Baby Reindeer's Jessica Gunning Jokes She Almost Exposed 'My Golden Globes' While Accepting Award at 2025 Ceremony

Mar. 15, 2025

Jessica Gunning at the 2025 Golden Globes.Photo:CBS

CBS

Jessica Gunningnarrowly avoided a wardrobe malfunction at2025 Golden Globes!

After accepting the statue, Gunning joked about nearly falling while coming to the stage.

“I almost tripped up,” Gunning said at the start of her acceptance speech. “You’d have saw my Golden Globes then.”

Jessica Gunning at the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on Jan. 5, 2025 in Beverly Hills.Amy Sussman/Getty

Amy Sussman/Getty

Gunning also likened the feeling of winning to receiving a hamster as a Christmas gift as a kid.

“This is an absolutely honor,” Gunning said. “I honestly … there’s a video of me when I was little, over 8 years old, my mom and dad got me a hamster for Christmas and they brought it out in this bin bag — in a cage it wasn’t, just in a bin bag. Happy Christmas! And I’ve got a very Yorkshire accent. I kept saying, ‘I can’t believe this is happening to me. I can’t believe this is happening to me.’ "

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After her win, Gunning reflected on accepting her award fromBates.

“She’s one of my idols,” Gunning told PEOPLE. “It’s amazing.”

“Thank you for trusting me to be your Martha,” she later added. “I will never, ever forget her or you or this. It really means a lot.”

This year’s category was stacked with talent asLiza Colón-ZayasforThe Bear,Hannah EinbinderforHacks,Dakota FanningforRipley,Allison JanneyforThe DiplomatandKali ReisforTrue Detective: Night Countryrounded out the nominations.

Liza Colon-Zayas.FX

FX

Colón-Zayas, 52, portrayed the role of Tina Marrero in the hit FX series, which is about a Chicago restaurant and its eclectic kitchen staff. This is her first-ever Golden Globe nomination, and it came after another major first when shetook home her first Emmy winfor the same role in September 2024.

“Thank you to my husband David Zayas, he told me to write a speech and I didn’t, because I didn’t think it would be possible,” she said when accepting the Emmy. “How could I have thought it would be possible to be in the presence of Meryl Streep and Carol Burnett and Janelle and Sheryl Lee Ralph. I love you all, I revere you to the bottom of my heart.”

The Bearhad the most Golden Globe nominations this year, landing in five different television categories, including best musical or comedy television series. Colón-Zayas’ costar Ayo Edebiri, Jeremy Allen White and Ebon Moss-Bachrach also received nominations for their roles in the show.

Hannah Einbinder.Jake Giles Netter/Max

Jake Giles Netter/Max

Einbinder, 29, stars in the Max seriesHacks,as Ava Daniels, an up-and-coming writer who is hired to revive the career of Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), an out-of-touch and past-her-prime comedian. The drama finished airing its third season in May 2024, and just one day after the finale, season 4 was announced.

This is the third Golden Globe nomination for Einbinder, who was previously nominated for the same role in 2022 and 2023. In October, her mother, actressLaraine Newman, told PEOPLEhow amazed she wasabout her daughter’s rise to fame in comedy.

Dakota Johnson.Stefano Cristiano Montesi/Netflix

Stefano Cristiano Montesi/Netflix

In March, she toldPORTERabout her dreams for her future and reflected on growing up as an actress. “Being an actor is a huge part of my identity. I don’t really know who I am without it,” she said at the time, adding, “But I also have a desire to set up my life and career so that I always have a choice.”

She continued, “Having kids is probably more important to me than anything, even being an actor. If somebody said I had to choose, I would choose having kids. I’m one of those people who has always felt that pull.”

Fanning’s costar Scott was also named as a nominee for starring inRipley,and the show was nominated for best television limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television, as well.

Allison Janney.Courtesy of Netflix

Courtesy of Netflix

After joiningThe Diplomatin season 2, Janney, 65, quickly became a fan-favorite. She plays Vice President Grace Penn in the political thriller, which follows U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) and her husband Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell) as they try to prevent a global war.

“Just because she’s awesome and so good,” theFelicitystar, 48, said. “I love her. There’s a scene she does inPrimary Colors— that movie is so good — where she does this physical comedy fall up the stairs. So I think I was a little nervous, but she’s everything you want her to be. She’s gracious and funny and smart and cool.”

Kali Reis.Michele K. Short/HBO

Michele K. Short/HBO

Reis, 38, starred as Evangeline Navarro alongsideJodie FosterinTrue Detective: Night Country,in which she was praised forrepresenting the Indigenous communityas a Native woman herself. In September, she made history being the first Native woman to be nominated for an acting Emmy for the same role.

In March, Reis opened up about the similarities between her and her character, whom creator Issa López made an Alaskan Native after learning that rural Alaska was largely populated with Iñupiaq people.

“Issa took her time and really composed and created this character with so much care and so much time, and she was pretty much her stubborn little Scorpio self,” she said, joking: “I had to meet her where she was at, basically.”

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