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Somebody please stop Brucie

By Roz Laws on Jan 26, 12 01:06 PM

So, what did we make of the National Television Awards, then?

Generally, I reckon the best people won. Though some of the voting is beginning to get as mad as on Eurovision - there's no way Celebrity Juice is better than any of the other panel shows it was up against, but there you go. That's what happens when you let the general public vote.

Here are a few of my own awards for the ceremony.

Most Cringemaking Moment Anything to do with Bruce - sorry, Sir Bruce, as he's forever telling us - Forsyth.

Letting him sing and dance was bad enough. Getting him to do it twice was unforgiveable.

But, even worse, was his awful introduction to Jonathan Ross's award, which started with him moaning about Strictly Come Dancing losing out to X Factor.

He complained that he couldn't understand why Strictly would be in the Talent Show category. Mmn, maybe because the contestants learn a talent, which they are then judged upon and viewers vote for them, just like every other talent show?

Most Predictable Moment Ant and Dec winning Entertainment Presenters for the 11th year running. But they deserved it and still managed to come across as humble and appreciative.

Most Tearjerking Moment The touching montage accompanying the Military Wives' singing.

The ITV Rewards Its Own Moments When ITV's NTAs gave out 'special' gongs to David Walliams (who has just joined ITV1's Britain's Got Talent), Gary Barlow (who joined ITV1's X Factor as a judge) and Jonathan Ross (who moved his chat show from the BBC to ITV1). This might, of course, be purely coincidence.

Quickest Dash to the Stage The two delighted lads from Outnumbered.

Most Awkward Stage Moment Bossy Fatima Whitbread - who is clearly still dining out on her 'i had a cockroach up my nose' story - taking over the I'm A Celebrity win and holding the show up to insist that Crissy Rock (who we'd all forgotten was in the jungle) get up on stage too.

Scrubs Up Best Downton Abbey's dowdy kitchen maid Daisy was transformed when excited actress Sophie McShera took to the stage. Bless.

Might Have Made More Of An Effort Dougie Poynter, still wearing a stupid bandana.

Most Bored Looking Nick Hewer.

Most Blatant Commercial Plug For the new Muppets movie.

Comedy Moment of the Night Dragon Hilary Devey's amazing dress.

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