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Jennifer Hudson wins an EGOT: Who else is in the elite awards club?

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Miami Vice, the Michael Mann-produced cop show that was revolutionising television. Thomas, though, set his sights even higher.

In an interview with the Associated Press, he announced his intention to win an EGOT. “That stands for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony,” he said, unpacking the acronym he’d just coined. “Hopefully in the next five years I will win all those awards. ”Thomas was so serious about his dream that he had the four letters “EGOT” engraved on a gold pendant he wore around his neck.

Sadly, that was as far as he got. Not only did Thomas not win any of the four awards prior to his retirement in 2006, he was never even nominated.

His ambitious dream might have been forgotten completely were it not for 30 Rock. In a 2009 episode of Tina Fey’s Saturday Night Live-inspired sitcom, Tracy Morgan’s character Tracy Jordan came across a diamond-encrusted EGOT medallion that had ostensibly belonged to Thomas.

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