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Angela Bassett REACTS to Ariana DeBose's Viral BAFTA Rap
Ariana DeBose is acceptable for her encore.
A twelvemonth aft hosting the 75th Annual Tony Awards, the West Side Story actress volition beryllium returning to the New York City signifier arsenic big of the 2023 Tonys.
"I was honored to service arsenic big past twelvemonth and adjacent much truthful to beryllium asked back," Ariana shared successful an April 12 statement. "So looking guardant to celebrating this unthinkable play and the radical who marque the enactment happen. Here's to adding immoderate uptown spirit to the magic of the Tony Awards!"
The nominees for the awards amusement volition beryllium announced May 2.
Ariana, a previous 2018 Tony nominee for her enactment successful Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, brought the location down successful 2022 with her rousing show paying tribute to the twelvemonth successful theater. However, she is nary alien to starting things disconnected with a bang.
News of Ariana's latest hosting gig comes 2 months aft the Oscar victor went viral for her show-stopping opening number astatine the 2023 BAFTAs, wherever she celebrated the night's women nominees. Her iconic lyrics included references for Angela Bassett, Viola Davis, Jamie Lee Curtis and Cate Blanchett, to sanction a few.
And contempt the attention from the event, the actress, who went connected to contiguous astatine the Oscars the pursuing weekend, took it each successful stride.
"That's what I wanted to do," Ariana said connected BBC Radio 2's The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show successful February. "It's not similar I was like, 'Hey BAFTA, fto maine in!' They really called me, judge it oregon not. That was the assignment, like, 'Come observe women.' I was like, 'Absolutely!' And we did that, and it was fun."
She continued, "Not gonna lie, I had a blast. So awesome. And past I spent the remainder of the night... cutting a rug with Emma Thompson. It was fabulous. I had a large time. Baz Luhrmann came and recovered maine and helium was like, 'No, I deliberation you're great, that was fun. I had fun.' And I was like, 'Work!'"
See Ariana DeBose bash her happening erstwhile the 2023 Tony Awards aerial unrecorded June 11 connected CBS.
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