{"id":896733,"date":"2026-09-15T14:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/896733\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T14:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:16:13","slug":"jamie-lee-curtis-breaks-down-in-tears-honoring-rob-reiner-during-emmys-2026-in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/896733\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Lee Curtis breaks down in tears honoring Rob Reiner during Emmys 2026 in memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamie Lee Curtis broke down in tears during the 2026 Emmy Awards<\/a>\u2018 \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d\u00a0segment while honoring Rob Reiner.<\/p>\n

Noah Kahan, clad in a white suit, sang Simon & Garfunkel\u2019s 1970 folk song \u201cBridge Over Troubled Waters\u201d as a montage of photos of late actors, industry pros and producers appeared in a slideshow displayed at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Jamie Lee Curtis then appeared onstage to pay tribute to Reiner. <\/p>\n

Curtis cried as she recalled the kind of person Reiner was, who died in December 2025<\/a> alongside his wife, Michele, after they were stabbed to death in their home.<\/p>\n

Jamie Lee Curtis broke down in tears while paying tribute to late director Rob Reiner during the \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d segment during the 2026 Emmys. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The actress called Reiner \u201cgenerous and kind\u201d as well as \u201ca friend to all.\u201d Rob Latour\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was generous and kind, and funny as hell, and a friend to all, and we all miss Rob and Michele, and all those we lost this year,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

More late celebrities included in the montage were Hayden Panettiere, James Van Der Beek, Sam Neill, Eric Dane, Robert Duvall, Robert Carradine, Vincent Pastore, Tim Curry, Bob Mackie, Shelley Fabares, James Burrows and Ted Turner.<\/p>\n

But noticeably excluded was Chuck Norris, as well as Nicholas Brendon. Brendon was not included in the montage despite his \u201cBuffy the Vampire\u201d co-stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz reuniting at this year\u2019s ceremony.<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Catherine O\u2019Hara <\/a>got her own tribute ahead of Kahan\u2019s performance, with her on-screen children \u2014 \u201cHome Alone\u201d star Macaulay Culkin, as well as \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek\u201d stars Dan Levy, and Annie Murphy \u2014 sharing heartfelt words for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are all types of words I could use to describe Catherine. She was encouraging. She was warm. She was funny, but the word that I think of is \u2018Mom,’\u201d Culkin said.<\/p>\n

Follow Page Six\u2019s coverage of the 2026 Emmy Awards<\/p>\n

She shared, \u201cWe all miss Rob and [his wife] Michele, and all those we lost this year.\u201d WireImage<\/p>\n

Reiner and his wife died in December 2025 after they were stabbed to death in their home. WireImage<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wasn\u2019t just a wife and mother to Beau and Matthew and Luke, she was my mom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dolly Parton also got her own tribute<\/a> separate from the In Memoriam montage. Parton\u2019s \u201cSteel Magnolias\u201d co-star Sally Field led the tribute, which featured country music star Reba McEntire singing Parton\u2019s song \u201cAppalachian Memories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emmys producer Jesse Collins previously shared that Kahan chose to sing \u201cBridge Over Troubled Waters\u201d because it\u2019s personally meaningful to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cPaul Simon is one of his favorite artists,\u201d he told Variety.<\/a> \u201cSo it was really about coming up with an arrangement that does the song justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cHe\u2019s such a pure musician, and he\u2019s worked really hard with our team to create something I think people are going to love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catherine O\u2019Hara got a separate tribute ahead of the \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d segment, with her on-screen children \u2014 Macaulay Culkin, Annie Murphy and Dan Levy \u2014 sharing heartfelt words about her. WireImage<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sally Field let the Dolly Parton tribute. The two co-starred together in \u201cSteel Magnolias.\u201d Rob Latour\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Reba McEntire sang Parton\u2019s song \u201cAppalachian Memories\u201d as part of the tribute. Rob Latour\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Mariska Hargitay was the host of this year\u2019s Emmys<\/a>, the first woman in 15 years to host the annual awards shows honoring the best in television.<\/p>\n

The star-studded audience on Monday included Zendaya, Keke Palmer, Jon Hamm, Amy Poehler and more.<\/p>\n

The \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d segment at last year\u2019s Emmys paid tribute to Malcolm-Jamal Warner<\/a>, Ozzy Osbourne, Michelle Trachtenberg, Food Network star Anne Burrell and more.<\/p>\n

That tribute featured a live performance of Vince Gill\u2019s \u201cGo Rest High on That Mountain\u201d with country star Lainey Wilson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Lee Curtis broke down in tears during the 2026 Emmy Awards\u2018 \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d\u00a0segment while honoring Rob Reiner.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3042,49,48,70781,361,362,215708,89183,15066,242484,75,83360,37947,82631,77349,348],"class_list":["post-896733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-awards","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-catherine-ohara","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-chuck-norris","tag-dolly-parton","tag-emmys","tag-emmys-2026","tag-entertainment","tag-hayden-panettiere","tag-in-memoriam","tag-james-van-der-beek","tag-primetime-emmys","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}