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The Gwyneth Paltrow Jamie Oliver Love Affair

Gwyneth Paltrow loves Jamie Oliver: "Sigh. Jamie Oliver. I love Jamie Oliver. I love his food, I love his books, I love his app, I love the mission he is on..." Thus begins Gywneth's intro to this week's GOOP newsletter. The love-fest continues throughout the Jamie Oliver interview, which isn't on GOOP's website yet, but should be any minute now. Till a link is available, Update: Jamie is now all over Gwyneth('s website). Here are the highlights: 

• Jamie on communal meals: "I’ve been in many homes with no kitchen table at all. I know that’s got nothing to do with health directly, but it means there’s no sitting down together, no conversation, no family meals."
• Jamie on processed food: "Forty years ago we ate mostly fresh, local food, and we knew where that food was coming from. But then fast and heavily processed foods crept in and totally changed our palettes and food businesses. And ultimately, this food is killing us."
• Gwyneth on Jamie: "What is it like being so brilliant and so cute all at the same time?"
• Jamie blushes back: "Ahhh! Bless you Gwyneth." 

Doting Gwyneth also included an inspiring Jamie video, which you can view after the jump. 

Celebrity Diets

Sweet Relief, Gwyneth Eats Fried Chicken and Drinks Whiskey

My favorite chameleon foodie is changing colors again. She's traveled Spain, gone macrobiotic, and detoxed with gusto. But now Gwyneth has discovered Southern Fried Chicken. It seems during a recent stay in Nashville, Gwyneth went on a quest for the best Southern food, and came back with a list of highly recommended fried foods and whiskey drinks. It's nice to know she is, in fact, human.  I'm sure it surprised Mario Batali.

Batwings

Gwyneth's Tracy Anderson Bootleg Video

Last we checked in with Tracy Anderson, she was getting sued by her ex husband and breaking up with Madonna. Well, today begins the counter-offensive, courtesy of Gwyneth, who has rallied a crew of celebrity buddies — Courtney Cox, Donna Karan, and Kristen Davis, among others — to give Tracy testimonials in the latest issue of Goop. Gwyneth also includes the following down-homey video of Tracy demonstrating a Tracy workout; which workout, G. says, she "did every day preparing for Iron Man," and which apparently solved her "batwing problem." TMI?! The workout looks sort of sexy and fun. It also looks like Tracy is desperately trying to communicate, via erratic arm waving, with a visiting space alien. Given that she's got mirrors on all sides, that may not be far from the truth. Oh snap!

Workout

dancing ellipses on the playground

I almost skipped out on the gym today.  Almost.  I have a thousand things to do around the house at the moment - most related to the apartmenttherapy.com and thekitchn.com Cures - and figured I could maybe squeeze in a home yoga workout between the chores and dust bunnies.  But no.  My inner 6-year-old would have none of that.  Some small part of me wanted to run&n

Workout

how zuzu got her groove back

1/2 an hour of lower body and core conditioning; 1/2 an hour of interval training on the elliptical.

Redemption

Tracy Anderson Dances!

Among the fluff on Gwyneth's Goop this week (hibiscus flavored salts!) is a 6-minute hip hop routine from Tracy Anderson which is one of the best we’ve seen in a while. [FYI: That we're runnning this is proof that we're not just irrationally vindictive on the subject of T.A.! -The Eds.] Gone are Tracy's lashes and lip gloss. In comes a shred of girlish authenticity and grace. Yes, the sweaty glow seems a bit calculated, as does the occasional cut to black-and-white, (and we'd have like some music), but she’s clear with her instructions, and watching the routine made us want to get up and dance. Mission accomplished. Plus, T.A. and Gwynnie and Madonna are giving some of the proceeds of their self-promotion to Raising Malawi, which is cool. They don't let their videos stray to other site, but it's easily downloaded to your iPod.

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FIterati

Tracy is Coming

Please to recall that Gwyneth started a weekly lifestyle webzine several months back called Goop, as in: "Nourish the inner aspect." Well, the tag line's not bad. Anyway, the New Year's edition included this: "In January 2007 I decided I’d had enough of my saddlebags and post-pregnancy Shar-Pei-like stomach. I met an incredible woman who changed my life. Her name is Tracy Anderson. She is a dancer, a trainer, an 'organic plastic surgeon' as my friend Julia calls her....Right now she is on tour with Madonna so I do a lot of video chat with her and I do her DVDs...."

Well, don't get stuck on the ambiguous reference to Julia, or the cosy celebrity-email-BFF vibe, we've got follow up news for you via The Guardian: "The first Tracy Anderson Method Studio opens in New York's Tribeca this month, with later openings planned for Europe (including London), Asia and Australia." How true is this? Tracy has placed an ad on Craigslist seeking people to join her "elite core" of private trainers. (Forgive her for being overly focused on cores, and not corps.) "Candidates Must Have Expansive Dance Backgrounds or Group Exercise and Private Training/Pilates Experience....Please Bring Headshot/Resume and be Prepared to Dance. "

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