This Morning up for NTA despite Phillip Schofield scandal, but Holly Willoughby snubbed in best presenter category
This Morning has been nominated for best daytime show at the National Television Awards (NTAs) despite months of scandal following Phillip Schofield’s departure and rumours of a “toxic” environment on the show.
Schofield, 61, resigned from ITV in May after admitting to an “unwise but not illegal” relationship with a younger male colleague on the show. He was also dropped by his agent, and as an ambassador for The Prince’s Trust.
Alison Hammond is up for best presenter
An external review over Schofield’s departure from This Morning and claims of toxicity and bullying behind the scenes is now understood to be in process.
This Morning will be defending its title after scooping the trophy last year, despite the “queuegate” controversy at the time over claims Schofield and Holly Willoughby jumped the line to see Queen Elizabeth 11 lying in state (they both denied the claims).
It will defend its title in the daytime category against The Chase, Loose Women and The Repair Shop.
Meanwhile Schofield’s former co-presenter, Holly Willoughby, and who has continued to present the show with a series of co-stars, has missed out on a best presenter nomination for a second year running.
Instead, Alison Hammond – who has seen her presenting roster on the show expand since Schofield’s departure – has received a nod for the coveted award.
Hammond will be up against Ant & Dec, Bradley Walsh, Martin Lewis and Claudia Winkleman.
Ant & Dec have won the prize a whopping 21 times in a row, but Winkleman is favourite to win this year following the success of The Traitors (which is also up for best reality competition).
Perennially popular, McPartlin and Donnelly are also in the running for the Bruce Forsyth entertainment award with two nominations, I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! and Saturday Night Takeaway.
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There are two touching posthumous nominations, with Paul O’Grady’s For The Love Of Dogs up for best factual entertainment show and Dame Deborah James’ Bowelbabe In Her Own Words up for best authored documentary.
For The Love Of Dogs is up against Clarkson’s Farm, Stacey Solomon’s Sort Your Life Out and The Martin Lewis Money Show Live.
While Bowelbabe In Her Own Words will take on Lewis Capaldi’s How I’m Feeling Now, Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction and Rob Burrow: Living With MND.
In a new category this year, 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.
Just one man is nominated in the drama performance category – James Norton – who is up against his Happy Valley co-star and Sarah Lancashire, Vera’s Brenda Blethyn and Call the Midwife’s Judy Parfitt, as well as India Amarteifio for her role in Bridgerton prequel Queen Charlotte.
The Happy Valley finale – which was a national watercooler moment – is also in the running for the returning drama prize, alongside Stranger Things, Call The Midwife and Vera.
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The son of late reality star Jade Goody, Bobby Brazier, is nominated in the newcomer category for his role as Freddie Slater in EastEnders, alongside Benjamin Chivers for The Devil’s Hour, Channique Sterling-Brown for Coronation Street and Emmerdale’s Lewis Cope.
Brazier has recently been announced as a contestant on the forthcoming Strictly Come Dancing series.
Sky’s Brassic, Ted Lasso on Apple TV+, E4’s Young Sheldon and BBC’s Ghosts are all up for best comedy.
Billed as “television’s biggest night of the year,” the NTAs are voted for by the public, with winners announced at the ceremony hosted by Joel Dommett at The O2 on Tuesday 5 September.
Full list of NTA nominations
New Drama
1. Beyond Paradise
2. Blue Lights
3. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
4. Wednesday
Reality Competition
1. Love Island
2. Race Across the World
3. SAS: Who Dares Wins
4. The Traitors
Authored Documentary
1. Deborah James: Bowelbabe in Her Own Words
2. Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now
3. Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction
4. Rob Burrow: Living with MND
Returning Drama
1. Call the Midwife
2. Happy Valley
3. Stranger Things
4. Vera
TV Presenter
1. Alison Hammond
2. Ant & Dec
3. Bradley Walsh
4. Claudia Winkleman
5. Martin Lewis
Factual
1. Clarkson’s Farm
2. Paul O’Grady: For The Love Of Dogs
3. Sort Your Life Out
4. The Martin Lewis Money Show Live
Drama Performance
1. Brenda Blethyn, DCI Vera Stanhope, Vera
2. India Amarteifio, Young Queen Charlotte, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
3. James Norton, Tommy Lee Royce, Happy Valley
4. Judy Parfitt, Sister Monica Joan, Call The Midwife
5. Sarah Lancashire, Catherine Cawood, Happy Valley
The Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award
1. Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
2. Gogglebox
3. I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
4. The Masked Singer
Serial Drama
1. Coronation Street
2. EastEnders
3. Emmerdale
4. Hollyoaks
TV Interview
1. Louis Theroux Interviews…
2. Piers Morgan Uncensored
3. The Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show
4. The Graham Norton Show
Serial Drama Performance
1. Charlotte Jordan, Daisy Midgeley, Coronation Street
2. Danielle Harold, Lola Pearce-Brown, EastEnders
3. Dominic Brunt, Paddy Kirk, Emmerdale
4. Maureen Lipman, Evelyn Plummer, Coronation Street
Quiz Game Show
1. Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel
2. Richard Osman’s House Of Games
3. The 1% Club
4. The Chase Celebrity Special
Rising Star
1. Benjamin Chivers, Isaac, The Devil’s Hour
2. Bobby Brazier, Freddie Slater, EastEnders
3. Channique Sterling-Brown, Dee-Dee Bailey, Coronation Street
4. Lewis Cope, Nicky Milligan, Emmerdale
Daytime
1. Loose Women
2. The Chase
3. The Repair Shop
4. This Morning
Comedy
1. Brassic
2. Ghosts
3. Ted Lasso
4. Young Sheldon
Talent Show
1. Britain’s Got Talent
2. Strictly Come Dancing
3. The Great British Bake Off
4. The Great British Sewing Bee
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Lawyer for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs claims there was ‘mutual violence’ between him and ex-girlfriend
A lawyer representing Sean “Diddy” Combs has told a court there was “mutual” domestic violence between him and his ex-girlfriend Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura.
