The UCLA Jonsson Cancer Foundation is finalizing the menu, er program, for its twenty ninth annual Taste for a Cure, and the gala is shaping up to be an American Idol reunion of types.
Set to happen at Fox Studios in Los Angeles on May 1, Taste for a Cure will honor Paramount’s chair of TV media, George Cheeks, with the Gil Nickel Humanitarian Award. American Idol veteran Ryan Seacrest is confirmed to host the entire affair, which is able to characteristic a headline efficiency from none apart from Idol winner turned celebrity Carrie Underwood.
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Cheeks, who shall be offered together with his honor by actress and present Matlock star Kathy Bates, joins a roster of earlier honorees that features Ravi Ahuja, Stephen A. Smith, Dana Walden, Eric Shanks, Gary Newman, Kevin Reilly, Jennifer Salke, Jay Sures, Joe Cohen, Paul Telegdy, Sandra Stern and Daymond John. Cheeks presently oversees Paramount’s broadcast, studios and cable TV companies. He beforehand served as co-CEO of Paramount Global and president and CEO of CBS. A veteran in tv for greater than 30 years, the Yale and Harvard grad held senior roles at NBCUniversal and Viacom.
Taste for a Cure will characteristic samples from a few of L.A.’s prime eating places and cooks like Petit Trois with chef Ludo Lefebvre, Top Chef winner Mei Lin, Kevin Meehan of Michelin-starred Kali, Govind Armstrong of the Lobster, Hinoki and the Bird, June Intrachat of Otus Thai Kitchen, Lawry’s, Enrique Ceja of the Beverly Wilshire and Kyle Nelson of Fox Studios. Far Niente, Bella Union, En Route and different fantastic wines from world wide shall be served whereas elevating funds for most cancers analysis on the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Event co-chairs for the gala are CAA’s Joe Cohen, Artist First’s E. Brian Dobbins, Breakthru Beverage’s James Myerson, Holman Group’s Jon Holman, filmmaker Jake Kasdan, former Netflix government Tendo Nagenda; Attention Capital’s Gary Newman, Far Niente’s Erik Nickel, seventh Sun Productions’ Keri Shahidi, Lionsgate’s Sandra Stern, Disney’s Dana Walden and Brooks Brothers’ Arthur Wayne.
More details about the occasion may be discovered here.
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