{"id":16338,"date":"2024-01-17T19:22:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T00:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/oprah-winfrey-sends-quinta-brunson-a-massive-flower-bouquet-after-historic-emmys-win\/17\/01\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-01-17T19:22:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T00:22:59","slug":"oprah-winfrey-sends-quinta-brunson-a-massive-flower-bouquet-after-historic-emmys-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/oprah-winfrey-sends-quinta-brunson-a-massive-flower-bouquet-after-historic-emmys-win\/17\/01\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Winfrey Sends Quinta Brunson a Massive Flower Bouquet After Historic Emmys Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/quinta-brunson\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Quinta Brunson<\/a><span>\u00a0celebrated her history-making Emmy win with a special delivery from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/oprah-winfrey\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Oprah Winfrey<\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Wednesday, the actress and comedian, 34, shared an Instagram photo of a massive bouquet of roses that Winfrey, 69, sent her in honor of her Lead Actress in a Comedy Series win. The bouquet, which included a mix of white and pink roses, was so tall that it nearly blocked the 4-foot-11-inch actress from the camera&#8217;s view.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Thank you\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/Oprah\/?hl=en\" role=\"link\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@Oprah<\/a><span>\u00a0for this small bouquet!&#8221; the <\/span><em><span>Abbott Elementary<\/span><\/em><span> creator, star, executive producer, and writer wrote, smiling and standing behind the flowers in the picture. The snap was taken in the hallway of the Abbott Elementary set as the cast and crew are currently in the middle of filming season 3, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/abbott-elementary-teachers-look-forward-to-a-good-year-in-new-promo-exclusive-217069\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">set to premiere on ABC<\/a><span> on Feb. 7.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a second photo posted by the actress, the person behind the camera got up close to the flowers while Brunson is seen still standing behind the bouquet, head barely visible. In her comments, the actress&#8217; friends laughed at the scale of the delivery while congratulating her on the win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;\ud83d\ude02 Omg! And still not enough!&#8221; responded <\/span><em><span>Barbie <\/span><\/em><span>star <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/america-ferrera\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">America Ferrera<\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The smell is delicious. \ud83c\udf39\ud83c\udf37\ud83c\udf39,&#8221; shared Quinta&#8217;s co-star, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/latest\/people\/lisa-ann-walter\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Ann Walter<\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The second picture \ud83d\ude02 I am so overjoyed for you and send you a hug that\u2019s the same size as those flowers \ud83d\udc90 \ud83d\udc96,&#8221; wrote <\/span><em><span>Yellowjackets <\/span><\/em><span>star <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/melanie-lynskey\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Melanie Lynskey<\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During the 75th Emmy Awards on Sunday, Quinta took home the award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her show, making history as only the second Black woman to win in the category. The last time a Black woman won was in 1981 when\u00a0<\/span><em><span>The Jeffersons<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0star Isabel Sanford took home the trophy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">VALERIE MACON\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Talking with ET following her win over the weekend, Brunson said she couldn&#8217;t be more grateful and excited to represent the comedy genre, which she has been passionate about since her days at Buzzfeed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I&#8217;m starting to [exhale],&#8221; she said. &#8220;This show has been very emotional for me from beginning to end.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I feel like it&#8217;s such an underappreciated genre, and it&#8217;s the thing that raised me and like artistically guided me, so, you know. I get emotional about it,&#8221; she continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Immediately after Brunson&#8217;s win,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/ayo-edebiri\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Ayo Edebiri<\/a><span>\u00a0won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in <\/span><em><span>The Bear<\/span><\/em><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe it, I know,&#8221; Brunson exclaimed. &#8220;It&#8217;s crazy!\u00a0I don&#8217;t know what to do &#8212; and it&#8217;s Martin Luther King Day, it&#8217;s too much.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Edebiri\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/interview-ayo-edebiri-reveals-why-she-handed-carson-daly-her-purse-after-emmy-win-exclusive-218015\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">became the third Black woman<\/a><span>\u00a0to win in the category, a year after\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Abbott Elementary<\/span><\/em><span>&#8216;s\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/sheryl-lee-ralph-sings-and-sheds-tears-in-powerful-speech-for-first-emmy-win-for-abbott-elementary\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sheryl Lee Ralph became the second<\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/oprah-winfrey-sends-quinta-brunson-a-massive-flower-bouquet-after-historic-emmys-win-218183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quinta Brunson&nbsp;celebrated her history-making Emmy win with a special delivery from Oprah Winfrey.&nbsp; On Wednesday, the actress and comedian, 34, shared an<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/oprah-winfrey-sends-quinta-brunson-a-massive-flower-bouquet-after-historic-emmys-win\/17\/01\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}