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Nigel Farage booed and heckled as he picks up news presenter of the year award-Ruth Lawes-Entertainment – Metro
Farage beat the likes of Piers Morgan to the award.
Nigel Farage beat the likes of Piers Morgan and Eamonn Holmes to the award (Picture: GB News)
Nigel Farage winning a top gong at the Television & Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards understandably went down like a lead balloon.
The former politician and UKIP leader, 59, was heckled and booed after he went up to collect his award for news presenter of the year during Tuesday’s event at London’s Grosvenor House hotel.
Farage, who is now a regular contributor on GB News, took the coveted accolade in a public vote ahead of category finalists Piers Morgan, Susanna Reid, and his colleagues Eamonn Holmes and Stephen Dixon.
But his win shocked the TRIC audience, who made their feelings very clear as he delivered his acceptance speech in which he predictably slammed the ‘establishment’ and ‘mainstream media.’
Farage said: ‘GB News set out to be the People’s Channel and I’m incredibly proud of that. The establishment media doesn’t always like it – we’re not for them – but this award shows that the people do…
Farage accepted an award at the TRIC Awards but was heckled by the audience (Picture: Shutterstock)
Farage was also booed when he delivered his acceptance speech(Picture: Shutterstock)
‘I am really rather proud to have this because I’m a new boy – I have only been doing this for a couple of years.
‘So a huge thank to all those good, ordinary folk who live outside the M25 for voting for me.’
As he began to be heckled, he declared: ‘Please keep the abuse coming, because it says a lot more about you than about me.’
Farage has previously left viewers ‘wanting to vomit’ after a strip tease (Picture: GB News)
Full list of winners at the TRIC Awards 2023
TV Personality – Bradley Walsh
Interview of the Year – Piers Morgan interviews Cristiano Ronaldo
Podcast of the Year – That Peter Crouch Podcast
Radio Personality – Roman Kemp
Soap Actor – Danielle Harold, EastEnders
Streamed – After Life
Radio Programme – The Julia Hartley-Brewer Breakfast Show
Game Show – The Chase
Factual – Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs
OK! Daytime – A Place in the Sun
Food – The Great British Bake Off
Drama – Peaky Blinders
Live Event – The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II
Multi-Channel News – GB News Breakfast
Entertainment – Gogglebox
At the end of the speech, during which he was drowned out by boos, he shouted: ‘I feel very, very sorry for all of you!’
It comes after Farage repulsed GB News viewers when he started to strip tease to Right Said Fred’s song I’m Too Sexy… live on air.
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‘How can I unsee this !!? Please send help’, one person tweeted at the time.
Others described the segment as ‘hideous’ and even tagged Ofcom in their tweets.
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