Ricky Gervais Articles

Ricky Gervais © HFPA Host of the 2012 Golden Globe Awards, Ricky Gervais, sporting a Ted Baker aubergine tux, arrives at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on Sunday, January 15. Gervais' expected roasting of the Hollywood celebrities in attendance (or elsewhere) has generated more buzz than the nominated films and performances. Just in case, among the nominees are Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Jean Dujardin, [...]

Will Tom Cruise boycott the Golden Globes ceremony if he gets a Best Actor nomination for Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol? (Hey, Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise and the Golden Globes are the Golden Globes; a Best Actor nomination in this case is as much a possibility as one for Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie for The Tourist, which, if you'll recall…) Ricky Gervais has [...]

Ricky Gervais is in talks to return as host to the Golden Globes ceremony in 2012, as per The Hollywood Reporter. Citing "a source close" to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), THR says that HFPA president Aida Takla-O'Reilly and Douglas Vaughn, senior vp specials at NBC, had dinner with Ricky Gervais in Paris "to discuss a potential deal." With Gervais ridiculing Hugh Hefner and [...]

Ricky Gervais announced on his website's "Golden Globes Diary" that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has asked him to return for the third time as host of the Golden Globes ceremony in 2012. Not long afterwards, the HFPA denied Gervais' claim (which may have been made in jest — just look at those shorts). "There is no truth to this rumor. We have not asked [...]