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Ellen DeGeneres wins five Daytime Emmy Awards
By Cindy Locke May 22, 2005, 2:41 GMT
The Ellen DeGeneres Show swept the 32nd annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday. The show took home five Emmys, including outstanding talk show and for talk show host.
DeGeneres executive produces the show and said she was overwhelmed by the recognition. “That's why I was crying when I won,” she said. “There are a lot of talented people who work very hard and have been doing this for a very long time." As for any pre-show predictions that she might do so well at the ceremony: "When people say, 'You're a shoo-in to win for sure,' I never think that way. I know that we love what we do and we're proud of the show, but that doesn't guarantee anything.”
Entertainment legend Merv Griffin, who created Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune and hosted his own talk show in the 1960s, received the lifetime achievement award. Accepting his award, Griffin said to DeGeneres, who was standing in the wings: “I watch you every day.”
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