GlamBOT director Cole Walliser is defending Jennifer Lopez after social media users label her “rude” while walking the Golden Globes carpet. However, Walliser, insists, “I didn’t take it personally, celebrities are at work and I’ve never felt like people are rude to me in that moment.”
Jennifer Lopez Stops By Cole Walliser For GlamBOT At 2026 Golden Globes
On Sunday (January 18), Walliser — the filmmaker, content creator, and the director behind the GlamBOT camera system seen on every major red carpet — broke his silence as social media users slam JLo’s interaction with Walliser. His comments arrive exactly one week after JLo walked the red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes on Sunday (January 11).
Walliser shared the interaction on his Instagram. In the video, Lopez walks up to Walliser and the GlamBOT. He greets her and she responds. He continues to compliment her gown and shows her where to stand to prepare for the camera system. Wallsier then asked JLO if she had an idea of a pose she wanted to do, to which she responds by doing the pose.
While Walliser turns to address his team operating the camera system, JLo turns her back to him, getting into position, ready on his mark. He then turns to face her again, reiterating the directions, although her back is facing him, still in position. He counts her down and she begins to unravel her pose as the camera rolls.
After finishing the process, Walliser compliments JLo’s pose and she turns to her team, signaling she was ready to keep walking the carpet. While Walliser thanks JLo and her team, she visibly waves goodbye to him, his team, and others nearby. Furthermore, Walliser captioned his post:
“The Queen JLO!! She walked the carpet so close to it closing (it might have technically been closed at that point), so I was happy she was able to quickly stop. No messing around – just wham, bam, thank you, GLAM!”
Cole Walliser Defends Jennifer Lopez After Social Users Label Her ‘Rude’ During GlamBOT Interaction At 2026 Golden Globes
While taking the comments under Cole Walliser’s post of Jennifer Lopez’s GlamBOT video, and several viral reposts, social media users labeled JLo “rude.” A week after his interaction with the star, Walliser took to his Instagram to clear the air and defend JLo. In a video, he said:
“I do get asked all the time, ‘Who was the worst GlamBot?’ ‘Who was the meanest?’ ‘Who was the rudest?’ And honestly, everybody on the internet needs to just calm down. Now, I’m not here to tell anybody how they should feel, but there was only one other person outside of JLo that was in that conversation, and that person was me.
These are some things that I’ve actually wanted to say for a while, but there’s never really been a chance to sort of like talk about the world at which the GlamBOTs exist. But now, I guess, is a great time to talk about what it’s like on the carpet.
The first thing to know about doing GlamBOTs is that GlamBOTs are completely elective. Nobody’s forcing you to do these things. If you want to do it, you can. If you’re in a bad attitude, you don’t want to do it, you don’t have to do it. So, anybody that stops, I already like you because you’re taking the time to do my thing, and this is generous of you because you don’t have to do it.
Two, red carpets are so insane. All of the celebs are like getting ushered to like, ‘Hey, do this thing, do this thing, do this thing.’ As you’re walking in between stuff, people are screaming at you. It’s just a really crazy environment. So, when people land on the GlamBOT, like, sometimes they don’t know what they’re walking up to, you know what I mean? And I’m not just talking about like JLo here. I’m talking about a ton of celebrities in the past that sort of like land, and they’re like kind of like a little like, ‘What’s going on?’ It’s just because it’s just so crazy.
The third thing, these celebrities, they’re at work. They’re there to do a thing, to promote their show, to be a guest, to be a presenter. They’re working. So, some people, chatty at work. Some people, not so chatty at work. And it’s not really my place to be like, ‘Oh, you should be a certain way.’ I’m just sort of like reacting in those moments and giving people the best chance to do their best GlamBOT that they can.
So, with that world set, I do get asked all the time, ‘Who was the worst GlamBOT?’ And honestly, I don’t have an answer. I mean, literally, I’ve never felt that people were like rude to me in that moment. The world is just so, so crazy that like when people are distracted or like less chatty or like thinking about other stuff, I don’t take it personally.
And even with JLo, like I didn’t take it personally. It didn’t feel rude in that moment. I think there’s a couple things that sort of like added to the fuel of this idea. One, like she’s just down to business. The carpet was closed. She’s ready to go inside. She knew what she was going to do. You know, she got into the position.
And I think it was just like unfortunate that the position was she was facing away from me. So, I am talking to her [and] she is looking away, but she’s getting ready for the move. And in the moment, I’m not like, ‘Hey, like turn around.’ Like, I knew what she was doing. She was getting ready. I knew she was getting ready. I knew it was late. We were just like getting through it. That moment didn’t feel rude.
Another one people talk about is Cara Delevingne a couple years ago at the Oscars. And like people were like commenting like, ‘Oh, she’s so rude.’ But like I thought she was super sweet. I think the very start of the clip, she kind of like rolled her eyes and like walked up. I honestly didn’t even see her roll the eyes in the edit. If I did, I would have cut it out. And again, I never felt that was rude.
And anybody else, anybody’s ever commented below like, hey, this person’s rude. I’ve never thought it. People obviously have been going ham, making their own posts, doing their own thing. And I’m not here to tell you what to do or what not to do. But I am here to just tell you my experience. Not only just JLo, anybody. You know what I mean? I’ve never felt anybody was like rude to me I think people are at work. They’re rushed. The world is crazy. And I never take it personal.
I do want to thank all you guys for watching the content, for commenting, for having my back on things. I love all you guys. It’s been so cool to see these GlamBOTs grow over the years. And I’m just like so honored to bring you this cool content. Thanks for watching. Love you guys. I’ll see you in the next carpet.”
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