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Drew Barrymore has relinquished her hosting duties.
The Drew Barrymore Show big stepped down from hosting the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards connected May 7 in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America, who are presently connected strike.
"I person listened to the writers, and successful bid to genuinely respect them, I volition pivot from hosting the MTV Movie & TV Awards live," Drew said successful a statement to Variety May 4. "Everything we observe and grant astir movies and tv is calved retired of their creation. And until a solution is reached, I americium choosing to hold but I'll beryllium watching from location and anticipation you volition articulation me."
However, she plans to springiness retired those coveted aureate popcorn statues successful 2024. "I convey MTV, who has genuinely been immoderate of the champion partners I person ever worked with," she continued. "And I can't hold to beryllium a portion of this adjacent year, erstwhile I tin genuinely observe everything that MTV has created, which is simply a amusement that allows fans to take who the awards spell to and is genuinely inclusive."
The web supports her decision, too.
"When this each reared its head, we started to hole for what could be," the show's enforcement shaper Bruce Gillmer told Variety. "She is not surprisingly, lasting successful solidarity with the writers, which we person afloat respect for."
Now, the amusement volition spell connected without a host—or a reddish carpet. It's surely not the archetypal (or the last) to marque changes amid the strike.
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Pete Davdison's May 6 occurrence of Saturday Night Live has been canceled and the precocious nighttime programming—including The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert—have gone dark.
The WGA went connected onslaught May 2 pursuing six unsuccessful negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).
"Though our Negotiating Committee began this process intent connected making a just deal," the WGA shared connected Instagram, "the studios' responses person been wholly insufficient fixed the existential situation writers are facing."
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