Peter Bergman has been nominated for over 20 Daytime Emmy Awards while playing Jack Abbott on "The Young and The Restless" over the last 36 years, but the actor still feels flattered each time he hears the good news.

“It never gets old. It just doesn’t. There’s something nice about the people in my industry saying, ‘Oh yeah, he’s one of the good ones,'" he tells TODAY.com in a recent interview over the phone.

Bergman, who joined the cast of the daytime soap opera in November 1989, is one of five actors nominated in the lead performance in a daytime drama series category at the 52nd Annual Daytime Emmys, which take place Friday, Oct. 17.

The star is being honored for his performance in a “Y&R” episode from 2024 that follows Jack as he goes to extremes to pull his friend Nikki Newman

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