Hailee to host EMAS

SINGER-ACTRESS HAILEE Steinfeld will host and perform at the 2018 MTV EMAS airing live globally from Bilbao Exhibition Centre, Spain on Sunday, November 4 at 11pm in the UAE.

MTV revealed Steinfeld through a Facebook Live sketch that broadcasted across its international platforms. “The EMAS are a show where anything can happen,” said Steinfeld. “I can’t wait to host a night filled with incredible artists, performances, some surprises of my own – let’s do this, Bilbao!”

The 2017 Best Push Artist winner also nabbed a 2018 MTV EMA nomination for Best Pop alongside Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello, Dua Lipa and Shawn Mendes.

Steinfeld most recently took the MTV stage at Isle of MTV in Malta where she performed a dynamic set filled with hits, including her double platinum-certified debut single Love Myself, double platinum-selling smash Starving featuring Zedd, platinum-selling anthem Most Girls, and platinum-certified single, Let Me Go featuring Florida Georgia Line. In early 2018, she contributed Capital Letters to the Fifty Shades Freed Original Soundtrack, and toured with Katy Perry in the U.K. and throughout the U.S. with Charlie Puth.

In addition to her thriving music career, Steinfeld is an Academy Award-nominated and critically acclaimed leading actress. In 2016, she starred in The Edge of Seventeen in which she snagged two Critics’ Choice Award nominations and a Golden Globe nomination. Steinfeld most recently starred in 2017’s blockbuster Pitch Perfect 3. Her next leading role will be Paramount’s Bumblebee - the first spin-off in the newly created Transformers universe. She will also voice the character of Spider-gwen in the animated, big-screen experience Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse. Hailee is currently in production on the original Apple series in the title role of Dickinson, their upcoming half-hour television series about 19th century poet Emily Dickinson. (Supplied text)