Sprinkler malfunction turns Globes red carpet into wet carpet

The red carpet at the Golden Globes suffered a fashion disaster all of its own last night after an errant sprinkler soaked a section of the walkway before the main event got underway.

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A huge puddle formed on the affected section after a sprinkler suffered a "malfunction" leaving organisers in a panic just hours before Hollywood's finest were due to start walking the carpet.

A tweet from a local photographer showed the moment disaster struck for the crimson rug.

"We can confirm that there was a malfunction with a sprinkler near the red carpet," read a joint statement from the show’s brain trust: the Beverly Hilton, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and Dick Clark Productions.

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Workers quickly leapt into action using high-powered vacuums to suck up most of the water which was cleared before the event began, although there were eyewitness reports that suggest the soaked carpet "smelled like sewage".

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It looks like heat from one of the huge lights used to illuminate the red carpet could have set the fire sprinkler off as an eyewitness explained to Yahoo "I was standing right there when it went off. A light was too close to the sprinkler".

"The situation was quickly resolved,” the producers’ statement concluded. "Despite the incident the red carpet will open at its regularly scheduled time. As some of the biggest names in entertainment are scheduled to attend Golden Globe Awards tonight, we wanted to give the carpet one last wash before it opened."

As you can see from the complete lack of wellington boots on display in our Golden Globes gallery, it seems like a disaster was narrowly averted.