Two members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the body that organises the Golden Globes, have resigned, denouncing the organisation as “toxic” in a letter obtained by the LA Times.
The organisation was subsequently hit by an industry boycott and the cancellation of the TV broadcast of the 2022 Globes.
In their letter, Wenting Xu and Diederik van Hoogstraten said that “staying inside the association is no longer tenable for us”.
The LA Times reports that Xu and Van Hoogstraten have repeatedly complained to the HFPA, with one board member responding that Xu’s comments were a “hate campaign” and that she was “working … against us”.