Gwyneth Paltrow "could hardly speak" in front of the "handsome" Barack Obama.

 Gwyneth Paltrow appeared to flirt with the Barack Obama, President of the United States as she fumbled over her speech and called him "handsome" in front of 200 people.

Gwyneth Paltrow appeared to flirt with Barack Obama, as she fumbled her speech and called him "handsome" 

The actress admitted to the President of the United States that she was completely awestruck by his good looks, as she attempted to hand him a microphone at a Democratic Fundraiser on Thursday (09.10.14).

According to reports 42-year-old Paltrow told President Barack Obama: "You're so handsome I can hardly speak properly.

"I am one of your biggest fans, if not the biggest."

Gwyneth flirted with the President in front of a 200-strong audience who had paid a reported $25,000 to attend the event, which took place in the actress' L.A. mansion.

Barack Obama, President of the United States

Barack later thanked Gwyneth and her two young children - Apple, 10, and Moses, eight - for their hospitality, joking: "[Thanks] for letting us crash your house."

The President spoke at great length about the ebola crisis, as he assured everybody that the likelihood of an epidemic in the United States is extraordinarily small.

But added there was a humanitarian crisis that was happening right now in West Africa where children, not much older, and in some cases younger than Apple and Moses, were dying on the streets alone.

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