Mario Lopez Set to Host 2025 Daytime Emmys — A.K.A. TV Academy’s Annual Tribute to Kelly Clarkson

Mario Lopez is acceptable to big the 52nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards connected Friday, Oct. 17, astatine the Pasadena Civic Auditorium successful Pasadena, Calif. The amusement volition beryllium streamed unrecorded astatine watch.theemmys.tv and via The Emmys app; the amusement was broadcast connected CBS the past 5 years.

The Kelly Clarkson Show has won outstanding daytime speech bid the past 4 years successful a row. Kelly Clarkson has besides won outstanding amusement speech amusement big 4 times, though she mislaid past twelvemonth to Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos of Live With Kelly & Mark. Still, that means that Clarkson won successful astatine slightest 1 of those categories successful each of her show’s archetypal 5 seasons.

This year, different talker, The Drew Barrymore Show, received 1 much full information (nine vs. 8 for Clarkson’s show). The different nominees for outstanding daytime speech bid are The Jennifer Hudson Show, Live With Kelly and Mark and The View.

The hosts of 4 of those 5 shows are nominated for outstanding daytime speech bid host. The sole objection is that the hosts of The View were passed implicit successful this class successful favour of Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb, hosts of Today With Hoda & Jenna (NBC).

Beginning Monday, Oct. 13, Access Hollywood volition diagnostic 5 nights of dedicated Daytime Emmys segments starring up to the ceremony.  Following the ceremony, connected Monday, Oct. 20, the programme volition recap the amusement with red-carpet moments, victor reactions and exclusive footage. 

“We’re thrilled to beryllium moving with Access Hollywood and having Mario Lopez big this year’s Daytime Emmy Awards,” Adam Sharp, president & CEO of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) said successful a statement.

Lopez, who volition crook 52 1 week earlier the Daytime Emmys, has served arsenic anchor of Access Hollywood since 2019.

In addition, NATAS has announced that, this year, for the archetypal clip since 2018, a constricted fig of tickets to the Daytime Emmy Awards ceremonial volition beryllium disposable for nationalist purchase. Tickets are present connected sale, for $75 positive applicable fees, exclusively done Ticketmaster.

The 52nd yearly Daytime Emmy Awards volition beryllium produced by NATAS Productions LLC. Sharp and Lisa Armstrong are enforcement producers, with Rachel Schwartz serving arsenic caput of the Daytime Emmy Awards.

Deborah Norville volition person this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

In January 2025, Sharp revealed that the Daytime Emmy Awards would determination from its accepted May/June day to October, switching places with the News and Documentary Emmy Awards.

The Daytime Emmys drew 3.1 cardinal viewers successful its archetypal twelvemonth connected CBS and has fallen beneath 3 cardinal successful each of the past 4 years. Still, that was good supra the dismal numbers it posted successful 2019, the past twelvemonth it didn’t person a broadcast partner.