# Why's everyone hate Gwyneth Paltrow? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179 "2013-12-12T18:23:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/21 "2013-12-13T01:23:46Z")
> [@bup](#): > > That does not negatively affect my impression of Gwyneth Paltrow. The store was looking for free advertising. It was a business proposition pretending it wasn’t. They could have both got something out of the deal. I think she just wound up looking like a self-absorbed spoiled brat. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/22 "2013-12-13T15:06:44Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > They could have both got something out of the deal. I think she just wound up looking like a self-absorbed spoiled brat. YMMV. But what she would have gotten from the deal was nothing any other customer could have gotten. They wanted her to buy shoes and then let them benefit from the publicity. Appropriate username for this topic. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/23 "2013-12-13T16:05:13Z")
My wife met her in a crowded bar in Nashville. Talked to her for a few minutes and said she was very personable and approachable…so, there’s your answer 🙂 I was also there, but considering my condition at the time, it was probably fortunate I did not run into her or we would have wound up on TMZ. The one thing I do recall is her and her entourage took a large booth by the wall, and part way through the night the piped in music played a Coldplay song. The whole bar was trying to nonchalantly look at her reaction (she was laughing). ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/24 "2013-12-13T16:09:40Z")
She’s am over privileged smug, dumb person who says a lot of smug, dumb things. Sort of a more talented Paris Hilton and equally annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/25 "2013-12-13T16:18:49Z")
Until I read that Cracked article a week or so ago, I had no idea that people actively disliked her. Certainly not enough to warrant an entry into “people who are unfairly disliked”. She seems okay enough to me. Her acting neither makes me certain to see a film nor certain to avoid it but I assume she’ll put forth a credible performance. In real life, I assume she acts like most everyone else with millions and millions of dollars. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/26 "2013-12-13T16:33:03Z")
I never gave her much thought until I saw her recently in _Shakespeare in Love_. Now I think she had pretty nice boobs 15 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/27 "2013-12-13T16:48:56Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > She’s am over privileged smug, dumb person who says a lot of smug, dumb things. Sort of a more talented Paris Hilton and equally annoying. An damn it not am. Frick. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/28 "2013-12-13T17:11:40Z")
I just read about The Goop City Guides app - which lists her favorite spots in several cities. The one for Los Angeles shows the kinds of shops and restaurants that strike her fancy. One-name places like “Yolk” (overpriced twee tchocke shop) and “Forage” (expensive cafeteria-like organic restaurant). Nothing wrong with this, mind you, if I had spare millions, I’d be buying all the little people $145 dog necklaces and $15 hand painted wooden whistles. She narrates a video, full of dreamy palm trees, “welcome to L.A., the city of my birth, the city I will always return to and will forever hold a special place in my heart”. :rolleyes: Like, 'I am a citizen of the world, I am free to fly like a bird, I live luxuriously in all the grand capitol cities. But here for your edification are a few little shops I like, in The City of My Birth, which I will always return to like the swallows return to Capistrano." I can see how someone just getting by, with a 10 year old car, who is grateful for a birthday dinner at Applebees, who puts plastic Fisher Price crap toys on layaway at Walmart, I can see how this dreamy app would come across as annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/29 "2013-12-13T18:21:40Z")
See, I don’t get why people would get upset over that. There’s enough people buying $145 dog collars to warrant opening a store selling them so are we just mad that Paltrow had the audacity to talk about it on an app that other people might see? Why does a person scraping for a paycheck with toys on lay-away need to be looking at an app talking about upscale locations in LA anyway except to maybe fantasize about the nice stuff Paltrow is talking about? ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/30 "2013-12-13T18:55:59Z")
Wasn’t she recently selected as the “most beautiful woman alive” by People magazine? That right there is so very, very wrong that it makes me dislike all magazines and her as well. She is probably a nice person otherwise but she should have declined to participate in that ‘award.’ ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/31 "2013-12-13T20:04:18Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I never gave her much thought until I saw her recently in _Shakespeare in Love_. Now I think she had pretty nice boobs 15 years ago. And was willing to show them! Unlike some actresses who get “Knocked Up” without taking off a bra. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/32 "2013-12-13T20:07:01Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > Wasn’t she recently selected as the “most beautiful woman alive” by People magazine? That right there is so very, very wrong that it makes me dislike all magazines and her as well. She is probably a nice person otherwise but she should have declined to participate in that ‘award.’ This. I still scratching my head about it. She’s not even close to close. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/33 "2013-12-13T20:21:59Z")
How does one decline to participate in an award that consists of a magazine picking you and then telling people they picked you? People Magazine: “We have selected Irishman as the smartest person on the planet.” Irishman: “I am not the smartest person on the planet. I refuse to participate!” People Magazine: keeps printing magazines ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/34 "2013-12-13T20:52:27Z")
> [@tim-n-va](#): > > And was willing to show them! Unlike some actresses who get “Knocked Up” without taking off a bra. Yeah, and which one has a career on the skids? Aspiring actresses of tomorrow, you’ve been warned! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/35 "2013-12-13T20:53:53Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > How does one decline to participate in an award that consists of a magazine picking you and then telling people they picked you? > > People Magazine: “We have selected Irishman as the smartest person on the planet.” > > Irishman: “I am not the smartest person on the planet. I refuse to participate!” > > People Magazine: keeps printing magazines Oh sure. I wasn’t blaming her for that. I have no feelings about her whatsoever. She was in Shakespeare in Love? Wouldn’t know. Saw it, didn’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/36 "2013-12-13T21:33:29Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > They could have both got something out of the deal. I think she just wound up looking like a self-absorbed spoiled brat. YMMV. Oh, let me show you just how much of a business proposition it was: [This site links pics of celebrities and name brand products they buy.](http://coolspotters.com/search?q=Gwyneth+Paltrow) Then it links to sites that sell those products. The offer was all about the shekels, baby. Ms. Paltrow deserves no grief on this count. She DID mess up Sky Captain though, but I don’t hate her for it. I just wish a better actress had been cast. ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/37 "2013-12-13T21:46:40Z")
I don’t dislike her, I hardly know her, but she shoes have a weird first name as does her mother. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/38 "2013-12-13T22:11:55Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > Wasn’t she recently selected as the “most beautiful woman alive” by People magazine? That right there is so very, very wrong that it makes me dislike all magazines and her as well. She is probably a nice person otherwise but she should have declined to participate in that ‘award.’ Not enough meat on her; she looks like a chicken that’s been plucked and dressed. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/39 "2013-12-13T22:39:10Z")
Has nothing to do with why anyone would/wouldnt like her but way back when she and Granpa Pitt were a Thing I saw a paparazzi shot of them nude: Pencil Dick and Bones. Not a very attractive couple naked! ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/40 "2013-12-13T22:51:59Z")
In the encyclopedia entry under “21st Century Western Standards of Conventional Beauty”, her face would be there as an example. Which is probably why I don’t really care for her looks. But I don’t have any opinion about her one way of the other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179.md?page=3)