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Mexican-born film star Salma Hayek to host Nobel concert - report
Nov 24, 2005, 0:21 GMT
Oslo - Mexican-born actress Salma Hayek will host the traditional Nobel Peace Prize Concert in December, reports said Wednesday.
'She is really looking forward to this assignment,' show producer Odd Arvid Stromstad told the Verdens Gang newspaper, adding he hoped the Hollywood beauty would help attract a younger television audience.
The 2005 peace prize was awarded to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its head, Mohamed ElBaradei.
The peace prize is one of the prizes created by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. The prize ceremonies are scheduled to be held December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death.
Stromstad did not rule out that Hayek, 39, would host the concert on her own and said organisers have tried to contract her for several years. Last year the concert was co-hosted by Hollywood star Tom Cruise and television talkshow great Oprah Winfrey.
Performers at the December 11 concert include Westlife, Damien Rice, Duran Duran, and Sugababes.
Hayek, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in 'Frida' about Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, recently finished filming 'Bandidas' directed by Norwegians Espen Sandberg and Joachim Ronning.
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