Oooooof course she did! For all you Gwyneth haters out there – here’s another story to add to your list! Gwyneth showered her BFF Beyonce with a lavish gift after she gave birth to her baby girl, Blue Ivy™.

What kind of stroller did Beyonce get from pal Gwyneth Paltrow? A Bugaboo, naturally!

Paltrow was among the very first to tweet about the birth of her BFF Beyonce’s daughter Blue Ivy in early January — and the actress, 38, knew just what to gift the chanteuse and her bundle of joy.

Paltrow treated Beyonce and husband Jay-Z to an all-black Cameleon stroller by Bugaboo; the posh baby-transporter retails for $880. (As it happens, Beyonce, 30, scored one of many smash singles with Destiny’s Child in 1999 with the song “Bugaboo,” about a male suitor who just doesn’t know when to give up.)

Before Blue Ivy’s birth, Beyonce (who made her first post-baby appearance Monday and Tuesday in NYC) snapped up a $3500 NurseryWorks VETRO Lucite crib in NYC for her little one, born at 7 lbs Jan. 7 at Lenox Hill Hospital.

Blue’s crib and Bugaboo will fit right in with her extravagant nursery — a 2,200 square-foot space recently built in the superstar family’s Tribeca apartment.

I do find it interesting that Gwyneth bought Beyonce a stroller. Do you actually SEE Beyonce pushing her baby in a stroller? Won’t she just hire someone to carry her baby everywhere? C’mon, you know you’re with me.

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Gwyneth Paltrow is not only an amazing actress, singer and mom, she is quite the whiz in the kitchen. So in light of Thanksgiving we have selected the recipes below from the Oscar winner’s personal collection that will have your guests begging you for more.

Whole Roasted Turkey

Serves: 12, with leftovers

Time: 3 to 4 hours

Ingredients:

• 1 x 14 pound turkey, giblets and neck removed and reserved for gravy (best to let the turkey sit out at room temperature for two hours before cooking)
• Coarse sea salt
• ½ cup melted butter + 4 tablespoons softened
• ½ bottle dry white wine
• Freshly ground black pepper
• Cheesecloth
• Optional: Classic Bread Stuffing or an onion, several cloves garlic, a lemon

Put your oven rack as low as it can go. Preheat the oven to 450º F.

Rub the turkey with a large handful of coarse sea salt. Rinse with cold water and pat completely dry with paper towels. Let it hang for a minute.

Get yourself a big piece of cheesecloth. Fold it in half and then in half again. Cut it so you have a four-layer square that’s roughly 15 x 15. Combine the melted butter and wine in a large bowl and soak the cheesecloth in it.

Back to the turkey. Stuff the cavity with some of your Classic Bread Stuffing (see recipe below) if you’d like. If not, sprinkle the cavity with salt and pepper. Feel free to throw in a quartered onion, a few cloves of garlic and/or a halved lemon. Tie the legs together with a piece of twine. Rub the four tablespoons of softened butter all over the turkey and sprinkle the outside with plenty of salt and pepper. Set the turkey on a roasting rack inside of a large roasting pan. Squeeze out your cheesecloth (it should still be damp, just not dripping) and drape it over the turkey, completely covering the breast and most of the legs. Be sure to save the leftover butter and wine.

Roast the turkey for half an hour. Take it out of the oven and baste it (over the cheesecloth) with some of the leftover butter and wine mixture. Turn the oven down to 350º F. Let the turkey roast for another hour and a half, basting every half hour with the butter and wine and the juices from the bottom of the pan.

At this point your turkey will have been cooking for two hours. Remove the cheesecloth and cook for another hour to hour and a half, still basting every half hour until a thermometer inserted in the thickest part of the thigh registers 180º F.

Remove the turkey to a board and let it rest for at least half an hour before carving. Be sure to save everything in the bottom of the pan for gravy.

Thanksgiving Gravy

Serves: 12

Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

• Giblets and neck from turkey (discard the liver)
• 1 large carrot, peeled and roughly chopped
• 1 large onion, peeled and roughly chopped
• 1 large stalk celery, roughly chopped
• 2 tablespooons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon each finely minced fresh thyme, rosemary and sage
• 2 tablespoons flour
• Reserved juice from your turkey pan (make sure to scrape up all the browned bits)
• ¼ cup apple cider or juice
• Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper

While the turkey is roasting, put the giblets, neck, carrot, onion and celery in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil, skim off any foam that accumulates, lower the heat and let it simmer away while the turkey cooks. You should have at least 3 cups in the end.

