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
Russell Brand has been charged with rape and two counts of sexual assault between 1999 and 2005.
The Metropolitan Police say the 50-year-old comedian, actor and author has also been charged with one count of oral rape and one count of indecent assault.
The charges relate to four women.
He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday 2 May.
Police have said Brand is accused of raping a woman in the Bournemouth area in 1999 and indecently assaulting a woman in the Westminster area of London in 2001.
He is also accused of orally raping and sexually assaulting a woman in Westminster in 2004.
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The fourth charge alleges that a woman was sexually assaulted in Westminster between 2004 and 2005.
Police began investigating Brand, from Oxfordshire, in September 2023 after receiving a number of allegations.
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The comedian has denied the accusations and said he has “never engaged in non-consensual activity”.
He added in a video on X: “Of course, I am now going to have the opportunity to defend these charges in court, and I’m incredibly grateful for that.”
Metropolitan Police Detective Superintendent Andy Furphy, who is leading the investigation, said: “The women who have made reports continue to receive support from specially trained officers.
“The Met’s investigation remains open and detectives ask anyone who has been affected by this case, or anyone who has any information, to come forward and speak with police.”
Tom Cruise has paid tribute to Val Kilmer, wishing his Top Gun co-star “well on the next journey”.
Cruise, speaking at the CinemaCon film event in Las Vegas on Thursday, asked for a moment’s silence to reflect on the “wonderful” times shared with the star, whom he called a “dear friend”.
Kilmer, who died of pneumonia on Tuesday aged 65, rocketed to fame starring alongside Cruise in the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun, playing Tom ‘Iceman’ Kazansky, a rival fighter pilot to Cruise’s character Maverick.
Tom Cruise said ‘I wish you well on the next journey’. Pic: AP
Val Kilmer in 2017. Pic: AP
His last part was a cameo role in the 2022 blockbuster sequel Top Gun: Maverick.
Cruise, on stage at Caesars Palace on Thursday, said: “I’d like to honour a dear friend of mine, Val Kilmer. I can’t tell you how much I admire his work, how grateful and honoured I was when he joined Top Gun and came back later for Top Gun: Maverick.
“I think it would be really nice if we could have a moment together because he loved movies and he gave a lot to all of us. Just kind of think about all the wonderful times that we had with him.
“I wish you well on the next journey.”
The moment of silence followed a string of tributes from Hollywood figures including Cher, Francis Ford Coppola, Antonio Banderas and Michelle Monaghan.
Kilmer’s daughter Mercedes told the New York Times on Wednesday that the actor had died from pneumonia.
Tom Cruise at Caesars Palace on Thursday. Pic: AP
Diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, Kilmer discussed his illness and recovery in his 2020 memoir Your Huckleberry and Amazon Prime documentary Val.
He underwent radiation and chemotherapy treatments for the disease and also had a tracheostomy which damaged his vocal cords and permanently gave him a raspy speaking voice.
Kilmer played Batman in the 1995 film Batman Forever and received critical acclaim for his portrayal of rock singer Jim Morrison in the 1991 movie The Doors.
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He also starred in True Romance and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, as well as playing criminal Chris Shiherlis in Michael Mann’s 1995 movie Heat and Doc Holliday in the 1993 film Tombstone.
In 1988 he married British actress Joanne Whalley, whom he met while working on fantasy adventure Willow.
The couple had two children before divorcing in 1996.
Bruce Springsteen is to release seven albums of mostly unheard material this summer.
The US singer said the songs, written and re-recorded between 1983 and 2018, were being made public after he began completing “everything I had in my vault” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a short video posted on Instagram, Springsteen said the albums were “records that were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released”.
The 83-song collection is being released in a box set called Tracks II: The Lost Albums and goes on sale on 27 June.
Some 74 of the tracks have never been heard before.
Springsteen first teased the release on Wednesday morning with a short social media video accompanied by text which said: “What was lost has been found”.
Tracks II is the follow-up to the star’s first Tracks volume, a four-CD collection of 66 unreleased songs, released in 1998.
Bruce Springsteen at New York’s Carnegie Hall at a tribute to Patti Smith last month. Pic: PA
The New Jersey-born rocker, nicknamed The Boss, last released a studio album in 2022.
Only the Strong Survive was a collection of covers, including songs by Motown and soul artists, such as the Four Tops, The Temptations, The Supremes, Frankie Wilson and Jimmy Ruffin.
The late soul legend Sam Moore, who died in January and was a frequent Springsteen collaborator, sang on two of the tracks.
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Springsteen is coming to the UK in May to launch a two-month tour of Europe with his E Street Band.
The shows will include performances at the Co-op Live in Manchester and Liverpool’s Anfield stadium.
The singer-songwriter has sold more than 140 million records since his debut on the music scene in 1973, according to his website.
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