The Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation’s president was reportedly “shocked and upset” at Golden Globes host Jerrod Carmichael’s feedback about her throughout the award present final week.
Carmichael ripped the controversy-marred group in his monologue for this 12 months’s present, the primary to be broadcast since the Los Angeles Instances reported two years in the past that the group lacked variety and had zero Black members.
“I’ll inform you why I’m right here: I’m right here ’trigger I’m Black,” stated Carmichael, who later added that the group didn’t have a single Black member till George Floyd died in 2020.
The host stated he declined three invites to fulfill with the group’s president, Helen Hoehne, and referred to the request as a “lure.”
Hoehne wasn’t happy with the point out, and pals reportedy “consoled” her following the identify drop, sources instructed The Hollywood Reporter. (An “insider with ties to HFPA” denied that she responded emotionally.)
“The entire thing was so awkward and uncomfortable,” a supply instructed the outlet.
Carmichael’s monologue was additionally glossed over throughout an episode of a Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation podcast final week.
Group member Jenny Cooney instructed “Golden Globes Across the World” listeners that she and fellow members on the podcast would “skip proper forward” to dialogue about the remainder of the award present.
“We’re not going to speak concerning the host as a result of everyone has their very own opinion on the host,” Cooney stated.
The group didn't instantly reply to HuffPost’s request for remark.
Carmichael’s monologue, which was described as “completely sincere” by the award present’s broadcaster NBC, didn’t simply upset the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation.
Whitney Houston’s property weighed in after the comic talked about that the Golden Globes’ host venue — the Beverly Hilton — was the lodge the place the singer was discovered useless in 2012.
“The Whitney Houston Property is disillusioned within the joke and felt it was in poor style,” the property instructed TMZ in a press release.
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