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UPDATING Ken Cen Red Carpet D List: Kelsey Grammer, Frank Stallone, Dr. Oz, Shannon Tweed, Mike Farris, Criss Angel

By Roger Friedman
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 07: (L-R) Shannon Tweed and Gene Simmons of KISS attend the 48th Kennedy Center Honors at The Kennedy Center on December 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images)

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It’s time for the red carpet for the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors.

Meryl Streep? Harrison Ford? Denzel Washington? Lorne Michaels? Neil DeGrasse Tyson?

Nooooooo. Who needs THEM? They’ve been replaced with MUCH bigger stars, the kind of stars no one’s ever seen!

Guests include the honorees rock group KISS, Gloria Gaynor, George Strait, Michael Crawford, and Sylvester Stallone.

That group is D List enough, but new Ken Cen chief Tricky Dick Grenell has some nice surprises for us.

Top of the list is Kelsey Grammer, who is desperate for his own Honor next year. It looks like the former “Cheers” and “Frasier” star has brought one of his daughters. Also on hand: Frank Stallone, Sly’s brother.

Also getting paparazzed: Dr. Oz, someone named Mike Farris, and KISS leader Gene Simmons’ wife, Shannon Tweed. The latter is not smiling in the pictures and seems to be straining her leash.

Also part of the D team: actor Neal McDonough (he’s the one who says he got fired from a TV show because he didn’t want to kiss an actress), and low rent Vegas musician Criss Angel — not be confused with former KISS member Peter Criss, who’s shrunk a bit since leaving the group.

Did I mention David Ellison, son of Trump lackey Billionaire Larry Ellison, new owner of CBS Paramount?

And of course Pam Bondi, and purveyor of War, Pete Hegseth.

Bill Conti, who’s made a fortune from the “Rocky” theme, is there. I guess he’s performing the song with the orchestra.

Where are Trump ambassadors Jon Voight and Mel Gibson?

keep refreshing!

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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