Alan Carr Tearfully Accepts Special Recognition at NTAs — SkimNews
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- Alan Carr received the Special Recognition award at the 31st National Television Awards after a Traitors-themed musical tribute featuring Paloma Faith emerging from a coffin, telling BBC News that The Celebrity Traitors had brought him a level of popularity he had never experienced before.
- The Celebrity Traitors beat the original Traitors to win the Reality Competition prize, with co-star Charlotte Church noting the finale attracted 15 million viewers in seven days and calling the final a "beautiful vignette of male tenderness and emotional expression."
- Sir David Attenborough, in his 100th birthday year, won Best Presenter and used the moment to urge people to help protect the planet, ending Ant and Dec's 23-year winning streak in the category that Gary Lineker had broken the previous year.
- Vicky McClure won Best Drama Performance for Trigger Point from the category's first-ever all-female shortlist, declaring: "Over the years it has not been our space, and here we are dominating that category."
- Mrs Brown's Boys won the Comedy prize — the outcome Carr himself had predicted on the red carpet when he joked about being outclassed — while Sheridan Smith missed out on Best Drama Performance for I Fought The Law but saw that series win New Drama.
- Clarkson's Farm claimed the inaugural Celebrity-Led Reality Docuseries award for a second consecutive year, while public voters chose BBC's "Our Girls: The Southport Families" — documenting the families of the three children murdered at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in 2024 — for Authored Documentary.
Why it matters: Attenborough's Best Presenter win ended a 23-year Ant and Dec streak, while The Celebrity Traitors' 15-million-viewer finale signals the celebrity spin-off has eclipsed its parent format in British cultural reach — a generational handoff playing out in a single televised ceremony.
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