KATHERINE HEIGL - HEIGL CALLS FOR GOLDEN GLOBE WAIVER

KATHERINE HEIGL is begging the Writer's Guild Of America to break its strike for the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday (13Jan07). Heigl is nominated in the Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A Series, Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television category for her role in Grey's Anatomy. Stars are currently planning to boycott the glitzy event in support for striking writers, who are seeking a better pay deal from studios. But Heigl is desperate to take to the red carpet - and would be devastated to win a prize and not be there to pick it up. She says, "My union has asked me not to cross the picket line and I feel I need to honour that. I don't want to not go. I really want to go. "It's an awesome night and it's really fun and the air of celebration and getting to honour and support people's work that you admire and being in the same room with people that you love is hard to pass up, so I'm really hopeful we get a waiver. "I don't see any reason to hold the Golden Globes hostage for the sake of the writers because I think one has very little to do with the other. I understand the writers not writing for movies or television right now but an awards ceremony that only airs one night... "But maybe the studios and networks do stand to make a lot of money off of that (night).