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Why did Vanity Fair spike a cover story about acclaimed actor and controversial public personality Gwyneth Paltrow?

FILE - This April 18, 2013 file photo shows actress Gwyneth Paltrow at the Tiffany & Co. Blue Book Ball at Rockefeller Center in New York.  (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)
FILE - This April 18, 2013 file photo shows actress Gwyneth Paltrow at the Tiffany & Co. Blue Book Ball at Rockefeller Center in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)Read more

Goop sank Vanity Fair

Why did Vanity Fair spike a cover story about acclaimed actor and controversial public personality Gwyneth Paltrow?

In a 1,500-word cover essay, magazine editor Graydon Carter tiptoes around an explanation for killing a story that was to take a look at the reasons Gwyn is so loved by some and so utterly loathed by others. (Us Weekly last year dubbed her the "most hated celebrity.")

Carter found himself in a tight spot, London's Guardian reports, when Gwyn called for her fellow celebs to shun the magazine. "Vanity Fair is threatening to put me on the cover of their magazine without my participation," she e-mailed friends, the Guardian says. "I recommend you all never do this magazine again."

Carter was then inundated by mail from pro-Gwynites who threatened to boycott VF if it published the story and from anti-Gwynites who promised to do the same if the magazine did not publish it.

So Carter sat on it for a couple of months, then killed it. "We'll save our gunpowder for bigger stories," he writes in the mag.

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