Tiffany Haddish had some good hearted enjoyable on the expense of Jennifer Lopez after her risqué opening quantity on the 2025 American Music Awards.
Lopez, 55, started the Monday, Could 26, awards present at Fontainebleau Las Vegas by singing a snippet of her personal tune “Dance Once more” earlier than transitioning right into a medley of latest hits, together with Chappell Roan‘s “HOT TO GO,” Tinashe‘s “Nasty” and Morgan Wallen and Publish Malone‘s “I Had Some Assist.”
At one level in the course of the efficiency, Lopez kissed a couple of of her backup dancers earlier than persevering with on with the spectacular opening quantity.
“Our host has simply danced to 23 hits in six minutes,” Haddish, 45, mentioned earlier than presenting an award instantly after Lopez’s efficiency. “Simply from that opening quantity alone, Jenny From the Block has received all her steps in for the day and she or he received all her kisses in.”
Haddish continued “Save a dancer for me, J. Lo! Rattling. You ain’t the one one out right here single.”
Lopez finalized her divorce from Ben Affleck in January after submitting the paperwork in August 2024. The couple received married in July 2022 after beforehand getting engaged in 2002. (Lopez and Affleck, 52, broke issues off the primary time in 2004.)
In April, Lopez was tapped to host and carry out on the 2025 AMAs. That is her second time internet hosting the ceremony after first doing so in 2015, whereas she has taken the AMAs stage to carry out greater than 10 instances throughout her profession.
Whereas making ready for this 12 months’s AMAs, Lopez suffered a facial harm throughout rehearsals, displaying a minimize throughout the bridge of her nostril in Instagram Story pictures on Could 13. “So … this occurred,” she wrote of the wound, which she iced in a single picture.
In a subsequent slide, Lopez thanked Beverly Hills facial plastic surgeon Dr. Jason Diamond “for stitching me up” within the aftermath of her accident. “Every week later and an entire lotta ice, I’m good as new,” she added.
Days later, Lopez posted a behind-the-scenes video of herself working towards a sophisticated dance routine for the AMAs alongside her backup dancers. “Preparing… #JLoLiveIn2025 @AMAs,” she captioned the Could 15 Instagram post.
Lopez’s AMAs internet hosting gig comes amid an particularly busy interval in her life. In June, she can be headlining the World Pleasure Music Pageant in Washington, D.C., and she or he can be touring the globe in July and August, with live shows scheduled in Egypt, Spain, Hungary, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Romania, the United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan and Armenia. She can be gearing up for the discharge of her movie Kiss of the Spider Girl in October, taking pictures her upcoming film Workplace Romance with Brett Goldstein and is in preproduction for The Final Mrs. Parrish, Netflix’s movie adaptation of Liv Constantine’s 2017 novel.
“J. Lo is beginning to really feel like herself once more. She’s ensuring she is completely happy and that she’s being a great mother,” a good friend of Lopez solely informed Us Weekly in February, referencing her and ex-husband Marc Anthony’s 17-year-old twins, Max and Emme.
Work has been a “good distraction” for Lopez as of late, the good friend added, noting that she is “being selective” about her initiatives and specializing in “high quality over amount.”
With Lopez “specializing in herself” in latest months, the good friend informed Us that she “isn’t able to date once more simply but,” however she “nonetheless believes in love” as a result of she’s “a romantic and all the time can be.”