Memorable moments from the Emmys and everything you couldn't see on TV

ByNardine Saad

Reporting fromat the Emmy Awards successful Los Angeles

Welsh histrion Matthew Rhys and US histrion Jean Smart made Emmy Awards past during TV's biggest nighttime successful Hollywood this year, which brought retired stars from the tiny screen, film, athletics and music.

Hosted by Law & Order SVU prima Mariska Hargitay - the archetypal pistillate to big successful 15 years - the ceremonial was packed with cameos from celebrities, affectional speeches, touching tributes and plentifulness of banter.

Backstage, the winners continued their celebrations offscreen and answered questions astir their wins and immoderate of the ceremony's astir viral moments.

Here's a look astatine immoderate of the viral moments and each the bits and pieces the BBC captured behind-the-scenes astatine the show:

The BBC had a squad astatine the Peacock Theatre successful downtown Los Angeles, which was shutdown to postulation and onlookers arsenic celebrities successful achromatic cars took over.

Droves of personage handlers dressed successful achromatic - from their information details to publicists - were posted passim the country - which besides sits crossed from Crypto.com Arena (home to the LA Lakers). While the ceremonial and reddish carpet is mostly confined to the Peacock Theater, the set-up astir it is vast.

Next doorway astatine the JW Marriott hotel, ballrooms are converted into property workspaces wherever celebrities and their teams milled astir passim the ceremony, reuniting cast-mates who haven't seen each different since they wrapped filming.

The roadworthy to this country is long, windy and done connected foot. Once a victor accepts their prize connected TV, they are taken crossed the thoroughfare to get their awards engraved, instrumentality photos and chat with reporters.

They are escorted done a bid of covered spaces, wherever they popular into 1 ballroom specifically for photos, different to talk with people and integer media and past different conception cordoned disconnected conscionable for TV interviews.

This country besides is location to wherever winners get their awards engraved. Dozens of aureate Emmy statues were acceptable up connected tables here, which passerbys (including yours truly) tin readily gawk astatine and instrumentality photos of.

So, successful each way, "backstage" isn't truly "backstage" astatine the Emmys. It's much similar "next door".

The formed and unit down Apple TV's sleeper deed celebrated the supernatural TV comedy's fashionable archetypal season, which nabbed six wins connected Monday and different 8 astatine the Creative Arts Emmys earlier this month.

Asked astir the amusement being comparatively smaller and chartless to immoderate audiences, the formed and creators reflected backstage with gratitude for the grassroots efforts to beforehand the amusement done word-of-mouth aboriginal on.

"All the radical online talking astir it, oregon viewers, oregon radical conscionable tweeting astir it, genuinely similar it. That truly got the connection to spread, and we're truthful grateful," said writer and creator Katie Dippold.

Rhys quipped that those radical were "predominantly our parents".

"I honestly deliberation we're conscionable blessed that everyone reacted to the scripts the mode we did erstwhile we work them, and that's each to acknowledgment to this team," Rhys said.

He said the bid was connected a "giddy ascent" up of the Emmys. Dippold joked that she was terrified reasoning that the amusement mightiness get adjacent much attraction with each their Emmy wins.

In a oversea of glamorous gowns and tuxedoes, Hacks prima Megan Stalter, who was nominated for champion drama supporting actress, arrived connected the Emmys bluish carpet gilded arsenic an Emmy statuette.

The actress, who has repeatedly turned heads with her red-carpet looks, donned golden assemblage overgarment and angel wings for the look and held up an tremendous mentation of the atom hoisted by the statuette during arrivals.

Stalter dodged questions astir what inspired the look, telling reporters that she and her stylist conscionable threw it unneurotic and that her co-star Paul W Downs airbrushed her himself.

Widow's Bay prima Kate O'Flynn told reporters backstage that she was "completely gobsmacked" and "on apical of the world" by her triumph successful the spooky comedy, which centres connected the unusual happenings of a haunted New England island.

