Actor, comedian and writer Cristela Alonzo doesn’t like it when competition series make the judges or the hosts into the stars of the show, because she wants the contestants, who are the ones…
doesn’t like it when competition series make the judges or the hosts into the stars of the show, because she wants the contestants, who are the ones tasked with physically, mentally and emotionally demanding feats, to be celebrated. So when she was tapped to host The CW’s ““I want them to know they’ve got it!” she tells “I wanted to make sure that everybody was OK — meaning, if a contestant asked for water and they weren’t heard, I would stop things to make sure they got a bottle of water.
“Everything I do, everything I write, everything I say, you can consider it a Latina perspective because I’m Latina. But having said that, it also means that every experience and everything that I say and do is also very Cristela. And once I realized that I have to be more specific and make sure that people knew that it was just me being myself, that’s when I realized that I could connect with more people,” she says.
Alonzo is best known for her stand-up comedy, previous self-titled sitcom and voice work in everything from “The Casagrandes” to “Cars 3.” The former two parts of her career are areas in which she delivers a lot of social commentary and gets to share “what I think of where we’re at right now” with her audience, she notes.
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