{"id":20717,"date":"2013-04-18T15:32:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20717"},"modified":"2013-04-18T15:32:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:32:32","slug":"chris-tucker-to-host-bet-awards-on-june-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20717","title":{"rendered":"Chris Tucker To Host BET Awards On June 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 <strong>Chris Tucker<\/strong> will host this year\u2019s Black Entertainment TV Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The network announced Tuesday that the comedian-actor will host the show June 30 from the Nokia Theater L.A. Live.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tucker<\/strong> is riding high off of his supporting role in the Oscar-nominated film <em>\u201cSilver Linings Playbook,\u201d<\/em> which starred<strong> Jennifer Lawrence<\/strong> and <strong>Bradley Cooper<\/strong>. The 41-year-old is best known for starring in the <em>\u201cRush Hour\u201d<\/em> film franchise opposite <strong>Jackie Chan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He said in a statement that he\u2019s honored and \u201clooking forward to being part of a really great show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BET Awards is part of three-day event the network is putting on that weekend dubbed <em>\u201cBET Experience at L.A. Live.\u201d<\/em> It kicks off June 28 with a <strong>Beyonce<\/strong> concert. Other performers throughout the weekend include <strong>Kendrick Lamar<\/strong>, <strong>Miguel<\/strong>, <strong>The Jacksons<\/strong> and <strong>R. Kelly<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 Chris Tucker will host this year\u2019s Black Entertainment TV Awards. The network announced Tuesday that the comedian-actor will host the show June 30 from the Nokia Theater L.A. Live. Tucker is riding high off of his supporting role in the Oscar-nominated film \u201cSilver Linings Playbook,\u201d which starred Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}