{"id":264716,"date":"2019-01-04T12:58:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1001719"},"modified":"2019-01-04T12:58:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:58:03","slug":"kevin-hart-decides-he-wont-host-the-oscars-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/kevin-hart-decides-he-wont-host-the-oscars-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Hart Decides He Won&#8217;t Host the Oscars After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.372919818457\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018116\/rs_634x1024-181206122939-634-kevin-hart-serious-me-12618.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Kevin Hart\" alt=\"Kevin Hart\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Christopher Polk\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"15.988906497623\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kevin_hart\">Kevin Hart<\/a><\/strong> is &#8220;done&#8221; with the Oscars, he\u00a0told\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/film\/news\/kevin-hart-addresses-oscars-controversy-in-exclusive-interview-would-i-ever-do-it-again-no-im-done-1203099460\/\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in a new interview, published Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The interview\u00a0appears to have been conducted before\u00a0Hart&#8217;s\u00a0talk with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ellen_degeneres\">Ellen DeGeneres<\/a><\/strong>, which aired on Friday, during which she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/us\/news\/1001694\/ellen-degeneres-doubling-down-on-oscars-support-for-kevin-hart\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded with the actor and comedian to still host<\/a> the <strong>2019 Oscars<\/strong> following his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/994027\/kevin-hart-deletes-homophobic-tweets-before-hosting-2019-oscars\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter controversy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Would I ever do it? No, it&#8217;s done. It&#8217;s done,&#8221; Hart told <em>Variety<\/em>. &#8220;The moment came and it was a blessing and I was excited at the opportunity and I still am. In my mind I got the job, it was a dream job, and things came up that simply prohibited it from happening. But I don&#8217;t believe in going backwards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"49.609756097561\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2.6341463414634\">\n<p>Hart received backlash after being announced as the 2019 Oscars host in December for deleting past homophobic tweets. He later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/994207\/kevin-hart-steps-down-as-2019-oscars-host\" target=\"_blank\">stepped down as host<\/a> of the ceremony.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.638586956522\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"19.516304347826\">\n<p>During his interview on <em>The Ellen DeGeneres Show<\/em>, Hart told DeGeneres, &#8220;I have made several mistakes, and I embrace them all. I&#8217;m a better man today because of it. In this case, I just said I&#8217;m going to walk away because I felt like it was a conversation that was just going to continue and continue and continue. I would much rather say I&#8217;m sorry again and walk away&#8230;I don&#8217;t want to have to have this conversation anymore, because I know who I am. I&#8217;m not that guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DeGeneres, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1001539\/ellen-degeneres-criticized-after-defending-kevin-hart\" target=\"_blank\">received backlash<\/a> for defending Hart on Friday&#8217;s episode, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/us\/news\/1001694\/ellen-degeneres-doubling-down-on-oscars-support-for-kevin-hart\" target=\"_blank\">doubled down on her support for him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However you feel about this, the only positive way through it is to talk about it,&#8221; DeGeneres tweeted Friday.\u00a0&#8220;Thank you for being here, @KevinHart4real.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1001719\/kevin-hart-decides-he-won-t-host-the-oscars-after-all?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Polk\/Getty Images Kevin Hart is &#8220;done&#8221; with the Oscars, he\u00a0told\u00a0Variety\u00a0in a new interview, published Friday. The interview\u00a0appears to have been conducted before\u00a0Hart&#8217;s\u00a0talk with Ellen DeGeneres, which aired on Friday, during which she pleaded with the actor and comedian to still host the 2019 Oscars following his Twitter controversy. &#8220;Would I ever do it? No, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 17:38:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}