Let’s address the extremely handsome elephant in the room: Jeff Goldblum is ageing far better than any mortal human being should be allowed to do. It’s insane. The man was never lacking in the looks department in his formative years, but my god – MY GOD – he’s like visual velvet now. It is a marvel.
And to think none of this might have ever happened if an infamous report filed by Richard Wilkins on The Today Show in 2009 turned out to be true.
The report itself is the stuff of legend, but for those of you who don’t remember, Dickie announced to the world that Goldblum had died after falling off a cliff while filming in New Zealand. This, on the same morning that both Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett had passed away. Rule of threes and all that.
The only problem with Wilkins’ report was that a) Goldblum was not filming, b) He had never been to New Zealand, and c) He was extremely alive at the time, a condition he manages and maintains to this day.
Goldblum, unsurprisingly, is one of the GQ Australia Men of the Year for 2017, and in his subsequent profile with the magazine he opened up on the experience of being announced dead by a morning TV show halfway around the world.
He apologised and I said there’s no need, that it could happen to anybody. He gave me a copy of his book and inscribed it beautifully. It’s one of my cherished objects. If there was fire in this house, I would run in and get that first, maybe the family the second.
That’s class, right there. GQ-level class. Sophistication. Poise. Grace and humility.
Goldblum also quipped on the location of his supposed death, figuring that if he died there then he might as well go visit one day.
I’d like to go to New Zealand. But I wouldn’t like to fall off a cliff there.
Handsome AND hilarious. Goodness me. *fans self*
And now, for no other reason, let us bask in Goldblum’s photoshoot for the associated magazine.
The last, but not least, #GQMOTY award goes to Mr @jeffreygoldblum as 2017’s International Icon of the year. Watch what he had to say: https://t.co/KqSVh76T3p pic.twitter.com/6WRowCbu0O
— GQ Australia (@GQAustralia) November 15, 2017
I mean, come on.
