This Morning star Holly Willoughby has been handed a blow by viewers after she failed to make the National Television Awards Best Presenter shortlist.
It’s been a tough year for Holly after queue-gate and Phillip Schofield‘s affair fallout. And viewers seem to have reflected on that when voting for the NTAs shortlist.
Holly isn’t nominated this year, instead she’s left out in the cold in favour of her This Morning co-host Alison Hammond, regular winners of the gong Ant and Dec, GMB’s Martin Lewis, TV legend Bradley Walsh and The Traitors host Claudia Winkleman.
Holly Willoughby snubbed by This Morning fans
The NTA voting process begins in May with a longlist based on TV ratings from Barb, with Holly in the running for the gong then. Viewers then vote to choose who makes the shortlist, and then the winners. Ant and Dec have scooped the Best Presenter gong every year for the past 21 years. The winners will be announced in a live ceremony from London’s O2 Arena on September 5, which will air on ITV1.
Holly would never expect to beat Ant and Dec but everyone had hoped her loyalty to This Morning and resilience would pay off with a nod this year.
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