Drew Barrymore Has Dropped Out of Hosting the MTV Movie & TV Awards
glamour.comto drop out of hosting the MTV Movie & TV Awards just a few days before the live telecast is set to air—until you learn the reason why.
In a statement published in , Barrymore said she will no longer be hosting the live show in solidarity with the writers' strike. “I have listened to the writers, and in order to truly respect them, I will pivot from hosting the MTV Movie & TV Awards live in solidarity with the strike,” the actor and talkshow host said. “Everything we celebrate and honor about movies and television is born out of their creation.
And until a solution is reached, I am choosing to wait but I’ll be watching from home and hope you will join me.” This content can also be viewed on the site it from.The Writer's Guild of America (WGA) union has officially gone on strike for the first time since 2008, per , with television writers arguing for better compensation in the streaming age. “Driven in large part by the shift to streaming, writers are finding their work devalued in every part of the business.
While company profits have remained high and spending on content has grown, writers are falling behind,” the union said in their own statement.
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