Gwyneth Paltrow caused quite a stir at an author's night event in East Hampton, New York, prompting author Christina Oxenberg to write a blog post about her experience.
Oxenberg discusses her increasingly impatient responses to anyone asking about the arrival of Gwyneth Paltrow, who was assigned to sit next to her. The hostile replies from Gwyneth's fans "only encouraged me and I persisted with more elaborate confections."
Paltrow arrived with her husband, children and bodyguards.
"Then the divinity in question arrived with hubby, children and a couple of massive bodyguards," Oxenberg writes. "The worshippers blocked my view of the whole world, abusing my tiny territory upon which to abandon their trash or lean their sorry asses."
Her biggest complaint came after she left her table to greet other authors and get some food. As she brought the food back to the table, food she says she chose specifically to attempt to irritate Paltrow, she says she ran into a problem with Paltrow's bodyguards.
"Gwyneth's bodyguards blocked my re-entry, despite my assurance I was just an author and pointing at my name tag," Oxenberg writes. "So I was forced to crawl under the table."
This is not the first time Paltrow has faced criticism regarding her cookbook. The New York Times ran an article about cookbook ghostwriters, naming Paltrow as one of the cookbook authors that used them.
"Love @nytimes dining section but this weeks facts need checking," Paltrow wrote on her Twitter account. "No ghost writer on my cookbook, I wrote every word myself."
The New York Times responded, saying, "The article does not merit correction."
The paper printed a follow-up article addressing ghostwriters and cookbooks, all mentioning Jamie Oliver, Rachel Ray and Mario Batali.
"All four have acknowledged, in print, working with collaborators on their books - but all objected to what they saw as the implication that they were not the authors of their own work," Julia Moskin, the author of the article, wrote.
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