Ellen DeGeneres, Tyra Banks Win Daytime Emmy Awards

Ellen DeGeneres won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show Host Friday night – her fourth consecutive win in the category. DeGeneres – who attended the ceremony at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre with fiancee Portia De Rossi – was asked backstage if she would take a cue from Oprah Winfrey and step aside from future Emmy races. "I'm not going to take my name out," she quipped. "Oprah has made so many bad choices. Look at her career." ( See Oprah's Weight: Highs and Lows .) Tyra Banks won in a new category, Outstanding Talk Show – Informative. "I want to thank Oprah Winfrey for her inspiration," Banks said in her acceptance speech. "She is the queen and will always be the queen." ( Check out '90s Models: Then & Now .) Rachael Ray 's cooking show beat out The View and The Ellen DeGeneres Show for outstanding talk show. Regis Philbin (who holds the Guinness Record for the most time spent in front of a TV camera) was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award by Jimmy ... (link)