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While stepping onto the Oscars stage has marked a pivotal career moment for numerous individuals, facing an audience brimming with A-listers and captivating millions at home, there is one Hollywood star who has refused to take the stage as the host of one of the biggest nights in the film industry.

The Emmy winner, Jerry Seinfeld, has repeatedly turned down the offer to host the Oscars. When asked the reason behind this, he asserted reluctance about hosting the Academy Awards due to the potential pressure to keep coming back and lack of enjoyment in the environment.

What Has Been Holding Jerry Seinfeld Back From Hosting the Academy Awards?

Jerry Seinfeld has shared that he has been offered to host the prestigious Academy Awards ceremony…

Jimmy Kimmel and Donald Trump can’t seem to stop beefing.

During the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Wednesday night monologue, Kimmel responded to Trump’s recent Truth Social tirade aimed at him, the latest in a series of ongoing jabs between the two. “Stupid Jimmy Kimmel, who still hasn’t recovered from his horrendous performance and big ratings drop as Host of The Academy Awards, especially when he showed he suffered from TDS, commonly known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, to the entire World by reading on air my TRUTH about how bad a job he was doing that night, right before he stumbled through announcing the biggest award of all, ‘Picture of the Year,'” Trump wrote on Wednesday morning. 

The ex-president also mistakenly confused the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”…

Chris Rock made a tasteless comment when he compared his Oscar-hosting situation with the late Nicole Brown Simpson case. Rock was at the receiving end of Will Smith’s infamous Oscar slap that landed the latter a decade-long ban from the Academy. So when Rock was asked to host the 2023 Awards, it was clearly too soon, and Rock’s reply analogy turned out to be a little controversial.

Fargo actor Chris Rock made a tasteless joke about Nicole Brown Simpson while discussing his Oscar-hosting gig

During one of his standup specials, Rock shared that the Academy offered him the Oscars host role the very next year after the Slap. He shared that asking him to host was just like asking Nicole Brown Simpson to revisit the evidence against O.J. Simpson.

Chris Rock’s Tasteless Joke About Nicole…

Chris Rock made a tasteless comment when he compared his Oscar-hosting situation with the late Nicole Brown Simpson case. Rock was at the receiving end of Will Smith’s infamous Oscar slap that landed the latter a decade-long ban from the Academy. So when Rock was asked to host the 2023 Awards, it was clearly too soon, and Rock’s reply analogy turned out to be a little controversial.

During one of his standup specials, Rock shared that the Academy offered him the Oscars host role the very next year after the Slap. He shared that asking him to host was just like asking Nicole Brown Simpson to revisit the evidence against O.J. Simpson.

Chris Rock’s Tasteless Joke About…

We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about how much “seat fillers” ― people who take the seats of temporarily-absent Oscars guests who’ve got up to pee or socialise ― get paid. 

And while those people earn exactly zero dollars and naught point nil cents for the role, the same cannot be said of hosting the event. 

Jimmy Kimmel, the host of the 2024 Oscars, shared the exact fee for his 2017 and 2018 hosting gig on his show Jimmy Kimmel Live! when chatting with former Oscars host, Wanda Sykes. 

He revealed at the time that his pay was $15,000 for the task, which is honestly less than I’d thought.

It’s still 15k! 

That’s true ― but as he pointed out in conversation with Wanda, “It sounds like a lot for one night but it’s months of…