Drew Barrymore has pulled out of hosting MTV Movie & TV Awards in support of Writers Strike!

The American actress in a statement said that she would return to host the MTV Movie & TV Awards next year!

“I have listened to the writers, and in order to truly respect them, I will pivot from hosting the MTV Movie & TV Awards live in solidarity with the strike,” Barrymore said in a statement.

“Everything we celebrate and honor about movies and television is born out of [writers’] creation,” Barrymore continued. “And until a solution is reached, I am choosing to wait but I’ll be watching from home and hope you will join me.”

Adding that she expects to join the show next year, Barrymore said, “When I can truly celebrate everything that MTV has created, which is a show that allows fans to choose who the awards go to and is truly inclusive.​”

The 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards will be held at Barker Hangar in Los Angeles on Sunday, May 7.

Here’s what we know about the film and TV writers’ strike

The US TV and movie writers represented by The Writers Guild of America, WGA, went on strike Tuesday for the first time in 15 years after negotiations with film studios failed to reach a new contract.

As reported, after weeks of negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, talks broke down.

The talks over a multitude of topics, including the proliferation of small high-intensity writers’ rooms called “mini-rooms,” the industry’s approach to AI, and the Minimum Basic Agreement for writers’ salaries, according to proposals from the WGA running down its requests and the AMPTP’s offers.

According to the US media reports, around 11,500 film and TV writers belonging to the Writers Guild of America have been negotiating with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents eight major studios: Amazon, Apple, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, NBC Universal, Netflix, Paramount and Sony. (CBS News and Paramount+ are owned by Paramount Global.)