The Golden Globes crowd was left shocked after Leonardo DiCaprio was roasted for dating younger women in a joke branded “cheap” by the host.
On Sunday (11 January), comedian Nikki Glaser set her sights on the One Battle After Another actor, 50, while hosting the Hollywood ceremony in Los Angeles, mocking him for his dating habits.
DiCaprio’s girlfriends have included Danish model Nina Agdal, who was 25 at the time, The Night Manager star Camila Morrone, who was 20, and he is now romantically linked to 27-year-old Italian model Vittoria Ceretti.
Glaser said during the ceremony: “What a career you've had: countless iconic performances, you've worked with every great director, you've won three Golden Globes, an Oscar, and the most impressive thing is you were able to accomplish all of that before your girlfriend turned 30.”
DiCaprio smiled and looked down, with Glaser apologising and calling her joke “cheap”.
She continued: “I tried not to make it but, you know, we don't know anything else about you, man. There's nothing else, open up."
Glaser joked that the most in-depth interview the actor ever did “was in Teen Beat magazine in 1991” when he was a child star, appearing in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, for which her received his first Golden Globe nomination.
"Is your favorite food still pasta, pasta and more pasta," she asked, with DiCaprio giving the comedian a playful thumbs up.
This isn’t the first time DiCaprio’s dating habits have been mocked at the Golden Globes. In 2020, Ricky Gervais, while discussing DiCaprio’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, said: “[It’s] almost three hours long – it’s an epic. Leonardo DiCaprio attended the premiere and by the end his date was too old for him.”
Ahead of this year’s ceremony, Glaser, who also hosted last year, said making jokes about celebrities is a sign of respect, which permits her to “get away with something negative”.
One Battle After Another and Netflix’s TV series Adolescence were the big winners on the night, earning four trophies each.
DiCaprio was beaten to Best Actor in a Film – Musical or Comedy by Timothée Chalamet, who won for Marty Supreme, while Brazilian Narcos star Wagner Moura won in the dramatic film category for his role in The Secret Agent, which also won Best Film (Non-English language.
Other winners included Jessie Buckley (Hamnet), Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You) in the Actress categories, with Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value) and DiCaprio’s One Battle co-star Teyana Taylor winning in the Supporting categories. Find the full list of winners here.
DiCaprio and Ceretti have been linked since 2023, with Ceretti recently stating in an interview with Vogue Australia: “As soon as you're in a relationship with someone who has a larger following than you, you become ‘girlfriend of’ — or ‘boyfriend of,’ for that matter.
“Suddenly, people are talking about you as so-and-so's girlfriend who was so-and-so's ex,” she continued. “So it's not nice to think that you can't love whoever you want, because of the labels people need to stick on you.”
Golden Globes 2026 winners: Full list of every movie and TV show
Golden Globes 2026 latest: Hollywood winners celebrate as Oscar frontrunners set
One Battle After Another and Adolescence win big at 2026 Golden Globes
Golden Globes viewers fume at CBS over ‘random’ and ‘forced’ UFC cameo
People We Meet on Vacation viewers have one complaint about No 1 Netflix film
