This one had snuck by me, but Farrah Fawcett has been posthumously nominated for an Emmy award.
The late actress received the nod for her role as executive producer of the documentary that chronicled her final fight against cancer, “Farrah’s Story,” which aired shortly before she died last month.
The star has been nominated for an Emmy three times but has never won. As Heath Ledger could testify (if he was still alive… which would totally negate my point here), being dead basically guarantees an Emmy.
Fawcett’s long-time lover, Ryan O’Neal, said Thursday as the awards were announced: “I know that she is smiling that fabulous smile right now in heaven, and that she is grateful the show has been so well received not only by her peers in the industry but by the public at large.”
In other Emmy news, “Grey’s Anatomy” star and one of the nominations announcers Chandra Wilson was tricked by the show’s organizers into thinking she hadn’t been nominated.
“We did the rehearsal ahead of time and went down the teleprompter three times. My name wasn’t there, so I was like, ‘Cool,’ but I’d been completely duped,” said Wilson, who’s up for two awards: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama.
The 61st Emmy Awards will be hosted by “How I Met Your Mother” actor Neil Patrick Harris and will take place Sept. 20.
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