The first daytime-themed Emmy Awards were given out at the primetime ceremony in 1972, when The Doctors and General Hospital were nominated for Outstanding Achievement in a Daytime Drama. That year, The Doctors won the first Best Show Daytime Emmy. In addition, the award for Outstanding Achievement by an Individual in a Daytime Drama was given to Mary Fickett from All My Children. A previous category "Outstanding Achievement in Daytime Programming" was added once in 1968 with individuals like Days of Our Lives star MacDonald Carey nominated. Due to voting rules of the time, judges could opt to either award one or no Emmy, and in the end they decided that no one nominated was deserving of the golden statuette. This snub outraged then-Another World writer Agnes Nixon, causing her to write in The New York Times, "...after viewing the recent fiasco of the Emmy awards, it may well be considered a mark of distinction to have been ignored by this group."
'I boarded a Boeing 727 aircraft called G-Force One and experienced what astronauts feel when they reach zero gravity,' the 10-time Daytime Emmy winner explained ... 10-time Daytime Emmy winner explained.
Courtesy Ben Cope, Game Show NetworkValerie Bertinelli ... The grand prize is $10,000 ... She had her own show on daytime TV with “Valerie’s Home Cooking,” for which she was nominated several times for a Daytime Emmy and won the award twice ... .
Her daily show, ‘Judge Jeanine Pirro’ debuted in 2008 and would go onto win a daytime Emmy for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program in 2011... daytime Emmy for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program in 2011.
Former NFL player turned football analyst Michael Strahan has said that athletes must not just live off sports forever but must take chances in life ... Not everyone gets lucky hard work or not ... He also won two Daytime Emmy Awards for his hosting skills ... .
However, the five-time Daytime Emmy nominee has repeatedly claimed she can only leave the fifth floor memory unit with permission aka an attendant unlocking the elevator in the 'luxury prison.' Read More.
... Wade’s daughter Zaya came out as transgender, and he has very publicly supported her; last year, he won a Daytime Emmy as an executive producer on a short documentary about the fathers of trans kids.