National Television Awards: Emmerdale praised by King Charles as soap wins big

King Charles III praised Emmerdale's publication arsenic the soap won large astatine the National Television Awards (NTAs) connected the eve of its 50th anniversary.

Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby kept their titles arsenic king and queen of daytime telly, too, successful the aftermath of their "queue-gate" controversy.

And wealth redeeming adept Martin Lewis criticised the government's handling of the system during his winner's speech.

Elsewhere, Ant and Dec won their 21st consecutive champion presenter trophy.

This year's NTAs, voted for by the public, took spot astatine London's Wembley Arena, a period aboriginal than planned owed to the decease of the Queen.

The King was connected manus via video connection to springiness the royal support to 1 of the night's large winners, Emmerdale.

In a video recorded earlier his mother's decease past month, the caller monarch congratulated the amusement connected having astir made its fractional period and recalled "being truthful old" helium could retrieve it primitively being called Emmerdale Farm.

He described the amusement arsenic an "amazing British export" that had kept existent to its creator's archetypal imaginativeness - "depicting what beingness is truly beingness for those who enactment the onshore and support our precious countryside".

"It besides stresses brilliantly thing that concerns maine greatly: the semipermanent sustainability of the mode we nutrient our food."

After the speech, it was announced that Mark Charnock, who stars arsenic Marlon Dingle, had won the serial play show award.

"I've been upstaged successful my beingness by a fewer queens but ne'er by a king," joked Boy George earlier presenting Emmerdale with the large last grant of the nighttime for champion serial drama.

Awards amusement big Joel Dommett had earlier joked helium was impressed Emmerdale had been going 50 years and inactive had "a moving Dingle".

Segments of the amusement marked the Queen's decease - with galore stars opting for achromatic outfits - arsenic good arsenic the warfare successful Ukraine.

This Morning presenters Willoughby and Schofield were precocious backed by ITV bosses aft they were accused of jumping the queue for the Queen's lying-in-state.

While accepting the grant for champion daytime amusement for a 2nd year, Schofield said: "Don't deliberation we ever get complacent and delight don't deliberation we ever instrumentality this for granted.

"This means truthful overmuch to america each year, particularly this year.

"We person the astir astonishing team. I person the champion friend, we person the champion boss."

Willoughby added: "Thank you truthful much, this grant means everything due to the fact that it is voted by you, and I deliberation This Morning has a precise peculiar narration with you. You marque our amusement for us, you truly do."

Before the astonishment royal guest, the UK's Eurovision prima Sam Ryder got the nighttime going with an energetic show of his way Space Man, and helium was aboriginal followed by chap vocalist Lewis Capaldi.

But successful betwixt each that, things got governmental erstwhile user champion Martin Lewis won a caller class for champion expert.

Referencing the cost-of-living crisis, Lewis, who expressed astonishment to person beaten Sir David Attenborough to the award, noted it "has been a beauteous horrible year, financially".

"I mean, the vigor situation has been disastrous and near galore radical with unspeakable issues and intelligence wellness problems," helium said.

"I'm acrophobic the adjacent year, with the owe occupation and the knock-on to rent, is going to beryllium beauteous bad."

"And you cognize what?" Lewis added. "We request idiosyncratic to get a grip connected the system and enactment things a small spot back."

Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, to springiness them their afloat names, won their 21st consecutive award, meaning the past clip they didn't triumph it was successful 2000, to Michael Barrymore.

For added context, the victor of the rising prima grant connected the night, Coronation Street's Paddy Bevar, who plays Max Turner, wasn't adjacent calved then.

Stephen Mulhern accepted the grant connected the duo's behalf, saying: "Full respect to these guys, 21 years connected the trot!" Before jokingly adding his ain sanction to the trophy, declaring: "This babe is coming location with me."

Authored documentary - Kate Garraway: Caring for Derek

New play - Trigger Point

Returning play - Peaky Blinders

Drama show - Cillian Murphy - Peaky Blinders

Serial play show - Mark Charnock - Emmerdale

Rising prima - Paddy Bever - Coronation Street

The Bruce Forsyth amusement grant - I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!

Talent amusement - Strictly Come Dancing

Talent amusement justice - Anton Du Beke - Strictly Come Dancing

Quiz crippled amusement - Beat the Chasers

Factual amusement - Gogglebox

Expert - Martin Lewis - The Martin Lewis Money Show Live

The grant for champion authored documentary went to Kate Garraway for a 2nd year, arsenic she continued to chronicle her family's beingness arsenic her hubby Derek Draper gets treated for coronavirus.

Flanked by her girl Darcey, she thanked the filmmakers for "making a precise hard happening easier" and dedicated the triumph to the nation's carers.

"We person a attraction situation successful our state but we don't person a situation of love," she declared.

The peculiar designation grant went to comedian, histrion and Comic Relief fundraiser Sir Lenny Henry, who was praised by stars successful a video for having paved the mode for different achromatic British stars.

"These awards are truthful agelong David Beckham is inactive queuing to get in", helium joked, with his ain motion to the royals.

Other winners connected the nighttime included After Life, Peaky Blinders and Strictly Come Dancing.