Lizzo's Emmy Win Means She's Halfway to EGOT as Fans Celebrate 'Big Grrrls' ' Success

Mar. 15, 2025

Lizzois on her way toward achievingEGOT status.

The three-timeGrammywinner’s showLizzo’s Watch Out for The Big Grrrlswon outstanding competition program at the 74th PrimetimeEmmy AwardsMonday night.

The win for the Prime Video show means Lizzo, 34, is halfway to EGOT — meaning having won an Emmy, Grammy,OscarandTony— and she was full of emotion as she accepted the Emmy.

“I want to say thank you to Emmys and the Emmys voters, first of all. I’m very emotional,” the"Good as Hell"singer began, through tears. “The trophy is nice but the emotion is for the people who are on this stage with me. The stories that they shared are not that unique, they just don’t get the platform. Let’s just tell more stories.”

“When I was a little girl,all I wanted to see was me in the media. Fat like me. Black like me. Beautiful like me,” she continued. “If I could go back and tell little Lizzo something, I would be like, ‘You are gonna see that person but bitch, it’s gonna have to be you.'”

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AsGeena Davisaccepted the Governors Award later on in Monday night’s show, theThelma & Louiseactress gave a specialshoutout to Lizzo’s own win.

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“Tonight’s about honoring the best of television and as you know, as Lizzo knows, television can often directly impact how people see themselves and judge their value in the world,” said Davis, 66. “And in the time since I launched the institute, we’ve made a great deal of progress. But still, there’s more work to do.”

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As Lizzo celebrated her win, fans took to Twitter to express their own excitement over her progress toward reaching EGOT status.

“Lizzo isgoing to be an egot winnerwithin the next 10 years just watch,” said one fan while another — writer/podcaster/television hostAkilah Hughes— simply noted, “Lizzo is nowin the EGOT conversation.”

EvenWonder Womanherselfjoined the supportfor Lizzo, with actressLynda Cartertweeting, “Lizzo can EGOT. I feel it.”

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“They were beautiful dancers and beautiful people, but they just didn’t look like me,” she said.

To remedy the frustration, the"Truth Hurts"singer said she decided to do it herself — and host an open casting call where she could hand-pick the women who would be next to her on stage, and make sure they looked more like her.

“If I had a dollar for every time I had to say, ‘I’ll just do it myself,’ " Lizzo joked. “That’s probably why I’m a millionaire, because a million times. It’s reflected in every avenue of my career.”

The 74th PrimetimeEmmy Awardswere broadcast live on NBC Monday from the Microsoft Theater in ‎Los Angeles.

source: people.com