Ricky Gervais and Mel Gibson came face-to-face during the Golden Globes leading to quite the awkward moment. 
 
 “I blame NBC for this terrible situation,” Gervais said before bringing Gibson up. “Mel blames…well, we know who Mel blames.” 
 
 The comedian also joked about Gibson’s alcohol problem, but said he’d rather have a drink with Gibson than Bill Cosby. 
 
 After coming out, Gibson responded, “I love seeing Ricky every three years because it reminds me to get a colonoscopy,” which prompted Gervais to return to the stage, making for one of the strangest moments in Globes history. 
 
 Gervais, with drink in hand, then put his arm around Gibson and said he had one question. 
 
 Bleeped out for audiences at home, Gervais inquired,”What the f— does sugar—s mean?” to awkward laughter from the audience. 
 
 Gervais is referencing Gibson’s run-in with the law in 2006. While being arrested for a DUI, Gibson asked a female police officer “what do you think you’re looking at, sugar t–s?” 
 
 Gervais didn’t just call out Gibson though during his time hosting the award show. His monologue included jabs at Sean Penn, Caitlyn Jenner and “The Martian” being included as a comedy film. ||||| To Hollywood, California, where the fatted calf is advised to complete its bucket list inside the next 48 hours. By way of consolation, the cause in which it is to be slain could scarcely be more noble: the welcome home of cinema’s Mel Gibson. 
 
 Sunday night sees the Golden Globes ceremony take place, and organisers have completed the most uplifting of story arcs by deciding that Mel should be on stage to present an award. We don’t know which award, we don’t know if he has any new material. If I were Mel, I would open with an ice-breaker. Maybe walk to the mic, take a long pause, then arch an eyebrow and shrug: “And they say the Jews run Hollywood …” 
 
 But, you know, up to Mel. 
 
 It must be said that returning Globes host Ricky Gervais has greeted the news of Mel’s involvement with the words: “Thank you, Jesus.” So you may care to cast any interaction between the two men as a battle between Ricky’s mischievous atheism and Mel’s ultra-conservative Catholicism. Ricky always has all the best lines, but Mel has a $70m private church compound in the Malibu hills. You get the feeling that if they met in the wilderness, Mel would smite him. 
 
 Whichever way you shake it, though, it all caps a stunning – and stunningly predictable – return to the Hollywood firmament for Mel. He’s back. Lord knows there was a time when you would have remarked that Mel couldn’t get arrested in Hollywood, except for the fact that arrested was pretty much all he could get. 
 
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 DUI, domestic violence battery: in many ways, Mel was the last great charge-sheet all-rounder, as at home playing a sexist antisemite as he was bringing life to taped recordings featuring threats of homicide, admissions of assault in front of an infant, and deathless observations such as the one that he “deserve[s] to be blown fast” or arson may ensue. You can never really read anyone else’s relationship, but in Mel’s case there was always the audiobook. 
 
 As for how he returned to the fold, there will be a load of theories. But Lost in Showbiz has compiled a personal highlights reel of milestones on the road to industry redemption. 
 
 It was cold out there for a few years, despite two starring roles: one in an Edge of Darkness remake, and one in The Beaver, a domestic drama flop about an alcoholic in crisis – yup – directed by his friend Jodie Foster. But in 2011, Mel was thrown a high-profile lifeline back to system compliance by drearissimo franchise bore Robert Downey Jr, whose money-shitting turn as Iron Man appears endlessly satisfying to this once-interesting actor. When he was honoured for lifetime achievement at the American Cinematheque Awards, Robert chose Mel to be the one to hand the gong over to him, telling the audience: “I humbly ask that you join me, unless you are completely without sin, and in which case you picked the wrong fucking industry, in forgiving my friend of his trespasses and offering him the same clean slate that you have me and allowing him to continue his great and ongoing contribution to our collective art without shame.” 
 
 Their collective art duly moved to allow it, resulting in Gibson starring in the world cinema classic Expendables 3 – overlooked by the Academy, yes, but still an incredibly moving look at steroid abuse in the senior citizen community. 
 
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 The next step involved Mel going back to beginnings and becoming temporarily Australian again, choosing Sydney as the base for his directorial return. Hacksaw Ridge is a second world war movie, which tells the story of a misunderstood religious loner who declines to fight Hitler (yes, I know), but ends up being honoured in the end. Anyway, Australia. For a country that had rather washed its hands of Mel back around the time of the DUI arrest, the move was a bit of a litmus test. But this phase of the road back was judged to be complete when the New South Wales premier himself tweeted: “Welcome back Mel Gibson. New movie Hacksaw Ridge to be filmed in NSW bringing 720 jobs and $26 million.” 
 
 Running in tandem to all these penitential acts, of course, has been Gibson’s assiduous purchase of indulgences. Look, it may be his own, aforementioned church (last recorded congregation: 70) to which Mel keeps donating millions of tax-free dollars. But until some reforming entertainer nails 95 theses to the door of Malibu’s heavily fortified Church of the Holy Family, it all counts on the great penance abacus in the sky, OK? 
 
