2026 Daytime Emmys Award Presenters Announced
The list of presenters for the 2026 Daytime Emmy Awards has been revealed in advance of this year’s ceremony, which will take place on Friday, October 30, at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California. The lineup includes stars from General Hospital, The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives and Beyond the Gates, as well as actors from beloved soaps that are no longer on the air.
2026 Daytime Emmy Presenters Revealed
The current soap stars who will present at the 2026 Daytime Emmys are Delon de Metz (Zende Forrester, B&B), Katelyn MacMullen (Willow Tait, GH), last year’s Outstanding Lead Actor winner Paul Telfer (Xander Kiriakis, DAYS), Outstanding Lead Actress nominee Tamara Tunie (Anita Dupree, BTG) and last year’s Outstanding Supporting Actress winner Susan Walters (Diane Jenkins Abbott, Y&R).
Appearing as presenters from canceled soaps are previous Daytime Emmy winners Crystal Chappell (ex-Olivia Spencer, Guiding Light), Lesli Kay (ex-Molly Conlan, As the World Turns), Eva LaRue (ex-Maria Santos, All My Children) — who is nominated again this year in the Outstanding Guest Performer category for her run on GH as Natalia Ramirez — and A Martinez (ex-Cruz Castillo, Santa Barbara), as well as Joe Lando (ex-Jake Harrison, One Life to Live), Juliet Mills (ex-Tabitha Lenox, Passions) and Alicia Leigh Willis (ex-Alli Fowler, Another World).
Other genres of daytime programming will also be represented, with Eva zu Beck (Superskilled with Eva zu Beck), Danielle Chang (Lucky Chow), Sunny Hostin (The View), Derek Hough (Extra), Pati Jinich (Pati’s Mexican Table), Star Jones (Divorce Court), Michael Jr. (Stand Up and Do Something), Judge Greg Mathis (Mathis Court with Judge Mathis), Keke Palmer (Glam Through the Ages), James Preston (The Bay), Nichelle Turner (Entertainment Tonight), and Andrew Zimmern (Andrew Zimmern’s Wild Game Kitchen) slated to present.
General Hospital legend Genie Francis (Laura Collins) will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award, with her husband, actor/director Jonathan Frakes, presenting.
No hosts have been announced for the ceremony, but Matthew Hoffman (Cheap A$$ Beach Houses) will serve as the ceremony’s “Voice of God.”
The 2026 Daytime Emmy Awards will stream live on the NATAS YouTube channel and at watch.theemmys.tv, as well as on the official Emmys app, available for phones, tablets, and smart TVs.
Conversation
All comments are subject to our Community Guidelines. Soap Opera Digest does not endorse the opinions and views shared by our readers in our comment sections. Our comments section is a place where readers can engage in healthy, productive, lively, and respectful discussions. Offensive language, hate speech, personal attacks, and/or defamatory statements are not permitted. Advertising or spam is also prohibited.