The present should go on … however not each New 12 months’s Eve broadcast has gone easily for Ryan Seacrest.
“We’ve three stay countdowns on this present, which I by no means thought was even doable after I first began,” Seacrest solely informed Us Weekly in December 2022. “However we’ve acquired [broadcasts in] Puerto Rico, Occasions Sq. and New Orleans, and we’ve additionally added one other celebration on the West Coast. It’ll be L.A. as we all the time have a Disneyland [portion].”
Seacrest has helmed Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve since 2005, succeeding Clark himself. (Clark died in 2012.)
“I used to be a child watching this present, watching different folks do the issues that I get an opportunity to do day by day. Desirous to do it,” the American Idol host added to Us in 2022 of taking on the reins. “And I really feel like I’ve gotta show that I’m worthy [of] doing it each single time. I feel that’s a part of what retains it thrilling for me too.”
Ryan Seacrest Via the Years
Media royalty. Ryan Seacrest has dominated the leisure trade for greater than 20 years — each in entrance of and behind the digital camera. Born in Atlanta in 1974, the Emmy-winning producer started his first radio internship whereas nonetheless in highschool. After graduating, he studied journalism on the College of Georgia, however he dropped out […]
Whereas Seacrest has change into one of many prime New 12 months’s Eve broadcasters, he’s not the one one ringing within the new 12 months stay from Occasions Sq. in New York Metropolis. Fellow TV hosts Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper emcee CNN’s programming only a few “blocks away.”
Cohen has often gone toe-to-toe on air with Seacrest’s Rockin’ Eve — however it’s all in jest. “[We are] making an attempt to have time and convey that type of enjoyable,” Seacrest burdened to Us. “[Andy is] a very good good friend.”
Rely down Seacrest’s most memorable — and dramatic — moments from Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve by way of the years:
2010
Jenny McCarthy joined Seacrest’s Rockin’ Eve crew in New York, beginning a brand new custom the place she kissed a good-looking stranger within the crowd when the clock turned midnight. McCarthy continued her custom till she married Donnie Wahlberg in 2014. Since then, Wahlberg’s been her designated midnight kiss.
2015
After Taylor Swift carried out through the stay present, Seacrest gallantly let her borrow his jacket. Swift, nonetheless, wasn’t certain what the host was doing. “Are you stripping? It is a household present. That is inappropriate,” she quipped on the time.
Seacrest later informed Us that lending Swift his coat prompted technical points.
“Once I was with Taylor Swift one 12 months, it was chilly, so I gave her my coat after she’d simply carried out and I noticed all of my communication tools was hooked up to it,” he stated in 2022. “So, I couldn’t actually talk with anyone within the manufacturing, which I didn’t take into consideration prior.”
2016
The following 12 months, Seacrest acquired “caught in an elevator” when he was making an attempt to make his approach up the legendary New 12 months’s ball.
“That was a little bit disturbing as a result of they inform you to stay calm and it’s nearly unattainable,” he recalled to Us in 2022. “There are [also other] issues that occur alongside the best way that come collectively within the closing seconds. [For example], performers who should not prepared, however we attempt to make issues as much as say within the interim in order that it appears to be like like we’re on schedule.”
2016
Mariah Carey closed out Rockin Eve with a rendition of “Auld Lang Syne” and a medley of her largest hits. She strutted across the stage earlier than stopping, taking out her earpiece and retorted, “I’m making an attempt to be sport right here.” Carey later alleged that there have been technical points.
Seacrest denied that Carey had been set as much as fail.
“When it was taking place, it was laborious for me to see and listen to as a result of we’re in Occasions Sq. and there was rather a lot happening,” he stated on Cohen’s Watch What Occurs Dwell in January 2017. “I needed to be informed that one thing was happening after which attempt to discover a monitor to react to. So I wasn’t fairly certain what was taking place, truly.”
He added on the time: “That crew, that crew, that workers is the perfect within the enterprise. They placed on the most important stay music occasions and so they know what they’re doing. I understand how good they’re at their jobs. My response was, ‘She was working with the perfect.’ I discover it laborious to imagine they made huge errors that unhealthy.”
2020
Seacrest welcomed Publish Malone as a particular visitor, later speculating that that rapper had been overserved.
“In all probability fairly just a few [stars have been drunk on the show]. I feel Publish Malone was positively having fun with himself earlier than he went out,” Seacrest theorized to Leisure Weekly in December 2022. “However it’s wonderful, artists can nonetheless hit their marks, they will do their songs whereas consuming.”
2020
When Cyndi Lauper carried out a medley of her largest hits, she left followers totally confused after her glam crew ran on stage to take away her scarf.
“I’m on digital camera, I’m on digital camera,” Lauper insisted.
2020
Later that night time, Jennifer Lopez additionally took the Rockin’ Eve stage to carry out. Wearing a silver jumpsuit, Lopez notably accomplished a knee slide on the finish of her set however had an excessive amount of energy and bumped into the digital camera.
2021
Cohen and Seacrest’s New 12 months’s feud started in December 2021 when a drunken Cohen known as out Seacrest.
“When you look behind me, you’ll see Ryan Seacrest’s group of losers performing. I’m sorry however in the event you’re watching ABC, you’re watching nothing,” Cohen quipped of the Rockin Eve broadcast.
Cohen has since apologized for his remarks with CNN barring him and Cooper from consuming on air.
2022
The following 12 months, Seacrest claimed that Cohen purposely ignored him through the present.
“It was humorous as a result of my huge stage was proper in entrance of Anderson and Andy,” Seacrest stated throughout a January 2023 episode of Dwell With Kelly and Ryan. “Once I was not working, I used to be making an attempt to get their consideration. … I simply needed to wave and say excessive. They’ve a fantastic present. And Anderson, [is] the perfect. He turns round and he says, ‘Have present.’ Very good. Andy didn’t flip round.”
Cohen later asserted that he didn’t see Seacrest, saying he “would have” waved again if he had seen an interplay between Seacrest and Cooper.
2023
North Carolina resident Pamela Bradshaw received $1 million shortly after the clock struck midnight as a part of the Powerball First Millionaire of the 12 months Drawing — and her response immediately went viral. Bradshaw fell to the bottom however shortly picked herself again up, turning to kiss Seacrest on stage as she continued celebrating. Seacrest was left flustered however went on with the present like a professional.
“I thank God. I’m so blessed,” Bradshaw gushed, to which Seacrest replied, “I’m so completely satisfied for you.”
