I co-host E!'s Live From the Red Carpet. My days start with an energy drink and end with an 18-step skincare routine.

This as-told-to effort is based connected a speech pinch Keltie Knight, a 44-year-old, Emmy Award-winning Canadian tv personality, host, and bestselling writer based successful Los Angeles. It has been edited for magnitude and clarity.

I started my profession arsenic a master dancer, moved to New York astatine 18, and became a Rockette. I started making YouTube videos, documenting my life backstage and successful euphony videos. When my assemblage started breaking down, I realized I needed to find a caller career.

The only different point I could do good was talk, and I loved show business, truthful I moved to LA. Someone successful tv asked maine to commencement making videos for them, and I started successful music. I made a show called "Fangirl," wherever I ran astir LA and went backstage pinch musicians I'd worked with. That's really my profession took off.

I've spent the past 17 years successful the intermezo world, and I've been astatine E! for 3 and a half years. Here's what a emblematic time looks for illustration for maine correct now, successful the lead-up to the Emmys.

7 a.m. — Wake up pinch the sun if I'm not already working

I for illustration to aftermath up pinch the sun, aliases moreover slumber successful a little. I worked really difficult to person this schedule. For galore years, I'd aftermath up astatine 3:45 a.m., beryllium successful the car by 4 a.m., and beryllium connected group by 4:15 a.m.

On a show day, I'm successful the car astatine 7 a.m. pinch 19 bags. We get to the trailer, and I'm reference last-minute emails and going complete book changes. Someone's coating my hair, someone's putting a Spanx connected me, someone's coating my face, someone's steaming a dress, and each 5 seconds, a different head aliases shaper is coming successful to opportunity we person to do this aliases that.

Then we spell down early for a rehearsal, and it's the astir insane 12 hours of my life. That's why I do truthful overmuch mentation beforehand — the time of, location really isn't clip to look astatine a script. I return the work of representing E! very seriously.

8 a.m. — power portion and a Pilates class

My time ever starts pinch a Celsius Kiwi Guava Energy Drink.

I'm a large Pilates girl, truthful I effort to return a reformer people successful the morning, if it's not a show day. I'll often spot a Hollywood publicist successful my class, and it's the champion networking arena I'll be that week.

9:30 a.m. — emails, reading, and liquids

After I activity out, I usually beryllium successful my location agency doing emails. There's truthful overmuch minutiae to this occupation — I person to support wholly up to day pinch the news done publications specified arsenic "The Hollywood Reporter" and negociate my relationships pinch publicists and accumulation companies.

If I spot a personage doing thing new, I for illustration to interaction them aliases their publicist to connection my congratulations. I saw Sharon Stone sewage a caller movie deal, truthful recently, I texted her, saying, "Oh my God, I'm truthful excited for you! When are you shooting?"

People presume my activity is very glamorous and easy because the nosy portion is stepping down the reddish carpet successful a gown. What group don't spot are days for illustration today, erstwhile I'm successful sweatpants each time researching and taking notes — I watch each azygous thing, publication each article, and perceive to each podcast. I request to cognize everything astir these celebrities.

I'm often astatine my table for 10-12 hours per day, surviving connected Celsius, iced matcha, due English tea, a Clif Bar, air, and incense. I'm the worst illustration of health. I for illustration to portion astir of my meals during the day.

11 a.m.— telephone telephone pinch my co-host

I can't unrecorded without my 45-minute regular telephone pinch Justin Sylvester, my co-host. He's 1 of my champion friends. On set, things will spell wrong. I'm going to screw up, my dress breaks, aliases 1 of america isn't emotion well. Having a personification alongside maine I tin look to, cognize what he's thinking, and cognize he tin screen maine — that keeps maine calm.

People are going to trip, you're going to opportunity the incorrect thing, and that's what makes it great. If it were perfect, it would beryllium truthful boring. I'm saying that arsenic personification who fell connected the Grammys carpet, and who mislaid a four-carat gem from my engagement ringing astatine the 2024 Golden Globes.

12 p.m. — an Emmy dress fitting

When it's awards season, I person a batch of fittings for my dresses. We activity pinch a mates of stylists, Bory Tan and Roberto Cardenas.

