Golden Globes Weekend Kicks Off With Alleged Hollywood Drama War

As Hollywood gears up for one among its most glamorous weekends, tensions are boiling over behind the scenes on the Golden Globes.

Hollywood’s brightest stars are set to shine on the 82nd Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, January 5, as they arrive collectively to honor the previous 12 months’s standout achievements in movie and tv. Among the many night time’s celebrated nominees are Ariana Grande, Colin Farrell, Zendaya, Jake Gyllenhaal, Selena Gomez, Keira Knightley, Sebastian Stan, Kristen Bell, Glen Powell, Adam Brody, and Sofia Vergara.

The Golden Globes, organized yearly by the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation, has confronted its share of controversies in recent times however stays one of the vital anticipated nights in leisure.

In response to Page Six, a bitter warfare is raging between the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation (HFPA)—the group that based the long-lasting awards present almost 80 years in the past—and its new homeowners, Eldridge Industries, led by Chelsea F.C. proprietor Todd Boehly.

The core of the battle? Many legacy members of the HFPA have reportedly been shut out of Sunday’s star-studded ceremony, the place A-listers like Angelina Jolie, Timothée Chalamet, and Demi Moore are anticipated to mingle and have fun.

Based in 1943 as a non-profit by worldwide leisure journalists, the HFPA launched the Golden Globes a 12 months later, ultimately turning it into one among Hollywood’s most prestigious awards exhibits. Nevertheless, two years in the past, Eldridge Industries restructured the group, splitting it into two entities: a for-profit arm liable for operating the Golden Globes ceremony and a non-profit arm that maintained the HFPA’s charitable capabilities.

As a part of the restructuring deal, 66 “legacy members” of the HFPA have been reportedly promised annual salaries of $75,000 for 5 years, medical health insurance, lifetime voting rights for the Globes, and different advantages. Members additionally declare they have been promised 4 tickets every to the annual occasion. Nevertheless, Eldridge sources dispute this, saying tickets have been by no means a part of the settlement. In response to HFPA members, the ticket clause was included in an addendum, separate from the principle phrases.

The scenario escalated when 11 salaried legacy members have been abruptly faraway from their roles, inflicting unrest throughout the HFPA ranks. Now, a lot of these remaining members really feel sidelined from their very own creation.

In earlier years, HFPA members loved prime seating within the Beverly Hilton ballroom alongside Hollywood’s largest stars. This 12 months, nonetheless, sources declare that roughly 50 members acquired invites—on Friday, simply someday earlier than the occasion—to attend a “viewing occasion” in a separate perform room on the lodge. Basically, these founding members shall be watching the glitzy affair on tv screens quite than experiencing it firsthand.

The sudden and restricted invitation has solely deepened the divide, leaving legacy members feeling like outsiders at an occasion they helped construct. What was as soon as an emblem of HFPA status and affect now appears to have turn into a obvious illustration of energy struggles and company restructuring gone bitter.

Because the cameras roll on Sunday and the celebs dazzle on stage, the true drama may not be taking part in out within the ballroom—however within the tensions simmering behind closed doorways. One factor’s for sure: the fallout from this Hollywood energy wrestle received’t fade when the credit roll.

After final 12 months’s internet hosting debacle with comic Jo Koy, which left many viewers questioning whether or not the present ought to actually have a host sooner or later, the Golden Globes are heading in a daring new route. This 12 months, Emmy-nominated humorist Nikki Glaser will take heart stage because the occasion’s grasp of ceremonies.

“I’m completely thrilled to be internet hosting the Golden Globes,” she mentioned in a press release, per Vogue. “It’s one among my favourite nights of tv and now I get a entrance row seat. The Golden Globes will not be solely an enormous night time for TV and movie, but in addition for comedy. It’s one of many few occasions that present enterprise not solely permits, however encourages itself to be lovingly mocked (at the least I hope so). (God I hope so.)”

“It’s an thrilling, but difficult gig as a result of it’s stay, unpredictable, and in entrance of Hollywood’s largest stars (who additionally is perhaps getting wasted whereas seated subsequent to their current exes),” she continued. “A few of my favourite jokes of all time have come from previous Golden Globes opening monologues when Tina, Amy or Ricky have mentioned precisely what all of us didn’t know we desperately wanted to listen to. I simply hope to proceed in that point honored custom (which may additionally get me cancelled). That is really a dream job.”

The 2025 Golden Globes are going down on Sunday, January 5, 2025, at 8 p.m. EST.