BBC Breakfast host Sally Nugent was left red-faced on Wednesday, as she recalled an incredibly awkward awards show blunder.
She and co-host Charlie Stayt were chatting to Dez actor Daniel Mays on the red sofa when he recalled the embarrassing incident at the National Television Awards earlier this year.
She began by telling Daniel: “You are the busiest man in showbiz at the moment, aren’t you? You were in Dez last year, which I believe is the most requested programme on the ITV Hub – ever!”
Daniel responded: “Is it really? Wow. Yes, and we were up recently for an NTA, weren’t we, Sally?”
Cringing, Sally asked: “Shall we share the story? It’s a little bit awkward!”
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Daniel explained: “We were at the NTAs, [Sally] you were nominated for your two documentaries and were sitting in front of me, and she said if the cameras come near you when it’s your category, it pretty much means that you’ve won.
“They did that, Sally was giving me the thumbs up, and then it was like, ‘The winner is – It’s A Sin!’, and I was like, ‘Thank you so much Sally!'”
Daniel performed an impression of him clapping at the awards with a pained smile, as Sally giggled: “I’m so sorry! I literally, there was this giant camera coming round and I turned around to him and went, ‘You’ve won!'”
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She quipped: “Soz!”
Charlie Stayt, sitting alongside Sally, couldn’t help but ask: “All the acting skills kicked in, did they? It was like, ‘I know how to handle this.’ Clap and grin!”
“Grin and bear it, as they say!” Daniel agreed.
Sally joked: “We shared a great losers’ face that night, didn’t we? Well done!”
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As Daniel responded: “Yes – yours was particularly good!”
“Thank you!” Sally grinned.
Sally was then forced to shut Charlie down, as he begged to play the clip live on-air in the Breakfast studio, asking: “Shall we see it again?”
“No, no! Winner’s face only from now on!” she told him.
Sally was nominated in the final shortlist for Best Authored Documentary at this year’s National Television Awards, for her documentary with football star Marcus Rashford entitled Feeding Britain’s Children, and for Rob Burrow’s My Year with MND doc.
BBC Breakfast airs every day from 6am on BBC One.
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