Emmy Nominees React!

How did THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL and THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS Daytime Emmy nominees find out that they’d made the final cut? What episodes did they submit? Read on to find out!

Melissa Claire Egan (Chelsea, Y&R): “I had a 7:30 call so I woke up at 6:15 to several missed calls and texts. When I saw 11 missed phone calls, I thought then, ‘I guess maybe… I don’t think they would have called me to tell me, Sorry, you didn’t get nominated!’ It’s always so thrilling this exciting, pleasant, flattering thing. It never gets old. I feel really grateful.

“I submitted an episode when the whole Dylan/Chelsea/Adam baby bombshell was coming out. The episode was with me and Steve Burton (Dylan), when everything was coming to a head. It’s actually my favorite reel I’ve ever submitted for any Emmys, because it’s such an arc. It starts out with where he’s starting to question Connor’s sight, and I say that Adam had the same condition. Dylan says, ‘What are the odds that our son and your ex-husband had the same condition…’ It arcs to Chelsea telling Dylan that Connor isn’t his son, he’s Adam’s son, and everything explodes. I felt it was a rollercoaster, where it’s tick, tick, tick, tick, up and then down and up and down… it was really a no-brainer for me.”

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