--- title: Chrissy Teigen Hilariously Trolls John Legend for EGOT Win description: Chrissy Teigen wasted no time in using John Legend's Emmy win — and new EGOT status — as an opportunity to lovingly troll her husband. canonical: https://time.com/5391734/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-egot-win/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-10T16:47:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:46.800Z og:title: Chrissy Teigen Trolls John Legend for EGOT Win on Instagram og:description: As one does og:url: https://time.com/5391734/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-egot-win/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1606b12d44a9fe9a/698939d2ab6d771eee6b3a12/chrissy-teigen-trolls-john-legend-for-egot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 2018 Creative Arts Emmy Awards - Day 2 - Press Room og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chrissy Teigen Trolls John Legend for EGOT Win on Instagram twitter:description: As one does twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1606b12d44a9fe9a/698939d2ab6d771eee6b3a12/chrissy-teigen-trolls-john-legend-for-egot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # John Legend's EGOT Win Gave Chrissy Teigen the Perfect Chance to Lovingly Troll Him > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic) Paul Archuleta—FilmMagic  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 10, 2018 4:47 PM UTC [John Legend](http://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4736217/john-legend/) reached coveted [EGOT status](http://time.com/4675741/oscars-2017-almost-egot-lin-manuel-miranda/) when he took home an Emmy as a co-producer for _Jesus Christ Superstar Live_ at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday. Achieving an EGOT is one of the most exclusive honors an entertainer can receive, having won an award at the Emmys, the Grammys, the Oscars, and the Tonys; before the _Jesus Christ Superstar_ _Live_, there were only 13 entertainers who had won the coveted EGOT. While Legend, who’s the first black man to receive an EGOT, might also win big at the primetime Emmy awards next week for his nomination for his performance as Jesus in the live tv musical production, wife [Chrissy Teigen](http://time.com/4947946/chrissy-teigen-trolls-john-legend/) wasted no time in using Legend’s current win as an opportunity to [lovingly tease her husband.](http://time.com/4776490/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-trolling/) In an Instagram video post, Teigen ribbed her husband’s latest addition to his trophy wall by captioning the post with a lyric from the theme song to the children’s show _Arthur_, whose eponymous main character has often been compared to Legend. This isn’t the first time that Teigen has trolled Legend for his association to the cartoon aardvark; she’s used both Instagram and Twitter in the past to [remind Legend of just how much he resembles Arthur.](http://time.com/5318564/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-arthur-meme-trolling/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5391734/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-egot-win/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5391734/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-egot-win/"},"headline":"John Legend's EGOT Win Gave Chrissy Teigen the Perfect Chance to Lovingly Troll Him","datePublished":"2018-09-10T16:47:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:46.800Z","description":"As one does","url":"https://time.com/5391734/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-egot-win/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1606b12d44a9fe9a/698939d2ab6d771eee6b3a12/chrissy-teigen-trolls-john-legend-for-egot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1606b12d44a9fe9a/698939d2ab6d771eee6b3a12/chrissy-teigen-trolls-john-legend-for-egot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2018 Creative Arts Emmy Awards - Day 2 - Press Room","caption":"2018 Creative Arts Emmy Awards - Day 2 - Press Room","creditText":"Paul Archuleta—FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5391734/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-egot-win/","name":"John Legend's EGOT Win Gave Chrissy Teigen the Perfect Chance to Lovingly Troll Him"}}]}] ```