NTA viewers in shock over the winner of Best Presenter
Ant and Dec have won it 18 years in a row!
Last updated 23rd Jan 2019
The National Television Awards are some of the most popular in British culture, and tonight saw the 2019 ceremony take place at London's O2 Arena. The 24th awards, hosted by Dermot O'Leary, has been an event full of twists and turns - and a splendid performance from Westlife to boot.
Whilst there are quite a few big awards that always make headlines year after year - like Best Serial Drama, where the four main soaps compete to win - but the one most people are keen to hear about is for Best TV Presenter.
In what is a record number of consecutive wins, Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly have so far taken home the gong a whopping 17 times in a row - always beating the likes of This Morning's Holly Willoughby and her co-host, Phillip Schofield.
However, after Ant McPartlin's well-documented struggles with addictions to prescription painkillers and alcohol throughout the last 18 months, he decided to step away from the limelight early last year to focus on his recovery.
This meant that he did not co-host last year's series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, breaking a 15-year tradition of Ant & Dec fronting the show. Their colleague and friend Holly Willoughby, was able to step in, and her performance on the show went down very well with viewers, and some even called to make her a permanent addition to the show.
However, this year, Ant & Dec have pulled it out of the bag once again, and have scooped the award for Best Presenter at the 2019 National Television Awards!
Going live to the recording of Britain's Got Talent where the duo were, they teared up as they accepted the award. Ant said that he felt he shouldn't accept the award, and said that the win was all down to Dec's hard work throughout the year.
Viewers of the show couldn't believe it, and took to Twitter to share their utter shock at the events. One wrote, 'Well done guys. Lovely comment from Ant and rightly so. Dec was amazing last year. But it’s lovely to have the boys back together now.'
The National Television Awards 2019: The winners
Factual Entertainment
WINNER: Paul O'Grady: For The Love Of Dogs
The Great British Bake Off
Gogglebox
Ambulance
DIY SOS: The Big Build
New Drama
WINNER: Bodyguard
Killing Eve
Girlfriends
The Cry
A Discovery Of Witches
Daytime
WINNER: This Morning
Good Morning Britain
The Jeremy Kyle Show
Sunday Brunch
Loose Women
Newcomer
WINNER: James Moore as Ryan Stocks in Emmerdale
Ricky Champ as Stuart Highway in EastEnders
Aedan Duckworth as Oliver Morgan in Hollyoaks
Alexandra Mardell as Emma Brooker in Coronation Street
Neet Mohan as Dr Rashid 'Rash' Masum in Casualty
TV Judge
WINNER: David Walliams on Britain's Got Talent
Simon Cowell on Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor
Robert Rinder on Judge Rinder
Robbie Williams on The X Factor
Louis Tomlinson on The X Factor
Comedy
WINNER: Peter Kay's Car Share
Jack Whitehall: Travels With My Father
Benidorm
Mrs Brown's Boys
The Big Bang Theory
Drama Performance
WINNER: Richard Madden as Sgt David Budd - Bodyguard
Michelle Keegan as L.Cpl Georgie Lane - Our Girl
Jodie Comer as Villanelle - Killing Eve
Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor - Doctor Who
Cillian Murphy as Thomas Shelby - Peaky Blinders
Quiz Show
WINNER: The Chase
8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Pointless
A League of Their Own
Catchphrase
The Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award
WINNER: I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
All Round To Mrs Brown's
The Graham Norton Show
Love Island
Serial Drama Performance
WINNER: Danny Dyer as Mick Carter in EastEnders
Lucy Pargeter as Chas Dingle in Emmerdale
Bonnie Langford as Carmel Kazemi in EastEnders
Jack P Shepherd as David Platt in Coronation Street
Emma Atkins as Charity Dingle in Emmerdale
Special Recognition
WINNER: David Dimbleby
Drama
WINNER: Peaky Blinders
Doctor Who
Our Girl
Casualty
Call The Midwife
TV Presenter
WINNER: Ant & Dec
Holly Willoughby
Phillip Schofield
Graham Norton
Bradley Walsh
Talent Show
WINNER: Strictly Come Dancing
Dancing On Ice
The Voice UK
The X Factor
Britain's Got Talent
Serial Drama
WINNER: Emmerdale
Coronation Street
EastEnders
Hollyoaks
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