We always go out one night of the weekend, because it's nice for me to get out of the house. I cook so much during the week, it's good for me to have a break and eat something that I don't make, like sashimi or Indian food.'

And while Gwyneth and Chris, 34, make their home in London during the school year, Gwyneth reveals that she longs for her native America - and that she felt right at home in Nashville.

'I loved it. There's something about it here - it is so relaxing and everybody is so kind and I just loved it,' she tells Faith in the candid interview. 'Cut to me moving into your house.'

The Iron Man star was so enamoured with the music capital that she devoted two articles on her lifestyle blog GOOP to the city.

'London is great, but I miss America,' she adds. 'Nowadays, I feel like we're citizens of everywhere.'


Music aspirations: The actress, pictured on this week's episode of Glee, talks about 'dance parties' at her London home with Chris Martin and performing onstage with Jay-Z


Gwyneth, who took to the stage at the recent Grammys and Oscars, also reminisces about performing onstage with her good friend Jay-Z.

She says: 'I got onstage with him at the Royal Albert Hall [in 2006]. I stood in the back and sang with him. That was the night of my 34th birthday and I drank a bunch of champagne before going on just to get through it.

'It was also before I had any singing lessons. I was sooo nervous, but that was just for fun. I'm glad I did it.'

The full interview appears in the new issue of InStyle, on sale now.


Moving in on her husband's turf: The 38-year-old is the new music star of the Paltrow-Martin clan, after performances at the CMA (left), Grammy, and Academy Awards (right) ceremonies in recent months


Gwyneth Paltrow- Country Strong- CMA Awards 2010



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