PASADENA, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Sir David Attenborough broke Dick Van Dyke\u2019s record for oldest Daytime Emmy winner on Friday, taking the trophy for daytime personality, non-daily as host of Netflix\u2019s \u201cSecret Lives of Orangutans.\u201d<\/p>\n
Attenborough, who is 99, wasn\u2019t on hand. The Brit\u2019s career as a writer, host and narrator spans eight decades. <\/p>\n
Van Dyke was 98 when he won as guest performer in a daytime drama series for \u201cDays of Our Lives\u201d in 2024. He is the oldest actor to win a Daytime Emmy. <\/p>\n
Jonathan Jackson of \u201cGeneral Hospital\u201d and first-time nominee Susan Walters of \u201cThe Young and the Restless\u201d won supporting acting honors.<\/p>\n
Jackson accepted the trophy for playing Lucky Spencer, a role he originated in 1993 and has played on and off ever since.<\/p>\n
The ABC show also claimed trophies for Alley Mills as guest performer in a daytime drama and its writing team.<\/p>\n
It was Mills’ second career win for playing Heather Webber. The 74-year-old, who first won in 2023, is best known as the mom on \u201cThe Wonder Years.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re living in really dark times right now. Everything’s crazy,\u201d Mills told the audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. \u201cWe just got to keep our spirits high.\u201d<\/p>\n
Walters plays Diane Jenkins on CBS’ \u201cY&R,\u201d which she has appeared in during three different stints.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so happy that I won so I can thank my husband of 40 years,\u201d she said, singling out Linden Ashby, who has appeared on the same show. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Young and the Restless\u201d brought a leading 19 nominations into the 52nd annual show. It is just one of three shows nominated for best daytime drama, along with \u201cGeneral Hospital\u201d and \u201cDays of Our Lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PASADENA, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Sir David Attenborough broke Dick Van Dyke\u2019s record for oldest Daytime Emmy winner on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[135118,4225,64,63,447,12439,134,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-222303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-135118","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-emmy-awards","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-television"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}