{"id":837392,"date":"2025-03-28T16:13:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/harrison-ford-withdraws-from-oscars-ceremony-after-shingles-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:13:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:13:01","slug":"harrison-ford-withdraws-from-oscars-ceremony-after-shingles-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/harrison-ford-withdraws-from-oscars-ceremony-after-shingles-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison Ford withdraws from Oscars ceremony after shingles diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harrison Ford <\/a>will no longer be presenting at the Academy Awards this Sunday after he was diagnosed with shingles, according to several reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 82-year-old actor is doing well and resting following the diagnosis on Friday, Entertainment Weekly<\/a> reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shingles is a painful rash illness that happens when the virus that causes chickenpox reactivates in a person\u2019s body after they\u2019ve had chickenpox, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u00a0<\/p>\n

About one in three Americans will get shingles in their lifetime, and it can sometimes lead to complications like long-term nerve pain or even vision loss.<\/p>\n

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Harrison Ford will no longer be presenting at the Academy Awards this Sunday after he was diagnosed with shingles, according to several reports.\u00a0<\/span> (Savion Washington\/GA\/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The best way to protect against the disease is a vaccination, the CDC says. It\u2019s unclear if Ford had been vaccinated against it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ford had a viral moment at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last weekend when he was seen eating a cracker while sitting at a table with his “Shrinking” costars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The audience began laughing as his co-star Jessica Williams was speaking live on camera about her career in the “I am an Actor” segment, and the “Indiana Jones”<\/a> actor could be seen chewing behind her left shoulder, seemingly unaware at first that he was on camera.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Harrison Ford presents the award for best picture at the 2023 Academy Awards.\u00a0<\/span> (Patrick T. Fallon\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

As the audience started to laugh, Williams joked, “I told him to turn away! Don\u2019t look!” before she went back to her speech about her career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ford got out of the shot for the rest of her speech, then quickly turned back and laughingly embraced her after she proclaimed, “I am an actor!”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ford was nominated for an Academy Award for best actor in 1986 for “Witness.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2023, Ford and Ke Huy Quan, who worked with Ford as a child in 1984\u2019s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and was in 2023 best picture winner “Everything Everywhere all at Once,” reunited onstage<\/a> after Ford presented the winner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Harrison Ford reunites with “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” co-star Ke Huy Quan at the 2023 Oscars.\u00a0<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Quan also won the Oscar for best supporting actor for the movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Fox News Digital has reached out to reps for Ford for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Academy Awards will air 7 p.m. ET Sunday on ABC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Harrison Ford will no longer be presenting at the Academy Awards this Sunday after he was diagnosed with shingles, according to several reports.\u00a0 The 82-year-old actor is doing well and resting following the diagnosis on Friday, Entertainment Weekly reported.\u00a0 Shingles is a painful rash illness that happens when the virus that causes chickenpox reactivates in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":837393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24207,2369],"tags":[16058,7664],"class_list":{"0":"post-837392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-harrison","8":"category-withdraws","9":"tag-harrison","10":"tag-withdraws"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}