What a roster! Over the previous 20 years, celebrities together with Whoopi Goldberg, Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Kimmel have hosted the Academy Awards.
While there isn’t any scarcity of unbelievable stars who’ve taken the stage at Hollywood’s greatest evening, there have additionally been years the place the Oscars selected to go with none emcee in any respect.
In 2019, Kevin Hart stepped down from his internet hosting duties at the 91st Academy Awards after a sequence of his previous homophobic tweets resurfaced on-line.
“I have made the choice to step down from hosting this year’s Oscar’s….this is because I do not want to be a distraction on a night that should be celebrated by so many amazing talented artists. I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ community for my insensitive words from my past,” the comic, 43, tweeted in December 2018. “I’m sorry that I hurt people.. I am evolving and want to continue to do so. My goal is to bring people together not tear us apart. Much love & appreciation to the Academy. I hope we can meet again.”
Hart made headlines earlier that month when the since-deleted controversial remarks, which he wrote in 2011, had been found by followers. “Yo if my son comes home & try’s 2 play with my daughter’s doll house I’m going 2 break it over his head & say n my voice ‘stop that’s gay,” the Jumanji star tweeted at the time. (Hart shares son Hendrix and daughter Heaven with ex Torrei Hart and son Kenzo with spouse Eniko Parrish.)
Prior to backing out of the present, the Academy requested that Hart apologize for his feedback. However, Hart shared that he initially “passed” on the apology as a result of he had “addressed” the tweets a number of occasions earlier than and didn’t wish to “reward” the “internet trolls.”
He later took to Instagram to handle the controversy additional, writing, “You LIVE and YOU LEARN & YOU GROW & YOU MATURE. I live to Love …. Please take your negative energy and put it into something constructive. Please …. What’s understood should never have to be said. I LOVE EVERYBODY ….. ONCE AGAIN EVERYBODY. If you choose to not believe me then that’s on you …. Have a beautiful day.”
The 2019 Oscars went on with no host, as a substitute highlighting celebrities presenting the trophies. ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke mentioned at the time that the ceremony would “just have presenters host” and that the “compelling” thriller surrounding the occasion proved viewers would tune in.
The Academy adopted go well with for the subsequent two years, not re-introducing the conventional format till 2022 when Regina Hall, Wanda Sykes and Amy Schumer took the stage. When requested why the trio determined to tackle one in every of leisure’s hardest jobs, Hall and Sykes gushed over the alternative for girls to collaborate collectively.
“If they had come to me and said, ‘Hey, do you want to host the Oscars by yourself?’ I would have said ‘Hell no, absolutely not,’” Sykes informed the New York Times in March 2022. “Why would I want to do that? I like my life. But with the two of them, I’m really looking forward to it.”
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