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This is the Newest Member of the EGOT Club · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Over the weekend, Jennifer
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Speaker 1: Hudson joined one of entertainment's most exclusive clubs, officially achieving
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Speaker 1: Egots status. It's an acronym EGOT that stands for an
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Speaker 1: entertainer winning at least one Emmy, one Grammy, one Oscar
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Speaker 1: and Tony Awards over the course of their career. Jennifer
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Speaker 1: just took home the last one she needed, a Tony
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Speaker 1: on Sunday Night as a producer of the night's Best
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Speaker 1: Musical winner, a strange loop. In doing so, she becomes
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Speaker 1: the third youngest Egot winner, only behind John Legend and
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Speaker 1: songwriter Robert Lopez, and one of three black entertainers joining
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Speaker 1: Legend and will Be Goldberg. Some are suggesting a mark
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Speaker 1: be put next to her Tony Award for not being
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Speaker 1: a performance based win, but in reality, only four of
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Speaker 1: the seventeen Egot winners in history one all four trophies
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Speaker 1: that way, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, John Yalgood and Aubrey Hepburn.
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