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Jean Good has a message for tv executives amid the continuing Los Angeles fires.
“Consideration! With ALL due respect, throughout Hollywood’s season of celebration, I hope any of the networks televising the upcoming awards will significantly take into account NOT televising them and donating the income they’d have garnered to victims of the fires and the firefighters,” the Hacks star wrote through Instagram on Wednesday, December 8.
Good’s plea comes as varied Hollywood occasions have been impacted by no less than 4 fires throughout Los Angeles. The Critics Selection Awards — slated to happen on Sunday, January 12, and air on E! — have been postponed, as has the Oscars nominations announcement. The large reveal was as a consequence of happen on Friday, January 17, and is now penciled in for Sunday, January 19, in line with The Hollywood Reporter. (The Oscars are scheduled to air March 2 on ABC.)
“This unfolding tragedy has already had a profound impression on our group. All our ideas and prayers are with these battling the devastating fires and with all who’ve been affected,” Critics Selection Awards CEO Joey Berlin mentioned in an announcement. The Critics Selection Awards will now air stay on January 26.
Earlier than fires broke out on Tuesday, January 7, Good, 73, was feted on the Golden Globes on Sunday, January 5, the place she received Greatest Actress in a Tv Sequence, Comedy, for Hacks. She took house the prize over Solely Murders within the Constructing’s Selena Gomez and Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson.
Quite a few Hollywood stars have been affected by the L.A. fires, fueled by sturdy winds Santa Ana winds. By Wednesday evening, one other fireplace had damaged out within the Hollywood Hills, a preferred neighborhood amongst celebrities.
Dancing With the Stars host Julianne Hough was amongst Hollywood Hills residents who evacuated the world Wednesday.
“OK, so, there’s a fireplace proper by my home,” Hough mentioned through Instagram Tales, in a clip recorded at her house. “We’re with mates, however anyone that’s within the Hollywood Hills, I’ve simply been having this intuitive feeling that we’re in a bowl of how all the things is surrounding Hollywood, and now that is on the heart of Hollywood. All people wants to simply evacuate. Go, go, go, go, go. Proper now.”
After sharing that message, Hough up to date her followers with a second video taken in a automobile. She was along with her canine, Sunny.
“Sunny and I are secure and we’re driving, however the motive why I say ‘evacuate now’ even when it’s not near you, when you have someplace to go, as a result of: There’s visitors,” she mentioned. “And also you’re gonna be caught in visitors. And that’s not good. So all people, simply please be secure and ship prayers to the entire first responders and firefighters and simply come collectively — you understand, like, all you are able to do is be there for one another.”
Different stars affected by the L.A. fires embody Paris Hilton, Billy Crystal and Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag.