It’s been an enormous 12 months for Ryan Seacrest, whose 2024 profession highlights have included his twenty second season because the host of American Idol (which can return on the 2025 TV schedule) and taking on for Pat Sajak — among the finest recreation present hosts of all time — on Wheel of Fortune. The celebrations aren’t over but, although, and are available December 31, he’ll attain yet another massive milestone — twenty years of internet hosting Dick Clark’s New Yr’s Rockin’ Eve. Seacrest marked the upcoming event with a social media montage, and good gravy, has it actually been 20 years?
Dick Clark was an enormous determine in popular culture as a radio persona, recreation present host and, after all, American Bandstand. New Yr’s Rockin’ Eve is an enormous a part of his legacy, too, permitting individuals to look at the ball drop in New York Metropolis’s Instances Sq. since he first produced the music particular in 1972. The whole lot modified in 2004, when Clark suffered a stroke and was not capable of host on his personal. Ryan Seacrest has been there ever since, as you’ll be able to see within the Instagram video under:
Whereas it’s form of arduous to recollect a time when Ryan Seacrest didn’t maintain each single internet hosting job accessible (that’s solely a slight exaggeration), it’s additionally fairly unbelievable that for 2 complete many years the American Idol host has been main us in “Auld Lang Syne.” I’m afraid once I get up tomorrow, Pat Sajak may have been off of Wheel of Fortune for six years moderately than six months.
Talking of the passage of time not making any sense by any means, did somebody overlook to start out the clock on Ryan Seacrest’s getting old course of? I do know Paul Rudd is the quintessential instance of by no means getting old, however how many individuals might you present a montage of just like the one above — with a photograph from every of the final 20 years — and have them look astoundingly the identical? It wouldn’t work for me, that’s for positive. The nerve of this man to have all these jobs and nonetheless discover time to drink from the fountain of youth!
I say this all in jest, after all, as a result of you need to respect how a lot work Ryan Seacrest has put in to get such esteemed positions within the leisure trade, and it will be arduous to disclaim that he’s among the finest at what he does. That truth has by no means been extra obvious than earlier this 12 months when he was capable of win over Wheel of Fortune audiences fairly handily when he began internet hosting certainly one of America’s favourite recreation reveals.
One factor for viewers to be looking out for this 12 months once they collect to look at the end-of-year celebrations is that if and the way Ryan Seacrest’s mini-New Yr’s feud with Andy Cohen will proceed. This fall, the 2 hosts agreed to finish their rivalry, however you by no means know when the thrill of the vacation would possibly get the higher of them.
If you wish to see Ryan Seacrest’s twentieth 12 months because the host of Dick Clark’s New Yr’s Rockin’ Eve, tune in beginning at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday, December 31, on ABC.