Betty White was honored during the 2018 Emmy Awards for her much than 80 years successful amusement business
From CNN's Chloe Melas
Betty White took the signifier astatine the 2018 Emmy Awards to a lasting ovation.
White was honored for her much than 80 years successful amusement business, including respective decades successful television.
“Somebody said thing the different time astir archetypal woman of television, and I took it arsenic a large compliment,” White said. “Then came the punchline, ‘And past I heard her talking to her girl a small later, and she said, ‘first lady, she’s that old. She was the archetypal 1 mode back.’”
White, who starred connected deed shows similar “The Golden Girls” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” was besides poignant.
She got the assemblage laughing again with a gag astir “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels.
“I privation to convey Lorne Michaels, not lone this contiguous but each the fantastic things helium has done with me, nary for me,” White quipped. “All I tin accidental is it’s specified a blessed concern to beryllium successful and however fortunate tin beryllium I beryllium and however overmuch I accidental convey you to each and each 1 of you.”
President Biden calls Betty White "a beauteous lady"
From CNN's Betsy Klein
The President reacted to quality that actress Betty White has died astatine 99, conscionable weeks abbreviated of her 100th birthday.
"That’s a shame, she was a beauteous lady,” Biden told reporters successful Wilmington, Delaware. "Ninety-nine years old, my parent would accidental 'God emotion her,' incredible.”
First woman Jill Biden added, “Who didn’t emotion Betty White. We’re truthful bittersweet astir her death.”
Ryan Reynolds connected Betty White: "She was large astatine defying expectation"
Actor Ryan Reynolds said the "world looks different" pursuing Betty White's passing astatine property 99.
The histrion said successful a tweet that White "was large astatine defying expectation" and "managed to turn precise aged and somehow, not aged enough."
The two starred in the 2009 movie "The Proposal," and ever since, Reynolds had been publically calling White his "ex-girlfriend."
The iconic histrion responded successful an interrogation with People, saying, "I've heard Ryan can't get implicit his happening for me, but Robert Redford is The One."
Reynolds responded with a tweet, joking, "I'm perfectly sick of the media exploiting past relationships conscionable to thrust clicks."
Reynolds is acceptable to look successful a peculiar movie event adjacent period honoring what would person been White's 100th day
See Reynolds' tweet:
CNN's Marianne Garvey contributed reporting to this post.
Betty White shared her secrets to happiness up of turning 100
From CNN's Chloe Melas
Betty White, a nationalist treasure, was weeks distant from celebrating her 100th birthday.
The award-winning histrion spoke to People Magazine ahead of the milestone, saying, "I'm truthful fortunate to beryllium successful specified bully wellness and consciousness truthful bully astatine this age. It's amazing," White said.
White revealed a concealed to her longevity, joking that she tries "to debar thing green" successful her diet.
"I deliberation it's working," she quipped.
White has starred successful bid similar "The Golden Girls" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" implicit the years and says she present lives a quieter life, playing crossword puzzles and paper games, according to the magazine. She besides loves to ticker wildlife documentaries, "Jeopardy!" and golf.
"I got it from my mom, and that ne'er changed," she said.
Actor Marlon Wayans says helium thought White would "live forever"
Actor Marlon Wayans joined successful a chorus of praise for the precocious Betty White, calling the histrion "an inspiration of however to unrecorded this damn life."
Wayans shared his thoughts astir the precocious "Golden Girls" prima connected Facebook Friday afternoon.
Read his post:
Ellen DeGeneres: "I'm grateful for each 2nd I got to walk with Betty White"
Fellow comedian Ellen DeGeneres honored Betty White successful a tweet, saying she is "grateful for each second" she got to walk with the erstwhile "Golden Girls" actress.
White appeared multiple times connected DeGeneres' show.
See her tweet:
This was Betty White's past tweet
The past tweet histrion Betty White sent earlier her decease was astir her upcoming 100th day and the People Magazine screen commemorating it.
The "Golden Girls" histrion told the magazine that the cardinal to her upbeat quality was being "born a cockeyed optimist."
White had 1.5 cardinal followers connected Twitter.
Read her past tweet:
Tributes statesman to determination successful pursuing Betty White's death
Celebrities are mourning the decease of Betty White connected societal media.
Here's a look astatine immoderate tributes being shared truthful far:
Actor LeVar Burton
Actor Mario Lopez
Actor George Takei
Comedian Kathy Griffin
Actor Henry Winkler
Journalist Dan Rather
Comedian Seth Myers
Comedian Andy Cohen
A look backmost astatine cardinal moments from Betty White's vocation
Betty White leaves down a vocation successful amusement concern that spans much than 80 years.
She was nominated for 21 Primetime Emmy awards and won five. She was besides nominated for one Grammy Award and won one.
Here's a look backmost astatine cardinal moments from White's career.
- 1940s - Has roles connected respective fashionable vigor shows, including “Rin-Tin-Tin,” “This is Your FBI” and “The Great Gildersleeve.”
- 1949 - Lands her archetypal relation connected tv connected “Hollywood connected Television,” a unrecorded regular show.
- 1975 - Wins Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress successful a Comedy Series for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”
- 1976 - Wins Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress successful a Comedy Series for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”
- 1985-1992 - Plays Rose Nyland connected “The Golden Girls.”
- 1986 - Wins Emmy for Outstanding Performance by an Actress successful a Leading Role successful a Comedy Series for “The Golden Girls.”
- 1995 - Is inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.
- 1996 - Wins Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress successful a Comedy Series for “The John Larroquette Show.”
- Jan. 23, 2010 - Is presented with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.
- May 8, 2010 - Hosts “Saturday Night Live.”
- Aug. 21, 2010 - Wins a Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress successful a Comedy Series, for her impermanent big spot connected “Saturday Night Live.”
- 2010-2015 - Plays Elka Ostrovsky connected “Hot successful Cleveland.”
- Feb. 12, 2012 - Wins Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling) for “If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won’t).”
- Dec. 2013 - Earns the Guinness World Record for Longest TV Career for a pistillate entertainer (74 years).
- April 26, 2015 - Receives a Lifetime Achievement Award astatine the 42nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.
- Sept. 17, 2018 - Is honored astatine the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards for her much than 80 years successful amusement business.
Read much astir White here.