2022 People's Choice Awards: By the Numbers
Kathy Hilton knows however to bargain the show, literally.
During the 2022 People's Choice Awards, held Dec. 6 astatine the Barker Hangar successful Santa Monica, Calif, Mariska Hargitay was presented with the grant for Drama TV Star of 2022 by the formed of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. In her impassioned acceptance speech, the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit expressed her gratitude for her fans and desire for unity successful the world. (See each the winners here and each the stars connected the reddish carpet here.)
"I emotion this grant truthful overmuch due to the fact that of the 2 words successful it," Mariska said. "The connection of course, the archetypal connection is people. And that's radical from each origins and each ethnicities and each creeds, and each genders and each individuality that marque this full glorious premix of each of us."
The 58-year-old continued, "The 2nd word, and that's adjacent much important, is choice. So I conscionable privation to observe our quality successful each of america the willingness successful each of america to take kindness, and compassion and courageousness and to take to perceive and to larn and to physique a span betwixt our differences and our divides."
However, the superior infinitesimal was a bit overshadowed by Kathy, who stood down the histrion and rifled done her metallic handbag. Still successful the camera shot, the world star pulled retired a lipstick conduit and gave herself an onstage interaction up.
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Viewers rapidly took to societal media to remark connected Kathy's distracting, yet immoderate accidental endearing, actions. "Not Kathy Hilton reapplying lipstick connected signifier from her Valentino bag," 1 idiosyncratic tweeted on with a crying emoji, while another wrote, "Kathy Hilton putting connected lipstick portion idiosyncratic gives an affectional acceptance code is what keeps maine connected my couch."
Earlier successful the evening, Kathy and her RHOB costars were up for The Reality Show of 2022, but were bushed retired by Hulu's The Kardashians.
Mariska's SVU later mislaid retired to Grey's Anatomy in the Drama Series of 2022 category. The actress—who has starred arsenic Olivia Benson deed NBC transgression bid since 1999—previously took location the People's Choice Award for Drama TV Star of 2018.
But it's not conscionable the people who adore Mariska. Earlier this year, Ice-T sang the actress' praises, revealing the co-stars were friends earlier helium joined SVU successful 2000.
"We lived connected Sunset Plaza," helium told E! News in September. "Her household location was up the elevation and my location was a small lower."
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The rapper—who shares daughter Letesha Marrow, 46, with ex Adrienne Marrow, lad Tracy Jr. Marrow, 31, with ex Darlene Ortiz, and his youngest, 7-year-old Chanel, with wife Coco—also admitted he and Mariska stay conscionable arsenic adjacent IRL arsenic their onscreen characters.
"I archer Mariska, I person 4 women successful my life, but I've made much wealth with Mariska," he joked. "So she ranks truly precocious successful my women I attraction about."
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