Jonathan is an avid bodybuilder who attributes his success to his vegan diet, pointing out that beans, whole grains, vegetables, and soy are great sources of healthy plant protein—without all the artery-clogging cholesterol and saturated fat found in animal flesh. Jonathan has also participated in numerous animal rights demonstrations, including recently joining PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk in an "I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" protest in Times Square in New York. Jonathan’s photo and bio, along with those of the other hot hunks and veggie vixens selected as finalists, can be viewed at GoVeg.com. The winners will be announced in mid-March.

"On average, vegetarians are thinner and healthier than meat-eaters," says PETA Vegan Campaign Director Bruce Friedrich. "One look at our radiant lineup of sexy vegetarian finalists and it’s clear that they’re all winners."

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But as she bared her bump at the weekend, she showed that she has overcome any coyness about the good news.

The 33-year-old actress, who is due to give birth to her second child in May, looked radiant as she wore a towel and a bikini top while relaxing at the poolside of a luxury hotel during a holiday in Mexico, where she is staying with her 21-month-old daughter Apple.Miss Paltrow recently revealed that she is considering having plastic surgery on her breasts. She blamed breastfeeding for changing her shape for the worse.

However, one holidaymaker in Mexico said yesterday: "She looked fantastic and seemed to be really comfortable with the prospect of becoming a mother again."

The Shakespeare In Love star decided to leave the grey skies and winter chill of England behind for a short winter break.

Her husband, Chris Martin, 28, and his band Coldplay walked away with two awards at last week's Brit Awards, before promptly announcing that they were taking a break from music.

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The pair named their firstborn daughter Apple and now rumour has it that they have picked an equally - if not more - unique name for the second tot. Should Gwyneth give birth to a baby boy this spring, the couple are likely to call him Sophocles, the Daily Star reports.

Sophocles is the name of a Greek playwright who wrote famous tragedies some 2,500 years ago. It is believed that Gwyneth is indeed expecting a son, after a friend revealed last month that the unborn tot is "definitely a boy".

Earlier it was rumoured that Coldplay frontman Chris wanted to name his first son Capone, after the infamous 1920s gangster.

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Simon tells us: "I was in LA last week and I phoned up Rob. He was playing football with Coldplay and he invited me over. I didn't have boots but he sorted me out. I played for the second half and sprained my ankle. I'm still limping."

Let's hope he wasn't seeing red.

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The actress – whose playlist included Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Interpol and, naturally, Coldplay – admitted that husband (and Coldplay frontman) Chris Martin isn't the only musician she finds appealing.

Turns out, if she ever got a "free pass" to indulge a crush, "it would be (with) someone like Phil Selway, my musical hero. He's the drummer for Radiohead," she said on indie station 103.1's Camp Freddie show. "I admire him so much." And that wasn't Paltrow's only revelation: She also had praise for pal Madonna's breasts, saying, "They are fantastic, by the way."

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Four years ago Gwyneth Paltrow was heartbroken after the death of her beloved father and had fallen completely out of love with acting.

However, meeting Coldplay frontman, Chris Martin, and a pay cut that saw the Oscar-winner's salary drop to just £350 per week, changed everything."I can't believe how my life has turned around," a glowing Paltrow told Sunday Life. Back then, I was 29 years old and had been working non stop throughout my 20s. Life was nothing more than a series of 5am calls, hair and make-up trailers and 14-hour days. It was like, 'Why am I doing this?' And my dad was sick. Now, I have a great husband, a beautiful daughter and another baby on the way. It's only looking back I see how unhappy I was."

Paltrow, now 33, doesn't often talk to the Press, but her new film Proof has special significance as it was the stage version of the film that made her move permanently to London, paid her a mere £350 per week and changed her life.

In 2002, John Madden, who had directed her 1998, Oscar-winning performance in Shakespeare in Love approached her to star in the London version of David Auburn's Broadway play, Proof, in the tiny Donmar theatre.

"I trusted him completely, " says Paltrow and the energy of doing something live really invigorated me. It turned out to be a pivotal moment in my life."

