Emmys 2024 live: Succession and The Bear sweep awards as night ends with huge on-stage snog

The Emmys faced delays due to the Hollywood strikes in 2023

Emmy's 2024: Stars walk 'silver carpet' as event gets underway

The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards aired on Monday (15 January) following a four-month delay, with the best talent in television gathering in Los Angeles for a shimmering ceremony.

The annual celebration of the year’s most brilliant TV shows took place half a year after nominations were announced back in July.

The ceremony was originally scheduled for September but was pushed back due to the Hollywood writer and actor strikes that brought the industry to a standstill last year. As such, these awards honoured shows that aired between 1 June 2022 and 31 May 2023, meaning it felt a bit like deja vu.

The show with the most nominations was Succession, the fourth and final season of which aired on HBO last year. The drama took home six awards. Fellow HBO dramas The Last of Us and The White Lotus were also heavily nominated, but failed to compete in terms of wins on the night.

Netflix’s limited series Beef and Hulu’s comedy The Bear also saw a raft of big wins at the ceremony.

You can find a full list of all the winners here.

Key Points

• 2024 Emmy nominations in full
• Who will win and who should win
• Why were the Emmys delayed four months?
• Anthony Anderson, the controversial Emmys host whose casting has sparked a backlash

[16 January 2024 04:17 · Tom Murray]

Stephen Colbert reveals that his wife saved his life after his appendix burst

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert host, 59, opened up about the ordeal, which happened in November, while speaking to ET’s Nischelle Turner on the red carpet.

Colbert, who cancelled multiple shows in November after the health scare, credited Evelyn McGee-Colbert, his wife of more than 30 years, while telling Turner: “Where’s my wife? She’s somewhere around here. She saved my life.”

The late-night host then elaborated on his ruptured appendix, and how McGee-Colbert stepped in to help. “First, appendix. And I was in a lot of pain. It was the last show before we took a break. And I went: ‘I’ll just go do the show anyway. I’m sure we’ll be fine.’ By the time the show’s over I had a 102.5 fever. I was in shock. I had blood poisoning,” he recalled.

Colbert then joked about the situation, offering a warning to viewers: “Don’t do it, kids. Don’t broadcast with blood poisoning!”

[16 January 2024 04:14 · Tom Murray]

Winners list in full

That brings an end to the 2024 Emmy Awards (which were actually the 2023 Emmy Awards). I think it’s safe to say that Golden Globes host Jo Koy will be looking enviously at how smoothly that ceremony went. It was classy and ended with a clip of Martin Luther King Jr on his day of celebration, bravo.

Thanks for joining us here at The Independent where we’ll continue to bring you reactions from the show as my poor colleagues in the UK get some sleep.

You can find a full list of tonight’s winners below:

[16 January 2024 04:10 · Tom Murray]

Ebon Moss-Bachrach snogs Matty Matheson’s face off

While accepting the award for Outstanding Comedy Series, TV chef-turned-actor Matty Matheson was gripped by his co-star Ebon Moss-Bachrach who planted a huge snog on his lips.

The pair held in embrace for a good few seconds as the crowd cheered before finally parting. “I love you Ebon,” a dazed Matheson said after. He continued to thank restaurants in general and the hospitality industry.

[16 January 2024 04:05 · Tom Murray]

Succession wins the big prize

In an unsurprising finish, Succession wins Best Drama Series.

In his speech, showrunner Jesse Armstrong thanks Brian Cox “whom this show has revolved around since day one”.

The last win of the night takes the HBO show’s total to six wins.

[16 January 2024 03:52 · Tom Murray]

Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook win for Succession

Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook rounded out a trio of acting wins for Succession following Matthew Macfadyen’s earlier in the night.

Beating out his cast mates Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong, Culkin gave the former a kiss on the mouth before making his way on stage. The funnyman was emotional and serious right until the end of his speech where he begged his wife for more children – “You said you’d think about it if I won!”

[16 January 2024 03:42 · Tom Murray]

Daniel Radcliffe sparks marriage rumours

Daniel Radcliffe has sparked rumours that he and his longtime girlfriend Erin Darke have gotten married.

The 34-year-old actor spoke candidly about his family during an interview with Laverne Cox for E! News, while walking the red carpet. Radcliffe was nominated for his first-ever Emmy award for his role in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

Speaking to Cox, Radcliffe seemingly hinted that he and Darke – who he shares his nearly one-year-old son with – had tied the knot when he described his partner’s parents.

“Honestly, the people whose opinions I cared most about the movie were my in-laws,” he said, when discussing some of the feedback he received about Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. “They are huge Weird Al fans and they kind of got me into it. But they were very happy, thank God.”

[16 January 2024 03:40 · Tom Murray]

Elton John completes EGOT

Sir Elton John has become the 19th person in history to achieve an “EGOT”.

The honour, an acronym which stands for “Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, [and] Tony”, is unofficially bestowed upon entertainers who have managed to win the biggest awards in the four fields.

John earned the title with a win at the 2024 Emmys in the early hours of Tuesday (16 January), for his Disney+ concert programme Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium.

[16 January 2024 03:34 · Tom Murray]

Charlie Puth plays See You Again mash-up with Friends theme tune during In Memoriam segment

Charlie Puth has appeared on stage for the In Memoriam segment of the show.

The singer begins by playing “See You Again” as stars lost in the last year including Angus Cloud, Leslie Jordan, Len Goodman and more appear on screen. The music then transitions into the Friends theme tune – “I'll Be There for You” by The Rembrandts – in a nod to Matthew Perry, who died on 28 October. The late Friends star is the last figure to appear on-screen.

[16 January 2024 03:18 · Tom Murray]

Beef wins its fifth award of the night

Beef continues its Emmy dominance as it wins Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.

The Netflix series creator Lee Sung Jin starts on a serious note, talking about those who’ve struggled with suicidal ideation and ends somewhat more lightly saying he does everything for his three dogs. The man has range.

By the way, if you haven’t seen Beef yet, this is your formal notice to do so immediately.

[16 January 2024 02:59 · Tom Murray]

Bella Ramsey and Ariana DeBose appear to have made up

Bella Ramsey and Ariana DeBose were pictured hugging it out at the Emmy Awards.

DeBose was not happy about a joke made about her by Ramsey and Anthony Ramos at the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday.

The 20-year-old star of The Last of Us was presenting the award for Best Song, for which DeBose was nominated, when she joked that the tracks nominated in the category were performed “by some of the most famous voices in the music industry”.

Following this, Ramos namechecked Billie Eilish, Lenny Kravitz and Dua Lipa – but Ramsey then referred to the remaining nominees, including DeBose, Jack Black and Ryan Gosling, as “actors who also think that they are singers”.

DeBose, who has starred in several Broadway musicals and has previously been nominated for a Tony Award, appeared to react to the quip on Instagram, with a post that simply said: “No I didn’t find it funny. Lol.”