Beyoncé and Jay-Z are never late to a party. Everybody else is just simply early. That’s why I didn’t bat an eye when I saw them standing in the back of the room at the 2020 Golden Globes on Sunday night (January 5), waiting for Kate McKinnon to finish her speech so they could take their seats. (It appears they showed up to the awards show in the middle of the SNL star tributing Ellen DeGeneres.) What did catch my eye, though, were the bottles of booze their apparent bodyguard was hiding behind his back.
Well, I didn’t see this with my own two eyes, exactly. It was on my TV screen—and brought to the surface by L.A. Times reporter Amy Kaufman who tweeted, “@Beyonce and Jay-Z just walked in. They’re waiting until Kate McKinnon finishes speaking to take their seats. Is their bodyguard carrying bottles of alc for them?”
Check out the image for yourself, below:
It’s not 100 percent clear if what Kaufman wrote is true, but regardless, what a mood. If I was Beyoncé, I would demand that a bodyguard carry bottles of champagne around for me at all times. And not just to awards shows: to the grocery store, to the gym, to file my taxes, to pick up my dry-cleaning. You never know when the desire to crack open a bottle of bubbly is going to come, right?
The internet is living for Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s surprise appearance at the Golden Globes. Below, just a few reactions.
Beyoncé was nominated for Best Original Song at tonight’s Globes. (She co-wrote “Spirit” from the live-action Lion King alongside Timothy McKenzie and Ilya Salmanzadeh.) Other nominees for the award included Taylor Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber (“Beautiful Ghosts,” Cats) and Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo (“Stand Up,” Harriet). The award, ultimately, went to Elton John and Bernie Taupin for their song “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” from Rocketman.