Alan Cumming Wins Reality Host Emmy, Ends RuPaul’s Record Streak

Alan Cumming is the brand new reigning finest actuality or competitors program host after successful the Emmy for the class on the 2024 Inventive 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.

“I feel like it’s a huge acting job,” mentioned Cumming, of The Traitors, which can be nominated for finest actuality competitors sequence. “I think about it as a character. Obviously it’s me — his name’s Alan Cumming — but obviously it’s not really me. I don’t really sound like that. I don’t dress like that. I don’t have a castle. Alas, that’s too bad.”

As for the key to the present’s must-see success, Cumming informed THR in a earlier interview, “We all lie, but we forget to see when people are lying or have to lie [to us]. It’s a sociological thing. We’re a secret camera, getting to watch people do stuff we never normally get to [see].” 

Extra 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, government producer and host of RuPaul’s Drag Race, which accomplished its sixteenth season earlier this yr, 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 document for probably the most awards gained by a Black artist, with a complete of 14 Primetime Emmys stemming from 25 nominations.