Jousting over who’ll accept if Heath Ledger wins Golden Globe

Now that Heath Ledger has been posthumously nominated for a Golden Globe, there’s maneuvering behind the scenes as to who will accept the award should he win.

“Kim desperately wants to do it,” one cognoscento tells us of Heath’s father. “But the studio and the producers would rather have Michelle receive it on behalf of Matilda” - the couple’s daughter.

Some Hollywood insiders have speculated that the foreign journalists who decide upon the Golden Globes choose some nominees based on their attractiveness and star power, to goose up their televised awards show’s ratings. Michelle Williams, who broke up with Ledger four months before he died in January, is a lot purtier than the senior Ledger, who accepted an “Aussie” award for his son last weekend.

But a friend of the family tells us, “Why would Michelle be involved? She had nothing to do with the movie. They weren’t even together when he passed away. Would you have your ex-wife accept your award? And they weren’t even married. [Director] Chris Nolan or [star] Christian Bale would make more sense. Michelle makes no sense. It’s like those rumors that she would go to the premiere of ‘Dark Knight.’ That was never in the realm of possibility.”

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Published 12/15/08 by

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