We know a few things about Gwyneth Paltrow. We know she likes duck sausage and fried clams from time to time, we know she can be a tad annoyingly superior, we know she is bezzies with Jay Z. But here are some things we will admit we did not know until this fine evening:
That her hubby Chris Martin is pretty grumpy (actually, we lie, we did know that). Gwyneth once set a duck on fire and threw it in a pool*, something she neglected to mention in her latest newsletter. Gwyneth kills lobsters herself by stabbing them in the head with a knife**, could be in the new cook book? Gwyneth knows all the words to NWA’s F*** tha Police, but now we do know that we are admittedly pretty impressed...
Just how did we stumble upon this newfound knowledge? The New Yorker got invited (boo! why not heat?) to one of Gwynnie’s infamous dinner parties in honour of her new cook book, and was kind enough to share the gossip.
*To explain, it was Michael Stipe (the bald chap in R.E.M) who revealed the duck throwing shenanigans - “Once, a duck she was cooking caught fire, and she threw it in the pool.”
**And it was Christy Turlington who spilt the beans on the lobster: “It’s a different, faster approach. I could never do it”. Us neither.