Pink refuses to perform with daughter at Tonys

Pink won’t – Pink is set to host the Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 7, but she says her daughter Willow won’t join her onstage because Willow is “hung up on this whole nepo baby thing.” Still, the pop star says Broadway is woven into their family life—so much

NEW YORK — Pink knows exactly how the night is supposed to look.

The Grammy winner. whose aerial stunts have become her signature. is scheduled to host the Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 7. airing 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. She also has at least one very Broadway-friendly reason to feel at home: her songs are tied to long-running stage hits “& Juliet” and “Moulin Rouge!” Even so. she’s bracing for the obvious question—whether she’ll literally take flight.

“I’m not flying with vampires,” she tells interviewers with a smirk as she’s running through the morning circuit. “That said, I’m doing some things. My first thing was. of course. everyone’s going to expect to see me fly. and what can we do at Radio City?. I literally walk into every building and I’m like: ‘Where can I hang from?. What’s strong enough?. What do we test out first?’ ”.

The Tonys also include performances tied to the musical “The Lost Boys,” where Pink references vampires as part of the expected spectacle around her hosting appearance.

In the middle of all that preparation—checking where she can hang. testing what holds—another detail matters more to her than whether she’s the star of the stunt reel. Her daughter Willow. 15. is part of the Broadway story in a quieter way. even as Pink says Willow won’t sing with her on that biggest stage.

“Pink even asked her daughter to perform together on the Tony Awards, but “she’s really hung up on this whole nepo baby thing,” Moore quips. “It’s a shame.”

Moore’s real-life name is Alecia Moore, and she’s 46. She says the “nepo baby” hesitation isn’t something she’s trying to fight; it’s simply where Willow is right now—an attitude Pink says she understands through the lens of what the family has been building for years.

Moore grew up in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and she describes theater as a weekly promise made possible by her mother, an ER nurse. Her mother would save up money so they could dress up, go to dinner, and see a show together.

“It was my favorite night with my mom every year,” Moore says. “We would go see ‘Phantom of the Opera. ‘ ‘Les Mis. ‘ ‘La Cage aux Folles.’ I wanted to be Cosette by the time I was 9 or I wasn’t going to be cute anymore. and I remember the chandelier falling in ‘Phantom.’ I just love theater and live performance. It definitely shaped what I do as Pink.”.

That history also explains why hosting the Tonys feels like more than a celebrity gig. It’s a return to a formative place—one she hasn’t ruled out as a broader career path, even if the timing didn’t line up.

More than a decade ago, she was offered a chance to star on Broadway in the rock musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” a production where Neil Patrick Harris won a Tony Award. Moore says she regrets not taking it when it came.

“I once had the opportunity to be the first female Hedwig, and I should have done it,” she says. “But it was 10 years ago, and I was probably in Germany on tour. There’s been a lot of opportunities, but also, I’m very codependent” — adding that her therapist describes it as being “attached.”

That attachment shows up in how she schedules her family life now. Moore shares Willow and her son Jameson, 9, with her husband, former motocross racer Carey Hart.

“I’m very attached with my kids,” Moore says. “They come with me on tour and we travel together. I cannot imagine eight shows a week where I’m not telling them what to do or finding their iPad for them. I mean, it’s a stupid answer, but it is my truth! It’s a real commitment.”

Broadway commitment is also at the center of Willow’s current direction. Moore says the family recently moved to New York so Willow can continue studying acting and dance. Willow has already sung onstage and recorded with her mom multiple times.

When Moore guest-hosted “The Kelly Clarkson Show” in March, Willow appeared in various segments—interviewing cast members from Broadway’s “Ragtime” and “Maybe Happy Ending,” and duetting with her mom on a ballad from “The Outsiders.”

Moore says Willow is now aiming for a theater program at either Carnegie Mellon University or the University of Michigan.

“She’s amazing,” Moore marvels. “She’s more talented than I ever was. I think she’s got a shot; she’s in this for the long haul. She also gets straight A-pluses, which makes me wonder, ‘Is she my daughter?’ ”

Before the Tonys open, Moore is turning the spotlight inward—on the work of getting ready, and on the emotional reality of asking someone you love to show up when they’re not ready.

The Tony Awards are set to open with a 7½-minute number featuring nearly 170 people.

Moore says Willow “works her butt off.” She describes herself, in contrast, as a “jokester,” and says she’s had to learn seriousness through watching the effort it takes to prepare.

“She’s all business and I’m kind of a jokester,” she says. “so I’ve learned to be more serious and to pay attention when people are teaching you things. … I actually got to go back to my own life and rehearse for a couple of shows. My choreographer was like, ‘Why are you being so serious?’ I was like: ‘This is the new me now!. I’m serious in rehearsals!’ ”.

And yet, even in a house full of Broadway energy, not everyone is converted.

“Carey likes dirt,” Moore says, laughing. “If there’s a play called ‘Dirt,’ he’s gonna love it. Jameson is a theater kid at heart ‒ he just doesn’t know it yet. He’s very funny and he can sing his little butt off,” she says, before adding that he tends to prefer “Stevie Wonder runs” over show tunes.

Those family dynamics are also part of what’s driving the buzz around Moore’s future—because she’s not just hosting the Tonys. She’s also coming off her weeklong stint hosting “The Kelly Clarkson Show. ” and online speculation has swirled that she could be preparing to take Clarkson’s seat when the daytime talk show ends later this summer.

Moore doesn’t lean into it.

“No, I don’t know what I’m doing!” she says good-naturedly. “I’m just here to be Kermit the Frog and celebrate everybody else.”

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