Niecy Nash kicks off his second season as the host of Don’t Forget the Lyrics, a Fox musical series where contestants attempt to lip-sync songs with missing lyrics for a probability to win money.
“I’m most looking forward to watching the journey of the players,” Nash, 53, told The Post about the latest season, premiering on May 23 (9pm)
“It’s such a fun season. I just love interacting with players. I gnaw nails; I wring my hands. You would like them to prosper.
“We just got out of the pandemic so you wish people to find a way to win money for doing the things they do all the time,” you sing in the shower. I’m definitely their biggest cheerleader.”
Nash, currently starring as Simone Clark on ABC’s The Rookie: Feds, has made quite a few comedies (“Reno 911!”, “Claws”) and dramas (“When They See Us”, “Selma”). She has also won several Emmy Awards (for the HBO comedy “Getting O” and for hosting the Style Network show “Clean House”).
“I like work,” she said. So I do not have a favorite [genre]. You make people laugh with comedy; you make people feel with drama.”
For “Don’t Forget the Lyrics”, she said that if she had entered the competition, she would have done well if the music category had focused on the Nineties and early 2000s.
“We had great groups back then – Destiny’s Child, TLC, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC. It was my era. Besides, don’t ask me!”
Nash also has a private connection to “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” as her wife, musician Jessica Betts, 40, whom she married in 2020, can also be involved with the show.
“I’m back with my higher half [Jessica]. My spouse is a member of mine [house] team, she said. “So day-after-day is like ‘Bring your spouse to work.’ we find it irresistible. I could do it day-after-day. If you’re with the right person, it doesn’t even feel like work.
“We do not get bored with one another.”
Nash also recently starred in Netflix’s controversial hit “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” which could earn her one other Emmy Award (this 12 months’s nominees might be announced on July 12).
“You usually hope that your work might be well received,” she said of her potential prospects Emma.
“The essential thing for me with Dahmer was for my peers to see me as I see myself, which is a wild card by way of tone and genre. Quite a lot of people know me for being funny. I desired to reintroduce myself to my peers and say, “You’ll be able to give me a job that matters more.” That was the hope.
Meanwhile, ABC has yet to make a call on a second season of The Rookie: Feds, and Nash said she doesn’t find out about the prospects for a renewal.
But when it gets a second season, “Unboxing Simone’s love life is at all times fun,” she said.
“I would love to see her have more challenges in the case of her children because that’s real life. I’d also prefer to see her get into motion a bit more.”