This Morning nominated for daytime prize at NTAs after Phillip Schofield row
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his Morning has been nominated for greatest daytime present on the National Television Awards after the furore over the Phillip Schofield affair.
Schofield, 61, resigned from ITV and was dropped by his expertise company YMU in May after admitting to an “unwise but not illegal” relationship with a youthful male colleague on the present.
Holly Willoughby, who hosted alongside Schofield from 2009 onwards, has continued to current the present with a sequence of co-stars, whereas MPs have known as on ITV bosses to handle claims of toxicity and bullying behind the scenes.
The present will defend its title within the daytime class towards The Chase, Loose Women and The Repair Shop.
Schofield and Willoughby had been longlisted for the most effective TV presenter prize, alongside fellow This Morning hosts Alison Hammond, Dermot O’Leary, Rylan Clark and Martin Lewis, however solely Hammond and Lewis made the reduce.
They will compete towards Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, who took the award for the twenty first 12 months in a row ultimately 12 months’s ceremony, in addition to The Traitors host Claudia Winkleman and The Chase’s Bradley Walsh.
Dame Deborah James and Paul O’Grady have been posthumously recognised within the nominations, with Dame Deborah named within the authored documentary class, for Bowelbabe In Her Own Words.
Dame Deborah arrange the Bowelbabe most cancers analysis fund, and died final 12 months on the age of 40 after struggling bowel most cancers.
O’Grady’s For The Love Of Dogs was listed within the factual leisure class after the loss of life of the TV presenter and comic earlier this 12 months.
It will compete towards Clarkson’s Farm, Sort Your Life Out and The Martin Lewis Money Show Live.
Two reveals offered by McPartlin and Donnelly are within the operating for the Bruce Forsyth leisure award – I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! and Saturday Night Takeaway.
The duo have introduced they are going to be taking a break from the latter present after its twentieth sequence in 2024.
Also within the operating are Gogglebox and The Masked Singer, whereas Britain’s Got Talent, Strictly Come Dancing, The Great British Bake Off and The Great British Sewing Bee are nominated for greatest expertise present.
In a brand new class this 12 months, Piers Morgan is nominated for the TV interview prize for Piers Morgan Uncensored on Talk TV, alongside Louis Theroux Interviews…, The Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show and The Graham Norton Show.
In the drama efficiency class, Happy Valley stars James Norton and Sarah Lancashire will face off towards one another, competing towards Vera’s Brenda Blethyn and Call the Midwife’s Judy Parfitt, in addition to India Amarteifio for her function in Bridgerton prequel Queen Charlotte.
The climax of Happy Valley is within the operating for the returning drama prize, alongside Stranger Things, Call The Midwife and Vera.
Netflix’s Queen Charlotte can be recognised within the new drama class, alongside Death In Paradise spin-off Beyond Paradise, police drama Blue Lights and viral sensation Wednesday, starring Jenna Ortega as Addams Family character Wednesday Addams.
Newly introduced Strictly Come Dancing contestant Bobby Brazier is nominated within the newcomer class for his function as Freddie Slater in EastEnders, alongside Benjamin Chivers for The Devil’s Hour, Channique Sterling-Brown for Coronation Street and Emmerdale’s Lewis Cope.
The ultimate spherical of voting for the National Television Awards is open and the winners can be introduced on the ceremony hosted by Joel Dommett at The O2 on September 5.