Kelly Clarkson, Peyton Manning and Mike Tirico are officially set to host the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
“It’s an honor to give you the option to announce for the primary time anywhere that this 12 months, on the Summer Olympics in Paris, the opening ceremony might be hosted by yours truly, Peyton Manning and Kelly Clarkson,” Tirico, 57, shared while on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, March 12.
Clarkson, 41, and Manning, 47, joined the NBC Olympics primetime host to make the large announcement. “I’m so glad we are able to say it,” Clarkson gushed. “We’ve been holding this eternally. I’m not a vault. I hate secrets.”
This marks Clarkson and Manning’s first time joining Olympic coverage, and the previous football player said it should be the primary time he takes his mother to France.
“I took slightly French in highschool, and I told my mother I’d take her to Paris someday,” Manning shared with host Jimmy Fallon. “Thirty years to the time I graduated, I’m taking my mom to Paris for the Olympics.”
Mike Tirico, Peyton Manning, Kelly Clarkson, and Jimmy Fallon during ‘The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon’ on March 12. Todd Owyoung/NBC
While Manning speaks a little bit of français, Clarkson said she only in the near past swapped her Duolingo app from Spanish to French with a view to prepare for the upcoming trip, which is able to happen amid her hiatus between seasons of The Kelly Clarkson Show.
The group showed Fallon, 49, the Olympic and Paralympic medals that athletes will win this summer. “The best a part of those [medals] is every one has slightly piece of the Eiffel Tower in it,” Tirico explained. “So, in case you win a medal, not only do you get your gold, silver or bronze, you get a chunk of the Eiffel Tower to take with you for all times.”
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The trio might be positioned near the Trocadero where the parade concludes, per an NBC press release. Meanwhile, Today hosts Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb can even return for Olympic coverage. The duo might be stationed on a bridge along the River Seine during NBCUniversal’s coverage of the opening ceremony of the XXXIII Olympiad.
Unlike other opening ceremonies that happen in a stadium, the Paris Olympics are using the River Seine because the stage for the primary night. Viewers can expect a four-mile-long flotilla of greater than 90 boats to hold athletes from greater than 200 countries, concluding on the Eiffel Tower.
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics will air survive NBC and Peacock Friday, July 26, at 12 p.m. ET, and primetime coverage will start at 7:30 p.m. ET. The summer games will air on NBC and Peacock through August 11.
