Pink Teases Tony Awards Hosting Plans: ‘There Will Be Stunts, and Not Just for Me’
- Kris Avalon
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Grammy winner Pink, known for her mind-blowing aerial stunts, is set to host the Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall June 7 (8 ET/5 PT on CBS and streaming on Paramount+).
via: People
The 46-year-old pop star shared that when she was first asked to host the annual awards show, airing on CBS, it wasn't an “immediate yes.”
“It was an almost immediate yes,” the Grammy winner told Gayle King on CBS Mornings on Tuesday, June 2. “It was a yes, but, or yes, and, let me get permission from Willow. Because this is her lane. I try to stay out of her lane.”
Speaking of her 15-year-old daughter, Willow Hart, Pink said the teen only had one question — whether or not she'd get a seat. “I was like, ‘I think so.' So here we go,” Pink, whose real name is Alecia Moore, said. “Also, I'm in a ‘yes' place.”
The “Just Give Me a Reason” singer said she's been all in on Willow's dreams of appearing on the Great White Way.
“Her dream is to be on Broadway. She is musical theater obsessed,” Pink shared of Willow. “She has followed me around the world her whole life on and off tour and I told her, ‘It's your turn. We'll follow you.' And that's what we do for our kids. We show up if we can. And I'm lucky that we can. And she's phenomenal. She's very talented.”
When it comes to her plans for the musical awards show, Pink, who is famous for her aerial acrobatics in concert, teased, “There will be acrobatic moments, but not in the way that you would normally see me doing acrobatic moments,” adding, “I know there's a harness or two.”
Pink has big plans for the show's opening number, and a seemingly unexpected idea on how she'd like the audience to see her when the time comes.
“It is goofy and over-the-top and it's sort of a nod back — it'll all make sense — and there's gonna be 170 people on stage. It's gonna be so fun,” Pink said of the opening number. “And I'm an idiot from the very first moment, which was very important to me.”
When asked by King why she'd want to poke fun at herself, Pink replied, “Because I haven't been on Broadway. I know I haven't been here. I know I'm an absolute idiot. And my whole point this year is to celebrate all of you and we're just gonna have fun. We're gonna have so much fun. I'm excited.”
In addition to teasing some of the anniversaries and reunions like The Book of Mormon, Chicago and A Chorus Line, Pink also said the In Memoriam segment will be “amazing.”
“I want theater to be available for every kid because I think more than most things, our art classes and our theater classes are the first things being stripped from our schools, and I find those to be the only places in towns and cities where kids can be goofy together and they can be in safe space and they can be fully themselves,” Pink said. “Or they can be fully something else other than themselves.”
The 2026 Tony Awards will take place at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7. The show will be broadcast live to both coasts on CBS beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, and will stream on Paramount+.
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