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Zendaya to host the Radio Disney Music Awards show

By Karen Butler
Zendaya arrives on the red carpet at the 87th Academy Awards at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles last month. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
Zendaya arrives on the red carpet at the 87th Academy Awards at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles last month. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, March 26 (UPI) -- Actress and recording artist Zendaya is to serve as host of the 2015 Radio Disney Music Awards show, organizers announced Thursday.

The family-oriented event is to take place April 25 at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles.

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"On stage and off, Zendaya brings intelligence, thoughtfulness and honesty -- and an effortless cool factor -- to everything she does, all qualities that are appreciated by generations of kids and tweens, and especially their parents. We join her legion of fans in welcoming her back to the RDMA stage," Phil Guerini, Radio Disney's vice president of programming and general manager, said in a statement. "We're going to have a great show... a lot of fun and get to watch amazing performances, so I'm very, very excited," Zendaya added. "Plus, I'm nominated again for Artist with the Best Style, so I better wear a good outfit!"

Zendaya was the subject of a social media firestorm last month after Fashion Police co-host Giuliana Rancic made a bad joke about Zendaya's dreadlocks. Rancic quickly apologized for the remark and Zendaya graciously accepted the mea culpa, however Rancic's co-hosts Kathy Griffin and Kelly Osbourne both quit the show -- and the series was placed on hiatus -- after the incident.

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