Everyone thought Dax Shepard was Benedict Cumberbatch at the Golden Globes arrivals

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Source: latimes.com

(Tre'vell Anderson / Los Angeles Times)
(Tre’vell Anderson / Los Angeles Times)
Pink is one of the major colors to pop up on the red carpet at the Golden Globes. (Strauss/Invision/AP; Jennifer Yamato / Los Angeles Times; (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Pink is one of the major colors to pop up on the red carpet at the Golden Globes. (Strauss/Invision/AP; Jennifer Yamato / Los Angeles Times; (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Tracee Ellis Ross on the red carpet at the Golden Globes (Deborah Vankin / Los Angeles Times)
Tracee Ellis Ross on the red carpet at the Golden Globes
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

For Ruth Turpin of Fort Worth, Golden Globes day is the highlight of the year. The 76-year-old travel agency owner proudly claims the title of the “oldest living Golden Globes superfan.” She is a 28-year fixture on the red carpet bleachers at the glitzy show where hardcore Globes-watchers shell out as much as $4,800 to glimpse Hollywood’s most glamorous celebrities make their way into the Beverly Hilton.

Turpin was staying at the hotel on business in 1989 when she first noticed a flurry of preparations. “Back then, the Golden Globes were nothing,” she told the Los Angeles Times on Friday from a suite at the hotel. “It was a so-so awards show that nobody paid attention to. But I thought, ‘Since I’m here, I’ll go downstairs and see if I can see anybody come and go.’”

That first year, Turpin says, “was amazing .”

Long before the strict security protocols had the entire Beverly Hilton compound locked down…

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