Taraji P. Henson was again in motion for her third yr of internet hosting the BET Awards, and with that got here a plethora of glam modifications. Henson and her staff, together with hairstylist Tym Wallace, make-up artist Saisha Beecham, and manicurist Temeka Jackson, had been busy backstage altering up the actor’s seems to be many times 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 beneath), 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 is not simply in regards to 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 come back … They’re attacking our most weak residents.” Henson additionally talked about the Mission 2025 plan, a proposed conservative coverage that would 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 Court docket seats up. We’d like these seats or we now have no safety.”
Forward, try a few of Henson’s greatest host seems to be from the 2024 BET Awards.
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