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Paltrow’s gratitude served with recipes

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy reacts after throwing out the ceremonial first pitch before the Japan’s Central League professional baseball opening game at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Friday. (Associated Press)
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U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy reacts after throwing out the ceremonial first pitch before the Japan’s Central League professional baseball opening game at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Friday. (Associated Press)

Gwyneth Paltrow took to Goop and the lifestyle site’s regular weekly email Friday to offer thanks to supporters standing by her and her “consciously uncoupled” husband, Chris Martin, in their freshly announced separation.

But first there was chicken. Three ways to prepare it, in fact. The thanks came in the form of a P.S. below her usual introduction, as in:

“P.S. CM and I in deep gratitude for the support of so many.” She added a little heart at the end.

The 41-year-old actress announced their split Tuesday on Goop, staying away from the D word – divorce – and earning a new round of sneers and mockery when she used the New Agey term “conscious uncoupling” instead, with explanation.

Paltrow and the frontman for Coldplay married in 2003 and have two children.

Haggard tribute drawing a crowd

Country music’s biggest stars are turning out for a salute to Merle Haggard.

Miranda Lambert and George Strait will team up to perform a tribute medley of Haggard’s hits during the Academy of Country Music Awards on April 6, and Garth Brooks will present the singer-songwriter with the academy’s Crystal Milestone Award.

The academy also announced Friday that The Band Perry will open the show with a performance, Hunter Hayes will perform for a child hunger charity campaign, and Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line will team with Nitro Circus Action Stars, an action sports troupe.

Bryan and Blake Shelton co-host the CBS show.

The birthday bunch

Comedian Eric Idle is 71. Singer Bobby Kimball (Toto) is 67. Actor Bud Cort is 66. Actor Brendan Gleeson is 59. Actor Christopher Lawford is 59. Actor Christopher Lambert is 57. Rock singer Perry Farrell (Porno for Pyros; Jane’s Addiction) is 55. Comedian-actress Amy Sedaris is 53. Model Elle Macpherson is 51. Rock singer-musician John Popper (Blues Traveler) is 47. Actress Lucy Lawless is 46.