Gwyneth Paltrow's Madonna play dates

Gwyneth Paltrow loves getting together with fellow celebrity-mothers so their children can play together. The American actress is good friends with Madonna and fashion designer Stella McCartney and all three love their children getting together for play dates. Gwyneth, 34, told Spain's Vogue magazine: "I have friends like Stella McCartney or Madonna, and very often our children get together to play."Although we usually leave them in bed and stay to drink a glass of wine!"Gwyneth and her husband, Coldplay singer Chris Martin, have two children - Apple, who turns three in May, and Moses, who turns one next month. Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie are parents to Lourdes, 10, and Rocco, six. They are also in the process of adopting David, 17 months, who Madonna found in a Malawian orphanage. British designer Stella - the daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney - and her publisher husband Alasdhair Willis have a son, Miller, two, and a three-month-old daughter, Bailey.

Gwyneth recently said being a housewife and mother was "amazing" and "definitely the hardest job in the world".

The star, who took time off from her busy career to stay at home with her family, has just announced she is to start work on two new movies - 'Iron Man' and 'Dirty Tricks'.