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The five nominees for the new Emmy category of best reality TV show host will not just wait in the audience for the winner to be announced. Ryan Seacrest (“American Idol”), Jeff Probst (“Survivor”), Tom Bergeron (“Dancing with the Stars”), Howie Mandel (“Deal or No Deal”) and Heidi Klum (“Project Runway”) will have to work and entertain the viewers, as they will all present this year’s Emmy Awards, ABC and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences informed The Associated Press on Friday.
The five have been assigned as co-hosts of the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, which will take place on September 21 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles and will be broadcast on ABC.
As they were seeking for prospective hosts, Emmy producers were lured by the Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program category and executive producer Ken Ehrlich said, as cited by Reuters, that it seemed “pretty obvious” that the nominees were what they had been looking for.
Aspects regarding how the hosting duties will be allocated to the five celebrities are still being figured out, but it is expected for all of them to be present on the stage at the same time, at some point of the show, according to Ken Ehrlich.
After attracting criticism for making use of a multiple host format 5 years ago, when 13 comedians have been successively the emcees of the show, the Emmys have remained faithful to a single host until this year’s event.
“This gives us the opportunity to be very contemporary and current on a show where we also will celebrate the history of the TV Academy and the history of television,” Ken Ehrlich said, as quoted by Reuters. “It’s the best of both worlds.”
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