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If you thought Jennifer Coolidge was referring to Bill Nye alternatively of Bill Nighy successful her Golden Globes speech, you're not alone. The Science Guy, 67, precocious revealed that adjacent his ain sister got confused.
"My sister called me, my sister!" helium exclusively told E! News astatine the seventh yearly Blue Jacket Fashion Show successful New York connected Feb. 1. "'You won the Golden Globe?' 'No! That's the different guy.'"
Nye did, however, erstwhile conscionable Nighy successful New York. "He was successful a play called Skylight, and I went and saw it," the famed subject pedagogue continued. "Thought it was great. And past we some ended up astatine the [same] restaurant, and I took a selfie with him. He's a precise bully guy. And helium reassured america that helium pronounces his sanction the aforesaid mode I do."
Although, Nye reiterated the 2 spell their past names differently. "His, I deliberation it's Gaelic, from determination successful the British Isles," he added. "Nye is simply a misspelled Danish connection for 'new.' It's misspelled, but it looks bully connected New Year's Eve. N-Y-E, that's it."
In lawsuit you missed the viral moment, Coolidge presented an grant astatine the 2023 Golden Globes successful January and told a communicative astir however she was tense to bash the honors retired of fearfulness she'd fall, misread the teleprompter oregon mispronounce someone's name.
"Once I accidental somebody's sanction the incorrect way, I'm screwed," The White Lotus star, who took location a trophy of her ain that night, said. "I americium screwed. I can't bash it. Like, you perceive it that 1 mode and you can't undo it."
Coolidge past recalled however she erstwhile sat adjacent to chap nominee Nighy astatine a meal enactment and kept saying his sanction incorrectly. However, immoderate viewers thought she was referring to Nye.
The End Is Nye big past set the grounds straight. "When @jennifercoolidge talked astir pronouncing Nighy past night, it was not astir I," helium wrote connected Instagram. "But a fewer years ago, that Nighy assured this Nye that some of our names rhyme with 'guy.'"
While Nye mightiness not beryllium a movie prima similar the Love Actually alum, helium was a runway prima astatine the Blue Jacket Fashion Show, which was sponsored by Janssen Oncology and supported the nonprofit ZERO – The End of Prostate Cancer. He wore a suit by Nick Graham on with a Planetary Society spot and expressed the value of aboriginal detection, noting, "We privation men to get immoderate signifier of prostate oregon hormone cheque each year."
- Reporting by Saryn Chorney
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