The Golden Globes has expelled three voters. Howaida Hamdy, Munawar Hosain and Aniko Navai were allegedly ousted for violating the organization’s code of conduct, according to media reports.
Hamdy, an Egyptian journalist, was under investigation for writing on social media that “Hollywood is the Zionists’ stronghold” and allegedly publishing other anti-Israel and anti-Semitic comments in her work, TheWrap previously reported.
Hosain was initially disciplined by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the now-disbanded organization that ran the Globes until recently, when he was found to have scalped his tickets to the 2017 ceremony for $39,000. At the time, TheWrap reported exclusively, he was banned from receiving tickets for two years. (Hosain claimed that he had given the tickets to a friend,
Hamdy, Hosain and Navai have been removed from the “Voters Biographies” page on the Golden Globes website. That page, which in the past had contained biographies of the approximately 100 members of the HFPA, now lists 289 journalists, some of whom were HFPA members but most of whom were not.
Earlier this year, the HFPA was dissolved when Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge Industries acquired the Globes from the HFPA, which had run the awards show for decades. The show had been reeling for
Existing members of the embattled organization were given the opportunity to remain as paid voters for the Globes, and Hamdy, Hosain and Navai continued to be listed on the website as voters, while the Globes recruited additional international journalists to make their roster of voters more diverse and more credible.
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