If the tabloids are anything to go by (and let’s assume they’re not!) it seems like only yesterday that glossies and online celebrity forums alike were awash with reports of cold play (excuse the pun) between Paltrow and her musician husband Chris Martin. An apparently volatile combination of extreme macrobiotic diets, children named after fruit, and a grueling yoga schedule was forcing the couple to the divorce courts.

However, all has changed this week when Gweny, left with the frustration of her dwindling marriage, boring diet and bad box office sales reportedly put her love life in the hands of another.

Yes, she did what any self -respecting, Oscar Award-winning actress would do to save her marriage: she turned to the power of the ‘c’ word. 
Counselling? Nope, it would seem marriage counselling is only for us common folk. 

Gwyneth did what any emotionally intelligent person would do and got a ‘c’ (that is, the initial of her husband Chris’s first name) tattooed onto her upper thigh.  How very Pamela Anderson of her (that statement though, would only truly be accurate had she also gotten a boob job and riffled around on the tattoo parlour’s floor off her face, dressed in nothing but a string bikini).  Accurate or not, things could have got really interesting then!

Instead Gwyneth paid 60 quid for the tattoo done by Steve Flannery and it took 20 minutes. You know what they say in Hollywood: “Nothing spices up a marriage quite like a tattoo.” For the record, no, we don’t mean the Russian teen band that dress in school uniforms…

Flannery told British Newspaper The Daily Mail: "At first she was thinking about having a tattoo on her arm, but then decided that this might affect her acting work.”  Here at Savvy we’d recommend Gwyneth take the same careful consideration when reading scripts – considering the fact that she hasn't made a decent movie since Sliding Doors.

“In the end she decided (to get it) on the top of her right thigh, and joked that (hubby) Chris (Martin) would have fun finding it.”

Things must be grim if you need to tattoo something as bait to get your hubby to look there.

“I asked her if the ‘C’ stood for Coldplay, but she said it was definitely a ‘C’ for Chris.” 

It would have been so much more fun if she’d got a dolphin or ‘I love my mother’ or even if she’d brought back the barbed wire look… hmmm. Sorry Gwyneth, you’re still a bit of a snoozing star… 

“Compared to some designs I do, this was discreet and subtle, to say the least,” said her Tat Man.

Poor Gwyneth, even her tattoo is boring…


The Finer Details

Gwyneth Paltrow, who? 

Famous actress; married to Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin; Has child called Apple, and she once dated Brad Pitt.

She Used To…

… Be best mates with Winona Ryder
… Date Ben Affleck
… Be engaged to Brad Pitt 

Used To Be Good In…

Shakespeare In Love; Sliding Doors, and Royal Tenenbaums  

Past Their Used-By Date:

Duets and Shallow Hal (Our eyes still hurt from this effort)

Famous For: 

Eating nothing but macrobiotic food; calling her child Apple; not wearing a bra, and crying like a baby when she won an Oscar wearing a revolting pink dress.
 

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