Last night, after he opened the envelope and called out Penn’s name, presenter Kieran Culkin was forced to apologetically carry the statue offstage himself. The reason for this, it transpires, is that Penn may have had a prior commitment in Ukraine. After rumours suggested that the actor may have flown out to an undisclosed part of the country late last week, he was photographed in central Kyiv on Monday “wearing sunglasses and carrying a box of cigarettes”. After that, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy posted a picture of them sitting together in his office.