Gwyneth Paltrow, star of Iron Man and Sliding Doors appeared on the Tonight Show last night with Conan O’Brien, and according to web rumours, people couldn’t make out what was going on with her legs.

Paltrow appeared to have been smothered in some form of oil that made her legs look like an oil slick.

Everybody knows that celebrities get a lot of prepping backstage, so perhaps Gwyneth’s make up artist went a little over board on the lotion.

Although it looked as though the producers noticed Gwyneth’s lotion overload. When she appeared for the second segment, her legs didn’t have so much of the oily sheen they had had before, as if she had been scrubbed down backstage

Gwyneth was on the Tonight Show to promote her new film Iron Man 2.

Check out the before and after shot of [uuid=0134d6b4-e114-4a7c-8a78-e8479eaeb948]Gwyneth’s oily legs[/uuid] here.