When I first started connected reddish carpets, I really wanted to support up pinch the Joneses — if Charlize Theron was successful Gucci, I wanted to beryllium successful Gucci. Since past year, I've been trying to usage my powers for good.

Last season, I had a resistance queen creation and make a bunch of my red-carpet dresses from scratch. We sketched them together, and I ne'er felt much beautiful.

For this year's Emmys, Bory recovered an up-and-coming designer, and we're building thing from scratch again. Renting a dress conscionable to look cool successful Gucci isn't meaningful, but wearing an up-and-coming designer connected E! for 4 hours connected the reddish carpet tin alteration someone's career.

1 p.m.— podcasting

I person a podcast called "Lady Gang" — we've been connected for 10 years, and we often grounds 2 episodes successful a day. I'm usually signaling successful the afternoon, astir 1 p.m.

2 p.m.— food, sometimes

I'll often decorativeness signaling and recognize I haven't eaten thing each day. I'll tally upstairs and eat a banana and a yogurt, past I'll get different telephone and person to hop on.

For me, my activity is my passion, and everything other — Pilates, nutrition, laundry, making judge my security is paid connected my location — comes after. It's made maine incredibly successful, but I get laser-focused and put looking aft myself second.

2:30 p.m. — Emmys homework

When I'm not signaling the show, I walk a batch of clip watching shows to enactment up to day earlier the Emmys. I person a highlighted spreadsheet to support up pinch it all, and make statement cards, which I spell backmost and publication arsenic portion of my research.

I really attraction astir the celebrities I interview. I'm invested successful their lives and their success. Someone for illustration Dakota Fanning, whom I've been interviewing since she was a babe — watching her get an Emmy information was wonderful.

I deliberation group presume intermezo journalists are retired to return celebrities down. The truth is, we're specified an important portion of these stars' roadworthy to success, and I attraction truthful profoundly that they person a awesome clip astatine the Emmys and a awesome clip pinch me.

4 p.m.— the different parts of my life

I'm an investor and advisor for Alta, an AI closet app, inspired by Alicia Silverstone successful Clueless. I activity pinch my New York squad connected that constantly, constitute a batch of their emails, and do marque meetings.

I besides precocious wrote a book, "The F*ck Them Theory: Self-Help for People Who Are Done Being the Bigger Person," which is retired this November. I'm readying my ain book circuit for that connected apical of everything else.

7 p.m. — DoorDash dinner

My husband, Chris Knight, and I ever person meal together — so, I'm embarrassed to say, my first existent repast of the time is often dinner. Even worse, neither of america has the clip to cook, truthful we usage DoorDash. We do person 1 bully tradition, Pizza Friday, erstwhile we bid a Domino's pizza to the house.

I learned a agelong clip agone successful therapy that I was trying to beryllium everything, and I really burned myself out. My therapist told me, "Anything you can't do aliases don't person clip to do, salary personification other to do." I cognize that's an insane privilege, but the truth is, the other $20 it costs maine is worthy it successful time, because now I person much clip to activity connected my businesses and my life.

There are thousands of intermezo journalists who want to big unrecorded from E! during grant season, and possibly 4 group person ever had this job. I return that very seriously, truthful everything other has to travel second. I'm for illustration Travis Kelce successful shot play — I'm not reasoning astir Taylor Swift correct now.

8 p.m.— 18-step skincare regular and a bully book

I person truthful overmuch to watch that sitting down successful beforehand of the tv astatine nighttime isn't really I relax. The Emmys' nickname of reality TV intends I tin astatine slightest watch shows for illustration 'Summer House' without guilt.

I'm a large skincare junkie, truthful I do a nightly 18-step skincare regular — face, hands, everything — it's my measurement to upwind down. I'm loving Dr. Diamond's retinol correct now.

I emotion to read, and earlier I spell to sleep, I ever publication thing unrelated to work. I emotion escaping into different worlds done books for illustration "The Midnight Library" and "The Husband."

For my 40th birthday, my hubby sewage maine a complete group of each 56 first version Nancy Drews, and they smell incredible.

10 p.m.— sleep

Ideally, I'm successful furniture starting to publication astatine 8:15 p.m., but that's not ever possible. I'm childless by choice, truthful I'm an early-bed, early-rise person.

I request a batch of sleep, and unless I can't put a book down, it's lights retired astatine 10 p.m.

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