{"id":2079,"date":"2016-07-18T02:06:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T09:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2016-07-18T02:06:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T09:06:22","slug":"rupauls-nominated-for-an-emmy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/rupauls-nominated-for-an-emmy\/","title":{"rendered":"RuPaul&#8217;s Nominated For An Emmy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of my older readers never thought they&#8217;d see a drag queen with a TV show &#8211; with the exception of <strong>Milton Berle <\/strong>and <strong>Benny Hill<\/strong>.\u00a0 A more recent generation thought they&#8217;d seen it all when <strong>RuPaul <\/strong>got a show &#8211; in fact, most of the <em>Logo <\/em>network centers around RuPaul.\u00a0 How do you top that?\u00a0 By making history with an <strong><em>Emmy <\/em><\/strong>nomination as <em>Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program<\/em>.\u00a0 Not only did Ru get a nomination &#8211; she was nominated alongside <strong>Jane Lynch <\/strong>(<strong><em>Hollywood Game Night<\/em><\/strong>), <strong>Tom Bergeron <\/strong>(<strong><em>Dancing with the Stars<\/em><\/strong>), <strong>Ryan Seacrest <\/strong>(<strong><em>American Idol<\/em><\/strong>), <strong>Steve Harvey <\/strong>(<strong><em>Little Big Shots<\/em><\/strong>), and <strong>Tim Gunn <\/strong>and <strong>Heidi Klum <\/strong>(<strong><em>Project Runway<\/em><\/strong>) &#8211; officially making it the gayest category in <em>Emmy <\/em>history.\u00a0 RuPaul, who once notably said &#8220;I&#8217;d rather have an enema than have an <em>Emmy<\/em>&#8220;, is likely a long shot.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s an honor just to be nominated.\u00a0 &#8220;I dedicate this <em>Emmy <\/em>nomination to outsiders everywhere.\u00a0 Brave souls who stick to their dreams and make the world a more colorful place.&#8221;\u00a0 I think she just said the <em>Emmy <\/em>should go to Tim Gunn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of my older readers never thought they&#8217;d see a drag queen with a TV show &#8211; with the exception of Milton Berle and Benny Hill.\u00a0 A more recent generation thought they&#8217;d seen it all when RuPaul got a show &#8211; in fact, most of the Logo network centers around RuPaul.\u00a0 How do you top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}