She said that her quality - Patricia, the adjunct to Mayor Tom Loftis (played by Matthew Rhys) - has an "awkwardness", "bravery and humour" that resonated with audiences.

"I deliberation everyone conscionable has felt similar Patricia successful that way," she says.

She says she was pleasantly amazed by "an army" of radical who turned up dressed arsenic her quality astatine this year's DragonCon.

"So I'm excited to spot Halloween and each the antlers travel retired and instrumentality implicit the world," she joked to reporters backstage.

Speaking to the BBC, the British histrion had a connection for everyone backmost home: "Just to our household and friends, we did it. It's great. I don't cognize what to say. I don't know."

When Allison Janney's sanction was announced arsenic the victor for champion supporting histrion successful drama, the camera panned to The Diplomat prima with her rima unfastened and some hands cupping the sides of her face.

She remained for respective 2nd earlier getting up, inactive surprised, and covering her rima successful shock. "Oh my God," the fictional president was seen mouthing arsenic she made her mode to the stage.

With The Pitt flooding the supporting histrion successful a play bid category, the aesculapian play seemed poised to person 1 of its stars instrumentality location the prize. Janney, who plays the US President Grace Penn successful governmental play The Diplomat, told reporters backstage that she was "genuinely shocked" by her triumph due to the fact that of however large of a amusement The Pitt had become.

"We truly didn't deliberation it was going to spell my way. So I felt conscionable excited and relaxed," she said, due to the fact that she was "100% definite I wasn't gonna win".

Welsh histrion Matthew Rhys refused to spell backstage and speech with reporters until helium recovered retired whether Widow's Bay manager Hiro Murai won successful the directing class (he did).

When helium yet made his mode to the microphone, Rhys specifically called connected the BBC for the archetypal question.

"The BBC, surely!" helium said, earlier reflecting connected making past and becoming the archetypal idiosyncratic to triumph 2 Emmy awards for champion pb histrion successful the aforesaid twelvemonth - for roles successful Widow's Bay and the intelligence thriller The Beast In Me.

"At the moment, I genuinely can't rather judge what's conscionable happened," helium said. "I anticipation to bespeak connected it tomorrow."

He besides teased the affable contention betwixt him and his partner, histrion Keri Russell, who was up for an Emmy for her relation successful The Diplomat this year.

"It's not great. I stake a batch of wealth connected myself. The kids ran a book," helium joked, adding, "It's going to beryllium a unsmooth week for her. I'm sorry. I don't cognize if I am."

He joked, waving astir the trophy, that Russell is his amended fractional and "always the people act".

"She's ever truly the winner, if I'm perfectly honest."

Host Mariska Hargitay tapped a fistful of celebrities during her hosting debut, including Taylor Swift, Jalen Brunson and Broadway prima Andrew Rannells.

The Law & Order SVU prima opened the amusement with a philharmonic fig based connected Joan Jett and the Blackheart's I Love Rock & Roll, name-checking galore of the shows and stars of the night, portion singing "I emotion TV screens".

NBA prima Jalen Brunson made a cameo, a motion to Hargitay's emotion of the New York Knicks hoops team. Later, successful a pre-recorded skit, Hargitay and her costars from Law & Order SVU tried to lick the enigma of whether Taylor Swift would look astatine the Emmys.

Swift past appeared, joining successful arsenic a quality trying to lick the case, which took viewers connected a circuit of the nominees and Swift's medium and idiosyncratic life.

The skit closed with Hargitay, Swift and 1 of her cats, who is named Olivia Benson, aft Hargitay's quality connected the Law & Order series.

DTF St Louis prima Arlan Ruf, who plays David Harbour's lad connected the acheronian drama miniseries, made immoderate jokes astir the superior demographic fans of the HBO series, which centres connected a execution stemming from a dating app.

"I don't cognize a batch of my friends are watching it," helium says cheekily, adding that "their mums are".

Ruf adds that his friends' mums person been telling him however large it is, a motion to the ample pistillate assemblage for existent crime.

"So each friend's ma I cognize is watching," helium says.