Priyanka Chopra and Anthony Anderson at Emmys. (Image courtesy: AFP)
Highlights
- The Emmys announcer missed out the R and making it 'Chopa'
- Twitter's outraged though Priyanka Chopra isn't
- Priyanka Chopra attended the Emmys in glittering Balmain white
Homegirl Priyanka Chopra,
dressed in glittering Balmain white, acquitted herself with honours while co-presenting an Emmy with
Blackish actor Anthony Anderson (to John Oliver for Outstanding Variety Talk Series). Not so much the Emmys announcer who appeared to flub the 'Chopra' while introducing Priyanka - missing out the R and making it 'Chopa.' Umm, oops? John Travolta's mangling of Idina Menzel's name at the Oscars comes to mind. While 'Priyanka Chopa' was not quite as extreme as 'Adele Dazeem,' Twitter is not pleased. Twitter is mightily outraged on behalf of the actress. Twitter is schooling the Emmys online.
(Aside: The Undefeated handle was also reminded by a user that Priyanka's first name has a Y in it)
Here's a clip of Priyanka Chopra and Anthony Anderson presenting at the Emmys - honesty compels us to admit that we can't really tell if the announcer mispronounced Chopra but we've gotta say Priyanka and Anthony killed it with a quip about going to bed separately.
And here's what presenters do backstage after they're done out front:
Priyanka's appearance at the Emmys is being seen as a win for diversity, specifically for representation of Asian actors:
Aziz Ansari won an award for
Master Of None, so yay.
This is the second year in a row that Priyanka Chopra has been to the Emmys, courtesy her starring role on the ABC drama
Quantico. Last year, dressed in red, she presented an award with, wait for it, Tom Hiddleston.
The big winners at the Emmys this year were
Big Little Lies (actors Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern and Alexander Skarsgard all won awards) and
Saturday Night Live. Alec Baldwin won an Emmy for playing Donald Trump on
SNL and dedicated his award to 'Mr President.' An evening of very political speeches was briefly interrupted by the surprise cameo of Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary, who came out during host Stephen Colbert's opening monologue and poked fun at his own statement about the size of the crowd at Donald Trump's inauguration.