Alison Hammond has admitted she thought she heard her name called as winner of Best Presenter at the National Television Awards, over Ant and Dec, before being left mortified at realising the Geordie duo had triumphed once again.
The Best Presenter accolade at the annual event has gone home with Ant and Dec for over two decades now, thanks to their jobs on the likes of Pop Idol, Britain's Got Talent, I'm A Celebrity and Saturday Night Takeaway. The lads couldn't actually be at the NTAs in London on Thursday, after both testing positive for Covid, but they were victorious once again, seeing off competition from This Morning star Alison, Graham Norton and The Chase host Bradley Walsh.
To viewers at home, it looked like Alison took defeat in her stride, but, in a candid confession at the start of Friday's This Morning, she revealed she actually thought she'd won after becoming convinced she'd heard her name. Speaking to co-host Dermot in the opening moments of the show, she said: "I’ll be honest with you, you were the funniest partner, you sat next to me all yesterday and you just made me laugh throughout the whole show.
