Petition to make Celebs Chatting With Other Celebs the majority of the Golden Globes broadcast! This is extra pressing after an evening of studied blandness onstage, and perfunctory speeches where the greatest jeopardy was in seeing if people could navigate the rat maze of tables in time to accept their statue before the timer ran out.
Yes, awards were handed out, but the real entertainment at the first awards show of the season? All the delicious drama that happened off the podium, the glorious by-product of gathering half the world’s celebrities in the same room for the first time since the Hollywood strikes, abetted by an open bar and a long-standing tradition of table-hopping during commercial breaks.
Host Jo Koy’s opening monologue was widely panned — the Guardian called it a “bad gig for the ages” — but the joke that belly flopped most spectacularly was a gag at Taylor Swift’s expense. “The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL: on the Golden Globes we have fewer camera shots to Taylor Swift,” Koy said, a jab at the spectacle that is Swift’s attendance at her tight end boyfriend Travis Kelce’s games, when it seems there’s a camera whose only job is to capture her admittedly cinematic reactions as she watches from a box.
Swift, at the awards because her record-breaking concert film was nominated in a newly created category, was clearly not impressed by this attempt to poke fun at her dating life, pursing in lips and sipping her drink with a stony expression when the camera (of course) panned to catch her reaction. Koy had the gall to blame the joke on the “writers” who penned some of his monologue.
She didn’t let it spoil her night, though: she led the cheer when her close friend Emma Stone won an award for "Poor Things" and was one of the first people to applaud when "The Bear’s" Ayo Edebiri used her speech to thank all the unsung assistants of Hollywood.
2. Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner whispered sweet nothings
Last year’s unlikeliest celebrity love birds seem as besotted as ever. Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet attended the awards together — Timmy was nominated for "Wonka" — and seemed to spend most of the night practising their words of affirmation. In fact, if the lip readers of the internet are right, the pair exchanged “I love you” murmurs while tête-à-tête at their table, with Kylie (possibly) adding, “I only care about you. I wouldn’t miss something like this” as they went in for several long beats of intense gazing into one another’s souls.
Another lip reader field day came when a camera captured Selena Gomez in animated conversation with Swift, their body language instantly recognizable to anyone who’s made a beeline for their bestie with dramatic goss in hand. (Think: dropped jaw, deep lean-in, emphatic nodding, the mandatory, “Wait, what?!”). The subject, it seems, was none other than Chalamet. “I asked for a picture with him and she said no,” Selena seemed to say, presumably referring to Kylie. “With Timothée?” repeats Keleigh Teller, an actor and close friend of Swift’s who was also part of the huddle. Swift then whispers something in Gomez’s ear, blocking prurient viewers with her hand. Another moment in the convo seems to show Swift saying, “No way, dude,” and Gomez replies, “It’s OK.”
Patrick J. Adams, Gina Torres, Sarah Rafferty and Gabriel Macht of Suits.
Years after it wrapped, "Suits" is having a streaming resurgence and, to celebrate this, members of the cast were invited to present an award, including Canadian actors Sarah Rafferty and Patrick J. Adams. Conspicuously absent, however, was Meghan Markle, who starred as Rachel Zane on the legal dramedy before marrying some British guy. “Our text thread is insane right now,” said Gina Torres of the group’s reaction to the show’s renewed popularity. One person who isn’t dropping shocked-face emojis? Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. “We don’t have her number,” Torres said in a red carpet interview. “We just don’t. So she’ll see, she’ll watch. She’ll be happy that we’re here.” Not too promising for those rumours Meghan might appear in a potential revival of the show.
The cast of The Bear were confronted with their leading man in his undies.
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5. Jeremy Allen White’s underwear ad popped up
Is Jeremy Allen White’s underwear ad for Calvin Klein the best thing to happen in 2024 so far? Yes. Is it still awkward for his colleagues to see him in his tighty-whiteys? Yes, especially when an Access Hollywood reporter presented him and his "Bear" co-stars with a large printout of the hotter-than-the-kitchen-at-Original-Beef campaign on the red carpet. “I’m happy for him … (but) I want people to understand he’s my co-worker,” cringed Ayo Edebiri before taking the massive poster they were confronted with and turning it to face the wall. “I’m putting it away for my boy! That’s my boy,” she said. “This is a work function!” Backstage after he won his Best Actor award, Allen was asked about the ad and said, “It’s been a weird couple of days.”
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