Ellen DeGeneres & Oprah Winfrey Not In The Running For Talk Show Host Emmys

Between them, Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres have won 11 Daytime Emmy awards as best talk show host. They won’t add to that total this year.

DeGeneres took herself out of consideration for the award for the first time since starting her show. Winfrey hasn’t submitted her work since winning her seventh award and a lifetime achievement award in 1999.

DeGeneres jokes: “I feel my steroid use gives me an unfair advantage.”

It means a better chance for a trophy for the nominees announced Wednesday: Rachael Ray, Bonnie Hunt, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Regis Philbin & Kelly Ripa and the five stars of “The View.”