With a predictability perhaps matched only by that of her husband's musical journey, Gwyneth Paltrow has felt moved to throw her hat into the celebrity adoption ring, suggesting that she and Coldplay's Chris Martin may at some point swell their brood thusly. "My husband really wants to adopt," she tells W magazine. "So I don't know - I'm sort of open to anything."
As late adopters of the celebrity adoption trend, the couple would be following in the footsteps of Angelina Jolie, who has obtained orphans from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Ethiopia; and their close friend Madonna, who has obtained an orphan-effect boy from Malawi.
Although Gwyneth does not get into speculation about which continent might yield up a little brother or sister for Apple and Moses - honestly, I haven't the strength today - a glance at an advert she starred in last year would suggest Africa is a strong possibility. Unfortunately, Lost in Showbiz is no nearer to working out what point, if any, Gwyneth was attempting to make with the image. But it looks like just the sort of thing to impress international adoption agencies when the time comes, and may even render unnecessary the establishment of a Paltrow-Martin Foundation for Picturesque Urchins - or indeed the leaving of a Paltrow-Martin cheque for £1m - that tends to be form in these complex humanitarian cases.
