The holiday appears to back up the couple’s claim they are "closer than they have ever been” despite agreeing to separate
Gwyneth Paltrow with Chris Martin at the Sean Penn & Friends Help Haiti Home Gala in Beverly Hills in 2014 Photo: AP
By Anita Singh, Arts and Entertainment Editor
When Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin announced they were “consciously uncoupling” from their 10 year marriage, many wondered what exactly that entailed.
The answer, it seems, is for the uncoupled husband and wife to take a luxury holiday together.
The Hollywood actress and the Coldplay singer made the break-up announcement from an island in the Bahamas, according to US sources.
They are believed to have flown there by private jet last week with their daughter Apple, nine, and Moses, seven.
The holiday appeared to back up the couple’s claim that they are “in many ways closer than we have ever been” despite agreeing to separate. It also allowed the couple to shield their children from the inevitable media interest.
It was reported by US websites that the famously private couple had travelled to Eleuthera, an island long favoured by celebrities such as George Clooney and Lenny Kravitz who wish to escape the limelight.
It is connected via a bridge to the tiny isle of Windermere, where the Prince and Princess of Wales went to escape the paparazzi in 1982 when she was pregnant with Prince William.
Tabloid photographers tracked the Royal couple down and published a picture of the pregnant princess in a bikini. The Queen denounced it as “the blackest day in the history of British journalism”.
The decision to announce the Paltrow-Martin split while on holiday together has a Hollywood precedent, and one set by Paltrow’s former boyfriend, Brad Pitt.
Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were photographed kissing and strolling hand-in-hand along a beach in Anguilla the day before they announced the end of their five-year marriage in 2005.
The concept of ‘conscious uncoupling’, as detailed on Paltrow’s lifestyle website Goop, holds that there is no need for “the traditional, contentious divorce”.
The couple has been in the process of breaking up for “well over a year”, their statement said.
In recent months, Paltrow’s spokesman was forced to deny rumours linking her to Kevin Yorn, an entertainment lawyer, and Jeffrey Soffer, a billionaire now married to model Elle Macpherson. Her spokesman called them “100 per cent false”.
It was claimed that Vanity Fair’s discarded profile of Paltrow was to have delved into her friendship with Soffer, a US property mogul.
Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair’s editor, wrote last month about investigations into the actress’s private life. His article was mischievously titled ‘The Paltrow Affair’.
Carter referred to “accusations of serial infidelity – which the actress vehemently denied. One recurring name in this area of scholarship was a man whose wife is well within Paltrow’s London social circle. So that must have been awkward.”
That was believed to be a reference to Soffer and Macpherson, who lives in London.
Paltrow was also photographed kissing an ex-boyfriend, Donovan Leitch, at an LA Dodgers game last year, but her publicist insisted they were just friends.
Two weeks ago, Coldplay released a new track online. The lyrics to the song, Magic, hint that Martin was not the instigator of the break-up.
He sings of his heart being “broken in two” and repeats: “I don’t want anybody else but you.”
The family relocated to Los Angeles last summer after several years in London. Martin was said to be homesick, whereas Paltrow told an interviewer that she was delighted to be close to her family and “posse” of girlfriends.
Last month, the couple purchased a $14 million home in Malibu. It is believed that Martin will use it as a base, dividing his time between the US and a £7 million house in Belsize Park, north London.
- Telegraph
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