It’s certainly been all change at the Oscars this week. Brett Ratner stepped down as producer of next year’s ceremony after making a homophobic comment (as well as saying plenty of other idiotic rubbish in the past few weeks). The next day he was followed by host Eddie Murphy, who decided he wasn’t going to do the gig without Ratner.

Then yesterday Brian Grazer came in as the producer of the ceremony and now we also know who’s going to host! After years of people saying he ought to do it – mainly because it hasn’t been as good as since the last time he did it – Billy Crystal has agreed to host the Oscars once more.

Crystal first tweeted the news himself, saying “Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions. Looking forward to the show”. That was shortly afterwards confirmed by the Academy.

It’s great news, but will put a huge amount of pressure of Crystal’s shoulders. In recent years ever host has been compared to him, so there’ll be high expectations come Oscar night on February 26th.

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