Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNyle DiMarco is now an awards show host. The actor — and winner of “America’s Next Top Model” and “Dancing With the Stars” — is hosting the Media Access Awards on Nov.
19.The annual event celebrates and honors the accurate portrayal and employment of people with disabilities across all forms of media.
The virtual gala comes on the heels of DiMarco’s producing debut, “Deaf U,” a Netflix reality show about students at his alma mater Gallaudet University, a college for deaf and hard of hearing students, that premiered in early October.“The Media Access Awards reached out maybe two months ago and I was like, ‘Absolutely!’” DiMarco, 31, told Variety through an American Sign Language.
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