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Quinta Brunson asks audience for help finding her earrings at NAACP Awards: 'Little dangly things, cost a lot'​

The misplacement was on the "Abbott Elementary" star's mind as she accepted the trophy for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series.
By Shania Russell

Published on March 18, 2024


Have you seen Quinta Brunson's earrings?

The Abbott Elementary creator and star was looking to reclaim some jewelry at the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday, after she accidentally misplaced two sparkly accessories. In fact, the earrings were so top of mind for Brunson that they took priority when she walked on stage to claim her trophy for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series.

"Thank you so much! Thank you guys," Brunson, 34, said before requesting help. "I lost both my earrings. So if anybody sees my earrings, could you just…?"

For those needing more info, she added, "They're little dangly things, cost a lot — so if you guys see them…"

Unfortunately, based on photos of the actress walking the red carpet, Brunson's earrings may have gone missing before she even entered the venue. She wasn't wearing them when she posed for photographers in her sleek Naeem Khan gown, though she did have some jewelry in the form of several silver rings.

Quinta Brunson at the NAACP Image Awards

Quinta Brunson at the NAACP Image Awards.
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After addressing her missing accessories, Brunson used her acceptance speech to express gratitude to friends, collaborators, and the broader Black community.

"Let me just say thank you so much, it's such an honor. I love coming to this ceremony and getting to see all of my friends and all the people that I don’t get to see on a daily basis while we're working," she said. "I'm just extremely honored, yet again. I'm very proud of the work I get to do in Abbott. I'm very proud of my cast."

She added, "Thank you to my family. I hope my mom and dad are watching, and all the Black people in my life."

Winning in her category wasn't Brunson's only opportunity to take the stage, as Abbott Elementary also won Best Comedy Series.



Among the audience members enlisted to find the mysteriously missing earrings were fellow winners of the night Usher, Taraji P. Henson, Fantasia Barrino, India Ria Amarteifio, and Colman Domingo. Queen Latifah hosted the show, which included a performance from Andra Day.

Watch Brunson's acceptance speech and request for assistance above.
 
"I am aware of what a Google doctor is"

:lol:

The "Librarian" episode was right up there with the smoking one for best of the season so far.
 
bham_brotha said:
I'd smash every female main character on this show... the redhead included.
Click to expand...

I am not a MILF chaser, let alone a GILF chaser...

But the older women on this show blow the younger ones out of the water.

I'm not lusting for anybody on the show but give me a time machine and location info for Barbara and the Italian, I'm hitting them up.
 
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Molly Fischer.

Reporter’s Notebook​

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Molly Fischer
Staff writer
I first met Quinta Brunson in January, when she was in the midst of shooting “Abbott Elementary” ’s third season and had just won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. It felt like a moment when she was ascending to a new plane of celebrity—the plane where one, say, receives a giant bouquet from Oprah in the course of a regular workday.
More important, though, it was a moment when her work had achieved a new stature. In the time since “Abbott” premièred, at the end of 2021, it has gone from a scrappy surprise to a durable hit. When I interviewed her, Brunson and her collaborators were in the process of figuring out what the show’s success meant for their work. What kind of creative freedom did they have now that the audience had come to know these characters—a group of teachers at an underfunded West Philadelphia school—and this world?
Quinta Brunson with boa

Photograph by AB+DM for The New Yorker; Boa by Georges Hobeika
Brunson’s show draws on her mother’s thirty years of experience as a public-school teacher in Philadelphia. But it’s also grounded in network-sitcom tradition; Brunson is a connoisseur of the form—“I watch everything,” she told me—and she has a clear sense of both its pleasures and its constraints. Prior to the third season, the show’s action was often confined to the school’s classrooms and corridors. Now Brunson’s character has taken a position with the school district, and the landscape is expanding. Hennesy Street, an outdoor set on the Warner Bros. studio lot, once stood in for San Francisco, in the 1935 movie “Frisco Kid,” and for New York, in the 1982 version of “Annie.” When I visited, it had been revamped as “Abbott” ’s Philadelphia, complete with storefronts for a psychic, an Ethiopian restaurant, and a bar where the teachers hang out after work.
Maybe the most momentous change was something that Brunson showed me elsewhere on the lot: the actual brick-and-mortar exterior of Abbott Elementary. The façade used to be made of molded-plastic panels, but, before the third season, it was reconstructed with actual building materials. “It’s something I’ve always wanted to do,” the production designer, Michael Whetstone, told me. “But you have to do it on a show that you think is going to be around long enough to warrant it.”​
 

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