After the play ended she took her TV producer father, Bruce, to whom she was incredibly close (and who was by then, seriously ill, with cancer) on holiday to Italy. He died unexpectedly during the trip, three days after Gwyneth's 30th birthday.

"It was the worst day of my life," says Paltrow. "I was devastated, but my life changed completely after that and somehow came right."

There's no doubt that meeting Chris Martin a few weeks later, backstage after a Coldplay gig, had a lot to do with that. They began dating in secret and were married in December 2003. She gave birth to daughter Apple, now almost two, in May 2004.

"I found the right person and he saved me," she admits. "I stopped working so much and became a wife and a mum and I've never been happier."

Nowadays, she divides her films into two sections: those she does for love, and those she does for money. "I stopped making big money from movies in 2002," she says. "The terrible movies I have made, pay for me to make the good ones that I love. I don't want to have to go back to 14-hour days, especially not now that I'm going to be a mum again."

Happily settled with Chris and Apple in north London, Gwyneth is dismissive of those who slate her and Martin's seemingly wholesome lifestyle. "We're happy with our lives and our friends. You have to be seen to be doing something illegal to be perceived as not boring these days."

Although she has long given up smoking, she does indulge in the odd glass of wine and says that rumours of her fanatical health regime are exaggerated. I don't diet at all. As soon as I deny myself something, I want it. I do exercise though, because I think it's important to look after yourself. But I do it for me. There's no pressure from anyone else."

And despite newspaper reports to the contrary, she loves living in the UK. "I did not say London was dirty. I love it here. People are not always talking about money and work. They have lots of other interests."

With the new baby due this summer (she won't be drawn on either the sex or name of the new arrival), it's a cert that after she's done the obligatory rounds for this film, the Press won't have access to her for some time. Proof is the compelling story of a young woman haunted by her father and the shadow of her own future. It doesn't take a genius to work out that the subject matter was pretty close to home.

She performed the play on stage when her dad was still alive and by the time she came to make the film, he had died. "It's amazing how you find yourself doing something artistically that is so close to your own life," she says. "Making the film was comforting because I felt like I was playing someone who was going through the same thing I was. I was certainly drawing on my own feelings and experiences and it was quite painful at times."

After Proof, the only work lined up is a part in her brother's small-budget film, The Good Night and some contractual work as part of her deal with cosmetics giant Estee Lauder - a lucrative earner, which she admits will ease the pressure to return to work after the new baby arrives. Not that the new relaxed, Gwyneth seems in any rush.

"I'm very happy and very, very fortunate. I've been blessed with the members of my family that I have. And it's a great feeling to feel that you have cracked the mystery of life and discovered that it's about love and the love of a child. It's just the best."

Proof (12A) opens on March 3.

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The Oscar-winning actress, insisted rather, that their relaxed lifestyle is merely a symbol of their contentment with one another.

Paltrow revealed: “There is this perception of us in this country, like, oh, they’re quite boring. They do yoga and they stay home watching UK Gold. I think we’re happy. We’re not looking for other things in life. We like our house. We like our kid. We like our friends. I think it’s sort of funny how you have to be doing coke off the ass of some stripper to be perceived as not boring these days.”

The ‘Shakespeare In Love’ star, who recently condemned the binge drinking culture in Britain as “disgusting”, is pregnant with her second child.Gwyneth Paltrow doesn’t get the same “me-time” as she did when she was single.

The Hollywood star, who is married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, admits she doesn’t have time to pamper herself anymore now she has her daughter, Apple.

The blonde beauty told Britain’s Star magazine: “I don’t spend time I used to when I was single having a massage or a facial. I do things when it’s an emergency - when I look like a man, I have a wax!”

Gwyneth also claims she prefers a low-maintenance approach to beauty treatments.

She added: “My pleasures are simple things, like being home with my daughter, spending time with my friends, being in the garden, cooking, travelling and sleeping late. I like to keep a realness with my beauty. I have a bath with my daughter every night. Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin.”

