Lorraine Kelly has joked about missing out on a BAFTA TV Award, just days after her ITV show was cut to 30 minutes. The 66-year-old presenter was nominated for Best Daytime alongside The Chase and Richard Osman's House of Games, but lost to BBC One's Scam Interceptors.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain, Kelly said: 'It was such a lovely night, it was so good to be reunited with all the gang. It was genuinely good to be nominated. It would have been better to have won but never mind.' She also quipped about receiving a BAFTA Special Award in 2024 for her 40-year career, saying: 'Yeah, I got one for being alive! I got one for surviving telly for 40 years.'
The nomination came for a special episode focused on the Change and Check campaign, founded by her producer Helen Addis to raise awareness of early breast cancer detection. Kelly added: 'There's got to be room for campaigns like that in television, we should be doing things like that and trying to give back and help people.'
Her show has been reduced to 30 minutes per episode, airing only 30 weeks a year due to ITV budget cuts. Kelly now hosts all five shows herself, without regular guest presenters. She told The Mirror: 'It's kind of indicative of the whole industry, really. I'm just glad that we're still there. We've still managed to save some jobs.'
