--- title: "Tracee Ellis Ross, Keke Palmer and Star Jones all win Daytime Emmys at the Hollywood Palladium" url: https://badiyaa.com/daytime-emmys-2026-first-time-winners-ross-palmer-jones/ published: 2026-11-02T06:04:00+00:00 modified: 2026-11-02T06:04:00+00:00 section: Entertainment publisher: Badiyaa --- # Tracee Ellis Ross, Keke Palmer and Star Jones all win Daytime Emmys at the Hollywood Palladium Ross's Roku travel show, Palmer's KeyTV short-form series and Jones's Divorce Court each took a trophy on Friday, October 30, the same night Sherri Shepherd won talk host. Star Jones, the lawyer-turned-talk-show veteran who now presides over *Divorce Court*, won a Daytime Emmy on Friday, October 30, and so did two women better known for primetime and the movies: Tracee Ellis Ross, for a travel show she fronts alone, and Keke Palmer, as a producer of a short-form series on her own KeyTV network. The road to the Hollywood Palladium began on July 14, when the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences published its nominations with *The Young and the Restless* leading the field. Ross got her nod while making her Broadway debut in *Every Brilliant Thing*; Palmer was nominated twice; Jones was paired with her *Divorce Court* colleague Corey Jovan. The full winners list now sits on the academy’s site at theemmys.tv, and the [53rd Daytime Emmy Awards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/53rd_Daytime_Emmy_Awards) and [Creative Arts and Lifestyle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/53rd_Daytime_Creative_Arts_%26_Lifestyle_Emmy_Awards) pages carry every category. ## What each of them won **Tracee Ellis Ross** took Outstanding Travel and Adventure Program for *Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross* on The Roku Channel, ahead of *Expedition Unknown*, Apple’s *Long Way Home*, *The Lovely Lemurs of Madagascar* and *Superskilled with Eva zu Beck*. **Keke Palmer** lost Outstanding Personality, Non Daily, to Giada De Laurentiis, but *Glam Through the Ages*, which she produced with Sharon Palmer and Max Wyeth for KeyTV Network, won Outstanding Short Form Program over entries from LinkedIn News, Eater and BYUtv. **Star Jones** and Jovan shared Outstanding Daytime Personality, Daily, seeing off the on-air teams of *Extra*, *Entertainment Tonight* and *Access Hollywood*. *Divorce Court* itself lost the Legal/Courtroom Program award to *Justice for the People with Judge Milian*. ## How the night stacked up Here is the Badiyaa scorecard for the three winners, set against the rest of the evening: - Jones won as a daily personality, a category that pits courtroom hosts against entertainment-news anchors; Palmer won as a producer; Ross won as the face of her program. - Palmer went one for two on the night, Ross and Jones one for one. - Sherri Shepherd beat the women of *The View*, Kelly Clarkson, Tamron Hall and Jennifer Hudson to Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host; we covered [her win](https://badiyaa.com/sherri-shepherd-daytime-emmy-host-win/) over the weekend. Both *Sherri* and *The Kelly Clarkson Show* have ended their runs, so these were farewell honors. - *The Kelly Clarkson Show* led the Creative Arts side with four awards and also won Outstanding Daytime Talk Series. ## One room, one stream The academy folded the Creative Arts and Lifestyle categories and the main awards into a single evening in Los Angeles, streamed on the Emmys app and at watch.theemmys.tv rather than on a network. The prizes covered daytime television shown during calendar year 2025. Nobody hosted; announcer Matthew Hoffman brought on the presenters. In the soap categories, Tamara Tunie of *Beyond the Gates* won lead actress and *General Hospital* took Outstanding Drama Series. The night closed its honors list with *General Hospital* actress Genie Francis receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award. ## Further reading - [Wikipedia: 53rd Daytime Emmy Awards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/53rd_Daytime_Emmy_Awards) - [Wikipedia: 53rd Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmy Awards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/53rd_Daytime_Creative_Arts_%26_Lifestyle_Emmy_Awards) *Image: Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons* *This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. [How we work](https://badiyaa.com/editorial-policy/).*