--- title: Jamie Lee Curtis Didn't Enjoy Fiji's Golden Globes Stunt description: The Halloween star is not a fan of Fiji Water Girl's appearance in her Golden Globes background photos. canonical: https://time.com/5497937/jamie-lee-curtis-golden-globes/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-09T16:17:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:49.385Z og:title: Jamie Lee Curtis Didn't Enjoy Fiji's Golden Globes Stunt og:description: The Halloween star is not a fan of Fiji Water Girl og:url: https://time.com/5497937/jamie-lee-curtis-golden-globes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt960d8903b6ad229b/698942f47cdbac1aadd5ed5e/jamieleecurtisgoldenglobes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4200 og:image:height: 2363 og:image:alt: 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jamie Lee Curtis Didn't Enjoy Fiji's Golden Globes Stunt twitter:description: The Halloween star is not a fan of Fiji Water Girl twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt960d8903b6ad229b/698942f47cdbac1aadd5ed5e/jamieleecurtisgoldenglobes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jamie Lee Curtis Did Not Appreciate the Fiji Water Bottles in Her Golden Globes Picture > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) Axelle/Bauer-Griffin—FilmMagic by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 9, 2019 4:17 PM UTC The Fiji Water Girl [stole the show](http://time.com/5495066/fiji-water-girl-76th-golden-globes/) at the [2019 Golden Globes](http://time.com/5494359/2019-golden-globes-recap/). Kelleth Cuthbert showed up in the background of nearly every star’s photo offering bottles of Fiji Water and making “[good face](http://time.com/5496584/fiji-water-girl-at-golden-globes/)” as she became one of the most notorious moments of the awards show. Jamie Lee Curtis, though, did not appreciate being photobombed by products for what she calls “blatant promotions.” The actor made her feelings known about being associated with brands in the photo. In a post on Instagram, Curtis wrote that her husband was watching CNN when he saw a photo of his wife with a caption that read that Curtis was “in danger of being upstaged” by Cuthbert. Curtis wanted to explain a few things about what happened when the photograph was taken. “I specifically moved away from the blatant promotions by Fiji and Moet where young women with their trays filled with their wares stood near a designated camera,” she wrote. “I knew why there was a photographer poised there and I moved away as I said out loud that I didn’t want to be doing advertising for either. Clearly this angle shows that I moved from her being behind me and yet from the side it still happens.” The _Halloween_ star ended her post by saying that the award show’s sponsors should simply ask the stars before making them props in their ad campaigns, noting: “The sponsors of events need to get permission from people when they get them to take their picture next to products.” Not every star took issue with the photos, though. _Riverdale_ star Lili Reinhart [dubbed](https://twitter.com/lilireinhart/status/1082731903789207552) Fiji’s Golden Globes event “the best publicity stunt ever pulled.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5497937/jamie-lee-curtis-golden-globes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5497937/jamie-lee-curtis-golden-globes/"},"headline":"Jamie Lee Curtis Did Not Appreciate the Fiji Water Bottles in Her Golden Globes Picture","datePublished":"2019-01-09T16:17:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:49.385Z","description":"The Halloween star is not a fan of Fiji Water Girl","url":"https://time.com/5497937/jamie-lee-curtis-golden-globes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt960d8903b6ad229b/698942f47cdbac1aadd5ed5e/jamieleecurtisgoldenglobes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt960d8903b6ad229b/698942f47cdbac1aadd5ed5e/jamieleecurtisgoldenglobes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"76th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals","caption":"76th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals","creditText":"Axelle/Bauer-Griffin—FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5497937/jamie-lee-curtis-golden-globes/","name":"Jamie Lee Curtis Did Not Appreciate the Fiji Water Bottles in Her Golden Globes Picture"}}]}] ```