News about the 2012 Golden Globe Awards

Posted by Theresa Milano On Friday, January 6th 2012 in News

The Golden Globe Awards are going to take place one week from Sunday. As a result NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have only seven days in order to generate as much interest in the event as they can. For starters they reminded people that actors such as George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will be there. In addition they generated some controversy.

Ricky Gervais talked to Matt Lauer and discussed the 2011 Globes and his plans for the 2012 event. Although he aimed insults at celebrities last year, the man does not believe he did anything wrong.

“I don’t know what I did wrong, really. What did I say that was untrue?” Gervais asked.

It cannot be said that he actually did something wrong. It was rather something tasteless for which he half apologized since then.

“I’m not judging him by that,” Gervais said, talking about Robert Downey Jr. and his rehab experience in particular. “It’s a joke.”

“As soon as I heard you were going to do it again, I thought one of two things is going to happen,” Lauer said talking about the moment when he found out that Gervais was going to host the event once more. “He’s going to tone it down and not risk the controversy. Or he’s going to go in there with his freaking guns blazing.”

The man suggested that he may opt for the second option. He admitted that nobody will know what he is going to say at the event before he actually says it.