This Morning’s Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard have been snubbed an NTA nomination for Best TV Presenter category.
While the show itself is up for an award in the Daytime category, Cat, 47, and Ben, 49, have shortly missed out – despite getting pulled in by ITV bosses in March after former hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield left the programme.
Their fan-favourite co-host Alison Hammond, 49, has thrown them out the Best TV Presenter category after securing a nomination once again.
Last year, This Morning missed out on the Best Daytime TV award for the first time in 12 years.
Alison is up against Bradley Walsh, Claudia Winkleman, Stacey Solomon and Ant and Dec – who have won it for the past 22 years – in the TV presenter category.
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This Morning’s Cat Deeley, 47, and Ben Shephard, 49, have been snubbed an NTA nomination
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Their fan-favourite co-host Alison Hammond, 49, has thrown them out the Best TV Presenter category after securing a nomination once again
Alison presents This Morning alongside Dermot O’Leary every Friday, while Cat and Ben host Monday to Thursday.
Two months after Cat and Ben took over the ITV show, viewing figures plummeted by half.
Ben and Cat were officially announced as the new This Morning hosts in February after months of whispers.
Sources at the channel said that they were ‘thrilled’ at the signing of the pair after ‘so many obstacles had to be negotiated to get there’.
The Mail first revealed that the duo were top of the list but in December Cat turned down the role because she wasn’t able to commit the time to the programme.
However, after further negotiations and the offer of more money, she agreed. One source said: ‘Cat was the one they wanted all along and finally they have her. It is incredible news for them.’
It’s possible the reason for the sudden U-turn was financial, with Cat set to nab a bumper payday as the new host.
When reports of her joining the show first emerged last year it was claimed she and Ben would receive an annual salary of £555,000.
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While the show itself is up for an award in the Daytime category, Cat and Ben have shortly missed out
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Ben and Cat were pulled in by ITV bosses in March after former hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield (pictured in March 2023) left the programme
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Last year, This Morning missed out on the Best Daytime TV award for the first time in 12 years
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Alison presents This Morning alongside Dermot O’Leary every Friday, while Cat and Ben host Monday to Thursday
While hefty, the salary still paled in comparison to former hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, who were said to have been paid £700,000 annually for their role.
Holly left the show last October ‘for the sake of her family’ after discovering she was the target of a foiled kidnap and murder plot and has since not been replaced permanently.
Her departure came five months after Phillip’s, when his affair with a young male showrunner was made public, followed by claims of an increasingly strained relationship with his co-host.
Phillip bowed out of the spotlight following his affair scandal in May, which led to his departure from This Morning after over 20 years on the show.
After much speculation about his private life, his affair finally went public and he admitted he had been left ‘broken and ashamed’ but insisted he was not a groomer.
He said the affair ‘never came across’ as an abuse of power because he and his lover were ‘mates’. He told The Sun: ‘I was unprofessional, one time, in a 41-year career. There is no excuse. No one did anything wrong apart from me.’
In his first interview since leaving the broadcaster and This Morning, the 61-year-old presenter said: ‘I did not, I did not [groom him].
‘There are accusations of all sorts of things. It never came across that way because we’d become mates. I don’t know about that. But of course I understand that there will be a massive judgment, but bearing in mind, I have never exercised that.’
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Source: CNN
