Hungarian star journalist expelled from Golden Globe

The company behind organising the Golden Globe Awards ceremony fired Anikó Návai, a Hungarian star journalist. The reason was Ms Návai’s fake interview she ‘made’ with Scarlett Johansson back in 2021. 

According to Blikk, a Hungarian tabloid, Ms Návai was fired because of violating the company’s code of conduct. She was not the only one who was expelled. Howaida Hamdy and Munawar Hosain were also sacked because of the same reasons.

“According to sources, the three have been expelled for violating the organisation’s code of conduct following investigations into complaints about their behaviour”, Deadline, a movie industry magazine, said.

Golden Globe said goodbye to Egyptian journalist and critic Hamdy due to alleged extremist and anti-Semitic remarks she made in some of her reviews and tweets. Munawar Hosain is a Bangladeshi-born journalist who worked for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), just like the Hungarian Anikó Návai. The news outlet did not specify why the two were sent away.

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Fake interview with American film star

We know that both Návai and Hosain became members of the Golden Globe’s voting body due to an experiment to diversify it in 2021. Afterwards, Návai’s fake interview scandal broke out. She allegedly wrote an interview by compiling previous discussion segments without authorisation with the American celebrity for the Hungarian Nők Lapja (Ladies’ Magazine) newspaper. However, later, it became clear that the Johansson interview was not the only fake product of the Hungarian journalist living in Los Angeles, Blikk wrote.

All three were expelled after Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge acquired Golden Globes’ assets, rights and properties from the HFPA.

Currently, the voting body has 300 members from 76 countries, but the new owners have not yet revealed their names. The next Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be held on 10 January 2024.