Keke Palmer to Host 2020 MTV Video Music Awards

Keke Palmer has turn out to be an excellent larger deal. 

The multifaceted famous person has signed on to host the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, which shall be introduced nearly August 30 at a number of out of doors places round New York Metropolis at eight p.m. ET. 

Palmer shared the thrilling information over a kiki with Mad Fashion’s former Vice President and Nickelodeon starlet True Jackson. Watch the hilarious clip under. 

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ViacomCBS’ President of Music, Music Expertise, Programming & Occasions Bruce Gillmer is simply as thrilled as Jackson for Palmer to host the 2020 present. “Keke is an lively power and a quadruple menace with unmatched comedic wit who will make this yr’s present actually unforgettable,” he mentioned in a press assertion. 

This can be a celebratory second for Palmer. She is the primary Black lady to host the award ceremony since 1987, when former MTV VJ Downtown Julie Brown served as a number.

In accordance with current studies, the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards will now not be held at Brooklyn’s Barclays Heart. The pandemic has raised a number of well being considerations for a lot of, inflicting the community to take an alternate route within the present’s presentation. 

“In shut session with state and native well being officers, it grew to become clear presently that out of doors performances with restricted or no viewers can be extra possible and safer than an indoor occasion,” mentioned in a press assertion. “The VMAs will spotlight the boroughs in an thrilling present and return to Barclays Heart in 2021. MTV will proceed to work intently with the Division of Well being, state and native officers, the medical neighborhood, and key stakeholders to make sure the security of all concerned.”

Sending Palmer off on a constructive notice, the tireless star has been shelling out single after single these previous few months. Her bop assortment contains the anthemic “Snack,” the energy-booster “Thick,” the trap-leaning “Sticky,” the braggadocious “Acquired Em Mad” and the horoscope-telling “Virgo Tendencies.”