ITV have lined up an emergency standby host for this year’s National Television Awards.
The 2023 NTAs will take place on Tuesday, September 5 at London’s O2 Arena.
Comedian Joel Dommett is set to host the awards show for the third time, after taking over from David Walliams back in 2021.
In May, Joel announced he and his wife Hannah Cooper were expecting their first child together – and Hannah is due to give birth any day now.
Speaking about his upcoming NTAs hosting gig, the comedian told The UK Sun: “My wife is very pregnant … but there is a seat for Hannah at the O2 and we’ll just hope she is still there at the end of the evening.”
“We’ll almost certainly take our hospital bag along, just in case.”
“There is a contingency. They won’t tell me who the contingency is but the best thing is everybody is there – every presenter going.”
Joel continued: “What I would do is just give a section to everyone – you know, just get Stephen Mulhern to do one, Holly Willoughby to do the next bit, get Bradley Walsh on…”
The nominees for the 2023 National Television Awards were announced earlier this month.
Check out the full list below:
New Drama
- Beyond Paradise
- Blue Lights
- Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
- Wednesday
Reality Competition
- Love Island
- Race Across the World
- SAS: Who Dares Wins
- The Traitors
Authored Documentary
- Deborah James : Bowelbabe in Her Own Words
- Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now
- Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction
- Rob Burrow: Living with MND
Returning Drama
- Call the Midwife
- Happy Valley
- Stranger Things
- Vera
TV Presenter
- Alison Hammond
- Ant & Dec
- Bradley Walsh
- Claudia Winkleman
- Martin Lewis
Factual
- Clarkson’s Farm
- Paul O’Grady: For The Love Of Dogs
- Sort Your Life Out
- The Martin Lewis Money Show Live
Drama Performance
- Brenda Blethyn, DCI Vera Stanhope, Vera
- India Amarteifio, Young Queen Charlotte, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
- James Norton, Tommy Lee Royce, Happy Valley
- Judy Parfitt, Sister Monica Joan, Call The Midwife
- Sarah Lancashire, Catherine Cawood, Happy Valley
The Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award
- Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
- Gogglebox
- I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
- The Masked Singer
Serial Drama
- Coronation Street
- EastEnders
- Emmerdale
- Hollyoaks
TV Interview
- Louis Theroux Interviews…
- Piers Morgan Uncensored
- The Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show
- The Graham Norton Show
Serial Drama Performance
- Charlotte Jordan, Daisy Midgeley, Coronation Street
- Danielle Harold, Lola Pearce-Brown, EastEnders
- Dominic Brunt, Paddy Kirk, Emmerdale
- Maureen Lipman, Evelyn Plummer, Coronation Street
Quiz Game Show
- Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel
- Richard Osman’s House Of Games
- The 1% Club
- The Chase Celebrity Special
Rising Star
- Benjamin Chivers, Isaac, The Devil’s Hour
- Bobby Brazier, Freddie Slater, EastEnders
- Channique Sterling-Brown, Dee-Dee Bailey, Coronation Street
- Lewis Cope, Nicky Milligan, Emmerdale
Daytime
- Loose Women
- The Chase
- The Repair Shop
- This Morning
Comedy
- Brassic
- Ghosts
- Ted Lasso
- Young Sheldon
Talent Show
- Britain’s Got Talent
- Strictly Come Dancing
- The Great British Bake Off
- The Great British Sewing Bee
