- Title: Emmy winners celebrate at Governor's Gala after ceremony
- Date: 13th September 2022
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA) (SEPTEMBER 12, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF EMMY WINNER LIZZO DANCING WITH EMMY STATUE AND GLASS OF WINE
- Embargoed: 27th September 2022 06:06
- Keywords: ARIANA DEBOSE AWARDS EMMYS GALA GOVERNORS GALA KENAN THOMPSON LIZZO LORNE MICHAELS QUINTA BRUNSON STEVE HIGGINS
- Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
- City: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
- Country: USA
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Television,United States
- Reuters ID: LVA001487513092022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Winners and guests at the 2022 Emmys partied away in Los Angeles on Monday (September 12) at the after-show Governors Gala.
Within minutes of the ceremony ending, singer and Emmy winner Lizzo was on the dance floor with her gold statue in one hand, a glass of wine in the other, celebrating her first Emmy in the Outstanding Competition Program category for ‘Lizzo's Watch Out For The Big Grrrls.’
Host Kenan Thompson was chatting to friends and celebrities, with some asking to take selfies.
The ‘Saturday Night Live’ star was the Presenter of the 2022 ceremony held at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles.
Fellow ‘Saturday Night Live’ favorite, Steve Higgins was celebrating his win for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. Higgins, who also works as announcer for ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’, has won or been nominated at every Emmy awards since 2008.
The show’s Producer, Lorne Michaels was celebrating SNL’s winning streak, after thanking the cast for sticking with it during the pandemic.
Quinta Brunson flashed her statue to the crowd as she entered the party.
The 32-year-old has risen from her own self-produced Instagram show, to Buzzfeed, to her first Emmy as only the second black woman to win in the Writing for a Comedy Series category with her ABC hit show ‘Abbott Elementary’, which she pens and stars in.
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