Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program
Awarded for	Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
First awarded	2008
Currently held by	Alan Cumming, ; The Traitors (2024)
Website	emmys.com

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program is an award that was first awarded in 2008. On July 27, 2008, it was announced that the category's five nominees would all co-host the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards telecast. Beginning in 2023, game show hosts competed in a separate category for Outstanding Host for a Game Show.

Winners and nominations

2000s

Year	Host	Program	Network
2008 (60th)
	Jeff Probst	Survivor	CBS
	Tom Bergeron	Dancing with the Stars	ABC
	Heidi Klum	Project Runway	Bravo
	Howie Mandel	Deal or No Deal	NBC
	Ryan Seacrest	American Idol	Fox
2009 (61st)
	Jeff Probst	Survivor	CBS
	Tom Bergeron	Dancing with the Stars	ABC
	Tom Colicchio and Padma Lakshmi	Top Chef	Bravo
	Phil Keoghan	The Amazing Race	CBS
	Heidi Klum	Project Runway	Bravo
	Ryan Seacrest	American Idol	Fox

2010s

Year	Host	Program	Network
2010 (62nd) ^[1]
	Jeff Probst	Survivor	CBS
	Tom Bergeron	Dancing with the Stars	ABC
	Phil Keoghan	The Amazing Race	CBS
	Heidi Klum	Project Runway	Lifetime
	Ryan Seacrest	American Idol	Fox
2011 (63rd) ^[2]
	Jeff Probst	Survivor	CBS
	Tom Bergeron	Dancing with the Stars	ABC
	Cat Deeley	So You Think You Can Dance	Fox
	Phil Keoghan	The Amazing Race	CBS
	Ryan Seacrest	American Idol	Fox
2012 (64th) ^[3]
	Tom Bergeron	Dancing with the Stars	ABC
	Cat Deeley	So You Think You Can Dance	Fox
	Phil Keoghan	The Amazing Race	CBS
	Ryan Seacrest	American Idol	Fox
	Betty White	Betty White's Off Their Rockers	NBC
2013 (65th) ^[4]
	Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum	Project Runway	Lifetime
	Tom Bergeron	Dancing with the Stars	ABC
	Anthony Bourdain	The Taste	ABC
	Cat Deeley	So You Think You Can Dance	Fox
	Ryan Seacrest	American Idol	Fox
	Betty White	Betty White's Off Their Rockers	NBC
2014 (66th) ^[5]
	Jane Lynch	Hollywood Game Night	NBC
	Tom Bergeron	Dancing with the Stars	ABC
	Anthony Bourdain	The Taste	ABC
	Cat Deeley	So You Think You Can Dance	Fox
	Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum	Project Runway	Lifetime
	Betty White	Betty White's Off Their Rockers	Lifetime
2015 (67th) ^[6]
	Jane Lynch	Hollywood Game Night	NBC
	Tom Bergeron	Dancing with the Stars	ABC
	Anthony Bourdain	The Taste	ABC
	Cat Deeley	So You Think You Can Dance	Fox
	Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum	Project Runway	Lifetime
2016 (68th) ^[7]			Lifetime
	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race	Logo
	Tom Bergeron	Dancing with the Stars	ABC
	Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum	Project Runway	Lifetime
	Steve Harvey	Little Big Shots	NBC
	Jane Lynch	Hollywood Game Night	NBC
	Ryan Seacrest	American Idol	Fox
2017 (69th) ^[8]
	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race	VH1
	Alec Baldwin	Match Game	ABC
	W. Kamau Bell	United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell	CNN
	Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart	Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party	VH1
	Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum	Project Runway	Lifetime
	Gordon Ramsay	MasterChef Junior	Fox
2018 (70th) ^[9]
	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race	VH1
	W. Kamau Bell	United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell	CNN
	Ellen DeGeneres	Ellen's Game of Games	NBC
	Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum	Project Runway	Lifetime
	Jane Lynch	Hollywood Game Night	NBC
2019 (71st) ^[10]
	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race	VH1
	James Corden	The World's Best	CBS
	Ellen DeGeneres	Ellen's Game of Games	NBC
	Marie Kondo	Tidying Up with Marie Kondo	Netflix
	Nick Offerman and Amy Poehler	Making It	NBC

