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Longtime "Reading Rainbow" host and literacy advocate LeVar Burton will give the show some new star power as Scripps takes over the telecast.

Longtime "Reading Rainbow" host and literacy advocate LeVar Burton will give the show some new star power as Scripps takes over the telecast.

LeVar Burton has been hired as host of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, giving the competition a celebrity headliner who's also a longtime literacy advocate as Scripps takes over production of the bee telecast.

LeVar Burton has been hired as host of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, giving the competition a celebrity headliner who’s also a longtime literacy

LeVar Burton has been hired as host of the Scripps National Spelling Bee

LeVar Burton has been hired as host of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, giving the competition a celebrity headliner whos also a longtime literacy advocate as Scripps takes over production

LeVar Burton has been hired as host of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, giving the competition a celebrity headliner who's also a longtime literacy

The former "Reading Rainbow" host says the Bee represents “the inspirational, aspirational ideal of education.”

LeVar Burton has been hired as host of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, giving the competition a celebrity headliner whos also a longtime literacy advocate as Scripps takes over production of the bee telecast.

LeVar Burton has been hired as host of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, giving the competition a celebrity headliner who's also a longtime literacy advocate as Scripps takes over production of the bee telecast.