It’s the ultimate countdown! Because the clock strikes midnight, Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve will usher in 2023, simply because it has since 1972.
Ryan Seacrest will helm the celebrations, which is able to air on ABC starting at 8 P.M. ET/7 P.M. CT Saturday, December 31. The Reside! With Kelly and Ryan host, 48, has helmed the NYE preserve for 18 years, starting in 2005 whereas cohosting alongside Dick Clark himself. After the TV pioneer’s dying in 2012, Seacrest completely took over internet hosting duties.
For these with out cable seeking to tune into the festivities, viewers can catch the particular on Hulu + Reside TV, in addition to on DirecTV and Vidgo. Whereas the celebration begins at 8 P.M. ET/7 P.M. CT on Saturday, it’ll air for 5 straight hours earlier than concluding at 2 A.M. ET.
This 12 months’s vacation particular will function a wealth of performers and celeb hosts from coast-to-coast, in addition to a Spanish-language broadcast from Puerto Rico. Ciara will head the celebration at Disneyland whereas Billy Porter takes on New Orleans. Along with their internet hosting duties, each stars will carry out a medley of their respective hits. Halle Bailey, Shaggy, Aly & AJ, Ben Platt and extra singers may also hit the stage on the Happiest Place on Earth.
DJ D-Good will helm the Los Angeles festivities, which embody a star-studded lineup of performers that embody Wiz Khalifa, Dove Cameron, Finneas and extra. In Puerto Rico, former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres will lead the countdown whereas Farruko will carry out.
The “On Air With Ryan Seacrest” character — who will as soon as once more make his return to Occasions Sq. for New 12 months’s — has had his personal variety of cohosts on the vacation particular all through the years, together with Jenny McCarthy, Lucy Hale, Jessica Simpson, Nick Lachey, Regis Philbin and extra. Liza Koshy has stood alongside Seacrest since 2021 and as soon as once more will make her return to Occasions Sq. as 2022 turns into 2023. Jessie James Decker, for her half, has additionally introduced the Powerball winner on the community for the previous couple of years and can proceed her duties this 12 months.
The New York celebration might be stuffed with top-notch expertise with performances by Okay-pop icon J-Hope, Duran Duran and New Version.
Two days earlier than the festivities, Seacrest completely opened as much as Us Weekly about his hilarious NYE mishaps in years previous.
“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 connected to it,” the American Idol host informed Us concerning the encounter with the “Shake It Off” singer in 2012. “So, I couldn’t actually talk with anyone within the manufacturing, which I didn’t take into consideration prior.”
Seacrest has additionally been “caught within the elevator getting as much as the ball earlier than,” he shared with Us. “That was a bit worrying as a result of they let you know to stay calm and it’s nearly unattainable.”
He continued: “There are issues that occur alongside the way in which that come collectively within the remaining seconds. [For example], performers who aren’t 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.”
Watch Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest on ABC, Hulu + Reside TV, Vidgo or DirecTV starting at 8 P.M. ET/7 P.M. CT Saturday, December 31.
