Kevin Hart steps down as Oscar host

Performing artist comic Kevin Hart made a declaration on Twitter late Thursday, which incorporated an expression of remorse to the LGBTQ people group, after his past homophobic remarks reemerged following Tuesday's news that he would have 2019's Academy Awards.

"I have settled on the decision to venture down from facilitating the current year's Oscar's," Hart tweeted. "This is on the grounds that I would prefer not to be a diversion on a night that ought to be praised by such a large number of astonishing capable specialists. I earnestly apologize to the LGBTQ people group for my unfeeling words from my past."

In another Instagram video, Kevin Hart, who was tapped to MC the function not long ago, says the Academy considered him issuing a final proposal if things would proceed as arranged.