Despite his personal and professional life being turned upside-down in recent weeks, due to CBS cancelling The Late Show in August , Stephen Colbert was all smiles on the night of the 2025 Emmy Awards (which we live-blogged) . Those happy faces started up before the telecast did, as he and wife Evelyn McGee-Colbert walked the red carpet in anticipation of the talk show’s fate in the Outstanding Talk Series category.

The comments made by the late night host’s spouse during their interview on E! ’s red carpet preview were not only extremely kind in the moment, but they felt even sweeter after Colbert’s Late Show crew did indeed win the Emmy hours later, near the end of the telecast airing on CBS (and streaming via Paramount+ subscription ).

Here’s what she said when asked b

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