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Additional celebrity participants will be announced shortly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael Jackson&#8217;s groundbreaking sound and style changed the course of music, videos and Live performance forevermore,\u201d said Casey Patterson, Executive Producer. \u201cThis line up of incredible superstar performers are inspired and ready to bring it LIVE on 1.18.18!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Regular hosts LL Cool J and Chrissy Teigen will emcee the broadcast, which airs at 9PM ET on January 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount Network confirms the participants for the January 18 special.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[2540,3915,2272,363,3522],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taraji P. 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