Following today’s news that Carrie Underwood will return to host the 53rd annual CMA Awards on Nov. 13 with special guest hosts Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton, a source tells Billboard that “no deal is in place for [McEntire] to come back” to host the competing Academy of Country Music Awards, but adds “nothing [is] determined yet.”
McEntire has hosted the ACMs, which take place in April in Las Vegas, 16 times starting in 1986. She hosted solo continuously from 2006 through 2010 before co-hosting with Blake Shelton in 2011 and 2012. She hosted solo in 2018 and 2019.