Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart is the latest Hollywood big name to declare war on actress-turned-lifestyle-writer Gwyneth Paltrow.
The 72-year-old let fire at Gwyneth, who created the website, Goop, saying “I think I started this whole category of lifestyle”.
Martha was particularly sceptical of Gwyneth’s two cookbooks, which both made the bestseller list.
“I haven’t eaten at Gwyneth’s house and I don’t know how she lives, but if she’s authentic, all the better. I certainly hope she is,” Martha told Bloomberg TV. “She really wants to be part of the lifestyle business. She’s a charming, pretty person who has a feeling for lifestyle. Fine, good.”
This isn’t the first time Gwyneth has come under fire for her lifestyle advice. She’s often criticised for her “overpriced” healthy alternatives and in 2012 the New York Times accused her of using a ghostwriter for her cookbook My Father’s Daughter, which she denied.
“Love @nytimes dining section but this week’s facts need checking. No ghostwriter on my cookbook, I wrote every word myself,” she said on Facebook.
But the tiff with Martha Stewart may be the least of her problems. Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter says the magazine plans to print a tell-all take-down piece, revealing Gwyneth’s true colours.
Gwyneth has made every effort to stop the article being published, including constant complaints and an email campaign to her A-list contacts, warning them not to contribute to the article or have any further involvement with the publication.
But despite her efforts, it looks like the piece is going ahead.
“We started a story on her,” Graydon told the London Times. “We have a very good writer and it’ll run.”
Graydon said Gwyneth’s pleas made him more determined to expose her, saying, “Well, she sort of forced my hand.”
He says Gwyneth, who recently moved from London back to Los Angeles, has a rude awakening coming to her.
“She’ll find Los Angeles very different and very difficult,” he says. “Some famous people believe that they live in a cone of celebrity that protects them… But it doesn’t really exist anymore in LA, unless they stay in.”
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