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Chelsea Handler, Jo Koy
Chelsea Handler is looking back on her swipe heard around the awards show stage, sharing that she would’ve shaded ex-boyfriend Jo Koy regardless of who he was following his disastrous Golden Globes monologue.
“Listen, I would’ve done that had anybody thrown their writers under a bus,” Handler told Parade in a new cover interview published Friday. “I know more than anybody how valuable writers are. My whole life and my whole career is because I have great writers.”
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Koy, who was hired 10 days before the big ceremony, famously bombed his monologue at the 2024 show, and made what he would later call a “rookie move” and blamed his writers for the panned jokes, including one that described Greta Gerwig’s summer blockbuster Barbie as a movie about a “plastic doll with big boobies.”
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Handler took a swipe at her ex while hosting the Critics Choice Award that same year. In her monologue, the comedian spoke about her preference for older men, quipping that she would toss Martin Scorsese “around like a little Italian meatball.” In response to the laughter, Handler quipped, “Thank you for laughing at that. My writers wrote it.”
Handler and Koy, who had a decades-long friendship prior to their romance, began dating in 2021 and split nearly a year later. Announcing the breakup on social media, Handler said Koy “renewed my faith in men” and “in love.” In her Parade interview, Handler called the split “the first mature ending to a relationship that I was in.”
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“My behavior was mature and graceful,” said the comedian. “I honored the relationship by never actually divulging what happened, and I liked that version of myself. I’ve ended so many relationships where I lacked dignity and I lacked grace, and I was immature and vindictive. And I don’t want to be that way. I want to be better than that. I’m a woman now, I’m not a little girl.”
Handler is gearing up to host the Critics Choice Awards, broadcasting live on Jan. 12 on E!, for the third consecutive year. As for the upcoming 2025 Golden Globes on Jan. 5, comedian Nikki Glaser will take the stage as host.
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