Harrison Ford Diagnosed With Shingles, Will Skip 2025 Oscars: Report
Harrison Ford will reportedly miss the 2025 Oscars on Sunday, March 2, after being diagnosed with shingles
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Harrison Ford will reportedly no longer present an award at the 2025 Academy Awards after a recent shingles diagnosis.
Ford, 82, is doing alright and resting, per Entertainment Weekly. According to the outlet, the Shrinking star resigned as a presenter at the Oscars on Saturday, March 1.
Ford has not publicly addressed his health scare. Us Weekly has reached out for comment.
Ford was scheduled to present at the 2025 Oscars, which will be held on Sunday, March 2, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Days earlier, Ford attended the Screen Actors Guild Awards solo.
“My wife is in New York doing a play,” Ford said of his wife, Calista Flockhart, while walking the red carpet earlier last month.
In Flockhart’s absence, Ford brought his talent agent as his plus-one. The actor was up for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, respectively, for his performance in the hit series Shrinking. He lost to Martin Short and Short’s Only Murders in the Building cast.
While Ford has had a legendary acting career, he and Flockhart, 60, have never shared the screen.
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“That’s just the circumstantial reality where we haven’t been offered something where we’d work together,” Ford exclusively told Us Weekly last month, noting he’d “love to work” alongside his wife.
Until then, Ford is focused on his role as Dr. Paul Rhoades on Apple TV+’s Shrinking.
“This is the best job I’ve ever had,” he gushed to Us. “I live half an hour away. I go home and I sleep in my own bed. I’m in the same town as my wife and children and I’m doing really smart, intelligent storytelling with incredibly talented people.”
He added, “That’s the joy of this job for me. You can allow your emotions to drive the bus, but you have to guide it. You have to tell it where it’s going and make sure the people that need to get off, get off of it at the right time.”
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According to Ford, working on Shrinking is akin to an “emotional exercise.”
“That’s what I think we’re offering an audience,” he told Us. “We’re offering them [an] emotional exercise; a chance to practice empathy and understanding [for] people that are unlike you — they’re not in your group chat — [and] experience what it’s like to learn from their experiences as well.”
The 97th Academy Awards air live on ABC Sunday, March 2, at 7 p.m. ET.
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