When the nominations were announced for the 51st annual Daytime Emmy Awards, CBS daytime’s The Bold and the Beautiful was sitting pretty, not only did they tie for the most nods with 12 along with its sister soap, The Young and the Restless, but they landed an impressive 7 nominations in the acting categories.

In a first for B&B, three leading men from the show are all competing in the same category: Thorsten Kaye (Ridge), John McCook (Eric) and Scott Clifton (Liam). Each of these actors have won in this category previously with Clifton winning two other gold statuettes during his run as Liam in the now defunct Younger category and in the Supporting Actor category.

B&B also landed two of its leading ladies in the Leading Actress category, original series star, Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke) and Annika Noelle (Hope). In addition, Jennifer Gareis (Donna) received her first nomination in the Supporting Actress category, while Ashley Jones’ visit as Bridget Forrester nabbed her a nod in the Guest Performer category.

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Celebrating their accomplishments with an on set gathering, B&B’s executive producer and head writer presided over the festivities, acknowledging all the nominated performers and technical teams from the show including: Outstanding Directing Team along with Outstanding Writing Team which includes series cast member, Lawrence Saint-Victor, who not only plays Carter Walton, but is part of the scribe team.

Here’s a look at some of the snaps from B&B’s celebration below:

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Scott Clifton gets some acknowledgements from his boss, Brad Bell.

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Cynthia Popp and the rest of the nominated directing team from B&B.

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The nominated Logan sisters: Jennifer Gareis and Katherine Kelly Lang.

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Two of the members of the B&B nominated writing team, Lawrence Saint-Victor with Brad Bell.

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Lead Actress nominees for this year’s Daytime Emmys from The Bold and the Beautiful; the on-screen mother/daughter duo of Katherine Kelly Lang and Annika Noelle.

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Thorsten Kaye had just a few words to share on his Emmy nomination. He won in the Lead Actor category in 2023, making him the defending champ.

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It was hard to cut the cake, because it was decorated with all the names of B&B’s Emmy nominees. Congratulations to them all.

The 51st annual Daytime Emmy Awards will air live on CBS and stream on Paramount+ on Friday night, June 7th (8 pm ET/delayed on the West Coast).

So, what did you think of some of the images from B&B’s on set Daytime Emmy nomination celebration? What do you think about the series landing 12 nominations and 7 in the performer categories? Will you be rooting for B&B come Emmy night? Weigh-in below.

Nominations were announced on Tuesday for the 77th annual Tony Awards by previous winners, Renée Elise Goldsberry (ex-Evangeline Williamson, One Life to Live) and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

When the dust settled it was Stereophonic (which is loosely based on the story of Fleetwood Mac) and Hell’s Kitchen (Alicia Keys musical) that both scored 13 Tony nominations to lead the pack.

However, Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along made quite the comeback and is nominated for several awards including Best Revival of a Musical and for one of its stars, Jonathan Groff (ex-Henry Mackler, One Life to Live).

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Groff is nominated for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and will go up against Brody Grant — The Outsiders, Dorian Harewood —The Notebook, Brian d’Arcy James — Days of Wine and Roses and Eddie Redmayne — Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club.

In addition to his previous Tony nod for his role in Hamilton, Jonathan was nominated for a Lead Actor in a Musical for his role as Melchior Gabor in the original production of  Spring Awakening.

Jonathan co-stars in the revival of Merrily We Roll Along “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe and previous Tony winner Lindsay Mendez.

Back in 2019, Groff visited Live with Kelly and Ryan and discussed his debut on One Life while working at night on Broadway in Spring Awakening.

He shared on his experience on the soap, “I do remember my first day because I was doing Spring Awakening on Broadway at the time, and One Life to Live was my first time ever being on TV.  So I got this offer, and I was like, ‘Yes, I would love to be in a soap opera,’ and we finished Spring Awakening at 11:00 p.m. and I woke up the next morning at 4:0 a.m. to walk uptown to go to do One Life to Live, and I called my agent and left a message, and I said ‘You have to get me out of this, I can’t wake up at 4 o’clock in the morning!'” You can watch the clip below.

The 77th annual Tony Awards will air live on CBS and stream on Paramount+ on Sunday, June 16, with Tony and Oscar winner Ariana DeBose returning to host for the third time.

So, rooting for Jonathan to take home his long-awaited Tony Award after several decades in the theater? Do you remember him as part of teen scene on OLTL? Comment below.

 

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It was dramatic American Idol on Monday night. The episode marked the return of the “Judges Song Contest”, where Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie each serve up a song choice for the contestant to sing, and they must choose one and then figure out who recommended that song choice.

As in the past, when it got down to the bottom two from the at-home voting, the judge who scored the most picks of their song choices by the contestants, was in the drivers seat and could ultimately save one of the two performers to sing another day.

After a night of sterling musical performances by Jack Blocker performing Willie Nelson’s Always On My Mind, Abi Carter doing her rendition of Evanescence’s Bring Me to Life, and Emmy Russell performing her grandmother Loretta Lynn’s classic, Coal Miner’s Daughter, the following were safe after the nationwide vote.

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The aforementioned, Blocker, Russell and Carter, plus Will Moseley, Triston Harper, and Julia Gagnon. However, that left McKenna Faith Breinholt and Kaibrienne in the bottom two. At that point, Katy Perry conferred with her co-judges and announced with tears in her eyes, in an almost impossible choice for her, to save Breinholt, thus Kaibrienne’s run on ‘Idol’ came to an end.

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The episode also welcomed back former Idol contestants Danny Gokey, Melinda Doolittle and Colton Dixon for a performance of “Shackles,” in honor of former Idol contestant, Gospel artist, and Grammy-winner, Mandisa who passed away earlier this month at 47.

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So, did America get the Top 7 right? Did Katy do right by keeping McKenna for the Top 7 and sending Kabrienne home given her choices? Are there too many country artist contestants left in the mix? Share your thoughts via the comment section below. But first watch what happens when the final 7 are whittled down and Katy’s anguised decision.