July 29, 2013
This A list mostly movie actress who is an Academy Award winner was at a party this past week. Apparently the host of the party had red wine which our actress loves. What our actress did not love was the fact that she recognized that the bottles were only about $20 a bottle. The host spent what she could afford. The actress sent someone to go buy two cases of wine that averaged about $250 a bottle and presented them to the hostess and said, "Here you go. Serve this instead. It is either this or I will leave. i can't drink the stuff you put out."
Gwyneth Paltrow
I guess this is technically a kindness blind.
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DeleteKinda maybe? If she liked it, should the price matter? Maybe she should have gotten a bunch of $250 stickers and put them on the bottles for her friend. Who could be friends with a mess like that?
DeleteCall me, Goop!
ReplyDeleteUuuuugggghhhh
ReplyDeleteTrashier than the $20 wine. Bringing bottles as a gift is fine, but to do what she did is tasteless.
ReplyDeleteI mean at least she bought the bottle. I guess.
ReplyDeleteWhat time are the items suppose to end? gotta wake up early manana
I would've told her that I knew that and took that into account when choosing the wine.
ReplyDeleteLol.
DeleteWhy oh why the host didn't keep serving the cheap wine?
ReplyDeleteShe couldn't think ahead to bring the wine she likes and present it as a gift to the host? If you can only drink three-figure vino, that would be the sensible, non-rude thing to do as a matter of course.
ReplyDeleteShouldn't she just be glad she was actually invited to a party???
ReplyDeleteWhy in heaven would she attend a party where the host coukd only affird $20 bottles of wine? Pfffftttt
ReplyDeleteJeez it looks like auntliddy broke into my body and typed that with my fingers.
Delete@Sugar, LOLOLOL! I almost spit out my $2.99 wine!
DeleteOh wait, I thought we all had Reese down as a lock. And how dis shw know it was that cheap?
ReplyDeleteDon't let the door hit goopy... Host/ess should have decanted the wine and served the cheap stuff and stashed the rest.
ReplyDeletewe all knew GOOP was this bitch.
ReplyDeleteOTOH we have 10 hrs left to go here and at 4 reveals an hour we may be at August 4th when the Entybot shuts down
How does GOOP know about $20 bottles of wine?
ReplyDeleteDid it say Kroger on the label?
Maybe it was all role-play, and Chris Martin was looking on from the side with his penis in someone's mouth.
ReplyDeletereal lushes drink any kind of wine...
ReplyDeletebecause she knows it all. she has an exquisite taste in all the finest things in life. or something like that...
ReplyDeleteOkay. So leave.
ReplyDelete"I bought 2 cases, be sure the rest of the guests aren't getting poured from my bottles. I'm Sooo sensitive to the sulphides that your che..less expensive wine has.."
ReplyDeleteHere I am happy when Im drinking Oak Leaf from WalMart
ReplyDeleteWinking Owl from ALDI, yo! It'll do when it's a tough month. ;-)
DeleteWinking Owl from ALDI, yo! It'll do when it's a tough month. ;-)
DeleteI'd serve her wine but I'd make sure to spit in her glass before I gave it to her.
ReplyDeleteWhat a bitch! How insulting to her hostess who is to be commended for not punching her in the face.
ReplyDeleteI'm interested in the left overs. Did Goop take 1/2 case of wine home with her, or leave it for the host? I can't call her a cunt w/o knowing that. It wouldn't be fair.
ReplyDeleteUnless you have a legitimate health reason to not do so, you eat and drink what the hostess serves. Dear lord, she has no class.
ReplyDeleteI would have let her leave and then gone straight to the paps and blabbed the story all over creation.
ReplyDeleteYou're all forgetting how competitive and judgmental it is in the world of celebrity. I reckon Gwynnie saved the friend from embarrassment. People are evil, and she took the hit for her friend.
ReplyDeleteWhat party would GP have been at where the host could only afford the $20 wine. I doubt that she hangs out with the normal folk.
ReplyDeleteGoop you can come to dins any time
ReplyDeletePerhaps a Traci Anderson party?
ReplyDelete@sandy I have 2 bottles of that in my fridge, what?
ReplyDeleteI think this blind is a kindness too. heehee
I can only hope the hostess then said, "Darling...Thank you so much. Let me get your coat. My love to your mother."
ReplyDeleteWho was the hostess?
ReplyDeleteHow in the world does Goopy know someone who's so poor she can only afford $20 per bottle wine?
ReplyDeleteCall me when Gwyneth says 'I can't stand your $20 plain white T, let me order you a case of $95 tshirts so I don't have to look at you.'
ReplyDeletebet she didn't even taste it before deeming it undrinkable. Hostess should have take the wine in the back and then poured her the cheap stuff. Dollars to donuts the bitch wouldn't even know the difference.
ReplyDeleteWas she at this party while Martin was getting blown by Bosworth?
ReplyDeleteLOL Texas! Truth, you simply cannot discern a more expensive wine beyond the first bottle anyway. She's a snobby idgit!
