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Who wins the "most embarrassing" awards at the Golden Globes? The envelopes, please...

Long before "Rock of Love 3" graced the airwaves, the Golden Globe Awards proved that television cameras and free-flowing champagne could be a very fertile union. Despite the occasional downturn in viewership—the 2008 awards, reduced to a snooze-worthy press conference because of a writers' strike, garnered a paltry 5.8 million viewers—the ceremony has regularly drawn as many as 20 million viewers. Partly that's because of the off-the-rails moments and sartorial missteps that inevitably occur. Here's our list of the most embarrassing episodes from ceremonies past.

 
 
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