Aubrey Plaza scheduled to present at 2025 Golden Globes amid husband Jeff Baena’s death
Aubrey Plaza was scheduled to hit the stage at the Golden Globes tomorrow, as news of her husband’s sudden death sends shockwaves across the industry.
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Aubrey Plaza was expected to present at the 2025 Golden Globes on Monday, with her attendance locked in before news of her husband’s tragic death.
Director and writer Jeff Baena, who married the White Lotus star in 2020, unexpectedly died at age 47 on Saturday.
The Parks and Recreation actress was on the list of more than three dozen presenters announced by the Golden Globes last week.
It’s unclear if she will attend the show, which will air live from Los Angeles’ Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Baena died Friday, US time, after taking his own life, according to TMZ.
He was reportedly found unresponsive in his Los Angeles-area home by an assistant.
The police responded to a call around 10.30am and reportedly announced him dead at the scene.
Plaza, 40, has not yet publicly commented on her husband’s death.
Her rep confirmed to Page Six that the family is “devastated” by pointing us to a statement given to Deadline.
The pair had been together since 2010 and the actress revealed via Instagram in 2021 that they secretly tied the knot in 2020 while they were in quarantine amid the Covid pandemic.
She later confirmed that it was her husband’s idea to get married, though his suggestion was originally a joke.
The post that the Golden Globe nominee used to reveal she was married appears to be the only public Instagram post she shared with Baena.
In the caption, she praised him as her “darling husband.”
Plaza later went on the Ellen DeGeneres Show where she opened up about their last-minute decision to tie the knot on their 10-year anniversary in 2020.
“I just said ‘It’s our 10-year anniversary, we should do something, get an ice cream cone, you know, do something special. And then I joked about getting married and he’s like ‘Well, we probably couldn’t get married that fast…’” Plaza began.
“I said ‘Wouldn’t it be nice to get married on our actual anniversary?’ And then I Googled it, and I found OneHourMarriage.com, and then I called around 5pm, and I said ‘Can you come in an hour and marry me in our yard?’
“I created a very quick love altar in our yard … Facts of our love, little stones, smoke, fire, things of that nature … And then the man [celebrant] showed up in a Hawaiian shirt and a briefcase. And I can’t remember a lot of it, it’s fuzzy, but I’m pretty sure it’s legal.”
The couple did not share any children, though she told GQ in 2022 that she thought about getting pregnant during the pandemic.
During the same interview, she gave a glimpse of her married life as she compared her real marriage to that of her White Lotus character, Harper.
“I’ve been with my husband for 12 years. I relate to being in a relationship that has peaks and valleys, and going through a rough patch and comparing yourself to another couple that seems perfect,” she said.
This story originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission
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