Kate so flush with success she keeps her Oscar in loo to startle guests

AS one of the most coveted honours an actor can receive, an Oscar would usually be pride of place in a trophy cabinet. Yet Kate Winslet has a far more unusual place for her Academy Award. She revealed on Late Night With Seth Meyers she keeps the statue in her bathroom.

The 40-year- old ld actress made the candid confession about ut her 2009 gong on the he US chat show and nd explained the bizarre re placement is to allow ow guests to give fantasysy acceptance speeches.s.

Kate, who i s currrently blazing the promotional trail with th new biopic Steve Jobs, s, l ooked stunning as she charmed audiences while sporting a fitted black dress withh capped sleeves and a slashed neckline.

Chatting to Meyers, , she revealed herr Oscar for Best Actress, which shee won for The Reader,, is kept on display in her loo.

The star, who plays former Apple marketing executive Joanna Hoffman in her new movie, insisted that as most people make fake acceptance speeches to themselves using various household items, she keeps it there to allow guests to make their own speeches using an actual prize.

She said: ‘Everyone, you know, most people I know have made a version of the fantasy acceptance speech whether it’s with a hairspray, a Barbie doll, a shampoo bottle.

‘But there’s nothing like the real thing and everyone is shocked at that.

‘But yeah... the Oscar is in the bathroom. You can always tell when people (see it) – because you hear the flush and then kind of a minute or two or three or four go by and then they come out red-faced, you say, “Well... how was Oscar?’’’

As well as winning her Oscar, Kate was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 1996 for Sense And Sensibility and Iris in 2009 and up for Best Actress in 19981 for Titanic, and in 2005 for Eternal S Sunshine Of The S Spotless Mind and Little Children in 2009.

The mother of three also revealed that Aaron Sorkin, the w writer of Steve Jobs, rar an an extremely tig tight ship while makin ing the film – as he wo would not allow any de deviations from the sc script.

S She said: ‘Aaron wr writes the way people thi think, the way they tal talk.

‘E ‘Every pause, every stu stumble, every period ma mark is so important.

‘I‘ If you do try and cha change anything at all, or you forgetf t something, it all just goes to complete dogs**t. It’s something we all figured out straight away.’

The stunning star explained that her co-star, John Daniels, who plays former Apple CEO John Sculley in the movie, urged her to stick to the script.

‘[He said] Learn the lines, learn the lines, learn the lines, learn the lines,’ she recalled.

Winslet described the film, which runs in three parts like a play, as ‘ so accomplished’.