Drew Barrymore Wins in an Upset Over Kelly Clarkson at 2025 Daytime Emmys

After 5 years of winning successful astatine slightest 1 of her 2 categories, Kelly Clarkson was unopen retired astatine the 2025 Daytime Emmys. The awards were held astatine the Pasadena Civic Auditorium successful Pasadena, Calif., connected Friday (Oct. 17). Mario Lopez hosted the show.

Drew Barrymore won outstanding daytime speech bid big for The Drew Barrymore Show. This is the 2nd twelvemonth successful a enactment that Clarkson has been upset successful this class (which she won the 4 years earlier that). She mislaid past twelvemonth to Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, the joined stars of the syndicated Live With Kelly and Mark.

This year, Live With Kelly and Mark won outstanding daytime speech series, ending (or astatine slightest interrupting) The Kelly Clarkson Show’s four-year clasp connected the category. This is the 2nd apical programme grant for the long-running Live franchise. Live! with Regis and Kelly (when Ripa teamed with speech amusement fable Regis Philbin) won outstanding speech amusement – amusement successful 2012.

Barrymore has had a multi-faceted career, starting arsenic a kid prima successful E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial. In 2018 she was the taxable of Bryce Vine’s Billboard Hot 100 deed “Drew Barrymore.”

The Drew Barrymore Show besides won champion directing squad and champion hairstyling/makeup, for a full of 3 wins. The Kelly Clarkson Show won 2 – champion lighting absorption and champion unrecorded dependable mixing/sound editing.

General Hospital won 7 awards, tops for the night, followed by The Drew Barrymore Show and The Secret Lives of Animals (three awards each), and Black Barbie, Days of Our Lives, Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade, Entertainment Tonight, The Kelly Clarkson Show and The Secret Lives of Orangutans (two awards each).

Entertainment Tonight won outstanding amusement quality bid for the sixth consecutive year, portion the big squad (Cassie DiLaura, Denny Directo, Kevin Frazier, Rachel Smith and Nischelle Turner) won outstanding daytime property – daily. But an ET-branded programme remembering a TV legend, Bob Newhart: A Legacy of Laughter, An Entertainment Tonight Special, amazingly mislaid outstanding daytime peculiar to Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade.

Sir David Attenborough, who turns 100 adjacent May, won outstanding daytime property – non-daily for the Netflix program, Secret Lives of Orangutans.

Selena Gomez’s Food Network series Selena + Restaurant was nominated for outstanding culinary instructional series, but mislaid to Delicious Miss Brown connected the Food Network. Gomez has present gone 0-3 astatine the Daytime Emmys, 0-5 astatine the Primetime Emmys and 0-1 astatine the Children’s and Family Emmys. (Bottom line: She is owed for a win.)

Three apical amusement media brands – Billboard, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter – were recognized successful the nominations (though nary coiled up winning). Billboard Presents was nominated for outstanding abbreviated signifier program. Variety Studio: Actors connected Actors and Off Script With the Hollywood Reporter were some nominated for outstanding arts and fashionable civilization program. 

Billboard Presents are the video screen profiles that Billboard produces for immoderate of its screen artists. The circumstantial occurrence submitted for the bid was the screen video with conductor Gustavo Dudamel. Other Billboard Presents segments see screen videos with A$AP Rocky, Read Entire Article