Not that long ago Kate Winslet fell foul of the world’s press when she made a bit of a fool herself by – to use the Norn Irish vernacular – gurning her lamps out at the Golden Globe film awards in a swanky Los Angeles hotel. After winning a much sought after gong, she proceeded to blub, puff and gush her way through an acceptance speech in which she thanked everyone from each of her fellow nominated stars to her husband to quite probably her childhood pets. Of course, it wasn’t the first time this has happened at such a ceremony – in the past Gwyneth Paltrow, Halle Berry and countless others have all broken down onstage when given golden statuettes. Their largely unintelligible babbling about life-affirming roles was only partly obscured by their sniffling and wailing. Continue reading →