Wot, no diamonds?
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 21 February 2006 at 16:21
Tags: Ethics, Mirror
The American tax man may be eyeing the pricey “goodie bags” handed out at film awards ceremonies, but here in Britain we seem to have no such worries. Just the opposite, in fact. The Mirror’s 3am Girls — Kiki King, Eva Simpson and Caroline Hedley — took the opportunity in their column yesterday to whinge about at their slim takings from this weekend’s Baftas:
They might be the British Oscars but the Baftas could learn a thing or two from Hollywood about goody bags.
Whereas your US A-listers might head home with £10,000 of diamond-encrusted watches and tooth-whitening sessions, last night’s attendees got, wait for it… a CD, a DVD of Bafta-winning film and a set of hair products from Nicky Clarke.
Oh, and the official awards brochure. We could hardly contain our excitement…
As Brand Republic editor Gordon MacMillan writes on his blog: “Journalists moaning about rubbish freebies — whatever next?”
