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Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Billboard, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson & More Nominated for 2025 Daytime Emmys
Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, Drew Barrymore and the husband-and-wife team of Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are competing in both of the marquee talk show categories at the 2025 Daytime Emmy Awards – outstanding daytime talk series and outstanding daytime talk series host. The only difference in the lineup in the two categories is that The View was the fifth nominee for outstanding daytime talk series, while Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb took the fifth slot in the nominations for outstanding talk series host for their work on TODAY With Hoda and Jenna. More from Billboard Kelly Clarkson Wins One, Loses One at 2024 Daytime Emmys Rob Thomas Talks Moving Labels After 30 Years on Atlantic: 'Universal Saved the Day' Doechii Explains Why She Called Out President Trump on Live TV: 'Wasn't S-t They Could Do About It' Selena Gomez's Food Network series Selena + Restaurant was nominated for outstanding culinary instructional series, but Gomez was not nominated for outstanding culinary host. Three top entertainment media brands – Billboard, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter – were recognized in the nominations. Variety Studio: Actors on Actors and Off Script With the Hollywood Reporter were both nominated for outstanding arts and popular culture program. Billboard Presents, on was nominated for outstanding short form program. Billboard Presents are the video cover profiles that Billboard produces for some of its cover artists. Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood were both nominated for outstanding entertainment news series, while hosts of both shows are vying for outstanding daytime personality – daily. The other nominees for outstanding entertainment news series are E! News and Extra. The other nominees for outstanding daytime personality – daily are from Divorce Court and Judy Justice. A program remembering a TV legend, Bob Newhart: A Legacy of Laughter, An Entertainment Tonight Special, is vying for outstanding daytime special. Before he made his mark on TV, Bob Newhart was one of the kings of comedy albums. He topped the Billboard 200 twice and won three Grammy Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the nominees for the 52nd annual Daytime Emmy Awards in 42 categories on Thursday (July 10). 'We're excited to recognize the exceptional individuals and teams who make daytime television great every year and in some cases, every day,' Adam Sharp, president and CEO of NATAS, said in a statement. 'As the Daytime landscape continues to expand, we're excited to introduce new categories to recognize the boundary-pushing work being done.' The Daytime Emmy Awards have recognized outstanding achievement in television programming and crafts since 1974. This year marks the debut of several new categories, including outstanding culinary cultural series, outstanding emerging talent in a daytime drama series, and outstanding regional content in a daytime genre. The 52nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be held as a single ceremony on Friday, Oct. 17, in Pasadena, Calif. The show will be produced by NATAS. Sharp and Lisa Armstrong are executive producers with Rachel Schwartz serving as Head of the Daytime Emmy Awards. Here's a list of nominees in categories most relevant to the music industry. The Drew Barrymore Show, CBS Media Ventures The Jennifer Hudson Show, Warner Brothers Television Distribution [JHUD Productions | Warner Bros. Unscripted Television | Telepictures] The Kelly Clarkson Show, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios Live With Kelly and Mark, Disney Entertainment Distribution The View, ABC Drew Barrymore, The Drew Barrymore Show, CBS Media Ventures Jenna Bush Hager, Hoda Kotb, TODAY With Hoda and Jenna, NBC Kelly Clarkson, The Kelly Clarkson Show, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios Mark Consuelos, Kelly Ripa, Live With Kelly and Mark, Disney Entertainment Distribution Jennifer Hudson, The Jennifer Hudson Show, Warner Brothers Television Distribution Black Barbie, Netflix [shondalandmedia] Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame, PBS [Bright Blue Media Group] Off Script With The Hollywood Reporter, IFC [The Hollywood Reporter] The Swift Effect, Peacock Variety Studio: Actors on Actors, PBS Ballin' Out, Outsports Billboard Presents, Catalyst, LinkedIn News Eat This With Yara, The Chef Preserving Gaza's Cuisine Amid a Genocide, AJ+ Live Like a Champion, Healthline [Lucky Tiger Productions] Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors, Netflix National Parks: USA, National Geographic [Stronghold Studios, LLC] The Secret Lives of Animals, Apple TV+ Secret Lives of Orangutans, Netflix [Silverback Films] Secrets of the Neanderthals, Netflix [BBC Studios] Access Hollywood, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios E! News, E! Entertainment Entertainment Tonight, CBS Media Ventures Extra, Warner