Gervais ‘wouldn’t mind’ hosting the Golden Globe awards again
RICKY Gervais wants to host the Golden Globe awards again.
The ‘Muppets Most Wanted’ actor’s stints of fronting the ceremony in 2010 2011, and 2012 saw organisers come under fire for his daring gags about stars including Ashton Kutcher, Kim Kardashian and Mel Gibson, so thinks it is best to wait until the controversy is completely forgotten before he takes the helm again.
Asked by ‘Access Hollywood’ if he would host the show again, he said: “I wouldn’t mind. Well, not yet, but, yeah. Give it a few years. Let everything (settle).”
It seems Gervais — who was replaced as host by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler — has had a change of heart as he previously vowed not to front the ceremony again.
Speaking after his third stint in 2012, he said: “Thank (expletive) that’s over. I had a blast actually. It was by far my favourite of the three hosting stints.
“I’ve told my agent to never let me be persuaded to do it again though. It’s like a parachute jump. You can only really enjoy it in retrospect when you realise you didn’t die and it was quite an amazing thing to do.”
However, in 2011 he ruled out fronting the ceremony for a third time and later changed his mind.
When asked that year if he would host again, he replied: “It’s doesn’t real ly matter because I’m not going to do it anyway. I said I wouldn’t do it a second time but I think twice is enough.”
Meanwhile, Gervais has joked he would send Justin Bieber to bed if he was his manager.
The
actor admits he wouldn’t be very good at managing other people’s careers because he’s a “control freak”, but he thinks the troubled pop star would benefit from staying away from the limelight for a bit following his recent run-ins with the law.— BANG Showbiz