{"id":751831,"date":"2026-07-09T04:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/751831\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T04:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:07:08","slug":"love-island-usas-ariana-madix-thrilled-excited-with-emmy-nomination-the-sweet-message-from-her-mom-that-made-her-tear-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/751831\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Love Island USA’s Ariana Madix “Thrilled & Excited” With Emmy Nomination & The Sweet Message From Her Mom That Made Her “Tear Up”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAriana Madix<\/a> has earned her first Emmy nomination as host of Love Island USA<\/a> and is sharing her thoughts with Deadline.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe television personality is still in Fiji hosting Peacock<\/a>\u2018s dating series, and news of her nomination caught her by surprise.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m so thrilled and excited,\u201d Madix told Deadline about the recognition from the Television Academy. \u201cI mean, almost a little bit shocked just because when you look at the names of the categories \u2014 these are juggernauts of hosting when it comes to reality TV<\/a>. So, to be up there next to them is crazy and amazing, and I\u2019m so excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMadix is not wrong, as she is nominated among an elite group of reality TV hosts, to which she is now included. The other presenters in the category include RuPaul Charles, Alan Cumming, Kristen Kish and Jeff Probst.<\/p>\n

\n\tGetting nominated for the show is a full-circle moment for Madix, as years before ever hosting it, she was a fan of the dating series. As presenter, Madix hopes her love for the show comes across to viewers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI hope my love for my role on the show and my love for the show itself comes across because I think that if it does \u2014 it\u2019s so important,\u201d she said. \u201cI really think it is such an amazing show and I\u2019m so lucky to be a part of it and to be recognized for that is incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Bravo\u2019s \u2018Summer House\u2019 Makes History With First Emmy Nomination In Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program Category<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tMadix is in the final stretch of hosting Love Island USA Season 8 and was still asleep when she got news that she was nominated for the Primetime Emmys<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I went to bed the night before the nominations came out, of course, in Fiji time, I was thinking, \u2018If something like that happens, it would be so amazing.\u2019 And hopefully people think that I\u2019m deserving of a nomination, but if it doesn\u2019t happen, then you know I wake up with the same amount of Emmy nominations,\u201d she recalled. \u201cThen, it\u2019s 4 a.m. Fiji time, I was awoken in the middle of the night, in the pitch dark, by my [hotel] room phone ringing, which is a terrifying sound, because why would anyone be calling me at 4 o\u2019clock in the morning unless it\u2019s something really bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe continued, \u201cIt was my team calling me to tell me about the nomination, and to congratulate [me]. I was in such a stupor, and I was so half-asleep that I almost went back to sleep, wondering if that had actually just happened or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMadix received calls from her friends, her family, and her boyfriend, Daniel Wai, congratulating her on her Emmy nomination.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI got an amazing text from Andy Cohen and all of my team in the States,\u201d she added. \u201cI haven\u2019t been able to look at my phone to see everything. I\u2019m actually just scrolling right now, just very overwhelmed. I have a lot of really awesome, amazing people to respond to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the most special messages following her nomination was from her mother, with whom she shares a very close relationship.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe have this thing from when I was a kid. She would call me her awesome girl,\u201d Madix said of the sweet message she received from her mother. \u201cAnd when she texted me, \u2018Congratulations,\u2019 she referred to me as her awesome girl, which always makes me tear up a little bit because it\u2019s kind of our thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWith Madix now being an Emmy-nominated host, she will be introduced as such, which she says makes her \u201cgiddy,\u201d adding, \u201cIt\u2019s so wild. It\u2019s one of those things that when you\u2019re plugging away, and you\u2019re working, and you say, \u2018Maybe one day,\u2019 and then you see your name up there with some of TV\u2019s greatest \u2014 It\u2019s just a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMadix knows she\u2019s up with some big names in the category and doesn\u2019t want to get her hopes up about winning, saying, \u201cIt feels like a big of a David and Goliath situation with this amazing category, but I think seeing the packages and seeing them say all of the names, and my name being one of those names \u2014 I think that is gonna feel like the best win ever in that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe continued, \u201cTo quote RuPaul, who has won this category so many times, \u2018You\u2019re a winner, baby!’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ariana Madix has earned her first Emmy nomination as host of Love Island USA and is sharing her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[8206,10549,88,3931,220,604,92],"class_list":["post-751831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ariana-madix","tag-emmys","tag-entertainment","tag-love-island-usa","tag-peacock","tag-reality-tv","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}