Brothers Television Distribution [Warner Bros. Unscripted Television | Telepictures] Cassie DiLaura, Denny Directo, Kevin Frazier, Rachel Smith & Nischelle Turner, Entertainment Tonight, CBS Media Ventures Scott Evans, Zuri Hall, Kit Hoover & Mario Lopez, Access Hollywood, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios Star Jones, Corey Jovan, Divorce Court, FOX Whitney Kumar, Kevin Rasco, Sarah Rose & Judge Judy Sheindlin, Judy Justice, Amazon Prime Video [Amazon MGM Studios | Sox Entertainment] Bob Newhart: A Legacy of Laughter, An Entertainment Tonight Special CBS Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés, Amazon Prime Video [Film 45 | Amazon MGM Studios | José Andrés Media] Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade, ABC [Film 45 | EverWonder Studio | Yellow Shoes Studio] 98th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, NBC [Silent House Productions] Shelter Me: The Cancer Pioneers, PBS [Steven Latham Productions] Sir David Attenborough, Secret Lives of Orangutans, Netflix [Silverback Films] Brad Bestelink, Living With Leopards, Netflix [Wild Space | Natural History Film Unit Botswana | Freeborne Media | Netflix] Andi Sweeney Blanco, Courtney Dober, Rob North & Kirin Stone, The Fixers, BYUtv Anthony Mackie, Shark Beach with Anthony Mackie: Gulf Coast, National Geographic [Nutopia] Martha Stewart, Martha Gardens, Roku [Marquee Brands] Be My Guest With Ina Garten, Food Network [Pacific Productions] Delicious Miss Brown, Food Network [FRANK.] Emeril Cooks, Roku [Marquee Brands] Lidia's Kitchen, PBS [Tavola Productions] Selena + Restaurant, Food Network [July Moon Productions | Sony Pictures Television's The Intellectual Property Corporation (IPC)] BBQ High, Magnolia Network [Hit + Run] Chasing Flavor With Carla Hall, HBO | Max [Max | Fremantle's Original Productions] Ingrediente: Mexico, Amazon Prime Video TrueSouth, ESPN | ABC | SEC Network [Bluefoot Entertainment] Kardea Brown, Delicious Miss Brown, Food Network Joanna Gaines, Magnolia Table with Joanna Gaines, Magnolia Network [Blind Nil] Ina Garten, Be My Guest With Ina Garten, Food Network Emeril Lagasse, Emeril Cooks, Roku [Marquee Brands] Michael Symon, Symon's Dinners Cooking Out, Food Network Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
The Independent
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Jennifer Hudson will headline the Whitney Houston estate's fourth annual Legacy of Love Gala
No one could replace the inimitable talent that was Whitney Houston. But when you need someone to sing her timeless tracks, the great EGOT (that's Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner) Jennifer Hudson has proven time and time again that she's up for the job. Hudson will headline the fourth annual Whitney Houston Legacy of Love gala on Aug. 9, presented by The Whitney E. Houston Legacy Foundation and Primary Wave Music. The event, held at the St. Regis Hotel in Atlanta on what would have been Houston's 62nd birthday, doubles as a celebration of 40 years since the launch of her career. Houston's self-titled debut album was released in 1985. The Legacy of Love gala will benefit the late singer's foundation aimed at helping young people. A grant will also be awarded to the Los Angeles-based Kids in the Spotlight, an organization that seeks to heal and empower children through storytelling and filmmaking. Houston founded the Whitney Houston Foundation for Children in 1989 with the goal of empowering youth, providing resources to unhoused children, giving out college scholarships, and raising funds for charities like the Children's Defense Fund and St. Jude Children's Research. A charity auction will raise money for the foundation, which is now called the Whitney E. Houston Legacy Foundation. Other performers include R&B singer-songwriter Meli'sa Morgan and Jimmy Avance. The gala will also feature a preview performance of the upcoming orchestral tour, 'The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration,' conducted by William R. Langley. 'This year marks Whitney's fortieth anniversary and our fourth Annual Legacy of Love Gala and we are delighted how the foundation has developed and expanded over the past four years,' co-host Pat Houston said in a statement. She is Houston's sister-in-law and the executor of her estate. Houston died in February 2012 at age 48. 'Though Whitney is known worldwide for her exemplary talent in music and entertainment, one of the things she loved more than anything was supporting children and our youth. She always reached back to various communities globally." In addition to Pat Houston, the gala will be hosted by Entertainment Tonight's Kevin Frazier. Clive Davis, CCO of Sony Music, is honorary chair.
Washington Post
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Jennifer Hudson will headline the Whitney Houston estate's fourth annual Legacy of Love Gala
NEW YORK — No one could replace the inimitable talent that was Whitney Houston. But when you need someone to sing her timeless tracks, the great EGOT (that's Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner) Jennifer Hudson has proven time and time again that she's up for the job.
