This year’s National Television Awards is set to take place next month, with both Holly Willoughby and her former This Morning co-host Phillip Schofield failing to bag a nomination

The National Television Awards 2023 nominations are out and some new names are up for their first gong at the O2 arena next month – including new Strictly Come Dancing contestants and a couple of famous pop stars.

This Morning will attempt to retain its title in the daytime category against The Chase, Loose Women and The Repair Shop on September 5 – the first NTAs since the show’s former host Phillip Schofield ‘s dramatic exit from the programme and ITV earlier this year.

Schofield, 61, resigned from the channel and was dropped by his talent agency YMU in May after admitting to an “unwise but not illegal” relationship with a younger male colleague on the show. Prior to admitting the workplace affair, Schofield quit This Morning days before making the revelation. Holly Willoughby, who hosted alongside Schofield from 2009 onwards, has continued to present the show with a series of co-stars, while MPs have called on ITV bosses to address claims of toxicity and bullying behind the scenes.

Last year’s NTAs saw Schofield party without then best pal Holly, after the two presenters received a mixed reaction as This Morning won the NTA for Best Daytime Show for the fifth year in a row on October 13. Holly apparently left the star-studded ceremony early after their win – reportedly sneaking out and heading home around 10pm.

Schofield and Holly were once well known to have enjoyed an afterparty tipple in the past and presented their morning-after show hungover on a number of occasions over the years – much to the delight of viewers. However, last year’s NTAs came just weeks on from the former pals being accused of cutting in line to see the late Queen lying in state following the monarch’s death the month before.

Former pals Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby at last year’s NTAs ( 
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Despite both being long-listed once again this year, neither Schofield or his one-time best friend and co-host Holly are up for the best TV presenter prize at next month’s NTAs. Geordie duo Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, who have won the award a whopping 21 time, will compete against Alison Hammond, Martin Lewis, Claudia Winkleman and Bradley Walsh as they aim to be crowned the nation’s favourite TV presenter(s) once again.

Following Happy Valley’s conclusion at the start of this year, the BBC crime drama will be hoping to take home some awards too, with Sarah Lancashire and James Norton both up for honours in addition to the gripping series being nominated in the returning drama category for the final time.

Sadly, not all the stars nominated for awards will be at the star-studded ceremony in London next month, with both the late Paul O’Grady and Dame Deborah James in the running to be posthumously recognised for respective TV projects filmed prior to their death. See the full list of nominations below.

New Drama

1. Beyond Paradise

2. Blue Lights

3. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

4. Wednesday

Reality Competition

1. Love Island

2. Race Across the World

3. SAS: Who Dares Wins

4. The Traitors

Authored Documentary

1. Deborah James : Bowelbabe in Her Own Words

2. Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now

3. Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction

4. Rob Burrow: Living with MND

Returning Drama

1. Call the Midwife

2. Happy Valley

3. Stranger Things

4. Vera

TV Presenter

1. Alison Hammond

2. Ant & Dec

3. Bradley Walsh

4. Claudia Winkleman

5. Martin Lewis

Paul O’Grady: For The Love of Dogs aired after the star’s sudden death earlier this year ( 
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Factual

1. Clarkson’s Farm

2. Paul O’Grady: For The Love Of Dogs

3. Sort Your Life Out

4. The Martin Lewis Money Show Live

Drama Performance

1. Brenda Blethyn, DCI Vera Stanhope, Vera

2. India Amarteifio, Young Queen Charlotte, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

3. James Norton, Tommy Lee Royce, Happy Valley

4. Judy Parfitt, Sister Monica Joan, Call The Midwife

5. Sarah Lancashire, Catherine Cawood, Happy Valley

The Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award

1. Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway

2. Gogglebox

3. I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!

4. The Masked Singer

Serial Drama

1. Coronation Street

2. EastEnders

3. Emmerdale

4. Hollyoaks

TV Interview

1. Louis Theroux Interviews…

2. Piers Morgan Uncensored

3. The Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show

4. The Graham Norton Show

Serial Drama Performance

1. Charlotte Jordan, Daisy Midgeley, Coronation Street

2. Danielle Harold, Lola Pearce-Brown, EastEnders

3. Dominic Brunt, Paddy Kirk, Emmerdale

4. Maureen Lipman, Evelyn Plummer, Coronation Street

Quiz Game Show

1. Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel

2. Richard Osman’s House Of Games

3. The 1% Club

4. The Chase Celebrity Special

Rising Star

1. Benjamin Chivers, Isaac, The Devil’s Hour

2. Bobby Brazier, Freddie Slater, EastEnders

3. Channique Sterling-Brown, Dee-Dee Bailey, Coronation Street

4. Lewis Cope, Nicky Milligan, Emmerdale

Daytime

1. Loose Women

2. The Chase

3. The Repair Shop

4. This Morning

Comedy

1. Brassic

2. Ghosts

3. Ted Lasso

4. Young Sheldon

Talent Show

1. Britain’s Got Talent

2. Strictly Come Dancing

3. The Great British Bake Off

4. The Great British Sewing Bee

The final round of voting for the National Television Awards is open and the winners will be announced at the ceremony hosted by Joel Dommett at The O2 on September 5.