Just when I thought we had catalogued all the things Gwyneth Paltrow would eventually have to apologize to PETA for (unless, of course, she’s a wafer-thin little hypocrite), Deceiver reader Lindsey sent this to our “tips” e-mail address:
I think this is even better than the leather/turkey stuff. This ad for Tods that she appears in shows her wearing snakeskin shoes AND and alligator handbag! I’ve only seen the ad once in all this time and that was in the October issue of Elle. Even a Google search didn’t turn up the ad in any of the pages I looked at (perhaps they are trying to downplay it to deflect negative attention from crazy PETA-ites??) …
If PETA were really concerned with animals they would take offense at the snakeskin and alligator too since they are also sought just for their skins (unlike cows that are at least used for food too!) but obviously they are looking the other way on this too. And I’d like to see Gwyneth say that she didn’t know the snakeskin shoes and alligator bag were fake too, puh-lease! Its Tods and as you guys said, you gotta know they aren’t gonna be selling fake stuff for that much money.
First Oprah refused to have Sarah Palin on her show because she didn’t want to influence the election. Despite the fact that she’s had Obama on the show, and even publicly endorsed him last May. It was the first time she’d ever endorsed a politician.
Then she produced Obama’s half-hour infomercial. Which, in addition to her endorsement, might have had a little bit of influence on the election.
Now she’s complaining that Palin hasn’t done her show yet:
“I said I would be happy to talk to Sarah Palin when the election was over,” Oprah reveals to Extra. “I went and tried to talk to Sarah Palin and instead she talked to Greta Van Susteren. She talked to Matt Lauer. She talked to Larry King, but she didn’t talk to me. But maybe she’ll talk to me now that she has a book deal.”
Palin’s an expert at hunting moose. This might be the first time she’s been hunted by one.
Can somebody explain what’s in it for Palin? Was she supposed to hit up Oprah’s cell as she was weaving back and forth and weeping in Grant Park? “Hi, Oprah! We both know you’re a total hypocrite who did everything within your power to elect Obama, but now that it only does one of us any good, could you please have me on your show at your earliest convenience? Pretty please?” Oh, you betcha.
Remember Gwyneth Paltrow’s grand apology to PETA?
It was for not noticing the cheetah-like stealth of a fur-bearing stylist who (she later claimed) quickly draped a fox stole over her shoulders during a photo shoot.
Bad fur! Yucky!
Oddly, she never apologized to PETA for wearing these laced-up, fur-trimmed boots in another ad for the same luxury retailer, by the way.
That must have been one sneaky stylist.
We’re also still waiting for a “mea culpa, PETA” and some self-flagellation (with a pleather whip, of course) for the pre-Thanksgiving issue of Gwyneth’s fan newsletter (available at GOOP.com) — in which she raved about her Thanksgiving turkey and turkey-burger recipes. And this from a woman who claims: “I haven’t eaten meat for about fifteen years.”
Somehow, though, I doubt PETA is holding its hairball-stank breath for an apology over the latest GOOP newsletter issue, which just came out this morning.
It’s gift-giving season, and Paltrow’s not recommending tofu, polyester clothing, or plastic shoes.
Here are a couple of items from Gwyneth’s list of “ideas for gifts to unwrap.”
Read these and imagine you work at PETA:
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This post is admittedly going to be a little mean. But I honestly want to know how the hell such a thing happened.
Carnie Wilson on October 28, from her eight-page spread in OK! that she got for being a weight-loss success story:
Carnie Wilson yesterday in a McDonald’s parking lot:
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Eva Longoria Parker is so full of it.
According to the N.Y. Daily News, she is desperate (get it? Deceiver is punny this week) not to be photographed smoking in public, but she let her guard down while vacationing in Puerto Rico.
This hopefully kills any rumors that she’s pregnant, but really it just challenges her whole schtick. Like telling Parade Magazine she is always super careful with her health because “I want to look like Demi Moore when I’m 42.” (Although I hope she knows that Demi Moore paid a lot to look like Demi Moore at 42.)
Or like being the spokesperson for Padres Contra El Cancer, a nonprofit group that aims to inform Latino families about the causes of cancer. Says the charity’s website: “Due to language and cultural barriers, Latino parents typically understand 50 percent less than non-Latino families about childhood cancer and effective methods for its treatment.”
You know who else might need some kind of education on that front? Eva Longoria Parker.
After doing everything possible to paint Annie Leibovitz as the bad guy in the whole Vanity Fair debacle, teen idol Miley Cyrus suddenly can’t wait to strip down in front of Annie’s camera again.
From a new interview with Britain’s Daily Record:
In April, she sparked controversy over a picture which appeared in Vanity Fair, taken by legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz, which showed Miley with her bare back exposed and her front covered with just a bedsheet.
She was just 15 and the picture outraged America’s moral majority.
“Everyone outside of America liked it a little bit more because that’s more like the style, but the States are really conservative. guess I just had to deal with that and just realise that I got to work with an amazing photographer,” Miley explained.
“And that’s what I want to do with my life. I would love to be a photographer. She was amazing and so talented and her lighting… I would love to work with her again. But I realise I’m just a kid.”
I’m glad she has the self-awareness to call herself a kid, but she probably should have checked with her dad before praising Annie. He’s the guy who called her a paparazzi and suggested that Leibovitz was into child exploitation.
But maybe he’s come around to realizing that if he wants her to have a post-Disney career — and boy does he ever — she needs to not alienate one of the finest celebrity photographers in the business.
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At a NYC book signing for Hooking Up With Tila Tequila, the Myspace phenom shared a vaguely Angelina-esque personal dream of hers:
