Fan favorite “Game of Thrones”, went into Sunday’s show with a leading 23 nominations and won a total of 12 Emmys, including for best drama series, directing and writing. “I have a message for you lame Maggie Smith”, he added, “if you’re even bothering to watch”.
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Well, it’s a courageous man that takes on the woman behind Downton Abbey’s Dowager Countess and her reply is both as polite and withering as one would expect.
In a statement via Masterpiece PBS’ Twitter account, she wrote: “I was very astonished and pleased to win the award”. The British actress had been nominated nine times for Emmys and won three without ever showing up.
“No, no, I’m not mailing this to her”, he said in mock anger.
Elsewhere, Jeffrey Tambor won best comedy actor for a second time for his role as a father who transitions to a woman in Amazon’s ground-breaking “Transparent”.
The 2016 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama series victor found Kimmel’s attack amusing and responded via a statement, in which she wrote: “I was very astonished and pleased to win the award”.
The comedian calls for joke ban on Emmy winners who don’t show up to collect awards.
The U.S. television audience for Sunday’s Emmy Awards dropped to 11.3 million viewers on average, the lowest level on record in the 68-year history of the industry’s highest honors, according to ratings data released by ABC on Monday. Right in the garbage. She also has not attended many other shows where this series was previously nominated. She showed up at the Tonys. But is she here in this audience tonight? She goes to the Soul Train Awards every year. I don’t see her.
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Kimmel joked before her category was announced that the awards show would start to institute the “Maggie Smith Rule”-if you want your award, you have to show up to the ceremony to get it”. She’s Downton Absent is what she is. “If you want an Emmy you better get on a plane and get your Dowager Countess ass over here”.
