According to The Sun, Chris was more popular amongst neighbours and friends than wife Gwyneth.
‘Everyone around here loves Chris,’ a neighbour said. ‘He was the one who would take the kids to school or walk the dogs and stop to chat.'
‘But she is less approachable,’ the source added. ‘We have to talk to her through a middle-man, one of her staff called Nigel. The only time she has ever smiled at me was when she was selling her Goop-recipe lemonade on the street corner.’
‘It will be awful if he is not around any more. He is the only thing that made her bearable.’
According to the couple’s UK friends, many of Chris’s circle had avoided spending time with the couple.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin's relationship in pictures
‘It’s all hugely embarrassing,’ said a source. ‘She talks about what people should eat when his friends come over and goes on about the Kabbalah faith and politics.’
‘A lot of his friends call her Marie Antoinette. A lot of them have just stopped calling.’
They continued: ‘Chris finds a lot of what she says and does very crass, like going to the pub dressed up in some ridiculous designer dress.’
‘He misses her rolling up in jeans and ordering a glass of wine. That’s the girl he fell in love with.’
The couple announced their split via a statement on Gwen’s blog, Goop, after over a decade of marriage.
The couple are parents to 9-year-old daughter Apple and 8-year-old son Moses.