2020s

Year	Host	Program	Network
2020 (72nd) ^[11]
	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race	VH1
	Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness	Queer Eye	Netflix
	Nicole Byer	Nailed It!	Netflix
	Tom Colicchio and Padma Lakshmi	Top Chef	Bravo
	Barbara Corcoran, Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John and Kevin O'Leary	Shark Tank	ABC
	Nick Offerman and Amy Poehler	Making It	NBC
2021 (73rd) ^[12]
	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race	VH1
	Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness	Queer Eye	Netflix
	Nicole Byer	Nailed It!	Netflix
	Tom Colicchio, Padma Lakshmi and Gail Simmons	Top Chef	Bravo
	Barbara Corcoran, Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John and Kevin O'Leary	Shark Tank	ABC
2022 (74th)
	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race	VH1
	Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness	Queer Eye	Netflix
	Nicole Byer	Nailed It!	Netflix
	Barbara Corcoran, Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John and Kevin O'Leary	Shark Tank	ABC
	Padma Lakshmi	Top Chef	Bravo
	Nick Offerman and Amy Poehler	Making It	NBC
2023 (75th) ^[13]
	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race	MTV
	Karamo Brown, Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Bobby Berk and Jonathan Van Ness	Queer Eye	Netflix
	Nicole Byer	Nailed It!	Netflix
	Padma Lakshmi	Top Chef	Bravo
	Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph	Baking It	Peacock
2024 (76th) ^[14]
	Alan Cumming	The Traitors	Peacock
	Barbara Corcoran, Mark Cuban, Robert Herjavec, Lori Greiner, Daymond John and Kevin O'Leary	Shark Tank	ABC
	Kristen Kish	Top Chef	Bravo
	Jeff Probst	Survivor	CBS
	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race	MTV

Multiple wins

8 wins

RuPaul (consecutive)

4 wins

Jeff Probst (consecutive)

2 wins

Jane Lynch (consecutive)

Multiple nominations

9 nominations

7 nominations

Ryan Seacrest

6 nominations

Tim Gunn

5 nominations

4 nominations

3 nominations

2 nominations

References

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v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program
2000s	Jeff Probst (2008) Jeff Probst (2009)
2010s	Jeff Probst (2010) Jeff Probst (2011) Tom Bergeron (2012) Heidi Klum & Tim Gunn (2013) Jane Lynch (2014) Jane Lynch (2015) RuPaul (2016) RuPaul (2017) RuPaul (2018) RuPaul (2019)
2020s	RuPaul (2020) RuPaul (2021) RuPaul (2022) RuPaul (2023) Alan Cumming (2024)

v t e Primetime Emmy Award categories
Programs	Comedy Series Drama Series Limited or Anthology Series Television Movie Reality Competition Program Talk Series Scripted Variety Series Animated Program Documentary or Nonfiction Series Documentary or Nonfiction Special Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking Game Show Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series Structured Reality Program Unstructured Reality Program Variety Special (Live) Variety Special (Pre-Recorded)
Performance	Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Lead Actor in a Drama Series Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Lead Actress in a Drama Series Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Guest Actor in a Drama Series Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Guest Actress in a Drama Series Performer in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Character Voice-Over Performance Host for a Game Show Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program Narrator
Directing	Directing for a Comedy Series Directing for a Drama Series Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Directing for a Variety Series Directing for a Variety Special Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program Directing for a Reality Program
Writing	Writing for a Comedy Series Writing for a Drama Series Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Writing for a Variety Series Writing for a Variety Special Writing for a Nonfiction Program
Animation	Individual Achievement in Animation
Casting	Casting for a Comedy Series Casting for a Drama Series Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Casting for a Reality Program
Choreography	Choreography for Scripted Programming Choreography for Variety and Reality Programming
Cinematography	Cinematography for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program Cinematography for a Reality Program Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour) Cinematography for a Series (One Hour)
Commercials	Commercial
Costume Design	Contemporary Costumes Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes Period Costumes Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Programming
Hairstyling	Contemporary Hairstyling Hairstyling for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program Period or Fantasy/Sci-Fi Hairstyling
Lighting	Lighting Design / Lighting Direction for a Variety Series Lighting Design / Lighting Direction for a Variety Special
Main Title / Motion Design	Main Title Design Motion Design
Makeup	Contemporary Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program Period or Fantasy/Sci-Fi Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) Prosthetic Makeup
Music	Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score) Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score) Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) Music Direction Music Supervision Original Main Title Theme Music Original Music and Lyrics
Picture Editing	Picture Editing for a Multi-Camera Comedy Series Picture Editing for a Single-Camera Comedy Series Picture Editing for a Drama Series Picture Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program Picture Editing for a Structured or Competition Reality Program Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program Picture Editing for Variety Programming
Production Design	Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More) Production Design for a Narrative Period or Fantasy Program (One Hour or More) Production Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour or Less) Production Design for a Variety or Reality Series Production Design for a Variety Special
Sound Editing	Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour) Sound Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program
Sound Mixing	Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour) Sound Mixing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction Program Sound Mixing for a Reality Program Sound Mixing for a Variety Series or Special
Special Effects	Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie / Special and Visual Effects in a Single Episode
Stunts	Stunt Coordination Stunt Performance
Technical Direction	Technical Direction and Camerawork for a Series Technical Direction and Camerawork for a Special
Engineering	Engineering Philo T. Farnsworth Award
Retired	Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series Children's Program Costumes for a Series Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special Hairstyling for a Limited Series or Movie Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program Interactive Program Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic) New Series Program of the Year Short Form Animated Program Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Short Form Variety Series Super Emmy Variety Series Voice-Over Performance
Emmy categories Primetime Daytime International Sports Children's and Family