This Morning hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard were snubbed from the Best Presenters category for the National Television Awards (NTAs) . Cat and Ben became the main hosts of the daytime programme in March after long-running presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby stepped down from their positions last year. Before Cat and Ben were announced as hosts, This Morning had a rotation of presenters fronting the show.
The likes of Alison Hammond , Josie Gibson , Craig Doyle and Dermot O'Leary became fan-favourites throughout the months without permanent hosts. This Morning was still nominated in the Daytime category alongside Deal or No Deal, Loose Women , The Chase and The Repair Shop. However, Cat and Ben were snubbed in the Best Presenter category.
The nominations in the category include Alison, Ant and Dec, Bradley Walsh, Claudia Winkleman and Stacey Solomon . Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly have famously won the award for the last 22 years. It comes several months after it was reported that This Morning's viewing figures drastically dropped .
Although the new hosts saw over a million tune in for their first day, rating quickly dipped over the next two months. In May, the peak viewing figures fell to 589,000 - with an average of 486,000, according to The Sun. Its rival BBC show Morning Live has been raking in between one million and 1.
4 million viewers. “Nobody at This Morning thought viewing figures would dip beneath the landmark low of half a million," a source c.