Lorraine Kelly has revealed the heartbreaking reason she will not be attending the National Television Awards on Wednesday night.
The presenter revealed she receives an invite to the prestigious ceremony every year but admitted she doesn’t feel confident enough to attend.
Lorraine, whose show of the same name had previously been nominated for the Daytime NTAs, confessed that she finds the red carpet intimidating.
In an interview with Holly Matthews, a guest on her show, she revealed the shocking news.
Holly was promoting her new book, Find Your Confidence: The No-nonsense Guide to Self-belief.
Lorraine said: “It’s the NTAs and normally I would be going to that and I would usually go. I don’t know what it is, but I’m not feeling confident enough to go.”
“That whole red carpet thing is sometimes really scary.”
Confidence coach Holly said: “Yes, you have all the lights on you.”
“And every day, men and women can feel as though they’re being watched, and that everybody is scrutinising them, and that you’re not good enough.”
“But in that moment, it’s all about turning that outwards and focusing on conversations that you have with people and what’s going on around you. We’re all in our own heads worrying about our own stuff.”
Lorraine added: “This book really helps – it’s proper advice. It’s common sense.”
The host, who has attended the NTAs every year for the past few years, is not nominated this year, although fellow ITV daytime shows Loose Women and This Morning are in the running for Best Daytime.
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Following her admission that she would not be attending the event tonight, Lorraine asked Holly to provide some examples of how she could boost her confidence.
She replied, “Body confidence can feel like too big a leap. I like to focus on body acceptance.”
“That can be just accepting firstly where you’re at, focusing on what your body can do, what it has done, all of the good that your body has done. Have fun with it.”
“The next thing is asking for what you want. This is something people can start today, when people are not super confident they tend to not ask for what they want.”
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“My litmus test is a very British example. When people are asked how do you have your cup of tea, if someone says to me ‘however it comes’, I know they accept a lot of things in their lives ‘however it comes.'”
“Instead, be specific, what cup do you want? A nice pink or white one? How dark do you have it? Be really specific. When you do that, guess what happens? You get a lovely cup of tea.”
Lorraine added: “That’s how to get exactly what you want. And that example could apply to everything.”
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Holly added: “Really embrace your weird, your unique quirks, the unique aspects of you, rather than seeing them as a negative thing.”
“Sometimes in my life, from being very young, I was told I talked too much, I was too loud, too ‘this’ too ‘that’ so I developed this idea that I was too much and I needed to minimise those things – I saw it as a negative quality, something weird about me.”
“The ‘worst’ things are often the best things – my ‘talks too muchness’ is why I’m sat here!”
