Alan Cumming hears about his Emmy nomination

Alan Cumming has found out he has been nominated for an Emmy while speaking to BBC Scotland.

BBC Radio Scotland's The Afternoon Show was pre-recording an interview with the Traitors star and Forbes Masson, when Cumming received a call from his agent.

She told him he had been nominated for Outstanding Host for A Reality or Reality Competition Program.

Grant Stott and Forbes Masson reacted to the call, with Stott saying that in his many years of radio, "nothing like this has ever happened."

The radio presenter had been speaking to the pair about their new book Victor and Barry’s Kelvinside Compendium: A Meander Down Memory Close.