Jeremy Piven Healthy Enough For The Golden Globes

In Scandalist‘s post about the mercury poisoning that kept Jeremy Piven from finishing Speed-The-Plow‘s Broadway run, we suggested that people give him the benefit of the doubt “unless he shows up on a red carpet next week.” It wound up being more like three weeks, but Piven was alive and seemingly well at the Golden Globes last night. You are now free to doubt.

“It was a completely humbling experience. It was like being taken out of a game,” said Piven, hoping for another Best Supporting TV actor award for Entourage. “I could have gone against doctor’s orders, but I didn’t. I’m just grateful to be here.” Yeah, no one wants “killed by sushi” in their obituary.

Show producer Mark Wahlberg couldn’t help but say he hoped it wasn’t contagious, inspiring Piven to ask NBC’s Tiki Barber if he’d ever been pulled out of a football game. ”If they did, I would have jumped back in there,” said the pro-turned-commentator. ”Tiki, you’re an iron man!” said Piven. Good thing he lost the trophy to Tom Wilkinson, or he might have dropped a fake cough or two in his acceptance speech.

Really, if you’re too sick to go back to Broadway (the play runs until February 22nd), it’s poor form to hit an award ceremony. Bro even hit an afterparty! Katie Holmes made it to the last performance of All My Sons, and she really looks like death.

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