Missing Emmy star Dame Maggie gets Downton with the kidding

HA! We’re guessing Maggie probably won’t care about the dig considering this is her fourth Emmy win…

Kimmel started off the show where he didn’t hesitate to roast Smith in his monologue, because of her history of not attending the Emmys (she’s been nominated nine times for Emmys, won four and never shown up to the ceremony even once).

“I was very astonished and pleased to win the award”, she said.

After being asked whether she would appear in the movie version she added: “I can’t – what age would she be?” “It’ll be in the lost and found”.

Yesterday, Maggie Smith graciously accepted her Emmy Award, and requested that Kimmel “please direct me to the lost and found office”.

However, at a BBC America BAFTA event in LA last weekend, her co-star Michael Fox, who plays Andy Parker on the show, said that Smith signing on meant the film would not only go ahead but be the better for it.

Following the show’s final bow late previous year, the illustrious Dame Maggie Smith was welcomed into the spotlight during last night’s Emmys ceremony to collect the Outstanding Supporting Actress accolade for her frankly unforgettable turn in Downton Abbey.

Smith faced some fierce competition from her fellow nominees in the category: Lena Headey (Game of Thrones), Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones), Maura Tierney (The Affair), and Constance Zimmer (UnREAL). He didn’t let up, ribbing, “Lame Maggie Smith, if you want an Emmy, you better hop on a plane right now and get your Dowager Count-ass over here”.

When presenters Minnie Driver and Michael Weatherly announced Smith as the victor, host Jimmy Kimmel ran out on stage and joked that the absent star would have to come and get her statuette.

Rumours of a Downton Abbey movie began to build even before the ITV show bowed out with its sixth series previous year.

She told the Graham Norton show: “By the time we finished, she must have been about 110”.