Golden Globes: Two members resign from “toxic” Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Golden Globes, have resigned in protest at the organisation.Wenting Xu and Diederik van Hoogstraten said in a letter (obtained by the LA Times) that the HFPA was “toxic”, which comes after an exposé earlier this year alleged corruption and lack of diversity in the association.In their reasoning, the two claimed that the “majority of the membership resists deep change” and that new rules aimed at improving diversity had been “watered down to meet the demands of a majority of the current Board and many change-averse members”.They also alleged that there was a culture of “insulation, silence, fear of retribution, self-dealing, corruption and verbal abuse”, adding: “The HFPA continues to accommodate a toxic environment that undermines