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General Hospital won the award for outstanding drama, while Kelly Clarkson won best talk show host and best talk show at the 50th annual Daytime Emmy Awards, held in Los Angeles on Friday.
Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner hosted the show, which honored Susan Lucci with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Jennifer Nettles performed “Life is Sweet” for the “In Memoriam” segment, which said goodbye to artists like Jacklyn Zeman, Billy Miller and Bob Barker. And a posthumous Emmy went to Sonya Eddy, the General Hospital actress who died last summer at age 55.
And the winners are:
Daytime drama series
General Hospital (ABC)
Lead Actress in a Daytime Drama Series: Actress
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood as Steffy Forrester, The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)
Lead Actor in a Daytime Drama Series: Actor
Thorsten Kaye as Ridge Forrester, The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)
Supporting Actress in a Daytime Drama Series: Actress
The late Sonya Eddy as Epiphany Johnson, General Hospital (ABC)
Supporting Actor in a Daytime Drama Series: Actor
Robert Gossett as Marshall Ashford, General Hospital (ABC)
Daily talk series
The Kelly Clarkson Show (Syndicated)
Entertainment news series
Entertainment Tonight (Syndicated)
Writing team for a daytime drama series
The Young and the Restless (CBS)
Younger actor in a daytime drama series
Eden McCoy as Josslyn Jacks, General Hospital (ABC)
Directing team for a daytime drama series
General Hospital (ABC)
Guest appearance on a daytime drama series
Alley Mills as Heather Webber, General Hospital (ABC)
Daytime Talk series host
Kelly Clarkson, The Kelly Clarkson Show (Syndicated)