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The Proof actress, who is currently pregnant with her second child, blames her sobriety for her dull image, but her maintains her abstinence from stimulants is a sign of contentment.

She says, "There is this perception of us in this country, like, oh, they're quite boring. They do yoga and they stay home watching UK Gold. I think we're happy. We're not looking for other things in life. We like our house. We like our kid. We like our friends. I think it's sort of funny how you have to be doing coke off the ass of some stripper to be perceived as not boring these days."

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But the actress, who now lives mainly in Britain, makes a good defence of why she dares to be dull: “You have to be doing coke off the ass of a stripper to be perceived as not boring these days.” Blimey: don’t give our energetic MPs any more tips please, Gwyn.

Alas, having convinced us she might almost be quite interesting, she overdoes the mild child schtick: “The last time I got drunk was on holiday in Spain three years ago. I don’t really have drunk friends. I really don’t like drunk women: such a bad look. Gross.” Which is no way to speak about our national treasure Charlotte Church.

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The 31-year-old talks about her latest starring role in Proof, opposite Anthony Hopkins and Jake Gyllenhaal.

But she also chats candidly about her relationship with Coldplay’s Chris Martin, living in the UK, her toddler Apple, her current pregnancy and losing weight.Proof sees Gwyneth reprising the role she played on stage in London for the big screen.

In it she plays an enigmatic young woman haunted by her father’s past and the shadow of her own future, exploring the links between genius and madness, the tender relationships between fathers and daughters and the nature of truth and family.

Gwyneth factfile

* Gwyneth Kate Paltrow was born in Los Angeles on September 28, 1972

* Her father Bruce Paltrow, who died in 2002, was a highly successful producer (St Elsewhere) and her mother is the

* award-winning actress Blythe Danner

In 1991 she quit the University of California, where she waa studying art and history) to pursue an acting career

* She made her film debut with a small part in Shout (1991)

* She married Chris Martin, Coldplay’s frontman, in December 2003

* Gwyneth’s daughter, Apple, was born in May 2004and she’s expecting her second child

* She named her daughter, Apple, because apples are whole, sweet and crisp

* Gwyneth signed a contact with Estee Lauder for $10m to sponsor their new line of fragrance “Pleasures”

* A fan of alternative therapies, she’s a particular fan of reflexology, yoga and pilates

* She won an Oscar and Golden Globe in 1998 for her role in Shakespeare in Love

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The man, believed to be in his thirties or forties, refused to reach a settlement with record bosses after he was caught in a nationwide crackdown on file-sharing.

Instead, he took the case to court and claimed he was unaware his actions were illegal and had not sought to benefit financially. But in a landmark ruling, judge Justice Lawrence Collins ordered him to pay £1,500 in damages and warned: 'Ignorance is not a defence.'The father-of-two, who has not been named, is said to live in Brighton where he works as a postman. He is believed to have two daughters.

In a second ground-breaking case a man from King's Lynn was ordered by the High Court to make an immediate £5,000 payment and could now face a final bill of £20,000.

The court action, brought by the British Phonographic Industry, marks the first time a British court has ever found against an internet pirate.

Illegal downloads of such big-name acts as U2, Madonna, Coldplay, Oasis and the Black Eyed Peas are said to have cost the British record industry £650m over the past two years - and a massive £1.3bn annually, worldwide. Each person's illegal downloading of music is equivalent to the loss of 20 CDs to the UK industry. Now the BPI is warning that more cases could be brought.

'These two men decided not to settle out of court but to pursue the action further,' said a BPI spokesman. 'Now their costs could run into tens of thousands of pounds.'

Out of 139 cases brought by the BPI against illegal downloaders over the past 15 months, some 90 have agreed to settle out of court, paying an average of £2,500 in costs. The spokesman added: 'The

British record industry has consistently said that file-sharing is illegal but this is the first time that premise has been tested properly in court. It sends out a very strong message to any would-be file-sharers.'

Music industry sources said it was likely that the Brighton man had not downloaded the music himself but had opted to take the blame on behalf of his children. A record business expert said: 'Parents have got to get to grips with this. They need to know that what their kids are doing could land them in court or with a really hefty fine.'

