Olivia Newton-John’s rep disenchanted she was snubbed at Emmys

Olivia Newton-John followers have been left sad with Monday’s Emmy Awards, after the Grease star, who died Aug. 8 at 73, following an extended battle with breast most cancers, was not included within the annual tribute to TV stars who died up to now yr.

They usually shortly made it recognized on social media.

On Thursday, her longtime publicist, Michael Caprio, instructed TMZ that he was, because the outlet put it, “personally very disenchanted by the snub.”

As he identified, the star had quite a few credit in TV, together with performing work in TV motion pictures, corresponding to A Mother for Christmas (1990) and, in 1998, The Christmas Angel: A Story on Ice. She appeared on exhibits corresponding to Murphy Brown, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Bette and Dancing with the Stars, usually as herself. To not point out all these music movies, which included Emmy darling Glee‘s 2010 tackle her hit “Bodily” — itself one of many pioneering heavy-rotation movies that helped launch MTV.

Based on the Tv Academy’s web site, in 1980, her TV particular Olivia Newton-John: Hollywood Nights even gained an award for Excellent Video Tape Enhancing for a Restricted Sequence or a Particular.

A brief bio of the star is featured on the identical web site’s In Memoriam part, an expanded model of what we see on TV. “Established in 2009, this database contains the identify, date of passing, and hyperlinks to different info for the women and men who have been included within the televised In Memoriam phase, in addition to many others who weren’t,” the official description reads. “The Tv Academy hopes this database will present a venue for the acknowledgment of the tv neighborhood as an entire.”

The press contact for the present didn’t instantly reply to Yahoo Leisure’s request for remark.

Newton-John was one in every of a number of folks that viewers missed seeing on this yr’s roundup. Additionally they referred to as out producers for failing to acknowledge the deaths of comic Norm Macdonald — who was really honored eventually yr’s present — in addition to William Damage, Meat Loaf and Mates‘s James Michael Tyler.

Whereas her demise wasn’t formally acknowledged on the Emmys, Newton-John’s many buddies in Hollywood, together with John Travolta, Barbra Streisand and Dionne Warwick, celebrated her when she died.