Backstage at the 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Jeff Probst: Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program
Survivor
Jeff Probst has a new claim to fame; the first ever reality show host to receive an Emmy. Too bad for Probst he had to host the show, too! At least he wasn’t alone. His fellow nominees including Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum, Tom Bergeron and Ryan Seacrest were by his side to share the MC duties.
The fivesome got off to a rough start and never quite recovered. Probst explains that “having five people try to agree on anything is difficult” and credits Jimmy Kimmel for stepping in with a helping hand. “He was emailing me at midnight a couple nights ago saying, ‘you should try this, you should try that,’ but every time we had one idea, two people wouldn’t like it and that’s why we ended up with nothing.”
Nothing, not even jabs from Piven and others, could put a damper on Probst's big win. “I actually kind of went a little numb,” he admits. “All I heard was that [Jimmy] held it up and then I heard him say ‘Jeff’ and I was very calm. I think I'm still a little in shock honestly.”
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