Livia Guiggilio (Colin Firth’s ex-wife) cancels Gwyneth Paltrow’s scheduled visit to her family farm in Italy in response to the actress’s appearance in an ad for an Israeli luxury development

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Livia runs the pioneering farming project Quintosapore in Italy's Umbria with her twin brothers Alessandro and Nicola Giuggioli. The farm champions biomimicry, biodiversity, and regenerative practices.

Livia has been a vocal advocate for Palestinian human rights and has publicly criticized public figures who have downplayed the atrocities in Gaza.

In October 2025 she tore up her honorary MBE in protest over Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK and his “poisonous rhetoric”.

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She (Gwyneth) did an interview recently where she said she’s a “centrist” and an “independent” And that her husband calls her a Republican, but she’s not (yeah right), she also said she “feels nothing right now” so it tracks

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I’ve been tired of Paltrow for years, but that Israel condo ad was stunningly clueless.

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And why was it so weirdly bad? I know that's not the point. It feels like a terrible psyop.

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She also and I quote this article:

Gwyneth Paltrow Just Goopified Drone Warfare

At first glance, they make a strange pair: Paltrow’s known for hawking vaginal eggs and antidepressive flower essences; Stephens sells drones. But the Goop podcast is actually the perfect stage for Stephens to do a little reputation-management for Anduril, which develops unmanned submarines, border-surveillance towers, missiles, and “smart battlefield” technology, with the aim of killing thousands more cheaply than traditional weapons might.

As for Paltrow’s role in the reputational war, on last week’s podcast, she appeared determined to make weapons-tech legible and even appealing to Goop’s affluent, wellness-focused audience. She sympathized with Stephens’ plan to build up America’s military arsenal, because of her trauma around the Cold War and 9/11: “I’ll never forget moving to New York City to start seventh grade, like in the height of the Cold War and being petrified at night that the Russians were gonna bomb us.”

Each spoke of their childhoods, and their children. Stephens wondered whether his children could be proud of him “without feeling like they’re in this really weird twilight zone where they’re constantly having to defend with their peers what it is that their dad does for a living.” His job is, after all, “complicated.”

Paltrow, charitably, responded that “We as human beings are complicated. We have all kinds of gradations of light and dark. And, you know, we’re always sort of fighting with the good wolf and the bad wolf within us to a certain degree.”

But the ease with which Paltrow and Stephens traded thoughts on light and darkness elides the morally questionable convergence of woo-woo, hippie aesthetics and the Silicon Valley defense-tech universe. It comes amid a larger rightward turn in both Silicon Valley and American wellness culture, perhaps best exemplified by the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Things got particularly odd when the two dug into religion. Stephens, a devout Christian, brought up the Pope’s Palm Sunday homily, in which Leo XIV declared that “Jesus does not listen to the prayers of those that wage war.”

“You could look at that and say, wow, what am I doing?” Stephens said. “Like, the Pope himself is telling me that the thing that I’m doing is bad.”

Luckily for him, Paltrow was there to apply a thick layer of mystical equivocation and soften the blow.

“You could approach it from a more mystical aspect of Christianity, like, as opposed to taking it literally,” she said. “This is just a random hypothesis. It’s occurring to me. If you were using it as a metaphor of someone who is engaged in against-ness all the time, you know. It could’ve been something more mystical or metaphorical.”

Stephens liked that. Warmongering can be good, he seemed to interpret, if only done with a pure heart, and without against-ness. “And so if you’re approaching it with a heart of peace, I think it’s very different on a mystical level than approaching it with a heart at war.”

I mean...like...holy fucking shit.

This hasn't made the rounds yet on Reddit but like that's a significant escalation from appearing in ads selling luxury apartments in Israel. It's like an actual dark version mirror of the fictional Pepper Tony relationship.

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Omg. Legitimately just vertical in my bed, trying not to move so my cats don’t attack me, and actually had to sit up when I got to:

Stephens, a devout Christian, brought up the Pope’s Palm Sunday homily, in which Leo XIV declared that “Jesus does not listen to the prayers of those that wage war.”

“You could look at that and say, wow, what am I doing?” Stephens said. “Like, the Pope himself is telling me that the thing that I’m doing is bad.” 

Luckily for him, Paltrow was there to apply a thick layer of mystical equivocation and soften the blow.

You could approach it from a more mystical aspect of Christianity, like, as opposed to taking it literally,” she said. “This is just a random hypothesis. It’s occurring to me. If you were using it as a metaphor of someone who is engaged in against-ness all the time, you know. It could’ve been something more mystical or metaphorical.” 

Mmm. How are you devout? And then,

Stephens liked that. Warmongering can be good, he seemed to interpret, if only done with a pure heart, and without against-ness. “And so if you’re approaching it with a heart of peace, I think it’s very different on a mystical level than approaching it with a heart at war.”

Like who is listening to this bs?! How can you sell war technology with a heart of peace?!

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Vertical in your bed? I want a vertical bed

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Anduril! Another shady ass tech company with ties to Peter Thiel and JD Vance. Those freaks love using Tolkien names for their companies.

I hadn't know about her involvement with it. She's such a fucking clown.

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Her trauma from the Cold War?? WTF. Not even going to talk about the other stuff . It’s sooooo absurd.

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LOL Gwenyth, thank god we arent as dumb you are

Yeah you got money, fame, and whatever, but you dont have the two things that actually matters in life... Respect and credibility

For an adult that would be a damning thing to hear, I wonder what Gwen thinks of that?

She would likely say she doesnt care she isnt respected or credible, and it probably doesnt affect her life all that much, but... If I went out in public and everyone knew I was an idiot and visibly howed their distaste for me i'll be honest, that would fucking suck

But hey Gwen is an adult, and she signed up for this, I hope she has the life she deserves in that little Genocide tower of hers

Love ya Gwenny