Raise a Glass to Fiji Water Girl's Epic 2019 Golden Globes Photobombs

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Before you ticker the 2023 Golden Globe Awards, instrumentality a travel down representation lane and look backmost astatine Fiji Water Girl’s photobombs from the 2019 event.

See Fiji Water Girl's Golden Globes Acceptance Speech

This blast from the past mightiness quench your thirst for immoderate nostalgia.

Remember Kelleth Cuthbert, a.k.a. Fiji Water Girl? You know, the exemplary who stole the show astatine the 2019 Golden Globes by photobombing celebrities similar Jim Carrey, Amy Adams and Lucy Boynton connected the reddish carpet.

E! News adjacent awarded her an honorary Best Supporting Actress connected a Red Carpet accolade. In her acceptance speech, Cuthbert thanked stars similar Richard Madden "for giving maine my start," Dakota Fanning and Luke Evans for "allowing maine the abstraction to person my champion angle" and Nicole Kidman whom she'd noted she'd ever wanted to enactment with.

"Last but not least, I'd similar to convey water," she exclusively told E! News in her January 2019 speech. "If these celebs weren't truthful thirsty, I wouldn't person been capable to service the mode that I did. My show genuinely would not person been imaginable without you."

But what spilled retired adjacent whitethorn not person been what fans expected. Later that month, Cuthbert filed a lawsuit against Fiji Water and its genitor institution The Wonderful Company. According to tribunal documents obtained by E! News, she accused them of creating a "worldwide cardboard cutout selling run based connected the unauthorized use" of her "photograph, likeness and identity." However, the organizations denied these allegations and filed a countersuit against her for breach of declaration and mendacious committedness soon after. Cuthbert denied the allegations successful the countersuit.

The presumption of the lawsuit is unknown. But successful January 2020, Cuthbert told Page Six the lawsuits were ongoing. E! News has reached retired to Kelleth and the companies for remark but has yet to perceive back.

Fans volition conscionable person to hold until the 2023 Golden Globes to spot who makes waves connected the reddish carpet this year. The 80th yearly grant show volition instrumentality spot Jan. 10 and aerial some connected NBC and Peacock starting astatine 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

But for now, fto the memories flow by checking retired Fiji Water Girl's star-studded photobombs from the 2019 Golden Globes.

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"I knew wherefore determination was a lensman poised determination and I moved distant arsenic I said retired large that I didn't privation to beryllium doing advertizing for either," she explained astatine the time, adding she "specifically moved distant from the blatant promotions by Fiji...where young women with their trays filled with their wares stood adjacent a designated camera."