Dick Van Dyke earns historic Daytime Emmy nomination at age 98

LOS ANGELES — Dick Van Dyke is vying for a historic Daytime Emmy at age 98.

The actor was nominated Friday as visitor performer in a daytime drama collection for his half as amnesiac Timothy Robicheaux on Peacock’s “Days of Our Lives.”

Van Dyke is the oldest Daytime Emmy nominee. Producer Norman Lear was 100 when he acquired his ultimate Primetime Emmy nomination in 2022 and died the following yr.

Amongst these Van Dyke is up towards is Australian actor Man Pearce of Amazon Freevee’s “Neighbours.”

Van Dyke has received 4 Primetime Emmys, together with three within the Nineteen Sixties for his traditional comedy collection “The Dick Van Dyke Present.”

Actor-singer Selena Gomez is nominated within the culinary collection class for her Meals Community particular “Selena + Chef: Residence for the Holidays.” Additionally nominated in that class is Meals Community’s “Valerie’s Residence Cooking,” the present hosted by actor Valerie Bertinelli that ended final yr.

CBS is ending “The Speak” after its fifteenth season later this yr. The present’s Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O’Connell and Sheryl Underwood had been nominated for daytime speak collection host.

The lead actress nominees are: Tamara Braun of “Days of Our Lives,” Finola Hughes and Cynthia Watros of “Basic Hospital,” Katherine Kelly Lang and Annika Noelle of “The Daring and the Lovely” and Michelle Stafford of “The Younger and the Stressed.”

The lead actor nominees are: Eric Braeden of “The Younger and the Stressed,” Scott Clifton, Thorsten Kaye and John McCook of “The Daring and the Lovely” and Eric Martsolf of “Days of Our Lives.”

The Daytime Emmys shall be offered June 7 in Los Angeles and air reside on CBS. The present is returning to its ordinary schedule after being postponed till final December due to strikes by Hollywood actors and writers. The hosts and Lifetime Achievement honorees shall be introduced later.