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WATCH: Ricky Gervais Explains Why He Says Things People Will ‘Hate’ Him For, Predicts Blowback Ahead Of Golden Globes

John Bickley
WATCH: Ricky Gervais Explains Why He Says Things People Will ‘Hate’ Him For, Predicts Blowback Ahead Of Golden Globes
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As revealed in an interview he gave ahead of his famed fifth and final time hosting the Golden Globes Sunday, Ricky Gervais was well aware that his brutal rebuke of Hollywood virtue-signaling would result in some major blowback against him.

In the interview — which Gervais promoted on Twitter Wednesday after gaining hundreds of thousands of new followers and spending the days since his self-declared “last time” hosting the show having yet more fun at his critics’ expense — the comedian predicts that people are going to “hate” him for the jokes he was about to deliver on national television.

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