The 98-year old actress is safe at home and reportedly having someone else take care of her essential shopping needs, which is the way it should be. In case anyone was wondering, Betty White is practicing social distancing at the moment like the rest of the world. Fans were not excited to hear that the show was coming to an end, but they were treated to a one-hour series finale. ![]() White received two Screen Actors Guild Awards for her performance as Elka Ostrovsky and the series ended up taking home two Primetime Emmy nominations with a total of five nominations throughout its 6 seasons. That's pretty heavy praise since the show is one of the best the 1980s has to offer. Hot in Cleveland has often been compared to Betty White's hit Golden Girls series. In other words, this is really the stuff people should be watching for a laugh at the moment. Ostrovsky is an elderly Polish caretaker who often alludes to a storied life, including escaping from the Nazis, an active sex life, heavy drinking, and potential marijuana use. ![]() While being TV Land's first original series, it also holds the record for being highest rated, mostly thanks to White's often dark and vulgar humor. Morgan, don’t ever make Hard Rain again.Betty White played Elka Ostrovsky on Hot in Cleveland for six seasons between 20. Even though you’ve made some crap, Morgan. Dancing with Morgan FreemanĪnd even Morgan Freeman isn’t quite worthy of the birthday girl, after she surprised him with a song and dance on stage while presenting him with the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2011.įlanked by six back-up dancers, she seamlessly glided into a routine, while telling him: ‘So, let’s all clap, Morgan. Honestly, we are so not worthy of Betty White. Since he was with his boys he tried to break fly. When they passed me, one of them felt my booty. Word perfectly, she recited: ‘Who you calling a bitch? I walked past these dudes. And by that, we mean she did a dramatic reading of the rapper’s biggest hits, U.N.I.T.Y, live. Betty was chosen to pay tribute to Queen Latifah on VH1’s Hip Hop Honors: All Hail the Queens, in 2015, and did it in her signature style. She returned to the show in a sketch five years later – and got to kiss Bradley Cooper at the same time.Ĭould she be more goals? A Lifetime Achievement Awardīetty is friends with some of the biggest names in Hollywood (Picture: FilmMagic)Īs well as being lavished with awards during her career, which spanned several decades, she also counts some of the biggest names in Hollywood as close friends. At the time, she confessed to Ellen DeGeneres that she was ‘scared to death’ to do the show, but it turns out she completely smashed it, picking up another Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy. ![]() Thankfully for all of us, the campaign worked and she presented an episode later that year, becoming the oldest person in history to front the show, aged 88. Fans were so, so impressed by her epic performance in the Snickers advert – shown during the 2010 Super Bowl XLIV – that they mounted a campaign to get her hosting SNL. The show may have ended but she carried on working, making guest appearances in a string of other shows – including The Simpsons, Ally McBeal, Malcom In The Middle, and as a Mary Poppins-esque nanny in My Wife And Kids. ‘Maybe the writers don’t address it these days, but it doesn’t change the fact.’ Presenting SNL thanks to a Snickers bar ![]() I think older women still have a full life. Speaking about the role, that earned her an Emmy for Outstanding Actress in 1986 and a nomination every year until the show ended in 1992, she explained: ‘I think we were just trying to tell it like it is.
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