{"id":18502,"date":"2025-09-15T21:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/18502\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T21:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:09:08","slug":"emmy-producers-share-the-moment-they-realized-beyonce-and-jay-z-were-no-shows-for-awards-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/18502\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmy producers share the moment they realized Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z were no-shows for awards ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> and Jay-Z<\/a> were nowhere to be seen on television’s biggest night \u2014 and for the producers of the 2025 Emmy Awards<\/a>, that was a hard pill to swallow.<\/p>\n

While the power couple is notorious for skipping several high profile red carpets and events every year \u2014 they were also absent from the VMAs despite Beyonc\u00e9 being nominated for Artist of the Year <\/a>\u2014 fans wondered if this years Emmys might be different, given they were both competing for Outstanding Variety Special (Live). In the end, they were no shows and Jesse Collins Entertainment producers Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon and Jennae Rouzan-Clay came to accept that\u2026 after the show started.<\/p>\n

“We figured it out when they weren\u2019t in the seats,” Collins told Variety<\/a> after the show, admitting that was the moment he realized, “‘Oh, you guys aren\u2019t coming!'”<\/p>\n

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Beyonc\u00e9 performs in Christmas Day NFL halftime show special, ‘Beyonc\u00e9 Bowl’<\/p>\n

Prior to the show Collins, who was also an executive producer on both Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z’s nominated specials, told the outlet that while he wasn’t sure if the couple would show, he already had their seats saved.<\/p>\n

“She can make anything happen,” he said. “It doesn\u2019t matter where she is in the world right now, if she wants to be here, she\u2019ll be here, and there will be a seat for her. Several. We\u2019re ready for them and whatever they want to do\u2026 those are my bosses, so it\u2019s up to them.”<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Queen Bey and her husband didn’t miss their chance to take the stage<\/a> because the award went to Lorne Michaels for Saturday Night Live’s star-studded 50th anniversary special, SNL50: The Anniversary. The long-running sketch comedy show beat out the 2025 Oscars broadcast, the SNL50: Homecoming Concert, Beyonc\u00e9’s Christmas Day NFL halftime performance, billed as Beyonc\u00e9 Bowl<\/a>, and the Jay-Z produced Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar.<\/p>\n

Michaels, who was presented the award by his SNL proteg\u00e9 Tina Fey, was nostalgic during his speech, referencing the show’s very first win in the category five decades prior.<\/p>\n

“I won this award for the first time 50 years in 1976. I was younger and had a lot of dreams about what would happen in my life,” Michaels said. “Not one of those dreams was me doing the same show for the next 50 years.<\/p>\n

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Lorne Michaels accepts the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) award for “Saturday Night Live” onstage during the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre at LA Live in Los Angeles on Sept. 14, 2025<\/p>\n

He went on to thank NBC and Comcast, sharing, “The [anniversary] show was two years in the planning and they said, ‘We don\u2019t care what it costs as long as it\u2019s good.’ Maybe they didn\u2019t say that, maybe that\u2019s just what I heard.”<\/p>\n

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As for Beyonc\u00e9, the singer still has something to celebrate coming off of the 77th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Last month, the TV Academy announced the first slate of winners in juried categories including animation, costume, emerging media programming and motion design. Among them was Queen Bey, who won as a costume designer<\/a> for her halftime show performance. The win put her halfway to EGOT status \u2014 a hard won position considering it took 11 Emmy nominations for her to get there.<\/p>\n

The 77th Emmy Awards aired live from the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, Sept. 14. Check out the full list of Emmy winners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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