Keke Palmer is officially a repeat winner. Her series “Glam Through the Ages,” which she co-created and executive-produced, won at the 53rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. It is her third Emmy and she had already won a Primetime Emmy for hosting NBC’s “Password” and another for “Keke Palmer’s Turnt Up With the Taylors.”
Palmer broke out in “Akeelah and the Bee” 20 years ago and went on to star in “Hustlers,” Jordan Peele’s “Nope” and “One of Them Days,” which she also produced.
The night belonged to other first-timers, too, with actress Tracee Ellis Ross winning her first Emmy, for travel and adventure program, for “Solo Traveling With Tracee Ellis Ross,” which she hosts and executive-produces. The Roku Channel series has taken her to Marrakech, Marbella and Riviera Maya, then to Northern Thailand, Melbourne and Gstaad in Season 2. She is best known for TV shows “Girlfriends” and “Black-ish.”
“Beyond the Gates,” actress Tamara Tunie also won her first Emmy, for lead actress in a daytime drama, becoming the second Black woman to win the category. “Beyond the Gates” took home four Emmys in its first season. Star Jones nabbed an Emmy, for daily daytime personality, sharing the award with the bailiff Corey Jovan for “Divorce Court.”
Genie Francis got a standing moment with a familiar presenter. Her husband, Jonathan Frakes of “Star Trek” fame, handed her the Lifetime Achievement Award. Ms. Francis, who plays Laura Vining Spencer on “General Hospital,” hits 50 years in daytime next February.
The Daytime Emmys have honored television programming and crafts since 1974, from soaps and talk shows to culinary and courtroom programs.
Samantha Ofole-Prince is a U.S. based journalist and movie critic who covers industry-specific news that includes television, film and music. Photos and Clips Courtesy of NATAS
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