A typical scenario would be when parents store on their computer music they have legally downloaded on to their iPods - and those tracks are then illegally distributed to so-called peer-topeer networks by their children.

'The classic trap is it doesn't matter how you acquire the tracks in the first place, if you are distributing them over the Net then that's illegal,' added the source.

BPI chairman Peter Jamieson said: 'We have long said that unauthorised file-sharing is damaging the industry and stealing the future of artists and the people who invest in them. Here is clear confirmation of what we also said, that unauthorised filesharing is against the law.'

BPI general counsel Roz Groome said: 'These rulings are a massive step forward in the music industry's bid to fight illegal filesharing.'

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The actress, who is married to Coldplay singer Chris Martin, revealed that she hasn't been drunk in three years and avoids parties where guests are likely to drink heavily.

"I think it's gross. I really don't like drunk women. It's such a bad look," she told The Mirror. "I think, ooh you're really degrading yourself to be this pissed in public. I think they're the idiot people and I'm the normal person. My friends are kind of adult, they drink but hold their liquor."

Paltrow admitted that her family has a dull image, adding, "I think it's funny how you have to be doing coke off the ass of a stripper to be perceived as not boring these days."

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Unlike the typical pop band, Radiohead wrote in "a lush harmonic language," O'Riley said in an e-mail from Australia, where he was recently on tour. There was "a certain sense of counterpoint, of interweaving voices" that spoke to O'Riley's inner ear.

Unlike the "string quartet tribute" CDs that pop up like mushrooms around best-selling artists such as Coldplay, Queen and now even My Chemical Romance, O'Riley's arrangements do more than imitate what another band has recorded. O'Riley captures on piano keys the sounds of Radiohead's strange electronic blurts, the rhythmic interplay of three guitars and singer Thom Yorke's wounded yowl and bristling falsetto. By reducing the sounds of many instruments into one, the pianist helps listeners discover an essence of what a musician is playing. (O'Riley also has arranged works by Nick Drake, the Cocteau Twins and R.E.M., and is considering others like Interpol, Nine Inch Nails and The Smiths.)Like Hunter S. Thompson, who famously retyped "The Great Gatsby" and "A Farewell to Arms" to learn how Fitzgerald and Hemingway, respectively, wrote those American classics, the musician in O'Riley decided he could only figure how Radiohead made its music by trying to remake it on his own. He transcribed the band's music note by note and then arranged it for the solo piano.

The result may be what introduces a younger generation to classical music, audiences for which have been steadily graying. So far, O'Riley has released two albums of Radiohead arrangements (2003's "True Love Waits" and 2005's "Hold Me to This"). In April, he will release "Home to Oblivion," an album of arrangements of music by Elliott Smith, the Academy Award-nominated singer-songwriter ("Good Will Hunting") who stabbed himself in the heart and died in 2003. To promote those CDs, O'Riley will perform a recital tonight of both artists at Montclair State University's Alexander Kasser Theater.

Perhaps more than anything, O'Riley's arrangements have earned him a chance to cross over to another audience without having to sacrifice the musicianship that earned him awards at major world piano competitions.

Not everyone has gushed over his work. A New York Times critic once wrote "far too often (O'Riley) spun lacy filigrees that only obscured Radiohead's corrosive beauty." Indeed, O'Riley's interpretations occasionally fill in gaps that the band left empty.

But more than that, there is a lot that O'Riley simply cannot do or approximate with piano. (It should also be said that there is a lot musicians can do in the studio that they cannot do live.) In his arrangement of "Coast to Coast," the first song on Smith's posthumous album "From a Basement on a Hill," the pianist hits all the weird, opposing tones that Smith's guitar hit. O'Riley even mimics the near-minute of scattered, howling sounds that introduced the Smith album. But a piano can only fill so much space, and when the song kicks into gear, O'Riley's version merely silhouettes the original track's orchestral fullness. Fans may be left clamoring for the real thing.

