Edward J. and Melody Thomas Scott and Lidia Bastianich will receive Lifetime Achievement honors at the 51st annual Daytime Emmy Awards in June, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) said Monday.
With all of their years of service combined, the husband-and-wife team of Edward J. and Melody Thomas Scott have been working in daytime television for nearly a century. Melody Thomas Scott has starred as Nikki Newman on CBS’s The Young and the Restless for 45 years, having joined the daytime drama in February 1979. Along the way, she has worked on stage and in numerous television shows as well as being a subject of Lifetime Television’s series Intimate Portrait. She married Edward J. Scott, a six-time Daytime Emmy Award-winning producer, in 1985. Edward, currently a supervising producer on CBS drama The Bold and the Beautiful, joined The Young and the Restless as an associate producer in 1976, moving up the ranks to serve as that show’s executive producer for decades. Prior to joining The Bold and the Beautiful, he was an executive producer on NBC’s Days of Our Lives. The Scotts have three daughters and five grandchildren.
