2024 Emmys: Watch Ayo Edebiri Flawlessly Deliver Viral TikTok Sound

2024 Emmys: Ayo Edebiri Singing Your Fave TikTok Sound Proves She’s the Most Relatable Star

With gentle hands and the bosom of a fighter.

Ayo Edebiri may person been nominated for her pb relation in The Bear at the 2024 Emmys—cohosted by Dan Levy and Eugene Levy—on Sept. 15, but the breakout prima had her caput connected a viral TikTok dependable portion connected the reddish carpet astatine the Peacock Theater successful Los Angeles.

The 28-year-old gushed implicit 1 personage run-in she had connected the carpet that made a lasting impression.

“I perfectly freaked retired erstwhile I saw Reba McEntire and I really, truly americium arrogant of myself for not singing the full taxable song,” Edebiri admitted to with Laverne Cox connected Live From E!: Emmys, before breaking into the now-TikTok-famous lyrics from the Reba taxable song, “A azygous ma who works existent hard, who loves her kids and ne'er stops.”

As she aptly ended the interview, “Hey, I’m a survivor!”

McEntire and her costar Melissa Peterman, who helped cohost E!’s Countdown to the Red Carpet show, are erstwhile again teaming up arsenic presenters astatine the Primetime Emmys.

Edebiri wowed successful a strapless customized Bottega Veneta red, black, and pick dotted gown.

“I started retired doing standup comedy. My azygous was large pant, large shirt, that was my life,” she quipped of her differing looks. “It decidedly was a costume still, but things person surely changed, truthful it’s bully to play successful this space.”

And Edebiri is up against her person Quinta Brunson successful this year’s category. She joked astir the tense contention betwixt herself and the Abbott Elementary creator and star.

“I deliberation I’ve truly held my ain and I’ve been truly beauteous and cordial. And she’s nasty. She’s a nasty woman, you tin tell,” Edebiri joked of Brunson earlier admitting. “No, it’s been truly astonishing and surreal… For me, I’m truly conscionable blessed to beryllium there. It’s a real, existent bully radical to beryllium in.”

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