Most of us will have memories from our teenage years of a time we got slightly too big for our boots and were swiftly cut back down to size. And often, the person delivering the stern reality check was our fathers.

Maybe you’d started hanging out with the popular-but-mean crowd, only for your dad to relentlessly take the piss out of them whenever they came round after school. Or maybe you were feeling pretty great about your new Uggs – only for him to ask, with a perfectly straight face, why you were wearing your slippers outside.

Now, in a new interview, Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed how her own father stepped in with some unorthodox advice to stop her becoming a diva in her twenties.

Apparently, Paltrow was at risk of becoming a bit of a nightmare after she won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Shakespeare in Love, aged 27 – and her dad, the late American film director Bruce Paltrow, wasn’t impressed.

This is how Gwyneth Paltrow’s dad stopped her from becoming a diva