WICKED: For Good has had less-than-favourable reviews compared to the first Wicked film, but there were still horrified gasps after it was snubbed from the biggest category in the Golden Globe nominations last night.
While Cynthia Erivo landed a Best Female Actor nod and Ariana Grande was nominated in the Best Supporting Female Actor shortlist, Jon M Chu’s film missed out for Best Film in the Musical/Comedy category.
Sydney Sweeney will also have her head in her hands as her new boxing biopic Christy failed to get a single nomination for the ceremony, which will take place next year in Los Angeles on January 11.
Leonardo DiCaprio will be ordering in the tequila though as his new film, One Battle After Another, is leading the nods in the film categories and is up for a total of nine Golden Globes, including Best Picture, Best Director and Screen Writer.
Sentimental Value is just behind with eight, while Michael B. Jordan’s Sinners has seven nods.
In the telly categories, The White Lotus leads the pack with six nominations, while Netflix’s brilliant Adolescence is just behind with five nods.
Its teenage acting sensation Owen Cooper is nominated in the Best Supporting Male Actor category.
His co-stars Erin Doherty, Ashley Walters and Stephen Graham — who lives just a stone’s throw from my mum — are also in the running for awards.
Plenty of other Brits feature in the TV categories, including Helen Mirren, Bella Ramsey, Adam Scott and Gary Oldman.
In films it’s not a stellar year for homegrown talent, with only Cynthia and Emily Blunt — up for her role in The Smashing Machine — representing us in the acting categories.
Irish stars Jessie Buckley and our favourite Glastonbury raver Paul Mescal both have nominations for Hamnet.
With luck, us Brits will bring it home with Adolescence, and my fingers are crossed for Aimee Lou Wood and Jason Isaacs in The White Lotus.
JESSIE J-JINGLES ALL THE WAY
JESSIE J was in a reflective mood as she closed the final night of Capital’s Jingle Bell Ball with Barclaycard.
She opened up about her tough year after she was diagnosed with breast cancer as she bounced through hits including Bang Bang, H.A.P.P.Y and Price Tag.
Jessie told the packed London’s O2 Arena: “A lot of this stuff is smoke and mirrors. What really matters is who we are behind the camera and what we do in our lives when we wake up in the day.
“I’ve learnt a lot this year. I’ve learnt to slow down and be more present. I’ve learnt to live more in the moment, and I’ve learnt to know that life is not promised in the way we might want it to be.”
Louis Tomlinson, Celebrity Traitor Cat Burns and Kylie Minogue also took to the stage for the show – which also saw Five pulling up in a massive hummer for their Barclaycard Out Of The Blue surprise performance.
JUNGLE WAS NO EASY RYDER
SHAUN RYDER was glued to I’m A Celebrity so he could cheer on fellow Mancunians Aitch and Angry Ginge – who was crowned King Of The Jungle on Sunday night.
But in an exclusive chat to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Happy Mondays’ landmark album Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches, Shaun, admits his time in the jungle in 2010 wasn’t such smooth sailing.
Shaun, who finished runner-up to Stacey Solomon, recalls: “I got really bad mosquito bites when I was in the jungle.
“My face swelled so much that medics had to come to my rescue. I also got badly bitten by a snake. But I survived.”
It didn’t get much better when he signed up to the All Stars series of the show back in 2023 either.
“My hip came out,” Shaun explains. “I was down on one of the low beds.
“And I dived out, forgetting where I was, and my hip just went boom.
“I screamed and woke the whole camp up.
“And I had to stick it back in straight away. It’s a titanium hip. But it just comes out.
“A couple of my implanted teeth were sticking into the side of my mouth, too.
“So I had blisters every time I opened my mouth. They really did cause me a lot of hassle.
“I think my teeth went from the crystal meth and crack cocaine.”
That’s rock ‘n’ roll for you.
MILEY GOT TRUMP’S BACKING
WE’VE seen a lot of unlikely celebrity friendships over the years, but Miley Cyrus and Donald Trump was not a pairing we saw coming.
Miley has revealed that the US President comforted her after her infamous 2013 MTV VMAs performance which saw her grinding up against Robin Thicke while belting out her hit We Can’t Stop.
The performance led to the former Hannah Montana star being slammed by prudish bores who branded it inappropriate.
On a recent episode of the Awards Chatter podcast Miley said: “It’s never been about that expectation of reaction for me.
“My mum is often the brains behind the crazy things.
“But it was all my idea and mum really supported it.
“I didn’t know what the big deal was and never thought it was a big deal until I woke up the next day.
“I was staying at the Trump hotel and Trump sent me a message saying, ‘Don’t let them get you down.’”
KYLIE MINOGUE is on course to land her 11th No1 album with her new festive record. Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) is currently holding Sam Fender‘s deluxe version of People Watching off the top of the charts.
Depeche Mode’s Memento Mori: Mexico City is also sitting at No6 but could climb higher ahead of Friday.
MILLIE SUCH A SWIFTY
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN is a self-confessed Swiftie and she used her encyclopaedic knowledge of Taylor Swift‘s albums to craft her monologue on Jimmy Fallon‘s The Tonight Show.
Referencing her Stranger Things character, Millie said: “Eleven has always been totally Fearless and that taught me to Speak Now. I wore a Red dress when we won our first SAG Award. And Eleven needs to save the world before 1989. Eleven gave me a Reputation.”
Finishing up, Millie added: “I had my first kiss on the show, married my Lover and had a baby girl. Like, isn’t that the best Folklore you’ve ever heard?
“I’m so lucky to have played Eleven and will be for Evermore in debt to the Duffers and Netflix for giving me this opportunity. I could keep thanking everyone, but I’d be here long past Midnight.”
Millie also took part in Pup Quiz – where for every question she got right she was given a dog to cuddle.
DUA’S DJ BRO KEEPS PARTY SPINNING
DUA LIPA is definitely going to be ready to put her trotters up after wrapping her mammoth Radical Optimism world tour.
After her final show in Mexico, Dua took her closest friends and family on a wild night out.
Her brother Gjin got up on the decks at a nightclub in the city, with Dua sharing snaps of them dancing together behind the booth.
An onlooker told me: “Dua and her family were really letting loose.
“There were drinking shots and dancing all night.
“People in the club were so excited to see them and Gjin is a really decent DJ – it clearly runs in the family.”
