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Serena Williams brought the laughs when she hosted the 2024 ESPY Awards on Thursday, July 11.
The tennis star, 42, poked pleasurable at Travis Kelce’s romance with Taylor Swift through her opening monologue at the awards show, which was held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
“Congratulations to the Kansas Town Chiefs. This calendar year, Patrick Mahomes and Taylor Swift’s boyfriend received a Tremendous Bowl,” she joked as Chiefs coach Andy Reid was noticed in the audience, referring to the nickname Kelce, 34, acquired just after his romance with Swift, also 34, went public past tumble.
Williams teased: “Travis and Taylor reportedly put in $100,000 a working day on their romance. That is a great deal of funds. That’s what I’ve been advised [Boston Celtics shooting guard] Jaylen Brown spends on his beard. It is quite shiny. I like it however.”
Admirer-beloved athletes flocked to Los Angeles to rejoice sports’ most significant evening in design. The 2024 ESPYs took spot on Thursday, July 11, at the Dolby Theatre, and the evening’s A-listing attendees did not disappoint. We’re talking glamorous robes, fashionable fits and magnificent footwear. Serena Williams — who served as the ceremony’s host — was a […]
She also joked about “another memorable instant in athletics this year” when LeBron James’ son Bronny James was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers, which will make them the 1st father-son duo to perform for the identical NBA staff.
“I definitely hope that Bronny has a long job, so extended that we see his hairline recede and then miraculously un-recede like father,” Williams reported, having a large chortle from the group.
The tennis champion then took a minute to toast her possess achievement, which incorporates the Oscar-successful film about her journey, King Richard. “Will Smith played my father. He was so good it in, he received an Oscar, even just after slapping Chris Rock,” she teased, referring to Smith’s altercation with Rock, 59, through the 2022 awards display when Smith, 55, bought upset above Rock’s joke about his spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith, and slapped him on phase.
Williams extra, “I was like, ‘Dang, Will, you gotta occur out of character.’”
Williams concluded by offering her longtime good friends Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for attending the awards clearly show.
The most significant names in sports ended up identified at the 2024 ESPY Awards and some ended up blessed plenty of to choose residence the coveted silver statue. The ESPYs, which stands for Excellence in Sports Performance Annually, kicked off on Thursday, July 11, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Serena Williams emceed the night. In advance of the […]
Before getting the phase, Williams walked the crimson carpet with her partner, Alexis Ohanian, and their eldest daughter, Olympia, 6. The trio posed for pictures and stole all the attention from the crowd in Hollywood. The couple’s youngest daughter, Adira, 11 months, did not make the excursion.
Williams’s hosting gig will come almost two a long time just after she declared her retirement from tennis in the September 2022 concern of Vogue following successful 23 Grand Slam titles. She described at the time that she was stepping away from the sport to aim on her loved ones.
“Believe me, I never required to have to select amongst tennis and a spouse and children,” she wrote in her Vogue essay. “I really don’t consider it is good. If I had been a man, I would not be composing this due to the fact I’d be out there actively playing and winning even though my wife was performing the actual physical labor of increasing our relatives. Maybe I’d be far more of a Tom Brady if I experienced that prospect.”
Williams and her husband, Ohanian, tied the knot in November 2017 and welcomed daughters Olympia and Adira in September 2017 and August 2023, respectively.
In June, Williams opened up about adapting to her new usual amid her retirement.
“It’s pleasurable. It is various. It is a lifetime I’ve in no way skilled,” she told The New York Times. “You have to understand: For my total lifetime, since I can don’t forget, it is been about a single issue. I never know everything else. And so this is all new to me. It’s like a full new vocation. And of program I prefer enjoying tennis, but which is due to the fact I have performed it my whole everyday living. Of system you desire carrying out anything that you’ve finished considering the fact that you could walk. That is type of uncommon in a profession. Generally folks work to get a occupation, but I have been undertaking this considering that I could wander. So certainly a diverse sensation.”
Legend! Serena Williams has prevail over each individual obstacle in her way to grow to be just one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Perhaps even extra spectacular, she now balances perfecting her activity with raising her daughter, Olympia. Williams was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in September 1981. She started playing tennis at age 4 immediately after she, sister […]
Williams is even now figuring out what her long run seems like — some of her new jobs involve a venture-funds fund and her personal makeup line — but she confessed that she misses tennis a lot more than she envisioned.
“I like that I pass up tennis,” she mentioned. “I would dislike to be like, ‘Oh, I hated that so substantially.’ That would be this kind of an dreadful, unfortunate issue for me. Since tennis intended so a lot to me. And I did not recognize it intended that a great deal to me, to be straightforward. I didn’t understand that I would have these kinds of an wonderful relationship with tennis just after it was all reported and finished. It’s a good pass up. It’s like a nostalgia. I appreciate that.”