ReplyDeleteSherry - I was about to make a comment similar to yours (except many 'wine snobs' cannot even discern the first bottle's true quality) and then remembered the earlier blind and when given a choice, I will always go smutty.:)
DeleteSo where was she in mid-July? lol
ReplyDeleteoh please, goopy, i invite you to my house. i won't even bother with the 20 shit. you get irish rose i will purchase already opened from a wino.
ReplyDeleteWho was it that pours cheap wine into expensive bottles to fool her friends?
ReplyDeleteMiMi?
DeleteWhat an ignoramus. You can get some great wine for $20 a bottle. And if she hated the wine, she could have arranged for the expensive stuff in a much nicer way.
ReplyDeleteGwyneth is very lucky something really bad didn't happen to her that night. Very few juries would convict that hostess for darn near anything she did or arranged after that moment.
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretentious snot.
ReplyDeleteYou can get great wine for under $20 a bottle. I love The Middle Sister, Cupcake, Frog's Leap, and even Yellowtail lines of wine. There are just so many...no need in being such a nasty wine snob! So does she think she's a sommelier now?!
ReplyDeleteThat was crass and ill-mannered.
ReplyDeleteSuch an insufferable twat. Good for her husband for cheating on her.
ReplyDeleteShouldn't she be drinking purified water anyway???
ReplyDeleteThe most surprising thing about this is that someone actually invited her to a party! She's so obnoxious
ReplyDelete@anon - I know, right? What sort of small talk could you even engage in with her?
DeleteThe host should have planned ahead and had some Frenchesque labels whipped up, and affixed those to the cheapie bottles ... I doubt Goopy would even notice the difference between a $20, and $250, bottle of wine. Insufferable twat (whose 'Mom Jeans' were just heinous!!!).
ReplyDeleteYou would not believe how cheap certain really wealthy, high-profile, well-connected people are. What Paltrow did was rude, but so was the person in NYC or Hollywood who probably has lots of money but still served cheap wine at a party (and you KNOW Paltrow doesn't mix with the peasants so it had to be someone at her economic level).
ReplyDeleteActually, I can see Martha Stewart doing something like this back in the day.
@Sandy: I agree
DeleteI thought I was middle class but I must be white trash because I would not consider $20 cheap - my favourite Pinot Grigio, from Italy and very popular amongst white wine drinkers around here, is now $17.95 up from $16.95, and it is carried in the Vintages section of our government run Liquor Stores, that means it's not just any old plonk, a bunch of wine experts have given it a seal of approval. Now of course the restaurants sell it for $40 or more dollars. I dare say that most people couldn't tell the difference from a $250 dollar wine and a $20 dollar wine except perhaps in the case of champagne. And even the higher end champagnes are from $160 - $250 a bottle,
ReplyDeleteGood for Paltrow for her liver to be pickled with higher end fermented grapes or made by people who are just good at getting suckers to buy their wine that cost the same to make as the $20 bottle.
After today's reveals I like the Goop even less than before.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking the party was boring Jennifer Aniston's party a month or so ago ...
ReplyDeleteEven when she's being kind she's insufferable.
ReplyDelete1) I took it as GP saying it in a joking manner.
ReplyDelete2) Anyone that buys enough wine can price out the bottle. You would be amazed at how people are screwed over at restaurants. There are restaurants that try and pass off cheap wine as top shelf wine.
3) While it's nice that the host offered any wine at all, the host should have told her thank you but don't do it. It's the host's party. You wouldn't tell a restaurant what wine to have on their wine list or what to pair with the food.
4) Hoarding is incredibly rude. I hate when people do that. I generally share what I'm given unless someone specified it is for me only.
Actually, it says a lot that the host was offering $20 wine at this party. Usually some wealthy people offer "cheap" wine and awful food to people they tolerate but don't like well enough to do better. So basically she doesn't rank well.
ReplyDeleteThe blind says the host spent what she could afford.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this is the worst thing Goop has done...I'd take the wine and run, let the rest of my guests enjoy her wine.
Wonder how Blythe would explain this behavior away?
The blind says the host spent what she could afford.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this is the worst thing Goop has done...I'd take the wine and run, let the rest of my guests enjoy her wine.
Wonder how Blythe would explain this behavior away?
My favourite red wine is less than $20 and I've never met anyone who didn't like it. Deeeeeelish!
ReplyDeleteshe makes me want to spew on her $95 white t-shirt.
ReplyDeleteThat is actually very nice of her. I really hate cheap red wine, tates like vinegar to me
ReplyDeleteShe must've been confused that the wine was being served out of a box. Goop doesn't know what she's missing if she's never played Goon Bag of Fortune.
ReplyDeleteI am SO adding her to my guest lists from now on! She's going to save me a bundle!!
ReplyDeleteWorks for me...come on in girl, let's party on the good stuff lol
ReplyDeletethe hostess should have emptied an expensive bottle (not down the drain!!!), poured the $20 red in it, then served Goop from that. She'd never know the difference, but she'd go on and on about how great it was.
ReplyDeleteis this 'blind' supposed to be a critism of gwynny ,'cos i think it was a really nice thing to do.
ReplyDeleteI totally believe this
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