AMC: Such a Tease!

Kendall believes Emma could be the way to get to Annie (Melissa Claire Egan, pictured).
Tensions remain high between Frankie and Randi.
Zach tries to gain Annie’s trust.

Annie figures out what Zach is up to.
Frankie lashes out at Jesse.
JR accuses Scott of wanting to be with Annie.

Kendall’s steamed over Zach’s friendship with Liza.
Zach tries to ease Emma’s fears.
David has an ultimatum for Amanda.

Amanda makes her choice.
Jake would like nothing more than to kill David.
JR makes a confession to Marissa.

An Evening of Surprises on Daytime's Biggest Celebration

The Daytime Emmy Awards had a few surprises up its sleeve this evening. Whether you agree or disagree, you have to admit the show is never boring. The biggest shock of the evening was when The Bold and the Beautiful took home the trophy for Outstanding Drama, the first win for the soap since its debut more than two decades ago. The half-hour soap is rather campy at times (see above), even The Soup pokes fun at it, but it sure is fun to watch as opposed to some of its competitors, which seem to be filled with more violence than romance these days.

Here's a list of the top categories:

Outstanding Drama: B&B

Outstanding Lead Actor: Christian LeBlanc (Michael, Y&R)

Outstanding Lead Actress: Susan Haskell (Marty, OLTL)

Outstanding Supporting Actor: A tie between Vincent Irizzary (David, AMC) and Jeff Branson (Shayne, GL)

Outstanding Supporting Actress: Tamara Braun (ex-Ava, Y&R)

Outstanding Younger Actor: Darin Brooks (ex-Max, Days)

Outstanding Younger Actress: Julie Berman (Lulu, GH)

We'd love to hear your comments about the ceremony and the winners!

(Photo courtesy of JPI Studios, featuring Jackie and Owen from B&B)

Daytime Emmys on CW Tonight

Don't forget to tune in to see your favorite daytime stars (and what they are wearing) on the CW network tonight from 8 to 10 p.m., with a pre-show hosted by Vanessa Williams at 7 p.m. There ceremony will also include a sure-to-be-tearful tribute to Guiding Light, which is going off the air on Sept. 18th at 72 years, along with a salute to 40 years of Sesame Street.

The CW's website has the following list of scheduled presenters:

Kristin Alderson (One Life to Live)

Daytime Emmy Nominee Bradford Anderson (General Hospital)

Daytime Emmy Nominee Tyra Banks (The Tyra Banks Show)

Brandon Buddy (One Life to Live)

Patrick Duffy (The Bold and the Beautiful)

Melissa Claire Egan (All My Children)

Colin Eggelsfield (Melrose Place)

Jenny Garth (90210)

Daytime Emmy Nominee Anthony Geary (General Hospital)

Daytime Emmy Nominee Van Hansis (As the World Turns)

Elizabeth Hendrickson (The Young and the Restless)

Daytime Emmy Nominee Bindi Irwin (Bindi the Jungle Girl )

Jay Kenneth Johnson (Days of Our Lives)

Katherine Kelly Lang (The Bold and the Beautiful)

Lori Loughlin (Melrose Place)

Susan Lucci (All My Children)

Gilles Marini (Dancing with the Stars, Brothers & Sisters)

Kyle Massey (That’s So Raven)

Chris Massey (Zoey 101)

Cameron Mathison (All My Children)

Daytime Emmy Nominee Dr. Phil McGraw (Dr. Phil) and Robin McGraw

Billy Miller (The Young and the Restless)

Ronn Moss (The Bold & the Beautiful)

Robert Newman (Guiding Light)

Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy)

Daytime Emmy Nominee Rachael Ray (The Rachael Ray Show)

James Scott (Days of Our Lives)

Jake Silbermann (As The World Turns)

Daytime Emmy Nominee Kirsten Storms (General Hospital)

Dr. Travis Stork (The Doctors)

Daytime Emmy Nominee Alex Trebek (Jeopardy!)

Betty White (The Bold & the Beautiful)

Montel Williams

Kim Zimmer (Guiding Light)

GH: Such a Tease!

Jason makes love with Sam.
Nikolas wants revenge on Rebecca.
Sonny resolves to make things work with Claudia.

Jason and Sam act on their feelings.
Nikolas shows his dark side.
Kristina (Lexi Ainsworth, pictured) confesses the truth to Michael.

Johnny reaches his breaking point with Claudia.
Jax puts pressure on Spinelli.
Robin doesn’t realize the walls have ears.

Jason and Sam have luck with their search.
Dominic gets information against Sonny.
Patrick warns Robin not to antagonize Andrea.

OLTL: Such a Tease!

Todd puts his heart on the line.
Blair (Kassie DePaiva, pictured) believes she and Todd belong together.
Schuyler starts to fall into Stacy’s trap.

John’s mission pays off.
Stacy fears she’s run out of options.
Cristian shares his suspicions about Fish with Layla.

Layla has an emotional confrontation with Fish.
Kim nixes Stacy’s plans to come clean.
John eases Cole’s fears.

Todd surprises Tea with a proposal.
Blair tracks down Ross Rayburn.
Fish finds himself in Stacy’s bed.

AMC: Such a Tease!

