It’s official – Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood will be back handling hosting duties for the fifth time at The 46th Annual CMA Awards. The award show will air live on Thursday, November 1 at 8pm on ABC.
“I think I can speak for both of us when I say that we are extremely excited to be back for a fifth year hosting the CMA Awards,” said Underwood in the announcement. “Each year, we work harder so that we can help present the best show possible.”
“We’re waiting on someone to do something really stupid between now and then,” joked Paisley, the winner of 14 CMA Awards including an Entertainer of the Year trophy. “I have faith. We are excited. I think you walk out there with people expecting a certain thing now and that’s a great place to be. I think they know who we are. They know what we do up there together and we’ve become something different together than we are separately I think, which is fun.”
He added, “I really think that the CMA Awards are a very special thing in our town. When they say it’s ‘Country Music’s Biggest Night™,’ it is. It’s the biggest night of ratings that we ever get. The reason that I think it has worked is because we both take it so seriously that we’re ready when we walk out there. We are focused on making sure that we’re not just crossing our fingers that it works, that what we have ready is ready.”
“I feel like each year our hosting gets better and better,” said five-time winner Underwood. “We want to top that every year, so it’s a good challenge.”
