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Queen Latifah Set to Host 2025 Kennedy Center Honors
Queen Latifah, who was a 2023 Kennedy Center Honors recipient, is set to host the 2024 ceremony, which will air on CBS in December.
Queen Latifah, who was a 2023 Kennedy Center Honors recipient, is set to host the 2024 ceremony, which will be taped on Sunday, Dec. 8, and will air on CBS two weeks later on Dec. 22. She joins a short list of previous or future Kennedy Center Honorees who have hosted the show, including Leonard Bernstein, Gene Kelly (he closed the 1979 ceremony), Beverly Sills, David Letterman, Gloria Estefan and LL Cool J. As previously announced, recipients to be honored on the Kennedy Center Opera House stage in Washington, D.C., are director and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola; legendary American rock band the Grateful Dead(Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, the late Phil Lesh, Bobby Weir); singer-songwriter and guitarist Bonnie Raitt; jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval; and The Apollo, which will receive a special Honors as an iconic American institution.
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