Today is sweet Kristin Chenoweth’s 42nd birthday!

You know that saying ‘Good things happen to good people?’

Well, that must be why so many good things keep happening to Kristin Chenoweth who so eloquently and beautifully stood up for her Broadway co-star Sean Hayes when a bonehead Newsweek writer wrote that the openly gay actor was not believable as Kristin’s love interest in Promises, Promises.

Kristin, nominated for an Emmy this year for her guest stint on Glee, won the Emmy last year for the late, great Pushing Daisies. She also won the Tony Award for her performance in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown and was nominated for her role as Glinda the good witch in the original Broadway production of Wicked.

Now, you may think I gush a lot about celebs I’ve met but the truth is, I only write of the positive experiences and not so much about the negative ones. Those will be in the book! But I can honestly tell you that one of the nicest stars I’ve ever met is Kristin Chenoweth. The first time was at an awards show I don’t recall several years back and she was happy to not only tell me her name, but to spell it twice for me. I vaguely recalled her from The West Wing, totally unaware of her Broadway stature.

The second time was a few years back at the DGA Awards and we had a nice chat and she melted when I told her how amazing she had been on the Kennedy Center Honors show a few months earlier. I was so blown away by her and even more so when she shared that she had performed sick with some kind of respiratory illness.

What a trouper!

Anyway, happy birthday to sweet and talented Kristin who proves that nice girls do not finish last.