Actor John Travolta appears to have
acknowledged that Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais was ribbing him
during last Sunday's show.
The 49-year-old Gervais took a swipe at
Travolta a month after Carrie
Fisher outed him as gay.
“Not nominated, I Love You Phillip
Morris,” Gervais said in his opening monologue referring to the
gay-themed romantic-comedy. “Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. Two
heterosexual actors pretending to be gay. So the complete opposite
of some famous scientologist then.”
The line hit a nerve with the audience
and Gervais added, “Probably.”
“My lawyers helped me with the
wording of that joke,” he said. (The video is embedded in the
right panel of this page.)
On Sunday, celebrity
website TMZ.com posted a video of Travolta signing autographs for
fans after leaving an event at the Hollywood Palladium on Saturday.
“Hey John, how do you feel about
Ricky Gervais right now?” TMZ.com asked.
“Well, it's a roast, you know,”
Travolta answered.
In a December 10 interview with gay
glossy The Advocate, longtime friend Fisher was bluntly asked
about Travolta's alleged gay dalliances.
Fisher replied that “we know” and
“we don't care.”
“Look, I'm sorry that he's
uncomfortable with it, and that's all I can say,” Fisher said.
Previously, Gawker.com
was threatened by Travolta's lawyers for publishing Robert Randolph's
claim that the 56-year-old actor is gay.