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How to watch tonight’s Kennedy Center Honors hosted by Trump on CBS and Paramount+
The 2025 Kennedy Center Honors will be broadcast tonight, celebrating this year’s class of honorees and their contributions to the performing arts. Viewers can watch the ceremony on CBS and Paramount+ starting at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
President Trump’s administration has made sweeping changes to the Kennedy Center, including ousting the chairman of its board of trustees and its president, and installing in their place Mr. Trump and one of his allies, former Ambassador Richard Grenell. Last week, the White House announced the board had voted to rename the institution the Trump-Kennedy Center.
This year’s Kennedy Center Honors, which was recorded earlier this month, marks Mr. Trump’s first appearance at the annual event in his two terms in office. He also hosted the celebration, a departure from past years when presidents would sit with the honorees and watch the show.
Who are the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors recipients?
Mr. Trump announced this year’s honorees over the summer. They are:
- George Strait
- Gloria Gaynor
- The rock band Kiss: Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss and the late Ace Frehley
- Michael Crawford
- Sylvester Stallone
How to watch the Kennedy Center Honors
- What: President Trump hosts the Kennedy Center Honors, celebrating George Strait, Gloria Gaynor, Kiss, Michael Crawford and Sylvester Stallone.
- Date: Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025
- Time: 8 p.m. ET/PT
- On TV: On CBS television stations. Find your local station here.
- Online stream: Paramount+
George Strait, the King of Country Music
With hits like “All My Ex’s Live in Texas,” “Amarillo by Morning” and “Check Yes or No,” George Strait is known as the King of Country Music.
The multiplatinum artist has won dozens of awards from the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association, as well as a Grammy for best country album. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
When Strait received a lifetime achievement award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 2021, he said his father taught him the ways of the cowboy life and that he’s tried to hold on to his Western heritage throughout his career. But he also said he was challenged early on to stay true to himself.
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“When I first signed with MCA Records in 1981, you know, they, all the people, were going, ‘Take the hat off,'” he said, pointing at his trademark 10-gallon cowboy hat with a grin. “Now, can you imagine if I would have done that?”
A producer also floated the idea that Strait change his name. “My dad was so glad I didn’t do that,” Strait said.
Gloria Gaynor, the Queen of Disco
Gloria Gaynor‘s 1978 hit “I Will Survive” has stood the test of time, surviving far longer than disco did and crowning the New Jersey singer as the genre’s queen.
The song won a Grammy for best disco recording. When it was added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry in 2016, the library said “I Will Survive” became known as an “emblem of women’s empowerment” and an anthem in the LGBTQ community.
“That song taps into the inherent survival instinct and it taps into the tenacity of the human spirit,” Gaynor told CBS News in 2016.
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As she recalled recently, when she recorded the hit, she was paralyzed from the waist down while recovering from a serious spinal injury after a fall onstage.
“I had been in hospital for over three months, hoping I’d survive, you know, this trauma that I was going through, hoping that I’d survive the fact that my mother had just passed away a few years prior,” Gaynor said. “Yeah, I was living that song, and I was certain that I wouldn’t be the only one.”
Legendary rock band Kiss
This year’s celebration is a bittersweet moment for the founding members of Kiss. Ace Frehley, the band’s original lead guitarist, died in October, just a few weeks after he, Peter Criss, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley were named among this year’s honorees.
“The saddest thing of all is that Ace couldn’t live long enough to see this amazing thing,” Simmons told CBS News.
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Kiss is known as much for their hits like “Rock and Roll All Nite,” “I Was Made for Lovin’ You” and “Detroit Rock City” as they are for their signature black-and-white face paint. The group rode the glam rock wave to stardom, selling more than 100 million records worldwide and entering the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.
Simmons and Stanley’s partnership has lasted for decades, overcoming the difficulties of making it in the music business.
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that both of us are Jewish and from immigrants who experienced the Holocaust,” Stanley told CBS News. “I think that innately we have inside us compassion for other people but also a sense of survival.”
Tony winner Michael Crawford
Famed composer Andrew Lloyd Webber picked Michael Crawford to play the titular role in the long-running musical “The Phantom of the Opera” when it first opened in London in 1986.
“When he played to me the overture, the hair stood up on the back of my neck,” Crawford told CBS News. “I adored playing and creating it, building him.”
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After winning an Olivier Award — the U.K. equivalent of the Tony Award — for musical of the year, the show opened on Broadway in New York in 1988, winning seven Tonys, including best actor in a musical for Crawford.
Crawford’s career has also included roles in movies and on television, but he considered those to be auditions for his next part. For him, playing the Phantom was a gift.
“So, you want to do the eight shows a week,” Crawford said. “You don’t want to miss one.”
American icon Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone wants people to understand one thing about his classic movie “Rocky.”
“Even to this day, I bristle when I hear it’s a sports movie,” Stallone told CBS News. “It’s not. It’s a love story. It starts with love.”
For Stallone, who received Oscar nominations for playing Rocky Balboa and writing the screenplay for what was named 1976’s best picture, the film was about the love between Rocky and Talia Shire’s Adrian.