Kendall doesn’t like what she sees.
Annie learns her fate.
Amanda blames herself for Trevor’s disappearance.

Marissa confronts David on his manipulations.
Liza confesses her feelings to Zach.
Madison puts the screws to Frankie (Cornelius Smith, pictured).

Amanda has a close call with Trevor.
Kendall wants Zach to prove his love.
JR makes his move on Marissa.

David demands the truth from Liza.
Angie has dire news for JR.
Randi confesses everything to Natalia.

OLTL: Such a Tease!

Matthew delivers an emotional testimony at his court hearing.
Todd accuses Blair of going after Tea out of jealousy.
Kim helps Stacy consider possible candidates for her baby daddy.

Elijah rattles Tea.
Jessica (Bree Williamson, pictured) turns to an unlikely source for answers.
A scheming David embraces his Buchanan roots.

Jared and Natalie wonder who has a grudge against them.
Delphina has a warning for Jessica.
Cristian is more confused about Fish than ever.

A twist of fate throws Marty and Todd together.
Elijah threatens Tea.
Stacy and Kim set their sights on Schuyler.

GH: Such a Tease!

Danger lurks for Sam and Jason.
Elizabeth (Rebecca Herbst, pictured) has some tough words for Nikolas.
Lucky has no sympathy for Rebecca.

Alexis admits the truth to Sonny.
Jason’s in bad shape.
Robin is determined to catch a killer.

Jax learns Olivia’s secret.
Rebecca faces off with both Nikolas and Alexis.
Lulu finds herself in a sticky situation.

Olivia pleads with Jax to keep her secret.
Sonny makes a decision about his future with Claudia.
Jason seeks Sam to help him through his ordeal.

AMC: Such a Tease!

Jesse won’t take Madison’s threats lying down.
Liza can’t get Zach (Thorsten Kaye, pictured) off her mind.
Angie demands that Jesse be honest with her.

Tad tells Liza the truth about her baby.
Jesse confesses the truth to Angie.
Amanda grows more convinced of David’s guilt.

Ryan suspects Zach is up to something.
Erica gets off to a rocky start in Africa.
Scott accuses Annie of going after Adam’s money.

Randi tells Frankie everything about the night of North’s murder.
Jesse warns Madison to keep her mouth shut.
Kendall comes to terms with her situation.

Interview: Nia Peeples on Beauty, Fitness and Helping Others, Part 2

Television and movie lovers know Nia Peeples, whether it’s for her early work on the TV show “Fame” or the surf cult-hit movie “North Shore,” or for her later work on “The Young and the Restless” and the new Hallmark movie “Citizen Jane” (which premieres Saturday, Sept. 12 at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT). Nia is known for her talent as well as her beauty. In fact, in 2008 she was named one of People magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People.

To say that Nia was surprised when she found out would be an understatement. “I was standing in line at a teacher-appreciation luncheon at my daughter’s school, and one of the moms came up to me and said, ‘Congratulations.’ I asked, ‘For what?’ She told me I was one of People’s 100 Most Beautiful People, and I said: ‘What are you talking about? Are you sure it’s me? It’s not Catherine Zeta-Jones or Valerie Bertinelli?’ — who I get mistaken for all the time.

“I just had to laugh. It was hilarious. I’ve been in the business for 25 years, and I know there’s a whole bidding process that goes on. I’m in a place in my life where I don’t have a publicist. I’m raising my kids and living in Malibu and doing other things. I’m not paying attention to those things.”

Nia continues: “I was honored because it came at a time when I didn’t have someone throwing me out in front of people’s faces and saying, ‘What about her?’ For me, it was like the industry saying, ‘You know, she’s looking pretty good.’ I appreciate it much more now than I would have in my 20s or 30s, or if I had had my publicist pushing it for me.”

With Nia’s outside beauty comes an inner beauty as well. She has quite a few humanitarian causes that are dear to her, including the relief work she did in 2004 after the devastating earthquake/tsunami in Southeast Asia.

Nia explains: “What we did was so enlightening for me, because — I was about 43 at the time — I needed to show people that Nia Peeples the woman was so much more than Nia Peeples the persona. I needed to go and just put my hand in doing what I know I could do. Lending my hand was more important than, say, waving in a parade.”

Seeing the grace of these people in need really had an effect on Nia. “I was incredibly moved by the people who I met. In the middle of this crisis, and in the middle of losing their homes and everything they had, they still remembered who they were, and they were happy. There was a feeling of contentment that never left them. And here I was, searching for myself, doing this crazy thing, and they had lost everything and still had what was most important.”

Nia also wants to help others find what they deem to be important, and is in development on a NIA line of beauty and fitness products. “Over the years, various people have come to me to promote fitness equipment, clothing or a line of hair and makeup products, and none of it seemed to be really true to who I am.

“One of the things I’ve been looking at the past few years is really figuring out what I would want my brand to be. What is it that’s different about what I have to offer? It comes down to getting women to accept who they are, make the most of what they have and diminish what doesn’t work. It starts with what you’re born with, and you have to think of what you feed it and how you treat it, and you go from there. We are all our own kind of beauty. You have to be able to look at that and see that it is beautiful, and then embrace and take care of it.”