Some of Hollywood’s brightest stars are preparing to survive the slime at the 2026 Kids Choice Awards.
Us can exclusively reveal that Teyana Taylor, Keke Palmer, Tony Hawk and Matthew Gray Gubler will all participate in the Saturday, November 14, award ceremony among the star-studded attendees. Zombies costars Milo Manheim and Meg Donnelly will also be present for the 2026 KCAs.
Palmer, 33, is nominated for Favorite Podcast for her “Baby, It’s Keke” show, alongside “Anything Goes With Emma Chamberlain,” “Avatar: Braving the Elements,” “Hey Jonas,” “LOL Podcast,” “New Heights With Jason and Travis Kelce,” “Percy Jackson and the Olympians Official Podcast” and “Stuff You Should Know.”
Manheim, 25, and Donnelly, 26, meanwhile, will be celebrating their Disney Channel movie Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires, which scored a nod in the Watch Party category alongside A Very Jonas Christmas Movie, Camp Rock 3, Clash of the Thundermans, Descendants: Wicked World and Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado.
Donnelly and Manheim, who are no strangers to the KCAs stage, wrapped up their roles of Addison and Zed in Zombies 4.
“I think our characters have honestly changed so much because we’ve gotten so much older,” Donnelly exclusively told Us in July 2025. “I think these movies have happened through every formative year of our lives. … Those were, like, massive years of a human’s life and so, I feel like we’ve seen each other in so many different seasons of our lives and it’s really cool.”
Of course, Donnelly and Manheim are far from the 2026 participants with KCAs history.
Taylor, 35, previously attended the 2015 Kids’ Choice Sports Awards, while Gubler’s animated film Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel won Favorite Movie in 2009. Hawk, 58, for his part, is a fixture at the KCAs, where he has taken home multiple blimps, been slimed and performed live stunts. The skateboarder showed off his skills during a live demo during the 2025 ceremony alongside young athlete Katelyn West.
“I don’t have any great aspirations these days. Everything I do now is kind of a side mission,” Hawk quipped during a red carpet interview last year. “And they’re always fun. I never expected any of this anyway, so it’s all a nice surprise.”
At the time, Hawk ruminated on his legacy in sport, adding, “Hopefully as someone who raised the profile of skateboarding as best I could and provided more places to do it.”
Saturday’s KCAs will be hosted by Grammy nominee Alex Warren, who will also be on hand to present the iconic King of Comedy Award to Chris Pratt.
The 2026 Kids Choice Awards airs live on CBS, Nickelodeon and Paramount+ for premium subscribers on Saturday, November 14, at 8 p.m. ET. The show will be available to stream on Paramount+ the next day.
