Pre Noms for Kish!

I haven't been feeling well at all these past few days, so I'm behind on the soaps and hoping to catch up this weekend.

If there's anything that could cheer me up, though, it was seeing that both Brett Claywell and Scott Evans have been pre-nominated for Daytime Emmy Awards!

The pre-nominees are those people in each category who've received the most number of votes from their peers to move forward to the actual nomination phase, where voters view the emmy reels and select the nominees and winners.

Brett has been pre-nominated in the Outstanding Supporting Actor Category and Scott in the Outstanding Younger Actor Category, for which you have to be 25 or younger. It's odd to see them nominated in different categories for the same storyline, but at least this way they won't be competing against each other!

I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that they both receive full nominations.

A few Kish-related people are pre-nominated as well, including the fantastic Ilene Kristen, who plays Roxy, but I was surprised and very sad not to see Tika Sumpter on the list. Tika, who plays Layla and who is tragically under used by the show at the moment (where are Cristian and Layla, anyway?!), did some downright amazing work in the episodes where she figured out that Oliver was gay. I became a huge fan at that point, and I think that work would have made her a strong contender to win the Emmy.

Meanwhile, this is the first time since joining As the World Turns that Van Hansis won't be nominated for a Daytime Emmy, since he isn't included on the list of pre-nominees. Van was nominated in 2007 and 2008 for Outstanding Younger Actor and last year for Outstanding Supporting Actor, but he never managed to take home the Emmy. That was especially frustrating in 2007, when he was nominated for his work in Luke's fantastic coming out story.

With As the World Turns leaving the air next fall, my not so secret desire is to see Van on One Life to Live. What a match up that would be!

One other performer has been pre-nominated for an LGBT role this year, and that's the amazing Crystal Chappell, who played Olivia (one half of Otalia) on the now cancelled Guiding Light.

I've been loving Crystal's return to Days Our Our Lives as Carly Manning (along with the wonderful Louis Sorel as Vivian), and I know her legion of fans are going to be thrilled to see her name on the list.