{"id":216282,"date":"2025-12-19T18:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/12\/19\/ageless-stars-cher-diana-ross-are-both-making-high-profile-tv-appearances-this-month-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:17:09","slug":"ageless-stars-cher-diana-ross-are-both-making-high-profile-tv-appearances-this-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/12\/19\/ageless-stars-cher-diana-ross-are-both-making-high-profile-tv-appearances-this-month-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ageless Stars Cher & Diana Ross Are Both Making High-Profile TV Appearances This\u00a0Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThey say age is just a number, and two superstars making high-profile TV appearances this month on programs that traditionally cater to young audiences prove the point.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Cher<\/a> appears as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live<\/em> on Saturday, she\u2019ll make a little history. At 79, she\u2019ll be the second-oldest musical guest in the show\u2019s 50-year-plus history. Ragtime pianist Eubie Blake was 92 when he was the musical guest (alongside Gregory Hines) on the March 19, 1979, show.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlake had a late-in-life resurgence in popularity thanks to the 1978-79 Broadway musical\u00a0Eubie!<\/em>, which showcased his ebullient songs, such as \u201cI\u2019m Just Wild About Harry\u201d and \u201cShuffle Along.\u201d Cher, by contrast, has just always been there, never far removed from a hit record, TV show, movie or tour in the more than 60 years she has been a star. Earlier today, the Recording Academy announced that she will receive a lifetime achievement award at their Special Merit Awards ceremony on Jan. 31, the afternoon before the 68th Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThis will be Cher\u2019s second appearance as the musical guest on SNL<\/em>. She first guested on Nov. 21, 1987, one month before Moonstruck<\/em> opened, singing her hits \u201cWe All Sleep Alone\u201d and \u201cI Found Someone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Dec. 31, Diana Ross<\/a> will be the headline attraction on Dick Clark\u2019s New Year\u2019s Rockin\u2019 Eve with Ryan Seacrest<\/em>. She\u2019ll perform live from Times Square near midnight, when the show\u2019s audience is at its peak. (Carrie Underwood<\/a> filled that prime spot on last year\u2019s show.) Ross is 81, a shade older than Cher, and in the same way, she has been a welcome part of our lives since the 1960s.<\/p>\n

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\n\tRoss landed her first career No. 1 hit on the Hot 100, The Supremes<\/a>\u2019 \u201cWhere Did Our Love Go,\u201d in August 1964. Cher landed her first career No. 1, Sonny & Cher<\/a>\u2019s \u201cI Got You Babe\u201d almost exactly one year later.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s a list of musical guests on SNL<\/em> who were 70 or older at the time. They are listed in ascending order:<\/p>\n