But as the album continues, it grows quieter and more sedate. While the tones are familiar and recognizable, they begin to inhabit a new context. They start to stand on their own. Like more traditional recitals of classical music, O'Riley's arrangements become enjoyable for their own sake, not because they are reminiscent of someone else's work.

"I think my arrangements are timely in that they serve a good, a need for classical venues to open up to new audiences without playing something cheaply or insincerely," O'Riley wrote. "I've found that many organizations embrace the opportunity of having me play for that reason.

"Others, though their audiences are dying off, choose not to ruffle the feathers of their constituents," O'Riley wrote, "while still others don't think what I do should be taken seriously."

"I'm just happy playing what I love," O'Riley continued, "whether it's Radiohead or Rachmaninoff."

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The 'Shakespeare in Love' star, who is pregnant for the second time, shocked ardent fans four years ago when she signed on to be the face of a high profile campaign for Estee Lauder, an action she claims she was forced to take as she was broke.

The actress, who is married to Coldplay star Chris Martin, revealed: "I'll tell you why. I basically stopped making money from acting in 2002. All the things I've done since then have been things I've really wanted to do and I have not made money from them."

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There were two million spectators that day, and another three billion watching on television sets across the world. The box-set cuts from one concert venue to another, juxtaposing every musician and musical genre that was played on that day.

Disc one, shows performances by R.E.M, Bon Jovi, Coldplay, Sir Elton John, Annie Lennox and others. Disc two has, also among others, Destiny's Child, Will Smith, Sting, Joss Stone, The Dave Matthews Band, and Def Leppard.Disc three has our very own Vusi Mahlasela, Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Placebo and others, while the final disc - the weakest of the four - showcases Wet Wet Wet, Texas, James Brown and others, too.

With 10 hours of footage, it's inevitable that some parts are better than others. It all depends on the viewers' favourite musicians. The cinematography, however, is quite competent in capturing both the musicians and the crowds. Another attraction of the box set is the packaging, which sets it up as a type of collector's item.

Features: There are no special features on these discs, but there are some extra musicians and songs, including Bjork, Shakira and Faith Hill.

However, Gwyneth recently confessed she really didn’t care whether she had another boy or girl. She said: "I would like to have a whole bunch of children. I don't mind girls or boys. My mother gets upset because I say I want all girls because Apple is so fabulous. With another baby on its way, I don't think I will be doing a lot for the next year or so either. Having Apple has changed everything for me It's changed the way I see the world - I feel like it's even changed my DNA."

However, not everything is so rosy in Paltrow’s life…if rumour is to be believed then she and her husband Chris Martin are not getting on at all. The strain stems from the amount of time Martin spends on the road with his band Coldplay.

A source close to the couple told Hot Stars magazine: "Gwyneth and Chris have had a few rows about the amount of time he is spending away from home. She is five months pregnant and feels isolated because Chris has been on a whirlwind tour for his latest album since early last year and at the end of January he starts a huge tour of the US."

It is likely that Paltrow will relocate to Los Angeles to be near her mother. The source continued: "She has been spending a lot of time with her mum, and has now decided that she wants to leave London permanently."

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Gwyneth Paltrow is expecting a boy with her Coldplay frontman husband Chris Martin, it has been claimed.

Sources close to the star say the couple's second child will be a brother for the pair's 20-monthold daughter, Apple. A friend said: "It's definitely a boy."

Gwyneth's mum, actress Blythe Danner, says she is over the moon at becoming a granny again. She told American magazine In Touch: "I don't know how much more excited I could be." And she said her daughter was a great mum. She added: "Gwyneth is very serene with the baby. I observe her and she is extraordinary." Oscar-winner Gwyneth, 33, who describes motherhood as "wonderful", has said before she is looking forward to extending her family.

She said: "I would like to have a whole bunch of children. I don't mind girls or boys. My mother gets upset because I say I want all girls because Apple is so fabulous."

Brooke Shields has revealed she is expecting a baby girl. The actress is so excited at having another child that she could not keep the sex of her unborn baby a secret. "It's a girl," she revealed to People magazine.

