The 2024 Paris Olympics closing ceremony is anticipated to function performances from Billie Eilish and the Purple Scorching Chili Peppers, sources inform The Hollywood Reporter. Moreover, H.E.R. is anticipated to sing the U.S. nationwide anthem, the Related Press reported, to mark the handover for the 2028 Summer season Olympics in Los Angeles.
The closing ceremony will function the artists in a mixture of pre-taped and reside performances.
In a latest announcement, the Olympics stated the closing ceremony would function greater than 100 “performers, acrobats, dancers and circus artists,” with the manufacturing overseen by inventive designer Thomas Jolly, who additionally served as inventive director for the opening ceremony. The occasion, indoors not like the Seine-set opener, will function an “unique soundtrack, new interpretations, musical performances and the participation of world-renowned singers.”
“A part of the present will happen within the air, whereas the large units, costumes and spectacular lighting results will take spectators on a journey by time, each previous and future,” the announcement stated of the occasion, titled “Data.”
The opening ceremony was simply as star-studded because the closing spectacle, that includes the grand return of Celine Dion, marking her first efficiency since her Stiff-Individual Syndrome analysis, in addition to Girl Gaga.
Along with the musical performances throughout the closing ceremony, Tom Cruise can also be reportedly skydiving to the Hollywood Signal throughout a pre-taped section for the L.A. handoff. THR had realized of a scrapped plan that included a big occasion at Will Rogers State Seaside, the place the Olympic flag handover would happen. The concept was in the end discarded after issues from the LAPD about an prolonged closure of the Pacific Coast Freeway and difficulties in securing the required permits from the California Coastal Fee.
Cruise was noticed attending Olympics occasions, together with the ladies’s gymnastics competitors, during which Simone Biles in the end gained 4 medals. Different stars noticed on the Olympics embody Greta Gerwig, Ariana Grande, Tom Brady, Taste Flav, Cynthia Erivo, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, Nick Jonas and Anna Wintour and Snoop Dogg, who has had quite a few viral moments in Paris as he’s helped with NBC’s primetime protection.
The closing ceremony is ready to air reside on NBC and Peacock Sunday, from noon-2:15 p.m. PT, with the proceedings going down on the Stade de France simply north of Paris.
Selection first reported the Billie Eilish and Purple Scorching Chili Peppers efficiency information.
