“But they’re going to win if you don’t host the Oscars.”
There’s at least one person who still wants Kevin Hart to host the 2019 Oscars—Ellen DeGeneres. The talk show host welcomed Hart on her daytime show on Friday, during which Hart opened up on the backlash he recently faced regarding homophobic tweets from 2009 and 2011 that resurfaced in December.
The scandal essentially resulted in Hart stepping down from hosting the 91st Academy Awards.
“There are so many things I want to do I check off as they get done, and Oscars was up there. Oscars was one of the highest of highs, simply because there hasn’t been a lot of African Americans that have been able to do it,” Hart began. “When it happened, my first thought is, ‘I’m going to ignore it. I’m going to ignore it because it’s 10 years old. This is stuff I’ve addressed. I’ve talked about this. This isn’t new. I’ve addressed it! I’ve apologized for it. I’m not going to pay it any mind.’”
Hart went on to explain he didn’t have a “homophobic bone” in his body and expressed his dismay in the onslaught of headlines slandering the comedian for tweets and jokes he made over 10 years ago, which he had also already apologized for on multiple occasions in the past.
