Oprah may have gifted her audience cars but the Oscars just took it one step further.
Image via PixabayCelebrities attending on Sunday night brought home a goody bag called "Everybody Wins."
They sure did as there were goods around the $100,000 mark- just over €90,000.
The bags are separate from the Academy and organized by a private company Distinctive Assets.
Comedian Ricky Gervais took offence to the lavishness of it all on Twitter.
I'd start with "Hello. I hope this show helps cheer up the ordinary people watching at home. If you’re unemployed for example, take some comfort in the fact that even if you had a job, your salary probably wouldn't be as much as the goody bag all the actors have just been given."
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) March 27, 2022
Fair point, but what exactly was in those goody bags? Well, according to E! :
- A 3-night stay in Scotland's Turin Castle, worth $50,000, and inspired by Denzel Washington being nominated for Best Actor in The Tragedy of Macbeth - WITH butler service.
- A 4-night stay at the Golden Door resort in California worth $15,000
- A small plot of land in Scotland, along with the title Lord or Lady of Glencoe
- A $12,000 liposuction procedure from Dr. Thomas Su called “Celebrity Arms”
- $10,000 of “treatments and rejuvenation procedures” from Dr. Konstantin Vasyukevich
- A life coaching session with Kayote Joseph worth $1,200
- Popcorn
- $25,000 in home renovations from Maison Construction in L.A.
Peak Hollywood if you ask us.
If that's not enough, nominees can cook up a meal using gold infused olive oil, or avail of other services like healthy meal delivery or anti-aging serum just to name a few products.
Ironically, the founder of Distinctive Assets Lash Fary has said in a statement "While this gift bag does, as always, have an impressive value, that is neither our focus nor goal. A great gift has nothing to do with a price tag."
What do you think of the goody bags?
