After being diminished to a Twitter thread this yr, the Golden Globes are coming again in 2023. Ricky Gervais, nonetheless, is not going to be becoming a member of them.
The British comic, who has hosted the awards present 5 occasions, had a robust response to followers on Twitter floating the potential of him returning for a sixth time now that NBC has agreed to renew broadcasting the A-list occasion regardless of latest controversies. Whereas no host has but to be introduced for the Jan. 10 present, it is secure to imagine from Gervais’s tweet that he will not be doing the honors.
“F*** that,” the Workplace creator, 61, tweeted in response to a fan making an attempt to drum up assist for a Gervais-hosted 2023 present. The stand-up added an emoji crying with laughter.
Gervais final hosted the ceremony in 2020. Chatting with the Guardian final yr, he defended his take-no-prisoners strategy to internet hosting.
“Do I pander to the 200 billionaires within the room or the 200 million individuals at residence sitting of their [underwear] consuming beer who aren’t successful awards, who aren’t billionaires?” he mentioned. “It’s a no brainer for a comic. I’m a jester. I play to the opposite peasants within the mud. I wasn’t stepping into horrible. Consider the issues I may have mentioned… Consider the f*****g horrible issues I may have joked about. It’s off the charts — It’s. Off. The. Charts — the horrible issues I may say.”
That is perhaps notably true given the backlash the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation (HFPA), which votes for the Golden Globes, acquired after stories exposing its lack of range and troublesome practices have been made public final yr. NBC declined to air the 2022 ceremony whereas many celebrities, together with Tom Cruise and Scarlett Johansson, spoke out towards the HFPA.
With the HFPA pledging to increase its membership to be extra inclusive, NBC has agreed to a one-year deal during which the community and its Peacock streaming website will broadcast the 2023 Golden Globes, which is able to mark the eightieth anniversary of the present.
