Jennifer Hudson made historical past with her win on the Tony Awards on June 12 final 12 months, choosing up a trophy as one of many producers of the Finest Musical profitable present A Unusual Loop.
The award made her the youngest girl and second African-African girl (after Whoopi Goldberg) to realize the coveted “EGOT” standing, having gained all of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.
On Monday, the singer, 41, took to social media to look again on her large win with a stunning new search for a sun-soaked boomerang clip, soundtracked to her personal track, “Do not Look Down.”
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She wore a fuchsia-hued cropped jacket which bore the phrase “EGOT” on its again in crystal elaborations and her title, “JHud,” on the entrance.
Pairing the jacket with gentle wash denims and her contemporary new pixie lower, she used the video to bask within the glow of her achievement, precisely a 12 months on and proper after this 12 months’s Tony Awards.
“A 12 months in the past as we speak , I turned the seventeenth EGOT!! There aren’t any limits to what God can do! It is a 12 months later and I am nonetheless 17,” she gushed in her caption.
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Followers took to the feedback part to reward her for the achievement, notably repeating the phrase “No limits!” with some leaving feedback like: “Lovely girl, congratulations, love ya shirt and love you extra Jennifer,” and: “Oh that is my jam for as we speak!!! No limits to His energy!! I looove that jacket!!!”
Jennifer turned the seventeenth inductee into the famed EGOT membership final 12 months together with her Tony win, becoming a member of the ranks of Whoopi, Audrey Hepburn, Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Rita Moreno, to call just a few.
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The previous American Idol contestant gained her first of the 4 trophies in 2007, the Academy Award for Finest Supporting Actress for her flip in Dreamgirls.
She adopted that up with a Grammy win in 2008 in Finest R&B Album for her debut self-titled file (she has since gained one other Grammy for Finest Musical Theater Album as nicely).
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In 2021, she picked up her first Daytime Emmy as a producer on the 2020 quick movie Baba Yaga (within the Excellent Interactive Media for a Daytime Program class), though the primary season of her speak present, The Jennifer Hudson Present, can also be nominated in six classes at this 12 months’s ceremony, together with one for her as a producer.
The nods for her personal present proved to be extraordinarily particular to the mom-of-one, who took to Instagram shortly after they had been introduced to write down: “Maintain the road!!!! @jenniferhudsonshow is Emmy nominated!!!
“I’m so pleased with my stunning Jhud Present household and what we achieved collectively in Season 1! Congratulations to every one in all you!! I’m sitting right here simply taking this second in, and I hope you all can do the identical. You deserve it! I’m soo grateful!”
Not lengthy after Jennifer’s Tony win, although, she was joined by pal and fellow actress Viola Davis, who picked up a Grammy win in 2023, the final prize she wanted to realize EGOT standing herself.
