Alan Cumming is the brand new reigning finest actuality or competitors program host after successful the Emmy for the class on the 2024 Artistic Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, placing an finish to RuPaul‘s eight-year streak. The win earned Cumming his first Emmy Award as host of Peacock’s The Traitors.
Cumming wasn’t in attendance at this 12 months’s ceremony, however throughout a earlier Q&A for THR Frontrunners, he advised The Hollywood Reporter that he approaches internet hosting the truth competitors like some other position.
“I really feel prefer it’s an enormous appearing job,” mentioned Cumming, of The Traitors, which can also be nominated for finest actuality competitors sequence. “I give it some thought as a personality. Clearly it’s me — his title’s Alan Cumming — however clearly it’s not likely me. I don’t actually sound like that. I don’t costume like that. I don’t have a fortress. Alas, that’s too unhealthy.”
As for the key to the present’s must-see success, Cumming advised THR in a earlier interview, “All of us lie, however we overlook to see when individuals are mendacity or must lie [to us]. It’s a sociological factor. We’re a secret digital camera, getting to look at individuals do stuff we by no means usually get to [see].”
Further nominees within the class for finest host for a actuality or competitors program included Kristen Kish of High Chef; Jeff Probst of Survivor; and Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Kevin O’Leary, Barbara Corcoran, Robert Herjavec, and Daymond John for Shark Tank. RuPaul, creator, govt producer and host of RuPaul’s Drag Race, which accomplished its sixteenth season earlier this 12 months, nonetheless stays the most-awarded actuality host in Emmys historical past, having gained the class eight consecutive years from 2016-2023. He additionally holds the file for probably the most awards gained by a Black artist, with a complete of 14 Primetime Emmys stemming from 25 nominations.