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Oscar As Doorstop, Gwyneth Paltrow Clarifies That It’s A Joke

Oscars are events that the whole of the world looks forward to. An Oscar is a recognition that leaves your name However where do actors keep this prestigious award? stamped in history. From living rooms to bathrooms, for Gwyneth Paltrow, it’s a doorstop. Is it true? No, that’s not the case.

The Academy Award-winning actress started her career back in the 1990s, rising to fame in 1995, with her role in the thriller ‘Se7en’. The ‘Iron Man’ actress has won a number of accolades including the Oscar and the Golden Globe. The star is also the founder and CEO of her lifestyle empire Goop.

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Did Gwyneth Paltrow Use Her Oscar As A Doorstop?

Oscar used as a doorstop by Gwyneth Paltrow
Oscar used as a doorstop by Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1999 for her lead role in the movie ‘Shakespeare In Love’. Many have pointed out the fact that the ‘Pepper Potts’ starrer did not deserve the Oscar. The actress beat many icons from the industry including Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett to get the honor. Now, was it just to use the memento as a doorstop? Don’t think so.

Giving a home tour of her beautiful mansion in the Hamptons for the show ’73 Questions With Gwyneth Paltrow’, the Oscar was found as a doorstop as she crossed the wooden gates to her garden. The host behind the camera exclaimed, “What a beautiful Academy Award”. My doorstop! It works perfectly,” Paltrow joked. However, this left both the audience and the media in a frenzy. But relax! The Oscar was just set up there as a joke, the actress’s representative confirmed, according to Variety.

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Where Does Gwyneth Paltrow Really Keep Her Oscar?

Winning the 1999 Oscar for Best Actress in Lead: Gwyneth Paltrow
Winning the 1999 Oscar for Best Actress in Lead: Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow won the Oscar at the early age of 26. She had received the award, thanking her parents and brother. Recently, the lifestyle guru also shared how winning the Oscars had felt ‘disorienting’. She had talked of her confusion about winning one of the highest honors and also about the attention she had garnered through the weeks following.

So, if it was overwhelming it’s hard to say that the actress uses her Oscar as a doorstop. Her representative had pointed out an earlier interview where the ‘Sliding Doors’ star revealed the place of her Oscars. She keeps the Academy Award in an adjoining room in her house in Amagansett, New York.

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An ambivert and a feminist, Naveena is an ambitious girl bustling with ideas. Agatha Christie helped her plot her escape route through reading. Then on, reading and writing became her partners in crime! Chocolates, black tea, and salads are her first love. And she chills with crime thrillers and rom-com.

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