Brooke, 40, already has a daughter Rowan, two. She said: "I wasn't sure I was going to make this public. But I'm thrilled for my daughter to have a little friend. Two Tauruses, it's this huge trick being played on me."

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The star - widely considered to be one of Hollywood’s most beautiful women - was a struggling young actress when she was told she was too plain for a part in ‘Golden Gate’. The Oscar-winning star revealed: “He [director John Madden] auditioned me for ‘Golden Gate’ when I was 20. But the guy at Fox who made the decisions said I wasn’t pretty enough.”

Gwyneth - who is expecting her second child with husband Coldplay star Chris Martin - admitted she forced herself to shut the painful criticism out of her mind. She told Britain’s Sunday Times magazine: “I find it best to be in total denial over remarks like that. I refuse to hear or see. Otherwise, it would drive you nuts.”

Gwyneth revealed she applies the same philosophy to press reports about her private life. She said: “I don’t read them. I pretend it’s not happening. It would be difficult to leave your front door if you took it all too seriously.”

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The Proof star, who is married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and is pregnant with their second child, was afraid her domestic joy would be short-lived when her New York to Venice, Italy, flight had to turn back and make an emergency landing due to faulty engineering.

She says, “When my plane returned to New York, I could see all the fire engines and ambulances surrounding the runway, and I thought, ‘Oh no. I’m not going out like this, surely? Please not now.’ It’s only now that I see how unhappy and turbulent my twenties really were. There was everyone saying, ‘Oh, aren’t you lucky? You have a marvelous life.’ And me thinking, ‘If it is that marvelous, why do I feel so sad?’ I cannot believe how my life has turned around. I have a great husband, a beautiful daughter, and another baby on the way. My life is full and so happy.”

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The level of file-sharing has remained the same for two years despite 20,000 legal cases in 17 countries. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industries (IFPI) said it was "containing" the problem and more people were connecting to broadband. The global music industry trade body said sales of legal downloads were worth more than $1bn (£570m) in 2005.

IFPI chairman John Kennedy said the industry was "winning the war but we haven't won the war" against piracy.The fact that illegal song-swapping had not increased should be regarded as a success, he told the BBC News website.

"I would love to be sitting here telling you that it had gone down," he said. "As broadband rolls out and as there's an explosion in many countries of broadband, file-sharing is being contained."

But the industry was finding it difficult to persuade existing song-swappers to use legal download services such as iTunes instead, he said. "Those who've got into the habit of consuming their music for free are very difficult to shift. "And frankly it's an argument for increasing the scale of court cases because at the moment, people still don't think it's going to be them."

There are currently about 870 million song files available to download illegally over the internet, according to the IFPI.

Mr Kennedy also warned that the music industry could sue internet service providers (ISPs) if they do not crack down on their customers who flout copyright rules. Music piracy could be "dramatically reduced within a very short period of time" if ISPs took action against their law-breaking customers, Mr Kennedy said.

The IFPI's Digital Music Report also revealed that music downloaded onto mobile phones was now worth $400m (£227m) per year - 40% of the digital music business. And Mr Kennedy backed the continuing use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology, which controls what consumers can do with their music once it has been purchased - either online or on CD.

DRM remains controversial, with some critics arguing it does little to prevent piracy but instead limits what consumers fairly should be able to do with their music. Earlier this week, the National Consumer Council complained that DRM was eroding established rights to digital media.

Mr Kennedy, writing in the report, said DRM "helps get music to consumers in new and flexible ways". He said DRM was a "sometimes misunderstood element of the digital music business".

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During a interview session following the screening, Lou Diamond Philips announced Paltrow as a "pregnant woman," then asked her how far along she was. A smiling Gwyneth replied, "Far enough along to feel very cumbersome."

When an audience member asked how she got her hair so shiny, the Oscar winner answered, "It must be the prenatal vitamins... I've been taking them for a few years."

This will be the second child for Gwyneth and 'Coldplay' frontman Chris Martin. The couple already have an 21-month old daughter famously named Apple together.