While the turkey is resting, it’s gravy time. Heat the olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the herbs and flour and stir to combine. Cook for about a minute. Slowly whisk in the reserved juice and browned bits from the turkey pan. The mixture should be fairly smooth – the goal is to avoid lumps of flour. Turn the heat up to medium-high, strain in your giblet broth and the cider and cook, stirring occasionally, until the mixture is slightly thickened and the raw flour taste has cooked off (about ten minutes). Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Yummo! Happy Thanksgiving guys!!!

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I love her glasses! Anyone know who makes them?

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Gwyneth Paltrow hit the Emmy Awards in an exotic two-piece Emilio Pucci dress with sheer tulle trim. I thought the black and nude dress was absolutely gorgeous, and showed off her amazing body. She wore her hair straight and down, which is about all she ever does, but I thought she looked amazing.

What do you think of her dress?

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Gwyneth Paltrow co-hosted the Coach Fashion’s Night Out in London last night. The actress wore a Stella McCartney look from the Resort 2012 collection. Her black haltered jumpsuit was teamed with a tan Coach cross-body bag.

In other Gwynnie news, it’s just been reported that Paltrow has signed on to play a sex addict in ‘Thanks for Sharing’. The new movie will be directed by ‘The Kids Are All Right’ screenwriter Stuart Blumberg.

Paltrow joins Mark Ruffalo and Tim Robbins in a film about sex addicts working to break the habit in a 12-step recovery support group; Paltrow will play a businesswoman who falls for Mark Ruffalo’s character, Variety reports. Former “Nip/Tuck” star Joely Richardson also boards a picture that was co-written, and will be directed by, Stuart Blumberg, who scored an Oscar nomination for his “The Kids Are All Right” screenplay.

Paltrow is wrapping work on “The Avengers,” the Marvel superhero teamup movie; as Pepper Potts, she joins Robert Downey, Jr. in representing the “Iron Man” franchise in the mega-film.

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It’s been ages – ages I tell you! – since Gwyneth Paltrow was seen out with her husband Chris Martin! Yet, here they are, even if they weren’t photographed together!

Gwyneth missed the NYC premiere of her new movie, ‘Contagion’ in order to attend an event for Coach in London. And she took her husband as her date! Gwyneth is the new face of Coach, so she was probably obligated to go.

What do you think of her orange Lanvin dress?

During a recent interview with E! Online, Gwyneth opened up about appearing on ‘Glee’ again – and what she considers the “biggest blessing of all time.”

Seeing how Gwyneth Paltrow has made such a splash with her unforgettable appearances on Glee, it only makes sense that fans would want to see her return. That is, of course, she doesn’t even think about trying to hook up with Matthew Morrison.

So, what does the Oscar winner have to say about another possible encore performance?

“I would love to go back on,” Paltrow tells E! News. “You know, I’m not sure if I will or not, but we’ll see. It would be hard for me to say no. I have such a good time doing that show. So, we’ll see if they ask me back or not.”

Until then, the actress is keeping busy promoting her latest film, Contagion. The thriller, centering on the worldwide outbreak of a deadly virus, reunited the actress with her Talented Mr. Ripley costars Jude Law and Matt Damon, who plays her husband in the flick.

“It was so great to work with him again,” she says. “We’re different in a lot of ways with all our kids and so we talked a lot about our kids and showed pictures.”

Speaking of rugrats, Paltrow is so “happy” that her good friend Jay-Z and his wife Beyoncé are expecting and admits that becoming a parent really puts everything in perspective.

“It’s wonderful to see her so happy right now,” Gwyneth tells E! “And so looking forward to the experience. I’m very happy for them.”

“I think motherhood is the biggest blessing of all time and it give your life real meaning,” she points out. “It’s always interesting when you’re a woman with success and you’ve achieved a lot, and then you have a baby and you realize everything you thought was an achievement really is nothing until you have a kid, and I think that will be [Beyoncé's] experience.”

Any advice for pal Jay-Z?

“I’d tell him directly,” says Paltrow, adding with a laugh: “But I wouldn’t say it on television.” (E!Online)

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Well Gwyneth Paltrow has certainly had a change of heart when it comes to religion! “I don’t believe in religion. I believe in spirituality. Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world,” the actress once told The Daily Mail. But now, apparently, Gwyneth has decided she wants to raise her two young children as Jewish!

After appearing on the television program, “Who Do You Think You Are,” Gwyneth Paltrow has decided to raise children Apple, 7, and Moses, 5, as Jewish.

According to The Daily Mail, the NBC ancestry show sparked the discovery that the actress descended from a notable line of Eastern European rabbis. Though she’s long practiced Kabbalah, Gwyneth had previously stayed neutral about a formal religion upbringing in her household, which includes crooner husband Chris Martin, who is of Christian background.

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