Taraji P. Henson was again in motion for her third 12 months of internet hosting the BET Awards, and with that got here a plethora of glam modifications. Henson and her crew, together with hairstylist Tym Wallace, make-up artist Saisha Beecham, and manicurist Temeka Jackson, have been busy backstage altering up the actor’s appears repeatedly all through the evening, swapping wigs and lipstick shades alongside many outfit modifications.
Henson aced her internet hosting duties but once more, opening the present with a parody of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” (extra on that under), talking out in opposition to Donald Trump, and enjoying the banjo, amongst many different memorable moments. The actor additionally took a second to inform viewers to “present up and present out” with their ballots in November. “It isn’t simply concerning the presidential election. It is time for us to play chess, not checkers,” she mentioned in her impassioned speech. “It is about making selections that may have an effect on us as human beings: our careers, our subsequent generations to return … They’re attacking our most weak residents.” Henson additionally talked about the Undertaking 2025 plan, a proposed conservative coverage that might have main impacts on the federal government as we all know it ought to Donald Trump win the 2024 presidential election. “I am not making an attempt to scare us, I am making an attempt to tell us,” she mentioned. “We have got three Supreme Courtroom seats up. We’d like these seats or we’ve no safety.”
Forward, try a few of Henson’s greatest host appears from the 2024 BET Awards.
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