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Selma Blair was the sweetest thing astatine the 2022 People's Choice Awards.
The Legally Blonde star stole the amusement at the star-studded event—which celebrates the champion successful movies, TV, euphony and popular culture—wearing a fabulous LBD (see each of the looks here).
While accepting the award for The Competition Contestant of 2022 at the Dec. 6 ceremonial (read the afloat database of winners here), Selma stunned successful a strapless asymmetrical minidress that featured beaded floral appliqués. She paired her look with 1 of her bedazzled canes.
As for her glam? While she kept most of the attraction connected her blase attire, she did battalion a punch with her chic hairstyle. Selma's hairstylist, Bridget Brager, shared exclusive details with E! News.
"The squad and I wanted to make a look that was little polished and, instead, much feminine and ethereal to amusement disconnected her softer side," the Rodan + Fields Haircare Ambassador said. "Selma's hairsbreadth was the cleanable catalyst to thrust this feeling, on with her gorgeous formal and beauteous skin."
To plump up Selma's hairsbreadth but inactive support it airy and airy, Bridget utilized Rodan + Fields' Volume+ Regimen, "so she could tally her fingers done her hairsbreadth but the benignant would beryllium set."
Selma's fierce manner and quality look weren't the lone things worth celebrating tonight, arsenic her acceptance code deserved its ain award.
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"This is benignant of a immense woody for me," she began. "I person been successful this municipality a agelong time. I person truthful galore astonishing friends that triumph things similar this. This feels truthful astonishing and I can't judge the radical gave maine thing aft giving maine truthful overmuch the past fewer years of learning however to link and to consciousness supported by people. It means truthful much."
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Selma's People's Choice Awards triumph comes disconnected the heels of her inspiring Dancing With the Stars run.
The actress, who was competing on show following her MS diagnosis successful 2018, announced connected the Oct. 17 occurrence that she would instrumentality her last bow and exit the contention early.
"You cognize I've been monitored and successful interaction with my doctors this full process," Selma told her creation partner Sasha Farber. "I had these MRIs. The results came backmost and it each conscionable adds up to that I can't spell connected with the competition. I pushed arsenic acold arsenic I could."
She added, "I truly privation to person 1 past beauteous creation with you."
Naturally, erstwhile The Sweetest Thing actress stepped ft onstage, determination wasn't a adust oculus successful the room.
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During the play finale connected Nov. 21, however, Selma amazed fans and made a triumphant instrumentality to the ballroom. Following the affectional performance, the 50-year-old shared a heartfelt connection with her fans.
"It heartens maine truthful overmuch that radical person showed specified kindness," she exclusively told E! News astatine the last taping. "I ne'er recognize however overmuch it means to radical erstwhile idiosyncratic with a chronic illness—that it means thing erstwhile it's like, 'I wanna get up and bash this.'"
She added, "To find that information is key...so it's meaningful for me, but I emotion that it means thing to people, and hopefully they tin find thing small to clasp onto that gets them up and moving."
(E! and NBC are some portion of the NBCUniversal family.)
Watch the 2022 People's Choice Awards tonight, Dec. 6, astatine 9 p.m. connected NBC and E!.
