Film star Gwyneth in town for Jamie (From Echo)
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Film star Gwyneth in town for Jamie
10:00am Tuesday 18th September 2012 in News
Dynamic duo – Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver with Jimmy Doherty at the end of Southend Pier
HOLLYWOOD golden girl Gwyneth Paltrow has been filming in Southend.
Gwyneth, who has starred in a host of big budget movies, including Shakespeare in Love, Shallow Hal and the Avengers, was in town taking part in filming for Essex-born chef Jamie Oliver’s new Channel 4 show.
The actress, the wife of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, has long been a fan of the chef and in 2010 interviewed Jamie for her GOOP online lifestyle newsletter. Film crews have been at a disused cafe on Southend Pier , spruced up for the celebrity chef’s latest Channel 4 production with friend and farmer Jimmy Doherty. They were there on Thursday and one of the guests was Gwyneth.
The mum of two also took time out and enjoyed a ride on the Rage rollercoaster at Adventure Island .
The restaurant is the base for Jamie and Jimmy’s Food Fight Club, to be aired in November.
More days of filming are expected to be completed in the forthcoming weeks.
Public relations company Matthew Robinson PR were tight-lipped over the filming with Gwyneth.
When asked, Mr Robinson said: “This was part of filming for the show. “We have a number of guests due to appear. “The television shows are due to be broadcast in November.”
Staff at the fun park have signed confidentiality agreement and are not allowed to release any pictures of the film star. Snaps of her on the rollercoaster which were posted on Facebook last week were later removed. Gwyneth has recently been named as the World’s Best Dressed Woman and has also signed a lucrative deal to become the face of Max Factor make-up.
Comments(18)
v.randy
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11:49am Tue 18 Sep 12
A private club for the rich..sickening
anon anon
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12:00pm Tue 18 Sep 12
v.randy wrote:i went to the robbie gig.. was brilliant, im not loaded, dont be bitter
Jamie Oliver,Robbie Williams,Gwyneth - just a bunch of millionaire mates...the public aren't invited to either the gig or the cafe it's just celebs knocking out more money making drivel. A private club for the rich..sickening
southendshrimper
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1:50pm Tue 18 Sep 12
APR
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2:38pm Tue 18 Sep 12
You couldn't make it up. I doubt anyone would have recognised her anyway.
Eric Whim
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2:44pm Tue 18 Sep 12
APR wrote:she'll stand out like sore thumb, she will be the one that does't look like a hippo in a velour tracksuit pushing a three wide baby buggy while smoking a spliff and drinking super strong lager out of a can swearing like a trooper
".......Staff at the fun park have signed confidentiality agreement and are not allowed to release any pictures of the film star......" You couldn't make it up. I doubt anyone would have recognised her anyway.
Max Impact
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4:21pm Tue 18 Sep 12
Eric Whim
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5:59pm Tue 18 Sep 12
Max Impact wrote:is your dad bigger than my dad?
That is no way to talk.about your mum.
I bet he's a policeman too....
southendshrimper
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7:50pm Tue 18 Sep 12
Eric Whim wrote:I take it you have no children eric, no lady in your life, just no life.
APR wrote: ".......Staff at the fun park have signed confidentiality agreement and are not allowed to release any pictures of the film star......" You couldn't make it up. I doubt anyone would have recognised her anyway.she'll stand out like sore thumb, she will be the one that does't look like a hippo in a velour tracksuit pushing a three wide baby buggy while smoking a spliff and drinking super strong lager out of a can swearing like a trooper
Not all people are like hippos with a tripple wide buggy that smoke spliffs & drink. unless you are looking in a mirror.
Max Impact
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8:38pm Tue 18 Sep 12
Eric Whim wrote:Nope he was never a cop, He was Merchant Navy on the Murmansk run before joining the RAF at the end of the Second World War, flew Spitfires before going on to Meteors, he left the RAF after having to eject from the Meteor he was flying after a double engine failure, the second time he had sufferd the same problem! The first time he was able to land the aircraft but was given a roating by his CO for ignoring the order to eject.
Max Impact wrote: That is no way to talk.about your mum.is your dad bigger than my dad? I bet he's a policeman too....
Your only slagging off the Southend girls as there are too few sheep in Southend for you.
Duck Egg
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9:39am Wed 19 Sep 12
EcoPatriot
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2:06pm Wed 19 Sep 12
APR
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3:00pm Wed 19 Sep 12
EcoPatriot wrote:Of who ?
So much jealousy.
v.randy
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4:52pm Thu 20 Sep 12
Fat mums ,skinny fathers ..tinnies everywhere,swearing ,gobbing ,
staggering and shouting...reminds me of 'Shawn of the Dead'
Rochford Rob
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12:43pm Fri 21 Sep 12
v.randy wrote:PMSL but very true. Anyway, Jamie and Jimmy needn't worry - all their chums are bright young go getters and trendy - they never have mingers on their progs, so no doubt the pier was closed during filming :)
The image of Southend -fat teenage mums,drinking etc..is very much alive,try the walk from the Sutton Arms to WH Smiths(Southchurch Rd) at around about 1300hrs on a weekday. Fat mums ,skinny fathers ..tinnies everywhere,swearing ,gobbing , staggering and shouting...reminds me of 'Shawn of the Dead'
Another oxymoron - The 'Golden Mile' - it ain't golden and it ain't a mile - about 400 yards of cheap tacky squalor.
Lets hope J&J give that a makeover. It could do with it.
Hoff03
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5:27pm Fri 21 Sep 12
Eric Whim wrote:Haha! Love it.
APR wrote: ".......Staff at the fun park have signed confidentiality agreement and are not allowed to release any pictures of the film star......" You couldn't make it up. I doubt anyone would have recognised her anyway.she'll stand out like sore thumb, she will be the one that does't look like a hippo in a velour tracksuit pushing a three wide baby buggy while smoking a spliff and drinking super strong lager out of a can swearing like a trooper
Alec Cikes
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10:49pm Fri 21 Sep 12
Come on Jamie, do your bit for your cooking & our Southend seafront oysters that are being snivelled by asian pickers!
What can you show us?
Soouthchurch59
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8:34pm Sat 22 Sep 12
Audioman says...
11:18am Tue 18 Sep 12