Kevin Hart may come back as Oscars host

Kevin Hart is reconsidering his decision to step down as Oscars host after Ellen DeGeneres spoke to people at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to vouch for him following an uproar over his old homophobic tweets.

DeGeneres, who has hosted the award ceremony in the past, revealed that she called someone at the Academy to ask its leaders to reconsider Hart.

"...they were like, 'Oh my God, we want him to host! We feel like that maybe he misunderstood or it was handled wrong. Maybe we said the wrong thing but we want him to host. Whatever we can do we would be thrilled. And he should host the Oscars'," DeGeneres said.

Hart told the talk show host that he would "assess" whether he was interested in reprising the role.

"Leaving here, I promise you, I'm evaluating this conversation. This is a conversation I needed to have, I'm glad that I had it here, and I'm glad that it was as authentic and real as I could have hoped that it would be. So let me assess, just to sit in this space and really think, and you and I will talk before anything else."