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 adjustments. Henson and her group, together with hairstylist Tym Wallace, make-up artist Saisha Beecham, and manicurist Temeka Jackson, had been busy backstage altering up the actor’s appears to be like repeatedly all through the evening, swapping wigs and lipstick shades alongside many outfit adjustments.
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 taking part in 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 stated in her impassioned speech. “It is about making selections that can have an effect on us as human beings: our careers, our subsequent generations to return … They’re attacking our most susceptible residents.” Henson additionally talked about the Challenge 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 stated. “We have got three Supreme Courtroom seats up. We’d like these seats or we now have no safety.”
Forward, try a few of Henson’s finest host appears to be like from the 2024 BET Awards.
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