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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
An damn it not am. Frick.
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.
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?
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.’
And was willing to show them! Unlike some actresses who get “Knocked Up” without taking off a bra.
This. I still scratching my head about it. She’s not even close to close.
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
Yeah, and which one has a career on the skids? Aspiring actresses of tomorrow, you’ve been warned!
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.
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. 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.
I don’t dislike her, I hardly know her, but she shoes have a weird first name as does her mother.
Not enough meat on her; she looks like a chicken that’s been plucked and dressed.
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!
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.