 And, ultimately, there was the drawing of lines under stuff. In 2014, Mel used an interview to declare how over he was apologising to the Jews and whatnot. “It’s an eight-year-old story,” he said of The Unpleasantness on the hard shoulder of a Malibu coastal highway. “It keeps coming up like a rerun. All the necessary mea culpas have been made copious times,” he ruled. “So for this question to keep coming up, it’s kind of like … I’m sorry they feel that way, but I’ve done what I need to do.” 
 
 Quite so. The stage is now set for the final chapter in this quasi-redemptive story, in which Mel wins next year’s best actor Golden Globe – and is presented with it by none other than highway patrol officers Jew and Sugartits. ||||| The two-minute clip of Mel Gibson using a racial slur and calling his ex-girlfriend a "whore" during an argument are unlikely to be the last ugly words the public hears from the actor. 
 
 FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2010 file photo, Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva arrive at the "Edge Of Darkness" Premiere in Paris. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, file) (Associated Press) 
 
 RadarOnline.com, the celebrity website that posted the recording Friday, says there's more where that came from. 
 
 For 10 days, the site has posted written transcripts of secret recordings it said Gibson's former girlfriend, Russian singer Oksana Grigorieva, had made. The snippet released Friday is the first audio of the confrontations that have been aired. 
 
 The clip includes segments in which a voice that sounds distinctly like the Academy Award winner is heard telling Grigorieva that she is dressing too provocatively and that it would be her fault if she were raped. He uses the N-word at one point, and the recording is laced with his profanity. 
 
 Shortly after the posting, entertainment news outlets reported that Gibson had been dropped by talent agency William Morris Endeavor, although that decision appeared to have been made days ago. The agency did not return phone calls and an e-mail seeking comment. 
 
 David Perel, RadarOnline's founder and executive vice president, told The Associated Press that the site had heard "a substantial portion" of 30 minutes of recordings Grigorieva had made. Perel said more audio clips will likely be released in coming days. 
 
 The site reported the 40-year-old made the recordings because she was afraid Gibson might harm her. 
 
 The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating allegations that Gibson was involved in a domestic violence incident with Grigorieva, with whom he has an 8-month-old daughter. That inquiry is expected to take several weeks before it reaches prosecutors, who will decide whether to press charges. 
 
 Gibson's camp, for its part, remained silent Friday about the recording. Spokesman Alan Nierob did not issue a comment on the audio's contents. 
 
 Grigorieva's attorney, Marci Levine, also did not return a phone message seeking comment. 
 
 It is the second high-profile incident in which Gibson has been accused of using slurs and degrading women. He apologized after his drunken driving arrest in 2006 after it was revealed by another celebrity website, TMZ, that he had made anti-Semitic and sexist comments. 
 
 In the recordings released Friday, the actor is heard criticizing Grigorieva, 40, for the way she dresses. He accuses her of lying to him about having breast implants. 
 
 "They just look stupid," Gibson tells her at one point in the recording. "Keep them if you want to. They look like a Vegas bitch, a Vegas whore." 
 
 "You look like a (expletive) bitch in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of (N-word), it will be your fault," Gibson is heard telling Grigorieva. "You provoked it. You are provocatively dressed." 
 
 It is unclear when the recording was made or in what context. It opens with Gibson discussing breast feeding of their now 8-month-old daughter. Toward the end, Gibson indicates he is done with the relationship. 
 
 "I don't trust you," the actor is heard saying. "I don't love you. I don't want you." 
 
 The former couple have been locked in a bitter custody dispute in Los Angeles. Records in the court case, which may include the audio recordings, remain sealed. 
 
 Perel said RadarOnline has verified it is Gibson on the recording. 
 
 The website, owned by American Media Inc., which also owns the National Enquirer, did not say how it obtained the tapes. Perel told the AP the site did not pay for the recordings and that they did not come from Grigorieva. 
 
 He said the site felt it was an important story to publish, despite the disturbing content. He said in some of the recordings, Gibson and Grigorieva's infant daughter can be heard screaming in the background. 
 
 The screaming is not present in the audio released Friday. 
 
 "We felt it was so newsworthy and so explosive we simply had to report what we heard," Perel said. 
 
 "It is shocking, not only for content _ which is horrific _ but for tone," he said. "It is one of the most vile things we have ever heard."
– Mel Gibson has been persona non grata for some time in Hollywood, following a string of headline-making infractions, including DUI troubles and accusations of anti-Semitism and domestic violence. As the Guardian puts it, "There was a time when you would have remarked that Mel couldn't get arrested in Hollywood, except for the fact that arrested was pretty much all he could get." But Gibson showed up on the Golden Globes stage tonight, and that put host Ricky Gervais—who had poked fun of Gibson at the 2010 awards—on the spot. "I like a drink as much as the next man—unless the next man is Mel Gibson," Gervais said six years ago, and he chastised the Globes' network Sunday night for making him face his target, saying, "I blame NBC for this terrible situation" and adding, "Mel blames ... well, we know who Mel blames," Variety reports. Still, he noted, "I'd rather have a drink with him in his hotel room tonight than with Bill Cosby." Gibson, for his part, played the straight man and just introduced clips from Mad Max: Fury Road—though he did say, "I love seeing Ricky every three years because it reminds me to get a colonoscopy."