ALAN Cumming has thanked the Scottish crew who worked on the Traitors television series after winning at the Emmys.
The Scottish actor accepted the award for outstanding reality competition programme at the Emmy Awards, which were held in Los Angeles on Sunday.
In his speech, Cumming said: "Thanks everyone who watches the show and all the people who have Traitors parties and dress up as me. We see you and we love you."
He added: "Thank you to our crazy cast and our crew in Scotland. It's a difficult time we live in, but it is so great that our show brings a little bit of joy into this life.
"Talking of joy, thank you [to my husband] Grant Shaffer, who brings joy into my life every single day. Thank you so much."
Both the UK and US version of The Traitors is filmed at Ardross Castle in the Highlands, near Alness.
The show beat RuPaul's Drag Race, The Amazing Race, Survivor and Top Chef in the category at the prestigious awards show.
Other big winners of the night include Netflix's Adolescence programme, with 15-year-old Owen Cooper becoming the youngest ever male actor to win an Emmy.
Several Emmy stars used the evening to condemn Israel's actions in Palestine, including Hannah Einbinder and Javier Bardem.
Einbender, who won best supporting actress in a comedy, ended her acceptance speech by saying: "Go birds, f*** ICE and free Palestine."
She told media backstage: “I have friends in Gaza who are working as frontline workers, as doctors, right now in the north of Gaza, to provide care for pregnant women, and [working] for schoolchildren to create schools in the refugee camps.
“It’s an issue that’s really close to my heart for many reasons. I feel like it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel because our religion and our culture is such an important and longstanding … institution that is really separate to the ethno-nationalist state.”
Meanwhile, Bardem wore a keffiyeh, saying on the red carpet that he "cannot work with someone who supports the genocide.
