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Golden Globes 2023: Ana De Armas, Billy Porter & More to Present
Jerrod Carmichael kicked disconnected the 2023 Golden Globes by addressing the contention surrounding the awards show—and candidly sharing his thoughts starring up to the Jan. 10 gig.
Last year, NBC announced the Golden Globes would not beryllium airing connected TV amid criticism of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's deficiency of diverseness among its members. (Since then, the HFPA has accrued diverseness wrong their association.)
Flash guardant to this twelvemonth and, arsenic Jerrod explained during his opening monologue, the hosting gig was not 1 helium was definite about.
"I got an email from my publicist saying that Helen [Hoehne], the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, wanted to person a one-on-one sit-down with me," helium shared, "and I said, 'No thanks.' I cognize a trap erstwhile I perceive a trap."
Jerrod continued by noting that his publicist told him, ‘Well, they're not truly asking, Jerrod, they're insisting that you instrumentality the meeting.'
He continued, "And I'm, like, 'Or what? They're going to occurrence maine they haven't had a Black big successful 79 years, they're going to occurrence the archetypal one? I'm un-fireable."
The 35-year-old explained that the gathering was to pass him of the changes made by the HFPA successful regards to diversity.
"I heard they got six caller Black members," helium said. "Whatever. Congrats to them. That's not wherefore I'm here. I'm present genuinely due to the fact that each of you. I look retired into this country and I spot a batch of talented radical that I admire."
According to the HFPA, the voting assemblage is present made up of 200 members that are 52 percent pistillate and 51.5 percent racially and ethnically diverse.
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Don't miss E!'s 2023 Golden Globe Awards Live From E! reddish carpet today, Jan. 10, starting astatine 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT followed by the Globes telecast astatine 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT connected NBC and Peacock.
