But over the years the sheen has worn off Our Gwyneth. I've gone from finding her endlessly fascinating to just damn aggravating.

She may not have ended up living out the happily ever after scenario with Brad Pitt, but 15 years later Gwyneth is still the girl that has everything. But after this long instead of being endearing, it's become rather insufferable.

I want to like her, I do. If she'd maybe just shut the eff up about how much her life is greater than the rest of ours. Okay so she grew up rich, she's good looking with a great figure, has a fabulous wardrobe and is bilingual. She's married with two gorgeous kids, and she hangs out with Madonna. We know she's got it good, but could she stop rubbing it in our faces?

So what, you might ask, has Gwynnie done to get up everyone's noses this time?

As a privately schooled New York teenager, Gwyneth went on student exchange to Spain for a month. She loved it, fell in love with the country, and still keeps in touch with her host family. Rather sweet, no?

Well, yes. Until she had to open her word hole and blather on about how much better life in Spain was than the United States. How much better their culture was, their architecture, their way of life, their approach to life...Gwynnie is firmly on Team Spain, declaring it her ‘second home.'

Fine, so I shouldn't care, right? I'm not American. But she makes it sound like America is just so, sniff, commonplace for a woman who likes to fraternise with European princes and princesses.

Of course, she conducted the interview in fluent Spanish. Her kids are growing up bilingual. You can subscribe to her condescending, Martha Stewart wannabe newsletter GOOP en Espanol.

"When I was 15, I went to a small town outside Talavera de La Reina and I had the most wonderful experience. It really changed my life," the Daily Mail reports the 36-year-old actress as saying.

"Spain became a second home. It is so different from the United States. It seemed to have history, and the buildings are years and years and years old.

"Here in the United States an old building is about 17, and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible.

"Also, the way people live over there," she continued. "They seem to enjoy life a little bit more. They aren't running around as much as in New York. They enjoy time with the family. They don't always have their Blackberries on."

Ouch. It wasn't that long ago that Gwyneth's bestie Madonna admitted to sleeping with her Blackberry under her pillow while in bed with ex-husband Guy Ritchie.

Gwyneth moved to London when she got serious with husband Chris Martin, whom she married in 2003, and the pair s in a luxurious North London home. The family also have a place in New York City and are renting a California home over the US summer while Paltrow films Iron Man 2, but the actress prefers to call Spain ‘her second home' after the UK capital.

She spent several months in Spain with chef pal Mario Batali (who is, I suspect, her only overweight friend) filming a TV series on Spanish food last year, prompting fellow TV chef Anthony Bourdain to wonder why Batali took "that one bitch who refuses to eat ham" to sample the country's culinary delights. Gwynnie also hopes to act in a Spanish film or two.

And look, it's nice to hear about an actress with a brain in her head. God knows we need more of them. It's just the smug, condescending way Gwyneth comes across which has a knack of really grinding people's gears.

It's not the first time ‘Fishsticks' Paltrow, as she's known around the gossip blogs, has rubbed people up the wrong way.

Eyes rolled a few weeks ago when in a GOOP about cookies she mentioned an evening spent with chef Katie Lee Joel and ‘her husband William.' William Joel. As in Billy Joel. Whose family, friends and ex-wives call Billy. Is Billy to commonplace for Lady Gwyneth? She also calls Lenny Kravitz ‘Leonard.'

Wonder what name the stick stuck up her skinny ass goes by?

The anti-Lindsay Lohan

Let's hear it for Anne Hathaway! A year ago, the 26-year-old was in the headlines for all the wrong reasons after the arrest and subsequent jailing of her ex-boyfriend, Rafaello Follieri, on wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy charges. In keeping with his douchey reputation, he reportedly sent the sentencing judge a photo of himself with the Pope in the hopes of reducing his sentence

Hathaway soldiered on through a worldwide Get Smart publicity tour, and even managed to make fun of the situation on Saturday Night Live - quipping in a skit "I broke up with my boyfriend, and two weeks later he was sent to prison for fraud. I mean, we've all been there, right, ladies?"

A few months later Hathaway was Oscar nominated for her work in the movie Rachel Getting Married. At the Academy Awards in February she wowed the audience in an impressive singing and dancing musical number with Hugh Jackman.

And what's up with the New Jersey native now? She stars as the White Queen in Tim Burton's amazing looking interpretation of Alice in Wonderland, alongside Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. She's also reportedly set to star as the legendary Judy Garland in the adaptation of Gerald Clarke's book Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland on the stage and the big screen.

If that's not keeping busy enough, she's also currently starring in New York's annual summer Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night, where she's earning solidly good reviews.

The actress has also found love again nine months after Follieri was sent to prison for four-and-a-half years. He's Adam Shulman, an actor, and the pair have been snapped smooching from New York to LA.

Talented, good-looking, hard working and private. Well played, Anne Hathaway!

What's the real Lindsay up to?

Anne Hathaway is only three years older than Lindsay Lohan, which absolutely left me gobsmacked when I saw recent photos of Lindsay preening and posing poolside at a Las Vegas hotel.

Despite declaring in a recent interview that she ‘works harder than anyone else I know,' Lohan's cashflow concerns saw her forced to accept a US$70k offer from the MGM Grand Hotel to host a ‘pre-celebration' in honour of her July 2 birthday.

Slathered in her own fake tan product, the annoyingly named Sevin Nyne, the actress sported smeared lipstick, blue contacts and a series of bizarre outfits which seemed to involve as little on the bottom half as possible.

Like I said, you would just die knowing she was only just turning 23. Forty three looks more appropriate. Her skin's like sandpaper. It looks like it hasn't seen any form of decent nutrients since Mean Girls. Forget that old saying that she's been around the block. Lindsay Lohan looks like she's been around the greater metropolitan area.

Despite the MGM Grand bash being a celebration of her birthday, Lindsay apparently couldn't talk any of her friends or family into actually attending.

Meanwhile, Lohan's been going the right way about making an enemy of Justin Timberlake via Twitter. A couple of weeks ago she Tweeted from the dark recesses of a New York club, where JT was rumoured to be dirty dancing with a girl who wasn't his missus, Jessica Biel.

"So dark - where's jb cheater?"

This week, she responded rather strongly to the news that a Paris boutique, Collette, was to stock Justin Timberlake's William Rast fashion line.

Tweeted Lohan: "i can't believe you are lowering yourselves to a MACY's brand - i am speechless. Paris is chic not mid America. gross."

Later, perhaps realising she wasn't winning any friends (or influencing any people) Lindsay retracted her couture trash talk.

"i am sorry for the unnecessary comment-wasn't meant to be a jab, i have some william rast & it's great-was a friends words and my 6126 leggings are in Macy's West and they've been great to work with."

A friend. Right. Like it wasn't your jeans you were wearing when the cops found coke on you. And it's the media's fault. Or the public's. Or the studio bosses.

Spotted

Hilary Swank filming scenes for her new movie The Resident in Brooklyn, NY...Nicolas Cage, sporting a panama hat, and wife Alice out for dinner in NYC...Tony Romo and Tiger Woods playing a round of golf together during the AT&T National in Bethesda, Maryland...Orlando Bloom heading out for dinner with Olivier Martinez in LA...Jessica Simpson arriving in Washing DC wearing a ‘Jessica and Tony' charm necklace...Renee Zellweger struggling to get a cab in NYC after a dinner date with Bradley Cooper...Kelly Osbourne, Kate Moss, Daisy Lowe and Simon Cowell at the launch of Beth Ditto's new clothing line in London...

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