Serena Williams Named 2024 ESPYS Host by ESPN

Serena Williams Named 2024 ESPYS Host by ESPN

Serena Williams would be the host of the 2024 ESPY Awards.

ESPN introduced the choose of the tennis legend as this 12 months’s ESPYS host throughout Disney’s upfront presentation to advertisers Tuesday, with American Idol host Ryan Seacrest breaking the information on stage. The occasion will probably be held July 11.

The ESPY Awards are ESPN’s annual awards present celebrating the most effective of sports activities. Final 12 months Patrick Mahomes and LeBron James had been among the many massive winners, and for the primary time this system went with out a host (due partially to the continuing Writers Guild strike).

Williams, after all, retired from skilled tennis almost two years in the past.

That being stated, she has saved busy, with media being one in every of her prime priorities. Williams inked a two-book cope with Random Home Publishing final 12 months, starting with an “intimate” memoir.

And he or she additionally launched a brand new manufacturing firm, 9 Two Six Productions, final 12 months, coinciding with a first-look TV deal at Amazon Studios and the appointment of Caroline Currier as president. Williams was additionally the main target of an ESPN docuseries, introduced finally 12 months’s Disney upfront.