If you're still recovering from Memorial Day Weekend (same), you probably can't wait to sit back, relax, and let the season premiere of America's Got Talent take over your TV screen on May 28. And you probably also can't wait to see your AGT faves (hiii Simon Cowell and Howie Mandel) return for another season of awesomeness.
But one person you won't see is host Tyra Banks. And not because she's focusing solely on hosting America's Next Top Model (sigh). It's unclear why she stepped away from the show, but fans can rest easy knowing she left it in good hands. Terry Crews is the new host of America's Got Talent, and while he is a famous actor, you still might not know everything about him. Here's the scoop:
America's Got Talent isn't Terry's first rodeo.
ICYMI, he hosted the most recent season of America's Got Talent: The Champions and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire from 2014 to 2015, per Deadline . So yeah, you might say he's already a total pro.
He's best known for his role on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Terry might be new(ish) to reality TV, but he's certainly no stranger to scripted TV. Since 2013, he's played Terry Jeffords, a sergeant in the Brooklyn police force. His character's basically a teddy bear with (huge) muscles, and, as it turns out, the real Terry is, too.
"Its me," he told Paste Magazine in 2015. "They [the Brooklyn Nine-Nine writers] named the character Terry because it is me. They take things from my real life, and they put it right into the episodes. Ill tell them stories and three episodes later, its in the episode. Its really cool."
Watch Terry get real about what's it like to play himself on TV:
Still, Terry's story changed public perception about sexual assault-proving that no one is immune simply due to their gender or size. "I have nothing but pride for my husband. This is a subject worth fighting over. We spent a lot of our own money to fight. Which we got back," Rebecca told Unpopular Magazine in 2018. "I got to see my husband fight for his rights in a town where he had to put up with a lot of stuff to work. It was a great moral victory." TIME subsequently named Terry one of the "Silence Breakers" in the publication's 2017 "Person of the Year" issue. Terry has his own furniture line. As if he weren't talented enough, Terry is also an artist who received an art scholarship and a full-ride football scholarship to Western Michigan University. Obviously, football took the front seat for many years, but per Business Insider , Terry never stopped his artistic pursuits, painting portraits of his fellow NFL players to earn some extra cash. (In his hometown of Flint, Michigan, Terry was also a courtroom sketch artist.) Fast forward a few (dozen) years, and while Terry now has his own from furniture maker Bernhardt Design . "On the [list of] things I want to accomplish, furniture wasn't on there but art was," Terry told Business Insider . "I felt, wait, furniture is art, if you make it it's art!" He started sketching, and, according to Jerry Helling, creative director of Bernhardt Design, "His knowledge of design and his passion for the industry, combined with his artistic skills made him an ideal collaborator." So, if you can't get enough of Terry on AGT and want to have a little bit of him in your home 24/7, well, now, you can.