
One local resident said: "She's probably a very nice person but she's not a villager. You wouldn't expect to see her at the village fete."
Speaking about Kate's recent Best Actress honour at the Academy Awards, another local resident, Karin Major, said: "I'm pleased for her but I doubt if the village will have a party."
Kate, who has two kids, Mia, 8 and Joe, 5, has previously insisted she is part of a "normal" family. She said: "We do normal things that any other family would.
"It's important to us that the children are just regular kids, so we go to the park, kick a ball around, go to a museum, watch a movie together or just hang out at home playing Monopoly."