Miley Cyrus Is Looking for the Perfect Co-Host for New Year’s Eve 2023: ‘Twice Is a Tradition’

variety.com:

Emily Longeretta When the clock struck midnight six months ago, not much changed — the world was still in middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, with many still unable to celebrate New Year’s Eve as they usually would, if at all.So how do you throw a party that an audience of millions can to relate to?

Team up with Lorne Michaels and hope for the best. At least that’s what Miley Cyrus did.“Lorne Michaels is literally a master at improvising and putting together a show of this scale.

He does it every week in five days,” Cyrus says of the “Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party” executive producer. “With him being able to be flexible and obviously the professionalism and how seasoned he is, I don’t think that this show would have been possible without him.” Of course, she didn’t do it alone.

For the 2022 special in Miami, she teamed up with co-host Pete Davidson, a fellow “professional partier.” The duo had been friends before the special so they had a natural chemistry, but there were still a lot of balls in the air when it came to pulling off a live, two hour show.“This was a very interesting year to have a New Year’s special because the probability of it actually happening and the show really going on, none of us were confident [about that],” she tells Variety. “We were dealing with that end of the year COVID surge and a big spike around the country and we wanted to make sure that it was the right and responsible thing to do to continue having a New Year’s show that was encouraging people to come together and celebrate.