Jean Smart Urges TV Networks Not to Air Hollywood Awards, Donate Revenue to L.A. Fires

Jean Smart has a message for television executives amid the ongoing Los Angeles fires.

“Attention! With ALL due respect, during Hollywood’s season of celebration, I hope any of the networks televising the upcoming awards will seriously consider NOT televising them and donating the revenue they would have garnered to victims of the fires and the firefighters,” the Hacks star wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, December 8.

Smart’s plea comes as various Hollywood events were impacted by at least four fires across Los Angeles. The Critics Choice Awards — slated to take place on Sunday, January 12, and air on E! — have been postponed, as has the Oscars nominations announcement. The big reveal was due to take place on Friday, January 17, and is now penciled in for Sunday, January 19, according to The Hollywood Reporter. (The Oscars are scheduled to air March 2 on ABC.)

“This unfolding tragedy has already had a profound impact on our community. All our thoughts and prayers are with those battling the devastating fires and with all who have been affected,” Critics Choice Awards CEO Joey Berlin said in a statement. The Critics Choice Awards will now air live on January 26.

Before fires broke out on Tuesday, January 7, Smart, 73, was feted at the Golden Globes on Sunday, January 5, where she won Best Actress in a Television Series, Comedy, for Hacks. She took home the prize over Only Murders in the Building’s Selena Gomez and Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson.

Numerous Hollywood stars have been affected by the L.A. fires, fueled by strong winds Santa Ana winds. By Wednesday night, another fire had broken out in the Hollywood Hills, a popular neighborhood among celebrities.

Dancing With the Stars host Julianne Hough was among Hollywood Hills residents who evacuated the area Wednesday.

“OK, so, there is a fire right by my house,” Hough said via Instagram Stories, in a clip recorded at her home. “We’re with friends, but anybody that’s in the Hollywood Hills, I’ve just been having this intuitive feeling that we’re in a bowl of how everything is surrounding Hollywood, and now this is at the center of Hollywood. Everybody needs to just evacuate. Go, go, go, go, go. Right now.”

After sharing that message, Hough updated her followers with a second video taken in a car. She was with her dog, Sunny.

“Sunny and I are safe and we’re driving, but the reason why I say ‘evacuate now’ even if it’s not close to you, if you have somewhere to go, because: There’s traffic,” she said. “And you’re gonna be stuck in traffic. And that is not good. So everybody, just please be safe and send prayers to all of the first responders and firefighters and just come together — you know, like, all you can do is be there for each other.”

Other stars affected by the L.A. fires include Paris Hilton, Billy Crystal and Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag.