Ellen DeGeneres: June 2008 Archives

"As the World Turns" on-screen couple Luke and Noah (Van Hansis and Jake Silbermann) presented Ellen DeGeneres with the Daytime Emmy Award Friday night for outstanding talk show host.

Bizarre that I did not even notice this until after the ceremony. Backstage, you have can watch the ceremony on TVs but when another winner comes backstage for a Q&A you often stop paying attention to the show for a few minutes. I think Tyra was holding court backstage when Nuke gave Ellen her award. They certainly are a dashing duo and Ellen, of course, is a goddess...

I'm writing this backstage from the Daytime Emmy Awards at the Kodak Theatre. Ellen DeGeneres was such a riot when she came back after winning for outstanding talk show host for the fourth consecutive year.

When there was a knock on the door, she dashed to the door and opened it, much to the shock of caterer holding a platter of food.

It marked the first first tine in four years that Ellen's show did not also win outstanding talk show so she went home with one trophy instead of two and joked: "It feels weird, I'm not balanced this year. This is gonna join all the others, i put them all in a case and I hope to build, a wing in my house."

She talked about how much she enjoys her work: "I love what I do and what I've wanted to do for a long time, I want to make people happy....This kind of thing, it's not the award itself, it's actually people saying, "You make us happy.' That means something to me."

Ellen was asked where she would put her Emmy and she said it and the others "are gonna be on top of the (wedding) cake. She and fiancee Portia de Rossi and planning to be married soon,
"Planning a wedding is very stressful," Ellen said. "It's crazy. My gardener is now invited."

Yes, we have set a wedding date," she added then was asked about bow being able to legally get married in California.

"I obviously feel like it's long overdue. I think someday people will look back on this like women not having the right to vote and segregation and anything else that seems ridiculous that we don't all have the same rights."

Here is some of Ellen's speech when she accepted the Emmy: "I want to say, first of all, I never take this for granted. Every single year. I know people joke about it, but I get nervous every year. It's not what we do it for, but it feels so good. And I want to say thank you, first of all, to the fans because yoiu are amazing, amazing people."

"We all know this has been a crazy year, and we have - my show, we've done a lot of crying and a lot of laughing, and then I cried all by myself, and then a lot of people laughed, and then I cried some more, and then I laughed. And I know you're counting me down, but it's the longest day of the year, i just read, so I can go on."