Niecy Nash kicks off her second season hosting “Don’t Forget the Lyrics,” Fox’s musical competition series wherein contestants attempt to lip-sync to songs with missing lyrics for the prospect to win money.
“What I’m most looking forward to is just watching the contestants’ journeys,” Nash, 53, told The Post concerning the recent season, premiering May 23 (9 p.m.)
“It’s such a fun season. I just love having the ability to connect with the contestants. I’m biting my nails; I’m wringing my hands. You would like them to do well.
“We’ve just come out of a pandemic, so you wish people to find a way to win money for just doing things that they do on a regular basis – you sing within the shower. I’m definitely their biggest cheerleader.”
Nash, currently starring as Simone Clark in ABC’s “The Rookie: Feds,” has done a big selection of comedies (“Reno 911!” “Claws”) and dramas (”When They See Us,” “Selma”). She’s also snared several Emmys (for the HBO comedy “Getting O,” and for hosting the Style Network show “Clean House”).
“I like work,” she said. “So, I don’t have a favourite [genre]. With comedy, you make people laugh; with drama, you make people feel.”
For “Don’t Forget the Lyrics,” she said that if she was a contestant, she would do well if the music category focused on the ’90s and early 2000s.
“That was once we had great groups – Destiny’s Child, TLC, the Backstreet Boys, NSYNC. That was my era. Beyond that, don’t ask me!”
Nash also has a private reference to “Don’t Forget the Lyrics,” because her wife, musician Jessica Betts, 40, who she married in 2020, can be involved with the show.
“I’m back with my higher half [Jessica]. My spouse is a member of my [house] band,” she said. “So, every single day is like ‘Bring your spouse to work day’. We love that. I could do it every single day. If you end up with the suitable person, it doesn’t even feel like work.
“We don’t get uninterested in one another.”
Nash was also recently in Netflix’s controversial hit, “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” which could earn her one more Emmy (this 12 months’s nominations might be announced July 12).
“You mostly hope that your work is well-received,” she said, about her potential Emmy prospects.
“The foremost thing for me with ‘Dahmer’ was wanting my peers to see me like I see myself, which is multi hyphenate in terms of tone and genre. Numerous people know me for being funny. I desired to re-introduce myself to my peers and say, ‘You possibly can trust me with work that has more weight to it.’ That was the hope.”
Meanwhile, ABC has yet to make a call on a second season for “The Rookie: Feds,” and Nash said she doesn’t find out about its prospects for renewal.
But, if it does get a second season,“There’s all the time a lot fun in unpacking Simone’s love life,” she said.
“I would really like to see her have more challenges in terms of her children, because that’s real life. And I’d also prefer to see her partake a bit of bit more within the motion.”
