Tamron Hall on Her Second Emmy Win and Advice for New Daytime Host Sherri Shepherd

Tamron Hall on Her Second Emmy Win and Advice for New Daytime Host Sherri Shepherd: 'Know Your Intention'

Tamron Hall is still pumped after taking home her second Daytime Emmy award for her eponymous talk show

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"I was sitting there in the audience, we were back in person. The first Emmy I won we were all at home and I learned on Zoom," she said.

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"But to be in the room with all my peers and my team and to receive that honor it was just... I still can't believe it.

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"The sweetest moment was when Moses was opening the box," Hall says of her 3-year-old son, with husband Steve Greener.

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