Todd Boehly to the rescue! Via his private equity firm Eldridge Industries the billionaire sports mogul (owner of Chelsea Football Club and the Los Angeles Lakers) has bought-up the beleaguered Golden Globes in a bid to restore its integrity as an arbiter of cinematic excellence (that’s his story and he’s sticking to it).
And boy did the Globes need a white knight. Claims of petty corruption among the judging body (the now sort-of-disbanded-but-still-kind-of-part-of-it Hollywood Foreign Press Association), as well as sexual harassment and a lack of diversity among HFPA membership, had brought the ceremony to such a point of existential crisis that in 2022 no television network wanted to screen it, and it took place entirely on Twitter.
