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Jennifer Coolidge Deserves Standing Ovation for Hilarious Golden Globes Speech
Whoops! Wrong guy!
Because as Bill Nye the Science Guy precocious clarified, Jennifer Coolidge wasn't referring to him astatine the 2023 Golden Globes but alternatively the Love Actually actor Bill Nighy.
"When @jennifercoolidge talked astir pronouncing Nighy past night, it was not astir I," the famed subject educator wrote connected Instagram Jan. 11 alongside a photograph of him and Nighy and footage from Coolidge's speech. "But a fewer years ago, that Nighy assured this Nye that some of our names rhyme with 'guy.'"
In lawsuit you missed it, erstwhile presenting the Best Supporting Actor successful a Television Series award—which went to Abbott Elementary's Tyler James Williams—Coolidge admitted she had been hesitant to fulfill the honor. In summation to being tense she'd fall onstage oregon person issues with the teleprompter, The White Lotus star said her "biggest nightmare" would beryllium mispronouncing the nominees' names.
"Once I accidental somebody's sanction the incorrect way, I'm screwed," she said. "I americium screwed. I can't bash it. Like, you perceive it that 1 mode and you can't undo it."
Coolidge past told a communicative of however she erstwhile sat adjacent to Nighy—a Golden Globes nominee for his show successful the movie Living—at a meal enactment and kept mispronouncing his name. But the mode she said his surname successful the code made fans deliberation she was referring to Nye.
"Wowow wherefore did I deliberation Jennifer Coolidge was talking astir Bill Nye and not Bill Nighy..." 1 societal media idiosyncratic tweeted, with another adding, "Who other thought Jennifer Coolidge meant Bill Nye the Science Guy and not Bill Nighy LMAO." Wrote a third, "So galore radical are learning the quality betwixt Bill NYE and Bill Nighy contiguous and it's each acknowledgment to Jennifer Coolidge. 2023, you proceed to amaze. #GoldenGlobes."
Bringing the Sicilian edifice vigor ☀️ and presenting the grant for Best Supporting Actor - Television Series, #GoldenGlobes nominee @jencoolidge! pic.twitter.com/fSDGXvrz5n
— Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes) January 11, 2023This wasn't Coolidge's lone memorable infinitesimal from the night. The Legally Blonde alum besides stole the show aft she won the grant for Best Supporting Actress successful a Limited Series oregon TV Movie for her show successful play 2 of The White Lotus. In her speech, Coolidge reflected connected how much her life has changed since the aboriginal stages of her career, joking "neighbors are speaking to me—things similar that." And she looked backmost astatine however her aspirations person besides evolved.
"I conscionable privation you each to cognize that I had specified large dreams and expectations arsenic a younger idiosyncratic but what happened was that they get benignant of fizzled by beingness oregon whatever," she said astatine 1 point, "and I thought I was going to beryllium queen of Monaco adjacent though idiosyncratic other did it."
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