Carell 'holding Gervais's Emmy hostage'

Steve Carell is reportedly holding Ricky Gervais's latest Emmy award hostage.

Carell, Gervais's US counterpart in the NBC version of The Office, accepted the best actor prize on the behalf of Gervais after he failed to make last year's ceremony.

However, Carell has admitted that he wants to claim it as his own: "I'm not going to give it back to him. He wasn't there to accept the Emmy. So what I figure is whoever is first up on stage should just take it. So I was there. I ran up and I [thought] it would add something to the Emmys."

The Evan Almighty star joked that he would love to see awards shows take on a first-come, first-served format.

He said: "If you tackle the presenter, if there's a little more at stake. A little more jeopardy. I would produce that show."