Breaking News : Gwyneth Paltrow helping her friend Madonna through breakup of her marriage.

Breaking News : Gwyneth Paltrow helping her friend Madonna through breakup of her marriage.

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972)[1] is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe- and double Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actress. She is married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.

Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Blythe Danner, an actress, and the late Bruce Paltrow, a film and television director, writer, and producer. Paltrow's father was of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent and her mother was raised a Quaker;Raised in Santa Monica, she attended Crossroads School before moving and attending Spence School, a private girls' school in New York City which was also attended by Emmy Rossum, Kerry Washington and Sally Pressman. Later she briefly studied art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before discontinuing her degree and committing herself to acting. Paltrow has a younger brother, Jake Paltrow, and is a cousin of actress Katherine Moennig, whose role include Jacqueline Pratt on Young Americans as well as Shane McCutcheon on The L Word. She is an "adopted daughter" of Talavera de la Reina (Spain), where at age 15 she spent a month as an exchange student and learned Spanish.Paltrow was childhood friends with Saturday Night Live's Maya Rudolph.

LONDON – Gwyneth Paltrow is helping her friend Madonna through breakup of her marriage.
The actress told reporters that she's supporting the pop star following Wednesday's announcement that she's separated from filmmaker-husband Guy Ritchie.
"She's a very good friend. I'm supporting her in all the ways that I can. I'm just there for her. I speak to her a lot," Paltrow said as she attended the premiere of her film "Two Lovers" at London's Film Festival.
Like Madonna, Paltrow — who's married to Coldplay singer Chris Martin — lives partly in London.
Madonna and Ritchie, who were married at a Scottish castle in December 2000, have two children: Rocco, 8, and David Banda, 3, who was adopted in Malawi in 2006. Madonna also has a 12-year-old daughter, Lourdes, from a previous relationship.
Madonna's publicist said Sunday that details of a divorce settlement are yet to be finalized, dismissing reports that the couple had agreed to a custody arrangement for the couple's children.
The couple own homes in London, Los Angeles and New York, and a 1,200-acre retreat in Wiltshire, England.

Madonna Marriage in trouble???

The state of Madonna and Guy Ritchie's relationship has been fodder for the gossip pages for several months. But now, reports are heating up over their allegedly troubled marriage.
According to British paper the Daily Mail, the pair have been spending the majority of their time in Cannes away from one another. And when they were together, Ritchie looked like he was being "paraded at yet another high-octane celebrity party for the benefit of marital solidarity."Gossip blogger Perez Hilton even comments on photos of Madonna and Ritchie at the film festival, asking them to "try and look happy."Previously, her decision to have Nathan Rissman, the family's gardener and "manny," direct her documentary about Malawi, 'I Am Because We Are,' was supposed to have been a blow to Ritchie's ego. That injury is said to have been compounded by her insistence that their trip to Cannes be exclusively about her film work."Guy wanted to talk about his film on the red carpet but Madonna told him this was about her movie," said one observer. "She made it clear to Guy that this event was about her and his nose was put out of joint."