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21 June 2008 7:45 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

U.S. TV chatshow queens Ellen DeGeneres and Tyra Banks emerged triumphant at the Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday.

The two stars - who both have hit talkshows in the U.S. - scooped gongs at the annual event, with DeGeneres winning the Outstanding Talk Show Host award, while former supermodel Banks took the gong in the

Outstanding Talk Show - Informative category.

Other main winners at the ceremony included veteran TV star Regis Philbin, host of breakfast show Live With Regis And Kelly, who was presented with the Lifetime Achievement award for more than 40 years' service to daytime television.

The 35th annual awards show was held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood and attracted a host of stars of the small screen, including Sherri Shepherd, Montel Williams and Heather Tom.

The full list of winners is as follows:

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Gina Tognoni, CBS' Guiding Light

Outstanding Talk Show - Informative: The Tyra Banks Show

Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series: Tom Pelphrey, CBS' Guiding Light

Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series: Jennifer Landon, CBS' As the World Turns

Outstanding Talk Show Host: Ellen DeGeneres, The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team: One Life to Live

Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program: Cristina's Court

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Kristoff St. John, CBS' The Young and the Restless

Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team: One Life to Live

Outstanding Talk Show - Entertainment: Rachael Ray

Lifetime Achievement Award: Regis Philbin.

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Jeanne Cooper, CBS' The Young and the Restless

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Anthony Geary, ABC's General Hospital

Outstanding Drama Series: ABC's General Hospital

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20 June 2008 10:00 PM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Ellen DeGeneres did it again – claiming the title of outstanding talk-show host, for the fourth year in a row – at Friday night's 35th annual Daytime Emmy Awards, where a jubilant Tyra Banks and Rachael Ray also ended up in the winner's circle. "I never take this for granted," said DeGeneres, clutching her shiny statuette. "I know every single year people joke about it." Besides acknowledging her show staff and partner Portia de Rossi, DeGeneres also thanked her show's fans, "amazing, amazing people." In something of a surprise, however, instead of Ellen's winning a fifth consecutive Emmy as best talk

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7 May 2008 6:51 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Stage and soap star Beverlee McKinsey has died due to complications after a kidney transplant. She was 72.

The actress made her mark on Broadway and in London's West End in the 1960s, playing roles in Barefoot In The Park and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? respectively.

But she's perhaps best known for playing scheming villain Iris Carrington in U.S. soap Another World.

McKinsey, who was married three times, also played Alex Spaulding in another hit soap, Guiding Light from 1984 to 1992, when she suddenly quit the show, citing long hours and the need to live a normal life.

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