SO WOULD YOU HANG UP STOCKINGS FOR BOTH YOUR EX AND YOUR NEW HUSBAND?

HANGING a stocking for Chris is a wonderful way for Gwyneth to show the world the true meaning of love, not in matrimony but in friendship

– a real modern family.

First, Gwyneth has recognised the importance of reminding her children that her divorce will never define their relationship with their father or the festive family occasions.

Second, she has ensured that Chris’s stocking remains in the middle of Apple’s and Rachel MacLynn Vida Consultancy

Moses’ in order to showcase his centrality in their lives.

Finally, the line-up shows five members of the family, including both Chris and Brad, representing an honest and united family front. OK, Gwynnie, we get the point: you consciously uncoupled, remain the world’s most civilised divorced couple and – heroically and genuinely – actually managed to think of the children.

But to be hanging a stocking for your ex-husband when a new incumbent has stepped into the role? Pass the sickbag, Alice.

There comes a point in every failed relationship in which, no matter how well you still get on Virginia Blackburn Express columnist

and how respectful you are to your shared past (that’s Hollywood speak, for the avoidance of doubt), that you have to move on.

A divorce is for life. It doesn’t get suspended at Christmas.