Kelsea Ballerini to host CMT Music Awards from home
ABC News
Country star Kelsea Ballerini will be co-hosting the CMT Music Awards from home after she tested positive for COVID-19 days before the show
NASHVILLE, Tennessee -- Country star Kelsea Ballerini is making a last-minute pivot to co-hosting the CMT Music Awards remotely after testing positive for COVID-19 days before the show.
Ballerini and actor Anthony Mackie were set to host the Monday night awards show airing on CBS from Nashville. But on Monday morning, CMT and CBS announced that Ballerini will remain home. She is asymptomatic, and Ballerini said CMT is setting it up so she can perform and co-host from her house.
“It has been set it up in a way where I can safely still co-host the Awards and perform on the show tonight,” Ballerini said in a statement. "This is not what we had planned for, but I am ready to make lemonade out of these lemons.”
In addition, the leading nominee for the night, Kane Brown, has been tapped to help Mackie — who starred in Marvel's ‘’The Falcon and the Winter Soldier'' — with in-person co-hosting. Brown has twice hosted the fan-voted show, including with Ballerini last year.
