PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Two “General Hospital” actors won supporting cast honors and the soap opera’s directing team won at the Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday night.
Kelly Thiebaud plays Dr. Britt Westbourne and Jeff Kober plays Cyrus Renault in the ABC drama. A cheerful Thiebaud won on her first nomination.
“I can’t believe this. I’m so shocked,” she said. “My brother, when I started acting, he followed my work and said, ‘You’re not that good.’ So thank you for giving me something to rub it in my face.”
Kober is known for his extensive film and primetime work on shows like “Sons of Anarchy” and “The Walking Dead.”
“Wow, thanks for making me feel so welcome for the day. What a trip,” she said. “I love what we do for a living, it’s play.”
The management team of the “General Hospital” also won for the third consecutive year.
Kelly Clarkson won her third consecutive trophy as an entertainment talk show host. Her self-titled show also won her second consecutive trophy as an entertainment talk show. The singer is spending the summer with her children and did not attend.
Tamron Hall picked up her second consecutive trophy as a news show host.
Daytime Dean Susan Lucci, who starred in “All My Children” for the show’s 41 years on the network, received a standing ovation. She hosted the In Memoriam segment, which included a photo of her husband, Helmet Huber, who died in March.
After two years of pre-recorded presentations due to the coronavirus pandemic, the day returned to honor his family at night with an in-person ceremony. In 2020, the show went virtual for the first time, and last year the audience was limited.
Still, the specter of COVID-19 was felt.
Two nominees from “The Young and the Restless” were forced to withdraw. Lead actor nominee Jason Thompson, who plays Billy Abbott, and supporting actress Melissa Ordway, who plays Abby Newman, said on social media that they had tested positive for COVID-19 and would miss the show.
Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner of “Entertainment Tonight” hosted the 49th annual awards show held at the Pasadena Convention Center, where many of the nominees sat at socially distanced cocktail tables and others sat in rows side by side.
Turner opened the show with a reference to the Supreme Court striking down women’s constitutional protections for abortion the previous Friday. She emphatically told Frazier that it was “her choice” for her to wear her blue dress. The crowd cheered and some women stood up.
Supporting actress nominee Nancy Lee Grahn of “General Hospital” walked the red carpet covered in references to the day’s news. She had a temporary tattoo that said “reproductive freedom” on her chest, the word “choice” on her disc earrings and she was carrying a black bag with “ban on our bodies” written in rhinestones.
“I dare not go through this process without talking about how devastated I am by what happened today and how dark it is for women in this country,” the 66-year-old actor said. “We are not going to allow this, we are not going to tolerate it.”
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