Dick Van Dyke is vying for a historic Daytime Emmy at age 98.
The actor was nominated Friday as visitor performer in a daytime drama sequence for his half as amnesiac Timothy Robicheaux on Peacock’s “Days of Our Lives.”
Van Dyke is the oldest Daytime Emmy nominee. Producer Norman Lear was 100 when he obtained his ultimate Primetime Emmy nomination in 2022 and died the following yr.
Amongst these Van Dyke is up in opposition to is Australian actor Man Pearce of Amazon Freevee’s “Neighbours.”
Van Dyke has gained 4 Primetime Emmys, together with three within the Nineteen Sixties for his basic comedy sequence “The Dick Van Dyke Present.”
Actor-singer Selena Gomez is nominated within the culinary sequence class for her Meals Community particular “Selena + Chef: House for the Holidays.” Additionally nominated in that class is Meals Community’s “Valerie’s House Cooking,” the present hosted by actor Valerie Bertinelli that ended final yr.
CBS is ending “The Discuss” after its fifteenth season later this yr. The present’s Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O’Connell and Sheryl Underwood have been nominated for daytime speak sequence host.
The lead actress nominees are: Tamara Braun of “Days of Our Lives,” Finola Hughes and Cynthia Watros of “Normal Hospital,” Katherine Kelly Lang and Annika Noelle of “The Daring and the Stunning” and Michelle Stafford of “The Younger and the Stressed.”
The lead actor nominees are: Eric Braeden of “The Younger and the Stressed,” Scott Clifton, Thorsten Kaye and John McCook of “The Daring and the Stunning” and Eric Martsolf of “Days of Our Lives.”
The Daytime Emmys will probably be offered June 7 in Los Angeles and air dwell on CBS. The present is returning to its traditional schedule after being postponed till final December due to strikes by Hollywood actors and writers. The hosts and Lifetime Achievement honorees will probably be introduced later.