America Ferrera Not Attending Golden Globes

Ugly Betty’s America Ferrera, nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a comedy series, will not be attending the awards ceremony on January 13th (airing on NBC). 

The Screen Actors Guild, to which Ferrera belongs, will be boycotting the Golden Globes, according to a statement by SAG president Alan Rosenberg.  Not a acting nominee will appear (that includes Ferrera).

"After considerable outreach to Golden Globe actor nominees and their representatives over the past several weeks, there appears to be unanimous agreement that these actors will not cross WGA picket lines to appear on the Golden Globe Awards as acceptors or presenters," Rosenberg said. "We applaud our members for this remarkable show of solidarity for striking Writers Guild of America writers."

Hollywood Foreign Press president Jorge Camara said in response to Rosenberg’s announcement, "[We] have been placed in an extremely difficult position with the ongoing Writers Guild strike. We are making every effort to work out a solution that will permit the Golden Globes to take place with the creative community present to participate."

That may mean taped acceptance speeches, as they are doing at Tuesday’s People’s Choice Awards. But networks like E! and TVGuide have got to be totally bummed: no stars on the red carpet?

The stars ARE being encouraged to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson.  Both of these shows have waiver deals with the WGA.

Maybe we’ll see America on Letterman?

Source: TVGuide