GWYNETH PALTROW - PALTROW'S BARKING NIGHTMARE

Oscar-winning actress GWYNETH PALTROW immediately decided it was time to get rid of a man she was once dating, when he started speaking to her in a baby voice and barking like a dog.

The SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE beauty, who is now happily married to COLDPLAY frontman CHRIS MARTIN, was horrified when her mystery man thought his unusual behaviour would impress her - and she ensured that it marked the end of their romance.

She says, "We call them dealbreakers, where you're dating someone and they turn on like a terrible song, or something, and you think, 'Oh right, that's over!'

"My number one dealbreaker: Once someone spoke to me in a baby voice and then barked like a dog and it was sort of very weird... I think that's unacceptable. I think baby talk is unacceptable to your own baby... I talk to (my baby) like a person.

"It was a few kinds of wrong."

Paltrow, who counts BRAD PITT and LUKE WILSON among her former flames, will not reveal the identity of the quirky man, but she insists he isn't a celebrity.