Associated Press
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Jennifer Hudson will headline the Whitney Houston estate's fourth annual Legacy of Love Gala
NEW YORK (AP) — No one could replace the inimitable talent that was Whitney Houston. But when you need someone to sing her timeless tracks, the great EGOT (that's Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner) Jennifer Hudson has proven time and time again that she's up for the job. Hudson will headline the fourth annual Whitney Houston Legacy of Love gala on Aug. 9, presented by The Whitney E. Houston Legacy Foundation and Primary Wave Music. The event, held at the St. Regis Hotel in Atlanta on what would have been Houston's 62nd birthday, doubles as a celebration of 40 years since the launch of her career. Houston's self-titled debut album was released in 1985. The Legacy of Love gala will benefit the late singer's foundation aimed at helping young people. A grant will also be awarded to the Los Angeles-based Kids in the Spotlight, an organization that seeks to heal and empower children through storytelling and filmmaking. Houston founded the Whitney Houston Foundation for Children in 1989 with the goal of empowering youth, providing resources to unhoused children, giving out college scholarships, and raising funds for charities like the Children's Defense Fund and St. Jude Children's Research. A charity auction will raise money for the foundation, which is now called the Whitney E. Houston Legacy Foundation. Other performers include R&B singer-songwriter Meli'sa Morgan and Jimmy Avance. The gala will also feature a preview performance of the upcoming orchestral tour, 'The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration,' conducted by William R. Langley. 'This year marks Whitney's fortieth anniversary and our fourth Annual Legacy of Love Gala and we are delighted how the foundation has developed and expanded over the past four years,' co-host Pat Houston said in a statement. She is Houston's sister-in-law and the executor of her estate. Houston died in February 2012 at age 48. 'Though Whitney is known worldwide for her exemplary talent in music and entertainment, one of the things she loved more than anything was supporting children and our youth. She always reached back to various communities globally.' In addition to Pat Houston, the gala will be hosted by Entertainment Tonight's Kevin Frazier. Clive Davis, CCO of Sony Music, is honorary chair.
Daily Mail
08-07-2025
- Climate
- Daily Mail
Texas couple details their miraculous escape from floods
It just looked like a bit of drizzle when they went to bed but the trickles of rain over their Texas home turned out to be the start of a nightmare for Jennifer and Jack Hudson, 61. The couple, who live in the flood-ravaged town of Ingram, told the Daily Mail that they thought nothing of the storms circling Hill Country – until they woke in the early hours of Independence Day to find floodwater surging through their single-story home. 'It was about quarter to five in the morning and for some reason I got woken up,' a distraught Jennifer said in an exclusive interview. 'I heard a noise, and we were trying to connect the dots when the water started. The water was up.' That water was the Guadelupe River bursting its banks and causing deadly flooding that has so far claimed the lives of 80 people, 28 of them children. The couple live less than 100ft from its brackish brown waters, but their house sits on top of a small bank and has never previously been flooded. But all that changed in the early hours of Friday morning – sparking a terrifying ordeal that saw the pair submerged in flood water that came up to their shoulders for over an hour as they struggled to hold on to their porch while being battered with strong currents. 'Some people are saying there weren't emergency alerts ,' Jennifer said. 'There were. But Jack's phone was in the living room, and my phone was on silent, so it wasn't loud enough to wake you up.' The power had gone out leaving them in pitch darkness while the flood waters were rising so rapidly, their home was flooded with four feet of water in less than four minutes. 'I grabbed a tote bag, and I ran to the back office and got our birth certificates and passports,' said a tearful Jennifer. 'It's dark, I can't see anything, but I could feel those, so I grabbed them, then our phones and chargers, money and our medicine. 'By that time, the water was so high, we couldn't open a door to get out. So, we had to go through a window. 'Everything in our house was floating, and the water was coming at what felt like 100 miles an hour towards where we were. 'It was crash, bang, boom, refrigerators, big armoires, everything. And it was all happening in the dark.' Once outside, the couple realized their predicament was even worse than they had realized with the surging currents threatening to tow them and their dogs Georgie and Zumi out into the flood. Jennifer said she tried to climb onto the roof with miniature mongrel Zumi but proved too petite at 5ft 2' to make the climb. Meanwhile Jack was trapped at ground level with the much bigger Alsatian-cross Georgie who was too heavy to hoist into the air. Instead, the pair climbed onto the low wall surrounding their porch and clung on for over an hour even as the flood water rose to nine feet and surged around them. Jennifer said: 'It's dark and you're frantic. And you do the funniest things when you're in a panic like that. 'We didn't know we were gonna only have four minutes in the house, but we knew we had to get out of the house. 'But I was thinking, I gotta have on a bra. I got on a bra. And I got on my tennis shoes, but I forgot my glasses. 'I didn't even realize I didn't have glasses on until after it the waters subsided, and we went back into the house.' By the time the water went down, both Jack and Jennifer were battered and bruised thanks to the surging current that had tossed them around like ragdolls. 'When we were in it was so scary,' Jennifer told the Daily Mail. 'We're standing on the wall. We're in water up to the tops of our shoulders. 'I'm thinking, OK, it's gonna go up, up, up, and we're about to die. I was hoping not. 'It was our 31st anniversary to so I just told him 'Happy Anniversary' and hoped for the best.' She added: 'Thank God we got out when we did, because we probably would have been trapped by all the furniture.' When they finally did manage to get off their perch, it was to a scene of devastation: a home filled with foul-smelling mud, a garden scattered with dying fish and most of their possessions swept away. Some of their neighbors died while others saw their homes trashed and their cars destroyed. Jack, a furniture maker, also lost most of the lumber – which was worth $10,000 - stacked outside his home workshop as well as most of the tools needed to make the garden chairs he specializes in – a devastating financial blow that he says will mean he will now need to work well into his 80s. The pair, who are currently living in a cabin lent to them by friends, say the kindness of the local community is helping them get through the dark time – with neighbors and friends descending to help them clear the mud from their home and salvage what possessions they can. They are also providing a steady stream of food and drink, as well as letting the couple do their laundry at their homes.