Marc Agnifilo made the claim as he outlined some of the music star’s defence case ahead of the full opening of his trial next week.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of sex trafficking and two counts of
transportation for prostitution. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison.
Ms Ventura is expected to testify as a star witness for the prosecution during the trial in New York. The final stage of jury selection is due to be held on Monday morning.
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Mr Agnifilo told the court on Friday that the defence would “take the position that there was mutual violence” during the pair’s relationship and called on the judge to allow evidence related to this.
The lawyer said Combs‘s legal team intended to argue that “there was hitting on both sides, behaviour on both sides” that constituted violence.
He added: “It is relevant in terms of the coercive aspects, we are admitting domestic violence.”
A court sketch showing Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs (right) as he listens to his lawyer Marc Agnifilo addressing the court. Pic: Reuters
Ms Ventura’s lawyers declined to comment on the allegations.
US District Judge Arun Subramanian said he would rule on whether to allow the evidence on Monday.
Combs, 55, was present in the court on Friday.
He has been held in custody in Brooklyn since his arrest last September.
Prosecutors allege that Combs used his business empire for two decades to lure women with promises of romantic relationships or financial support, then violently coerced them to take part in days-long, drug-fuelled sexual performances known as “Freak Offs”.
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Combs’s lawyers say prosecutors are improperly seeking to criminalise his “swinger lifestyle”. They have suggested they will attack the credibility of alleged victims in the case by claiming their allegations are financially motivated.
The trial is expected to last around eight weeks.
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Harvey Weinstein accuser says film mogul ‘took her soul’ during alleged sexual assault
An ex-model has tearfully told a court that being sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein when she was 16 was the most “horrifying thing I ever experienced” to that point.
Warning: This article contains references to sexual assault
Kaja Sokola told the film producer’s retrial that he ordered her to remove her blouse, put his hand in her underwear, and made her touch his genitals.
She said he’d stared at her in the mirror with “black and scary” eyes and told her to stay quiet about the alleged assault in a Manhattan hotel in 2002.
Ms Sokola told the New York court that Weinstein had dropped names such as Penelope Cruz and Gwyneth Paltrow, and said he could help fulfil her Hollywood dream.
“I’d never been in a situation like this,” said Polish-born Ms Sokola. “I felt stupid and ashamed and like it’s my fault for putting myself in this position.”
Weinstein denies sexually assaulting anyone and is back in court for a retrial after his conviction was overturned last year.
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Weinstein denies the allegations. Pic: Reuters
The 73-year-old is not charged over the alleged sexual assault because it happened too long ago to bring criminal charges.
However, he is facing charges over an incident four years later when he’s said to have forced Ms Sokola to perform oral sex on him.
Prosecutors claim it happened after Weinstein arranged for her to be an extra in a film.
“My soul was removed from me,” she told the court of the alleged 2006 assault, describing how she tried to push Weinstein away but that he held her down.
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Ms Sokola – who’s waived her right to anonymity – is the second of three women to testify and the only one who wasn’t part of the first trial in 2020.
Miriam Haley testified previously in the retrial. Pic: AP
Miriam Haley last week told the court that Weinstein forced oral sex on her in 2006. The other accuser, Jessica Mann, is yet to appear.
Claims against the film mogul were a major driver for the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and abuse in 2017.
Weinstein’s lawyers allege the women consented to sexual activity in the hope of getting film and TV work and that they stayed in contact with him for a while afterwards.
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