Why Everyone's Talking About Gwyneth Paltrow

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🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Author Amy Odell joins host Joanna Coles for a sharp, funny, and deeply revealing conversation about the woman who launched a thousand jade eggs—Gwyneth Paltrow. Odell spent three years interviewing over 220 sources for her new biography 'Gwyneth', in which she’s spills everything: from Goop’s rise and questionable wellness claims to Paltrow’s high-profile love life, accidental class war commentary, and surprisingly savvy business instincts. Is Gwyneth Paltrow the original influencer? What does she really believe? And how did a candle turn her into a meme? Coles and Odell unpack the cultural power—and cringe—of a woman who shaped what it means to be a modern celebrity, whether we like it or not. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be
0:06.8	wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain
0:13.0	that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching
0:18.7	their peak in the afternoon.
0:23.0	Not in the mood for miserable weather.
0:25.8	Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.
0:28.7	Sun Express, nonstop sunshine.
0:34.6	Just talk a little bit about the darker side of goob. Well, if you have a chronic illness that needs serious medical attention and you follow this
0:39.8	advice to drink celery juice, your illness could get a lot worse.
0:42.8	So this is the fear that doctors and experts who I interviewed have is that Goop is
0:47.5	sowing a distrust of Western medicine and established science.
0:55.3	I'm Joanna Cole's chief content officer of The Daily Beast, and you are, I hope, in your
1:00.6	kitchen cooking a gluten-free goop recipe for pasta, because today we're taking a tiny
1:07.0	break from the onslaught of crazy around Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump and the scandal
1:13.0	that will not let the president out of its grasp to talk about another polarizing figure,
1:19.9	Gwyneth Paltrow, with her biographer Amy O'Dell, who spent three years reporting on Gwyneth
1:25.5	and spoken to more 200 people about her.
1:28.3	I can't wait to get into it.
1:30.3	We'll be back on Saturday with Michael Wolfe.
1:33.4	And I will challenge him with some of your comments that I interrupt him too much.
1:37.5	We'll get into Trump's head again on Saturday.
1:40.1	But for now, we're going deep into Gwyneth Paltrow's head with Amy O'Dell.
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