Accepting his award, he said: "Thank you! It's like a crowd at a wrestling event really! I notice much less hostility than we had last year!

"And just think about it, GB News Breakfast has won, the Camilla Tominey interview with Alastair Stewart won and I have won for a second year in a row for News Presenter of the Year.

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"What that says to you is that GB News is here to stay as a mainstream broadcaster in this country and thank goodness for that! Well know those that boo clearly don't like competition! A massive thank you to our listeners and our viewers.

"But I also want to say a big shout out because I did do a bit of work for another TV company because I did spend a bit of time on I'm A Celebrity.... Get Me Out of Here!

"Fred Sirieix I have seen up here winning prizes, Fred and I will never agree but we worked well together in the camp.

"Many other campmates here, I'm A Celebrity, great show, I loved doing it! Sadly, my TV career has been somewhat curtailed as I have another mission coming up on the 4th of July.

"But thank you, everybody, you will be seeing more of me."

Elsewhere in the award show, Camilla Tominey took home the award for her emotional and moving interview with Alastair Stewart where he candidly opened up about his health struggles.

Taking to the stage to accept the award, Tominey expressed: "I shouldn't be the one talking with Alastair Stewart next to me.

"Thank you so much to everybody in the public who voted, thank you so much to the judges.

"As everyone here knows, the best stories to tell are the ones involving human interest and people's very personal tales. We were so grateful to Al for being so honest about his dementia diagnosis.

"We hoped the interview would raise awareness for a condition that affects one in two people in the UK. I'd like to say thank you so much to GB News -" she added, prompting Stewart to chip in: "Here, here."

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Tominey continued: "Everyone in my immediate production team, so that's Joe Cowell, Keith Bays, Dominic Weaver and Tim Smith.

"And thank you so much and hope it raised awareness, and thank you to Al - he's a broadcasting legend who shared something very personal with us so thank you."

Eamonn Holmes, Stephen Dixon, Ellie Costello and Isabel Webster also took to the stage at this year's ceremony after they won the award for the GB News Breakfast show.

Dixon noted: "I want to say on behalf of all of us, we are so thrilled to have won this for the second year running. So pleased for everyone who voted for us, thank you very much indeed.

Eamonn added: "Thank you very much indeed and the quality of the opposition we're up against says a lot! Really world-class programmes and that makes this that little bit more special for us.

"Sometimes we think we have imposter syndrome, why us sort of thing... Well, I went for an operation a year and a half ago and it went wrong so I got two things in my back that I didn't want so why not? I'll have this and happily accept this. Thank you very much indeed."

Isabel also thanked their viewers: "Speaking for the girls as well, I just wanted to say thank you to all our team. We're very small, we work our socks off and we really think we're doing something right because the figures seem to (grow) and we thank everybody who voted for us today."

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