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Gwyneth Courts Brits' Ire
At least that's the take of the never-subtle British press after the California-born, New York-raised Oscar winner took a reported swipe at U.K. males.
An article in the magazine Now notes that Paltrow went on just two dates during her recent summer run on the London stage in Proof. And not because she was working too hard to play.
"British people don't seem to ask each other out on dates," the Shallow Hal star is quoted as saying in the mag. "If someone asks you out they're really going out on a limb, whereas in America it happens all the time."
According to Paltrow, who turns 30 on September 28, dating in the United States works like this: "Someone will come up to you and ask you for dinner, and you'll say, 'Sure.'"
An American says, "Sure," Paltrow tells Now, because "it's only dinner for God's sake."
This interview did not receive much notice in the U.S. press presumably because as the former squeeze of Ben Affleck and Brad Pitt it's assumed she knows whereof she speaks.
But in Britain? Safe to say President Bush's Iraq policy isn't the only U.S. import being slammed by the Euros.
Here's a sampling of the British papers' greatest hits:
"Sorry, Gwyn, but you nasal, gum-chewing U.S. girls are frighteningly sexless and just plain dull." (Daily Mail) "Give our British men a break, Gwyneth." (Sun) "Who wants to spend the night with Gwyneth?" (Independent) And the unkindest cut of all:
"The real reason Gwyneth is unhappy: She lost her man [Affleck] to Jennifer Lopez." (Daily Mail)
Is that the thanks Paltrow gets for promoting the British lifestyle and their funny accents in Shakespeare in Love and about a million other movies? Apparently so.
According to reports from Big Ben Central, Brits are gunning for Gwynnie because they're, if possible, more uptight than usual. The inciting incident was an article earlier this year in the magazine the Spectator (penned by a Canadian journalist) that, in Paltrow fashion, accused the U.K. male populace of knowing "little to nothing about courtship."
A column in today's Guardian Unlimited sets the record straight, arguing that there's nothing wrong with British men; there's something wrong with Paltrow-esque women.
Still, it's hard to imagine Paltrow, who's hinted at making Britain her fulltime home, is taking serious offense at the dust-up.
In a recent interview with E!'s Revealed, Miss Emma reasserts her love of all things British: "I really do like doing the accent," Paltrow says. "I have fun doing it, and I always do a little bit of a different British accent every time."
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