Julia Louis-Dreyfus' husband had every reason to smile when the actress picked up an Emmy Award last month because the victory netted him a cool $8,000. Dreyfus' husband of 19 years, Brad Hall, secretly waged $2,000 that his wife would win a Best Actress prize for her role in critically-acclaimed sitcom The New Adventures Of Old Christine - and won big.

The thrilled actress explains, "They have odds in Vegas for award shows and who's gonna win... and so he bet on me and I didn't know this. He looked up the odds beforehand, and they weren't very good; they were like five to one. He said he wasn't gonna bet and then after I won he said, 'Guess what, I did bet.' He bet $2,000 and won $10,000. I said, 'Why didn't you bet more?' and he said, 'Well, your odds weren't that good.'"

Meanwhile, the actress insists she won her Emmy because she took along her lucky parents. She adds, "I won one Emmy one time before, which was exactly 10 years ago, and I had been nominated many times and never won and then one year my parents decided to come with me... and that was the year I won. Guess what, I brought my parents this year... Isn't that neat?"

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