Golden Globes 2024 live: Awards show sees huge ratings boost with controversial host

Gillian Anderson had vaginas embroidered onto her Golden Globes Awards dress.

The 55-year-old Sex Education star donned a stunning white Gabriela Hearst gown while walking the red carpet. From far away, the gown seemed like an ordinary, cream-coloured gown, but up close, it was a different story. In a red-carpet interview with Deadline, the Crown alum confirmed, “It has vaginas on it.”

Asked why, she replied, “Oh, for so many reasons. For so many reasons. It’s brand appropriate.”

Most notably, they were served dishes from celebrity hotspot Nobu – the restaurant’s logo can be seen on the sushi dish’s serving platter in Klum’s video.

Chef Nobu Matsuhisa – the renowned chef behind the luxe restaurant chain – curated the exclusive menu.

In her video, Klum can be heard explaining to her followers that some of the dishes of the night included her Nobu “favourites” including seared miso black cod and yellowtail jalapeño sashimi. In the video, she can be heard telling the waiter, “I’m so excited about this. Can we have seconds?”

Speaking to GMA3 the morning after the ceremony, Koy said of his hosting experience: “I had fun. You know, it was a moment that I’ll always remember. It’s a tough room. It was a hard job, I’m not going to lie… I had an off night!”
The GMA3 presenter posited that Koy seemed “deflated”, to which he responded: “Yeah, I wanted to give more a little bit more of me and I [fell] short, that’s all.”

He added: “I’d be lying if [I said] it doesn’t hurt… Hosting is just a tough gig. Yes, I’m a stand-up comic but that hosting position it’s a different style.”

Streep and Seyfriend are known for starring as mother and daughter in the 2008 movie musical, Mamma Mia!, and the 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

Seyfried was posing for photos on the red carpet ahead of the awards show when Streep walked up next to her and kissed her on the cheek.

The 81^st Annual Golden Globe Awards averaged 9.4 million viewers, up +50 per cent from last year, according to Nielsen statistics.

The figure represents the ceremony’s biggest audience since 2020, the year before an LA Times investigation n revealed that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (the awards’ voting body) did not have a single Black member.

The HFPA dissolved, and the Globes brand was bought by Dick Clark Productions (owned by Penske Media, the parent company of Hollywood trade publications including The Hollywood Reporter and Variety). CBS bought the rights to air the show at a huge discount and the awards are now voted on by “more than 300 member journalists from around the world, of whom half are ethnically and racially diverse,” according to the Globes Foundation.

According to last night’s data, CBS will be very happy with their investment.

At last night’s joke-free Globes, Barbie took home just two awards – Best Original Song and a controversial new category celebrating Best Box Office Achievement, with Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and Greta Gerwig otherwise snubbed. Adam White asks what this means for its award season future