The Nationwide Academy of Tv Arts & Sciences has apologised for misrepresenting actor Marguerite Ray with a photograph of residing actor Veronica Redd within the In Memoriam phase that aired through the forty eighth annual Daytime Emmy Awards.
A photograph of Redd appeared underneath the caption that recognized her as Ray, who died final November, through the pre-recorded ceremony that aired Friday on CBS. Ray had a 10-year run on the CBS cleaning soap The Younger and the Stressed from 1980 to 1990 because the character Mamie Johnson. Redd took over the position in 1990 for 14 years.
“We sincerely apologise to the Ray household — in addition to to Veronica Redd, whose picture was inadvertently used as an alternative. Every of those Daytime icons deserved higher from our Academy,” NATAS stated by way of its @DaytimeEmmys Twitter account on Saturday. A NATAS consultant famous that Ray was misidentified within the picture that NATAS licensed for the In Memoriam phase from an unnamed service.
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NATAS stated it will right the phase on its digital platforms (the telecast is obtainable for on-demand viewing by way of CBS’ sibling streamer Paramount Plus) and within the Daytime Emmy Awards telecast archive. The Daytime Emmy Awards returned to linear TV in 2020 after 5 years of manufacturing Livestream ceremonies that demonstrated the altering nature of the daytime TV market. CBS got here again on board with NATAS final yr.
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The Daytime Emmy mix-up joins a protracted record of flaps over posthumous tribute segments in awards exhibits. The annual listings throughout awards telecasts of outstanding trade gamers who’ve died through the previous 12 months are more and more scrutinized for omissions and for the extent of illustration mirrored. Each Ray and Redd are Black.
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Ray was a local of New Orleans who graduated from the College of California at Berkeley. She started her TV profession with visitor pictures on such sequence as Bewitched, The Wild Wild West, Ironside, Barnaby Jones, Marcus Welby, M.D. and Days of Our Lives.
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