Nikki Glaser regrets telling all about Leonardo DiCaprio gift
Nikki Glaser hadn't expected to receive so much attention after she revealed she had been sent pasta by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Nikki Glaser regrets revealing she received pasta from Leonardo DiCaprio.
The 41-year-old comic revealed earlier this week she had sent flowers to all the stars she had mocked while hosting this year's Golden Globe Awards, but only the One Battle After Another star had "sent something back", with the food parcel a playful nod to a joke she made about him during the ceremony.
But now, Nikki admitted she wishes she hadn't made the admission because she's worried the 51-year-old actor - who has been dating model Vittoria Ceretti, 27, since 2023 - will think she's "bragging" about their connection.
She told E! News: “Honestly the amount of press it got, I was a little embarrassed.
“Like, ‘Oh, he's gonna think that I'm just bragging about it.’”
Ultimately, Nikki only made the revelation on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon so she'd have something "funny" to talk about.
She laughed: “I was just trying to come up with a funny story for Fallon. I only have a few.”
During her appearance on the talk show, Nikki explained her Golden Globe joke about the Revenant actor.
She said: “I did a joke about Leonardo DiCaprio, which I was really struggling with because I was like, 'I just don't want to make the joke about how he has young girlfriends. It's been done so many times.' That joke's been going on longer than his current girlfriend's been alive.
"Me and my writing team found a Teen Beat article from 1991. I was like, 'Leo, we don't know anything about you. The only thing we know about you is from a Teen Beat article in 1991, where you told us your favourite food is pasta, pasta, and more pasta.'
"He sent me three baskets of pasta as a thank you. He sent me pasta. So funny. So good. Part of me was like, 'Does Leo want to smash?' Like, I was like, 'All right.' Then I was like, 'The type of girl he goes for, he wouldn't send pasta to.’ It was a dry pasta."
Ahead of the ceremony, Nikki had insisted she wouldn't make "obvious" jokes about Leonardo.
She told People magazine: "I don't think I'm going to go with the Leo jokes we've heard 25 times. I think we've all heard that — that's been done enough.
"My goal is always to try to not do what's expected or try to challenge myself to not say the thing that people are going to expect and try something else."
Nikki admitted finding something to joke about away from the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star's love life would be a "challenge".
She added: "That's going to be the challenge this year, is just finding anything else about him that is right for mockery, but not mockery.
"Also, he's a legend and was incredible in One Battle [After Another]."
