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

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Lee Sung Jin wins second as Succession wins third

Beef creator wins his second award of the night as he picks up Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

Meanwhile, Mark Mylod wins Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for Succession – the wins are starting to come thick and fast after a shaky start.

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Succession gets its second award of the night

Jesse Armstrong wins Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for Succession.

Armstrong won the Emmy for writing the episode “Connor’s Wedding” – and we all know what happens in that episode, right?

While thanking people in his acceptance speech, Armstrong says: “And for some reason, the name of a certain Australia-born media mogul, Rupert Murdoch springs to mind.”

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Paul Walter Hauser chews and raps his way through winner’s speech

Paul Walter Hauser arrives on stage chewing *something*. Tobacco? He then tells the cast of Grey’s Anatomy: “My wife loves your show.”

If that wasn’t good enough, he then raps his acceptance speech after winning in the Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or TV Movie category for his role in Black Bird.

Watch it for yourself:

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Christina Applegate jokes her body is ‘not by Ozempic’

The 52-year-old Dead to Me actor surprised audiences when she took the stage to present the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series to The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri.

She was met with a massive standing ovation from the crowd, which left Applegate overwhelmed and teary-eyed.

After Applegate announced in August 2021 that she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), she stayed away from the spotlight, solely making public appearances to support the final season of the popular Netflix comedy series Dead to Me, for which she has been nominated for an Emmy this year for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series.

“Thank you so much,” Applegate told the audience, roaring with applause. “Oh my god, you’re totally shaming me with disability by standing up. It’s fine…Body not by Ozempic. Okay, let’s go.” Ozempic is a prescription medication prescribed for the treatment of diabetes, however, it has increased in popularity as a weight-loss method.

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Watch: Niecy Nash-Betts pays tribute to every ‘unheard’ Black woman as she wins Emmy

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What was Pedro Pascal’s joke about Kieran Culkin?

Succession star Culkin had previously told The Last of Us actor to “suck it” while accepting the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama earlier this month.

On Monday, Pascal issued a sweary retort to the jibe. The actor was seen wearing a sling around his arm, having sustained an injury to his shoulder.

He told the crowd: “A lot of people have been asking about my arm, it’s actually my shoulder... Kieran Culkin beat the s*** out of me.”

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Niecy Nash-Betts wins Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

In an emotional speech, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story star Niecy Nash-Betts dedicated her win to Breonna Taylor and Sandra Bland.

“I wanna thank me for believing in me and doing what I was told I could not do,” Nash said through tears.

She went on to say she accepts the award “on behalf of every Black and brown woman who has gone unheard yet overpoliced – like Glenda Cleveland, like Sandra Bland, like Breonna Taylor. As an artist, my job is to speak truth to power and baby, I’m gonna do it ‘til the day I die.”

Niecy Nash-Betts (Getty Images)

[16 January 2024 01:57 · Tom Murray]

Rob McElhenney is watching football on his phone

Wrexham AFC owner Rob McElhenney was a football fan before he was a *football* fan. He shared a photo on X of himself watching the Philadelphia Eagles’ NFL game on his phone while attending the ceremony.

“Who schedules the Emmys the same night as the @eagles #gobirds #FlyEaglesFly,” he wrote.

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Jeremy Allen White wins The Bear's third award of the night

It’s looking like The Bear is *mauling* the competition again tonight. Lead star Allen White accepts the award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.

Yes, chef!

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Ayo Edebiri helps Rhea Seehorn fix her makeup

The 28-year-old Bottoms star was spotted by eagle-eyed viewers helping her Emmys fellow nominee with her lashes and touched up her smokey eye look. Seehorn, 51, can be seen telling Edebiri in the video, “Thank you so much,” before the actor gave her a nod of approval that signaled that her work was done.

Both of them have been nominated at the Emmys for the same category, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Edebiri was nominated for her role as Sidney in The Bear, and Seehorn for her performance in the sixth and final season of Better Call Saul.