Wow. Maybe she's been listening to her gristly old friend too much. She's following the play book Madge used, letter by letter, right down to the richer American replacement. Will we have to wait until Coldplay's tour is over before they admit it?

Gwyneth Paltrow has worked hard to create this perfect public image. She's healthy. She's wholesome. She's happily married and has two beautiful children (even if they do have stupid names). She seemed happy in her new role as lady in London. Perhaps things are not what they appear.

When Gwyneth was doing the promotional circuit earlier this year, everyone marveled at her daring wardrobe - the shortest, tightest skirts, cut-outs on all sides, and skyscraper heels. This wasn't the attire of a happily married woman, some said. Others said she was just showing off the body she had starved and chiseled. According to the New York Daily News, Chris and Gwynnie are "on a break" and she's staying with an American named Jeff Soffer.
Apparently he is a billionaire, which rates higher than a rock star with a wishy-washy new disc out. It doesn't help that the couple has a policy of not being photographed together (thank God for small kindnesses); still, they haven't even been on the same continent lately.

The stress might be getting to Chris. In a recent interview, he complained that the only thing he can't get in America is laid. And English toffee. In that order. Funny, it doesn't seem like his wife has that problem.