“This movie will rise and fall on love, not fights,” Stallone said. “Everyone can sort of go, oh my God, it’s the little things in life, it’s the love, it’s the nurturing — that’s the victory.”
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Stallone calls the movie his biography when at the time he felt like he couldn’t win. He went into acting in his 20s after growing up with his father, who Stallone said was emotionally and physically abusive. Movies were a way for Stallone to cope, and he said the mythic heroes he saw on screen changed his life.
“I said, ‘I’m going to be that guy,'” Stallone said. “I don’t want to be what’s at the house, but I do want to be this noble creature.”
New Kennedy Center Honors medallion
The rainbow-colored ribbons adorned with three gold bars that have long been given to honorees were replaced this year with new gold medallions.
Designed by Tiffany and Co., each medallion features an etching of the center on one side with rainbow colors running through it. The other side bears each honoree’s name and when they received the award.
Each medallion hangs from a ribbon that’s navy blue, which the center described as “a color associated with dignity and tradition.”
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Anna Faris has opened up about the anxiety that plagued her during the making of the original Scary Movie films, admitting she spent much of the time hiding and hoping nobody would notice her, convinced she was about to lose the job.
“I remember being just so scared that I was gonna get fired because I had no body of work behind me. I didn’t even have an agent,” the actress and comedian, 49, tells PEOPLE.
Scary Movie, released in 2000, was her first major film role, and she says she was “so quiet and so intimidated in those first two movies”, spending her time on set hanging back rather than engaging with her castmates.
Things started to shift by the third instalment in 2003.
“For me, it felt like I got to pay more attention. I did get to involve myself more. I did feel comfortable making small talk and having banter and doing what normal people do as opposed to just hiding in the corner, hoping that no one will notice me,” she says.
More than two decades later, Faris is back as Cindy Campbell in Scary Movie 6, and the experience of returning could not feel more different.
When she got the call, she was “shocked and immediately thrilled.”
“I couldn’t believe that there was a world where I would be feeling so good about doing Scary Movie, not just good, but great,” she says.
The reunion has also given her the chance to do something she had never properly done before, thank the Wayans brothers for taking a chance on her all those years ago.
Marlon, Shawn and Keenen Ivory Wayans wrote, created and produced the original films.
“It’s a little healing in the sense that we got to be back together again. That is, for me, a personal celebration because I got to thank them. I’d never thanked them properly,” she says.
“It felt like the Wayans brothers were casting me. This time, I got to thank them and feel like I wasn’t gonna get fired.”
Bonnie Wright, the actress famously known for playing Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter film franchise, has revealed she is expecting her second baby.
The 35-year-old star shared the happy news with her followers on Sunday, 5 April, through a heartwarming post on Instagram.
Wright, who appeared in all eight movies of the wizarding series, confirmed that her “second little earthling” will be joining the family this autumn.
The announcement was with two sweet photos of the mother sitting on a couch with her two-year-old son, Elio Ocean Wright Lococo.
In the snaps, Wright is seen displaying her baby bump, with one particularly touching shot showing her looking down at her son while he faces her stomach.
She captioned the post, “Two babies on my lap, our second little earthling joining us this autumn,” shortly after teasing a “very special” update on her Instagram Stories with a waterside selfie.
Support from the Harry Potter family came quickly, with co-star Evanna Lynch, who played Luna Lovegood, among the first to offer her congratulations in the comments.
Wright and her husband, Andrew Lococo, originally met in 2020 and tied the knot in March 2022.
Their first child, Elio, was born in September 2023.
Olivia Munn has spoken movingly about her Your Friends & Neighbors costar Amanda Peet’s breast cancer diagnosis, urging fans to get checked early after Peet’s own experience showed just how much timing can matter.
Speaking to PEOPLE while promoting season two of their Apple TV+ series, Munn, 45, herself a breast cancer survivor, having been diagnosed in 2023, said she was relieved when Peet confided in her last year.
“She told me last year that she was diagnosed, and I was so relieved she found it at such an early, early stage,” she said.
“She found it at almost the earliest you can find it. She really was given a gift of finding it so early that she doesn’t have to do all the treatment and all the stuff you have to do for years and years to come.”
She was clear about what Peet’s experience represents for others.
“She’s incredibly lucky, and it’s another reminder that early detection saves lives.”
Peet, 54, revealed her diagnosis publicly for the first time in a deeply personal essay for The New Yorker on 21 March, having kept it private since 2025.
The piece described an almost unimaginably difficult period in her life, receiving her cancer diagnosis while both of her parents were simultaneously in hospice care on opposite coasts.
When her sister called to say their father was about to die, Peet flew to New York but didn’t make it in time.
“I didn’t make it before my father took his last breath, but I got to see his body before it was taken from his apartment,” she wrote.
“As soon as my dad’s corpse was out of sight, I was free to panic about my cancer again.”
Peet received her first clear scan in January. Days later, her mother, who had Parkinson’s disease, died in the hospice with her daughter by her side.
In Your Friends & Neighbors, Peet plays therapist Mel Cooper and Munn plays her friend and neighbour Sam Levitt.
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