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Betty White may have poked fun at Facebook, the vehicle that landed her the gig on Saturday Night Live, in her monologue Saturday night but fans on the networking tool are at it again, now with a campaign for Betty to co-host the Primetime Emmy Awards with Jimmy Fallon this August.
Betty White may have poked fun at Facebook, the vehicle that landed her the gig on Saturday Night Live, in her monologue Saturday night but fans on the networking tool are at it again with a campaign for Betty to co-host the Primetime Emmy Awards with Jimmy Fallon this August.
The 88-year-old 'Golden Girl's' appearance on the oft-fledgling SNL boosted ratings to the show's highest since the run-up to the 2008 Presidential election.
Huffington Post contributor, Abe Gurko, suggested, based on her successful SNL appearance, NBC would be wise to add Betty to the Emmy host roster.
Now, a new Facebook campaign to land Betty on the Emmy's stage is making the rounds with upward of 500 fans and exponentially growing with every passing hour.
While Facebook fans are in large part responsible for helping Betty to land the SNL hosting gig, in her opening monologue she claimed to know nothing about the site prior to the campaign.
"And now that I do know what it is, I have to say - it sounds like a huge waste of time," she joked.
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Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
