Kelly Clarkson, Peyton Manning and Mike Tirico are formally set to host the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
“It’s an honor to have the ability to announce for the primary time wherever that this 12 months, on the Summer season Olympics in Paris, the opening ceremony shall be hosted by yours actually, Peyton Manning and Kelly Clarkson,” Tirico, 57, shared whereas on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, March 12.
Clarkson, 41, and Manning, 47, joined the NBC Olympics primetime host to make the massive announcement. “I’m so glad we will say it,” Clarkson gushed. “We’ve been holding this ceaselessly. I’m not a vault. I hate secrets and techniques.”
This marks Clarkson and Manning’s first time becoming a member of Olympic protection, and the previous soccer participant mentioned will probably be the primary time he takes his mom to France.
“I took just a little French in highschool, and I instructed my mom I’d take her to Paris sooner or later,” Manning shared with host Jimmy Fallon. “Thirty years to the time I graduated, I’m taking my mother to Paris for the Olympics.”
Mike Tirico, Peyton Manning, Kelly Clarkson, and Jimmy Fallon throughout ‘The Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon’ on March 12. Todd Owyoung/NBC
Whereas Manning speaks a little bit of français, Clarkson mentioned she only in the near past swapped her Duolingo app from Spanish to French so as to put together for the upcoming journey, which is able to happen amid her hiatus between seasons of The Kelly Clarkson Present.
The group confirmed Fallon, 49, the Olympic and Paralympic medals that athletes will win this summer season. “The good a part of these [medals] is each has just a little piece of the Eiffel Tower in it,” Tirico defined. “So, should you win a medal, not solely do you get your gold, silver or bronze, you get a chunk of the Eiffel Tower to take with you for all times.”
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The trio shall be positioned close to the Trocadero the place the parade concludes, per an NBC press launch. In the meantime, In the present day hosts Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb may also return for Olympic protection. The duo shall be stationed on a bridge alongside the River Seine throughout NBCUniversal’s protection of the opening ceremony of the XXXIII Olympiad.
In contrast to different opening ceremonies that happen in a stadium, the Paris Olympics are utilizing the River Seine because the stage for the primary evening. Viewers can count on a four-mile-long flotilla of greater than 90 boats to hold athletes from greater than 200 nations, concluding on the Eiffel Tower.
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics will air dwell on NBC and Peacock Friday, July 26, at 12 p.m. ET, and primetime protection will begin at 7:30 p.m. ET. The summer season video games will air on NBC and Peacock by way of August 11.
