Richard Gadd has insisted he did not forget his Scottish roots after ditching a kilt to don a £10,000 Dior tuxedo to the Golden Globes.
The Scots comedian, 35, claims that despite the luxurious style change, being brought up in a “small Scottish village” is keeping him grounded.
He wore a black wool and silk double-breasted tux with a black cotton shirt and silk tie with black leather derbies to the event.
Dior’s fashion house stylists also designed and created a special thistle brooch for him to wear.
Gadd, who comes from Wormit, Fife, said: “I’ve done the kilt thing a couple of times now at award shows, so I thought it was time to do a departure.
“But I didn’t want to neglect my Scottish roots entirely, which is when Dior came up with the silver thistle which I thought worked really well.
“It was the national flower of Scotland. It always feels quite surreal to me and quite positive to go from such a small Scottish town where not much was going to places like the Golden Globes and the Emmys.
“It feels like a nice reminder and keeps me grounded.”
Gadd, who wrote and starred in the hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer, is celebrating this week after the show picked up another two gongs at Sunday’s awards bash.
“For public appearances, he says he now has “a formula to trust the process a bit" when it comes to style.
“You follow from the initial sketches and then I do voice it if I think it’s going in an odd direction. But this one was really straightforward,” he said.
Gadd’s show won best television limited series at the Golden Globes, and his co-star Jessica Gunning, who plays a stalker called Martha, picked up best supporting female actor on television.
He said: “It was pretty epic, such a surreal evening, and two out of three isn’t bad. I just really enjoyed myself... It was quite surreal for me to be styled by Dior.
“I always remember the Charlize Theron adverts. I know that was the perfume, but it’s always stuck in my mind.
“It felt like a nice milestone to be dressed by them. It is very smooth. It felt silky, it flowed.
“I think I’ve always felt best when I’ve done something that I think reflects me. I feel like signature authenticity would be my thing.”
Gadd is working on a new television series for the BBC and HBO called Half Man.
“I’m writing that in the day and doing some nice little events and stuff in the evening, ” he said.
Earlier this week, the Record revealed that the real-life inspiration behind the stalker, Martha, had hit out over the show’s latest award wins.
Scots law graduate Fiona Harvey, 59, is suing Netflix for £130 million, claiming she has been defamed. The character Martha is depicted in the show as having been convicted and sent to prison for stalking once historically and again as a result of her actions in the show. However, Harvey has pointed out that she has no criminal convictions though a first instance harrassment warning was taken out on her by Gadd some years ago.
She has also been accused by Scots barrister Laura Wray of terrorising her, an event Harvey denies but which has been closely replicated in the TV mini-series.
A trial is set for later this year over the streaming channel’s claim, “This is a true story” – seen in the opening credits.
Harvey said: “I think the media should concentrate on ‘Who is the rapist?’.
“I’m not the rapist. I’m just stuck in the middle of all of bloody-well this, feeling ghastly, physically sick.”
Speaking of the award-winning portrayal of Martha by Gunning, Harvey said: “I think she is a c**p actress. I think she knew exactly what she was doing, a woman sitting there vilifying another woman who has done nothing.
"I do not have a high opinion of either of them. It's a load of drivel.
“I’m not very happy about this at all.”
Baby Reindeer is said to be based on the real-life experiences of comedian and writer Gadd who met Harvey while working as a barman in London’s Hawley Arms pub. After the show was aired, he asked viewers not to speculate over the real people who inspired the series.
By then internet sleuths had identified Harvey from identical tweets to those used in the show.
Harvey filed her lawsuit in the US last June and has accused Netflix of spreading “brutal lies”, including that she is a “twice-convicted stalker who was sentenced to five years in prison”.
She said: “I’ve already put my life on hold for a year. I can't do that anymore. Baby Reindeer is a lie.”
Speaking to the Record, Harvey’s lawyer, Richard Roth of Roth Law claimed the Golden Globes had acknowledged the show is fictional.
Roth said: “During his acceptance speech, Richard Gadd stated that he wanted to tell ‘his’ story. In addition, while walking to accept the Golden Globe Award, the announcer made clear that the bus stop that Martha stalked Gadd from was fictitious. Thus, it is obvious that Netflix continues to spin – indeed, hide from – the fact that it wrongfully labelled the series and did nothing to camouflage Martha.
"To be clear, the show’s success is not because it was Gadd’s story but because it was sold as a ‘true’ story. So, while Netflix continues to soak up major awards, the labelling of the series as ‘true’ was dishonest. There will be a time and a place for a jury to decide whether Netflix should be accountable for its conduct.”
Netflix denies the claims and has vowed to vigorously defend Gadd’s right to tell his story.
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