Sir David Attenborough has become the oldest person ever to win a Daytime Emmy, marking another extraordinary milestone in a broadcasting career that has spanned more than seven decades.
The 99-year-old naturalist and filmmaker took home the award for Outstanding Daytime Personality – Nondaily for his narration of Netflix’s Secret Lives of Orangutans, beating fellow nominees including Martha Stewart and Anthony Mackie.
Attenborough’s win, announced at the 52nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Pasadena, California, breaks the record set only last year by Dick Van Dyke, who won at 98 for his guest appearance on Days of Our Lives.
Although Attenborough did not attend the ceremony, his win was greeted with a standing ovation. The award also extended the remarkable legacy of the broadcaster often described as “the voice of the natural world”.
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