Gwyneth Paltrow shares Valentine's Day tips

Paltrow, married to Coldplay's Chris Martin, also says couples should provide a string of romantic surprises throughout the day, reports thesun.co.uk.

Paltrow suggests the day should begin with breakfast and swapping love notes before making a string of hearts out of coloured paper, or couples could make up romantic playlists for each other's iPods or heat things up with a sex book.

She added: "At 3pm, you should arrange delivery of a bouquet of flowers, followed by a simple dinner of chicken paillard with avocados. Later at 10pm — for over-18s only! — get the Kama Sutra original weekender kit.

"This little kit includes love oil, a pleasure balm and even some honey dust with a titillating little feather applicator for some fun wherever you end up."