This one just gets the Oscar for the best worst airbrushing!

The column: Should Kate Winslet win an Oscar for the world's most irritating actress? BY LIZ JONES


The caption: Dressing too young for her age? Are tight fitting outfits like this one Kate's way of keeping up with younger actresses?

For once I agree wholeheartedly with Liz Jones. Kate Winslet is incredibly irritating, contradictory and hypocritical - endlessly harking on about how happy she is with her body and how she hates skinny Hollywood actresses and then morphing into one herself. And that Rodriguez dress was a dreadful choice - she looked cheap. To say, as she has, that she was 'grateful' to be asked to strip in her 30s speaks volumes for her vanity and her underlying insecurity.
- allie, hong kong

Some people would do anything for popularity and Kate Winslet seems to be among them. As this annoying woman is already approaching her mid-thirties (bad for the Hollywood jobmarket) the hype she creates about herself will soon come to its natural end anyhow. So don t despair.
- WildandWise, Germany

I agree with Liz Jones. La Winslet has, gone from being a lovely breath of fresh English air to a spoiled, hysterical American. She certainly knows how to ham it up, and not in a good way either. I would sympathise with Sam Mendes but I suspect he is just as much of a luvvie.
- Carol C, Bideford

'Our Kate', along with the use of 'Our' for all other UK people who have risen to the top, implies she is somehow thought of as a member of our collective family, and for that should be loved and backed unconditionally, praised, triumphed and forgiven, and that to not do so is somehow unpatriotic at best and contra-family at worst. Not all of us feel this way, and not all of us love her and her work.
- globaloyster, tunbridge wells UK

No give the most irritating to the Kneightly woman, this one just gets the Oscar for the best worst airbrushing! or Nepotism Oscar [would she be in any films except for her husband being the director]
- Les, Aberdeen

She is an example of the celeb wanting it all ways - she wants stardom and money, but she wants privacy for her children; she wants the Hollywood perks, but she wants to make out she's Mrs Ordinary you'd see down the pub. I can sum her up in two words - pretentious and fake. And all this sobbing at award ceremonies makes her seem self-obsessed to boot.
- claire, bath