{"id":97319,"date":"2024-05-14T22:09:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/14\/serena-williams-to-host-espys-2024-as-part-of-post-tennis-career\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T22:09:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:09:18","slug":"serena-williams-to-host-espys-2024-as-part-of-post-tennis-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/14\/serena-williams-to-host-espys-2024-as-part-of-post-tennis-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams to Host ESPYs 2024 as Part of Post-Tennis Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p>The next project in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/serena-williams\/\" title=\"Serena Williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Serena Williams<\/strong><\/a>\u2018 post-tennis career has been announced!<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old former tennis star is hosting the <strong><em>2024 ESPY Awards<\/em><\/strong>, which will be held on July 11.<\/p>\n<p>The show went on without a host in 2023 due to the Writers Guild strike, but Serena will be making her hosting debut for the event this summer. <\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s annual awards show honors the best in sports and the event has aired on sister channel ABC for the past decade. Recent hosts have included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/stephen-curry\/\" title=\"Stephen Curry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Stephen Curry<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/anthony-mackie\/\" title=\"Anthony Mackie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Anthony Mackie<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more excited to host <em>The ESPYS<\/em>,\u201d <strong>Serena <\/strong>said in a statement. \u201cThis is a dream come true for me, and something I\u2019ve wanted to do for as long as I can remember. It has been a sensational year for sports and an unprecedented one for female athletes\u2026I can\u2019t wait to celebrate everyone on-stage in July.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/05\/07\/met-gala-2024-10-best-dressed-sports-stars-ranked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> best dressed sports stars at the Met Gala <\/a>last week. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/05\/14\/serena-williams-to-host-espys-2024-as-part-of-post-tennis-career\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next project in Serena Williams\u2018 post-tennis career has been announced! The 42-year-old former tennis star is hosting the 2024 ESPY Awards, which will be held on July 11. The show went on without a host in 2023 due to the Writers Guild strike, but Serena will be making her hosting debut for the event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-97319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}