Ellen K Named Voice of the 2016 Oscars®
NEW YORK – Sept. 30, 2015 – Today on On Air with Ryan Seacrest on iHeartMedia’s 102.7 KIIS-FM in Los Angeles, host Ryan Seacrest announced that co-host Ellen K has been selected as the voice of the 88th Academy Awards®.
The Oscars® join a long list of voice credits for Ellen, including the Grammy Awards, the People’s Choice Awards, the iHeartRadio Music Awards, My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding on TLC and Hatched on The CW.
Ellen, who was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012, shared, “I’m honored and thrilled to be a part of the 2016 Oscars team. It’s a true privilege to lend my voice to this global event celebrating the best in cinema.”
To hear audio from the radio show this morning, click here or visit the On Air with Ryan Seacrest channel on iHeartRadio.
The 88th Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide. For more information, please visit http://oscar.com/.
Ellen K is represented by Workhouse Media. To download a photo of Ellen, click here.
ABOUT ELLEN K
Ellen K co-hosts the top-rated, globally syndicated 4-hour daily music and entertainment radio show On Air with Ryan Seacrest. She and Seacrest have anchored the morning show on KIIS-FM for 11 years.
A California native, Ellen was born in Palo Alto while her father was receiving his PhD there. She began her career in radio while in college. Originally a Veterinary Science major, she took an internship at a radio station randomly and after one fill-in shift behind the mic she was hooked. She switched her major and graduated with honors in Radio/TV/Film from Purdue University where her father was a professor. Over the course of the next decade, larger market radio jobs lured Ellen back to California, first in San Diego then San Francisco and finally KIIS-FM in Los Angeles.
Ellen regularly appears on “The Talk” and CBS' award winning GRAMMY telecast, as well as the CBS show “Home for the Holidays,” and is the narrator for “My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” on TLC.
Ellen was recently honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the annual Genie Award, and the inaugural Airblazer award commemorating “Women Inspiring Women in radio.”
Ellen resides in SoCal with her husband and 13-year-old son, Cal as well as her Aussie, Cali.
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