Ryan Seacrest Joins Kelly Ripa On ‘Live’
NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan Seacrest is becoming a regular on morning television, adding his name to Kelly Ripa’s on the chat show “Live with Kelly.”
He was announced on Monday, a year after Michael Strahan exited the show for “Good Morning America.” The way Strahan’s departure was handled so annoyed Ripa that she skipped the show for two days in protest.
She has worked with guest co-hosts like Jerry O’Connell, Fred Savage and Andy Cohen since then, a stretch of uncertainty that led some to wonder with Ripa really wanted to go it along.
But it’s a big get: Seacrest is a major star, whose television presence had diminished since “American Idol” ended on Fox.
Ellen DeGeneres, Steve Harvey Among Top Daytime Emmy Winners
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” won the Daytime Emmy Award for best entertainment talk show Sunday, 20 years to the day that her character came out as gay on the sitcom “Ellen.”
“She did it because it was the right thing to do,” said Mary Connelly, “Ellen” executive producer, of DeGeneres’ decision to be open about her sexuality and do the same for her character in 1997. DeGeneres was absent and Connelly accepted the award.
“General Hospital” was honored as best daytime drama, with top acting awards going to Scott Clifton for “The Bold and the Beautiful” and Gina Tognoni for “The Young and the Restless.”
Clifton became the first actor to receive Daytime Emmys in the categories of best younger, supporting and lead actor in his career.
Steve Harvey skipped the ceremony but was a double winner. He was named best game show host for “Family Feud” and best host of an informative talk show for “Steve Harvey.”
“Good Morning America” won the best morning program trophy, while “The Dr. Oz Show” claimed the best informative talk show award. “Jeopardy!” was honored as best game show.
Sheryl Underwood, host with Mario Lopez of the live-streamed ceremony, also accepted the best entertainment talk show host award with fellow “The Talk” hosts including Sara Gilbert.
“Entertainment Tonight” was named best entertainment news program, and former “ET” anchor Mary Hart accepted a lifetime achievement award. Hart recounted the skepticism that greeted “ET” in the early 1980s when it launched TV’s now-flourishing Hollywood news magazine genre.
“We are not fluff,” she recalled saying at the time. “Had I known what was coming, I would have said, ‘We are not fake news.'”
Hart also asked that people, whether on college campuses or in government, make an effort to listen to other points of view. Gaby Natale, who was honored as best talent in a Spanish-language program for “SuperLatina with Gaby Natale,” issued her own plea.
She dedicated her award to the “people who are resisting inequality, misogyny, xenophobia and the rise of intolerance. Do not allow anyone to tell you otherwise: diversity is beautiful.”
The ceremony was held as negotiators for the Writers Guild of America and producers attempted to reach a deal on a new contract and avert a strike that could disrupt daytime and prime-time TV shows and movie production. The existing contract expires Monday night.
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This story has been corrected to reflect that Sheryl Underwood hosts “The Talk,” and not “The View” as originally reported.
Barbra Streisand Blames Sexism For Oscar Snubs
NEW YORK (AP) — Barbra Streisand says sexism cost her multiple Oscar nominations over the years.
Variety reports Streisand told director Robert Rodriguez during an interview Saturday at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York that “there were a lot of older people” who didn’t want to see a woman director. She tells Rodriguez that even some female critics targeted her because of her gender.
Streisand’s “Yentl” was nominated for five Academy Awards in 1984. Streisand received a Best Director nod, but the film missed out on a Best Picture nomination. She says the snub was to blame, in part, for her hiatus from directing until 1991’s “The Prince of Tides.” That movie earned a Best Picture nomination, but Streisand was left off the Best Director list.
Streisand says there aren’t enough female directors in Hollywood.
