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Drew Barrymore Snags Her First-Ever Emmy with Win for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host at 2025 Daytime Awards
NEED TO KNOW
- The Emmy for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host has been announced
- Drew Barrymore won the trophy on Friday, Oct. 17, marking her first career Emmy award
- They daytime talk show host was nominated in the same category in 2021 and 2022
Drew Barrymore is an Emmy winner!
The actress and Drew Barrymore Show host, 50, scored the Emmy for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host on Friday, Oct. 17 during the 2025 Daytime Emmy Awards in Pasadena, California.
The win marks her first career Emmy, nearly four decades after her inaugural nomination at the awards. She was not in attendance to collect the trophy during the ceremony.
Nominees for the award also included Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb (TODAY with Hoda and Jenna), Jennifer Hudson (The Jennifer Hudson Show), Kelly Clarkson (The Kelly Clarkson Show) and Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa (Live with Kelly and Mark).
Barrymore is a multi-nominee for the Drew Barrymore Show, following the series’ inception in 2020. The show has been nominated in both the series and host categories in the past.
Barrymore was first nominated, individually, for a Daytime Emmy in 1986 in the Outstanding Performer in Children’s Programming category (The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn).
In 2021, she opened up to Entertainment Tonight about how her children — daughters Frankie and Olive — celebrated their mom’s Drew Barrymore Show nods at the time.
“I was sitting alone with my two daughters in the kitchen and we were playing with stickers,” she said, “and I looked up and I said, ‘Girls, I’m so embarrassed to say this, but you know how there’s, like, awards shows and stuff?’ And they were like, ‘Yeah.’ [I said], ‘I just found out I got nominated!’ They were so happy for me, and they gave me a hug. … Then we just went back to playing stickers.”
She added, “I told them they were the people that it mattered most that I got to tell, so it felt like a very whole moment.”
During last year’s ceremony, Consuelos and Ripa both took home the prize, besting Clarkson, Tamron Hall, the panelists of The View and the panelists of The Talk as they were named Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host.
That same night, Clarkson’s The Kelly Clarkson Show won in the Outstanding Daytime Talk Series category.
Many of these same names in the hosting category were named in the overall talk show category this year, including The Drew Barrymore Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Jennifer Hudson Show and Live with Kelly and Mark. The View also earned a nod.
In June 2024, Ripa and Consuelos’ Daytime Emmys win marked their first joint award at the ceremony. The couple gave a delayed acceptance speech on Live, with Ripa saying, “We weren’t there to give our speech but I’m going to give a brief acceptance speech. I just want to say, first and foremost, thank you, Mark, for being an incredible, incredible partner. You make it look easy and it is not easy and the ease at which you do this job inspires me and all of us every single day.”
Clarkson, whose show is currently in its seventh season, has previously won eight Daytime Emmys. After her series win in June 2024, Clarkson commended NBC for having “wrapped their arms around us” during the show’s relocation from Los Angeles to New York.
“The move has been so great, not just for me and my family, but our whole show,” she said during her acceptance speech last year. “It takes a lot of time and money and effort to do that — it is not unnoticed. I just want to say ‘Thank You’ for thinking of mental health as a product.”
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Hudson, 44, is also no stranger to the Emmys. In fact, Hudson became the 17th person to ever reach EGOT status, previously telling PEOPLE that it was a “huge honor and has been an ongoing celebration.”
As for Kotb, 61, and Bush Hager, 43, the nomination came just months after Kotb’s departure from NBC in January and the show’s name change to Today with Jenna & Friends. Speaking with PEOPLE back in May, the longtime Today host reflected on her last day on the job and recalled her “heart breaking” in the process.
“When you say goodbye to something you love, even though it’s right, it’s like your heart’s broken and on display,” she said.
The 2025 Daytime Emmys are streaming live on watch.theemmys.tv and The Emmys app from Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on Oct. 17.
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