The ceremony honored the best of television in your family schedule, starting with the famous comedian and renowned chef in their respective programs. The comedian Ellen DeGeneres and host Rachel Ray cooking areas were the focus of the Daytime Emmy Award, which was shared by the major awards for his television programs.
In another high point of the evening, Jeanne Cooper, the lady’s number one TV series for U.S. television, was nominated as best actress in a drama series for his role in 35 years as Katherine Chancellor on “The Young and the Restless” .
It is the first time that Cooper, 79, won the Emmy Awards after eight nominations. Cooper embodies one of the two characters who remain in “The Young and the Restless” since his early days.
The veteran star of “General Hospital” Anthony Geary, who plays the popular Luke Spencer character, won his sixth trophy as best actor protagonist. Only a star of daytime dramas, actress Erika Sleak of “One Life to Live,” won six Emmys for a role.
“General Hospital” was voted best daytime drama series for the tenth consecutive year.
The victory of “Rachel Ray” in the race for best talk scored a surprise victory over “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” which had won in the last four years.
“It is extraordinary to be the new girl in the neighborhood,” said a happy Ray backstage. “It was a surprise,” he added.
Ray, who was hired for the program by the production company of Oprah Winfrey, made news last month when it announced a Dunkin ‘Donuts in which it appeared was removed after a Fox News Channel commentator complained the scarf Ray seemed to be used kufiyya Muslim.
Although her program lost to Ray, DeGeneres won for the fourth consecutive year as the best host of a talk.
In doing so, was imposed on five other women who run “The View, led by the creator and producer Barbara Walters and the moderator Whoopi Goldberg, who replaced Rosie O’Donnell on the ABC series last fall.
Another team of perennial nominees, Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa’s morning show “Live with Regis and Kelly,” extended his streak of defeats.
But Philbin was not at home with empty hands. The former host of the show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” received an award for achievements in his career.
DeGeneres crowned the triumph of a year of ups and downs for the comedian in which national furor caused by the adoption of a puppy, improvised during the writers strike and announced plans to marry his partner after a California court decided allow gay marriages.
“Never say that you have,” said DeGeneres, 50, to climb the stage to receive the award. “This has been a crazy years (…) and we cried and laughed a lot and cried for me and then people laughed,” he added.
An obvious reference to tears DeGeneres shed in October when he recalled how his program in a group of animal rescue him from the puppy that had been taken because it gave the dog to a friend without the permission of the agency of animals.
The 35 edition of the annual ceremony was broadcast live by ABC from the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, home of the Oscar.
