MTV VMAs Host Keke Palmer Teases What to Expect From Virtual Awards Show (Exclusive)

The actress joined the list of celebrities honoring Chadwick Boseman after his shocking death at the age of only 43 and she did it at the very beginning of the MTV VMAs last night! Keke Palmer, just like many others, is mourning the Black Panther actor who lost his private fight with colon cancer after 4 years. While Keke’s speech was not too long in the opening of the awards show, there is no doubt that it had a huge impact on anyone watching.

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Chadwick Boseman was remembered at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards on Saturday when Keke Palmer dedicated the show to the Black Panther actor who died on Friday from colon cancer at age 43. "We dedicate tonight's show to a man whose spirit touched so many," said Palmer.

MTV VMAs brought some of the biggest names in music to the stage for a virtual awards show that raised the bar for event TV in the age of the coronavirus pandemic.

After months of racial tension have rocked the globe, the topic was addressed at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. Host Keke Palmer was the first the address the Black Lives Matter movement at Sunday's event.

Preparing to host the MTV Video Music Awards taking place Sunday night, the singer and actress Keke Palmer has been putting all of her talents to use. Her duties include “a little bit of everything,” she says.

Hustlers one time, but here's another reminder to watch it again. Palmer is a standout in the film.) She's also been a longtime, outspoken advocate for racial equality.

Keke Palmer has officially kicked off the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards! The 27-year-old actress, dressed in a stylish, feather-fringed art deco flapper gown as she took to the digital stage, delivered a fun and impassioned opening monologue about the power of music to make cultural change.«This is incredible. I can't believe MTV asked me to host.

The MTV VMAs began tonight with a tribute to Black Panther's Chadwick Boseman, with the show's host Keke Palmer dedicating the ceremony to him."We need to take the time to talk about the devastating loss of Chadwick Boseman, an actor whose talent and passion is a true inspiration to all the fans he touched and everyone he encountered," she said. "We dedicate tonight’s show to the man whose spirit touched so many.

Keke Palmer is ready for change. Are you? The singer and actress was one of the first faces we saw when the 2020 VMAs kicked off, and it was fitting — she is the show's host, after all.

NEW YORK -- “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, whose death from colon cancer shocked fans, was honored at the MTV Video Music Awards as a hero in real life, not just on the big screen.Host Keke Palmer said the Sunday night awards show was dedicated to Boseman, who died at the age of 43 on Friday .Boseman had previously been honored by the MTV Movie & TV Awards in 2018 for his role as the Marvel Comics superhero.Palmer said Boseman was “a true hero, not just on screen but in everything he

The 2020 MTV Video Music Awards were dedicated to the late Chadwick Boseman.

2020 MTV Video Music Awards honored Chadwick Boseman two days after the Black Panther star lost his battle with cancer.“Before we get into the music tonight, we need to take the time to talk about the devastating loss of Chadwick Boseman, an actor whose talent and passion is a true inspiration to all the fans he touched and everyone he encountered,” Keke Palmer said at the top of the Sunday, August 30, ceremony, which she hosted.

Former Nickelodeon star Keke Palmer is set to host the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, after the unfortunate cancellation of her midday talk show on ABC earlier this summer. Nevertheless, the multi-hyphenate talent, 27, has “got the bug” for hosting, and has no plans to quit anytime soon. “Keke would really like to do another talk show and that’s the direction she’d like to focus her career on right now,” a source close to the TV personality told HollywoodLife exclusively.

Keke Palmer is going to be having a real kiki as host of the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards from New York on Sunday.The “Hustlers” actress-singer, 27, will preside over performances by the likes of Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, The Weeknd and Miley Cyrus in the first live major awards show of the coronavirus era.But while she’s emerged as arguably the It girl of 2020, Palmer has much more of a résumé than you may realize.

Keke Palmer has proven that the sky’s the limit — and she’s only getting started.Palmer, who was born in Harvey, Illinois, began singing in the church choir at age 5. After her family moved to Los Angeles, the “Bossy” singer quickly found herself working as an actress, landing her first acting role in 2004’s Barbershop 2: Back in Business.She rose to fame after starring on her own Nickelodeon series, True Jackson, VP, from 2008 to 2011.