Eamonn Holmes Booed While Accepting GB News Award in Wheelchair

Eamonn Holmes faced a chorus of boos as he accepted the accolade for GB news at the Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) awards on Tuesday evening.

The TV presenter, 65, entered the stage via a wheelchair ramp before he accepted the gong on behalf of the team. 

However while Eamonn thanked the crew and viewers at home boos could be heard in the audience.

A source for MailOnline at the awards said: ‘After it was announced that GB News Breakfast had won, there were a few boos around the room. Due to his wheelchair, Eamonn needed a ramp to get up on the stage.’   

‘He gave a moving speech about the work of colleague Charli Peters, who had earlier won News Presenter for his work on exposing grooming gangs in Britain.

‘It was a nice moment seeing Eamonn pay tribute to a fellow news presenter, but it seemed someone in the audience didn’t agree.

Eamonn Holmes faced a chorus of boos as he accepted the accolade for GB News at the TRIC Awards in his wheelchair on Tuesday evening

The TV presenter, 65, entered the stage via a wheelchair ramp before he accepted the gong on behalf of the team

‘They heckled for Eamonn to “get off,” and it was an awkward end to his speech.’

It was unclear whether the star heard the heckler as he gushed: ‘For the thousands of people who voted, that is brilliant for us so we say thank you, thank you, thank you, to anyone who did bothered to vote.’ 

It marks the second year in the row Eamonn has accepted the award in the News category at the viewer voted awards show. 

Last year he accepted the award aided by his walker as he in inferred that he had been stabbed in the back, as he told the audience: ‘So I got two things in my back that I didn’t want,’ seemingly referring to both his operation and his split from Ruth Langsford.

Meanwhile Stacey Solomon lost out on a career accolade once again after she missed out on the award for Social Media Broadcaster at awards. 

The TV presenter was nominated alongside Eddie Hall (The Beast), Rob Beckett and LadBaby and it was the latter who received the honour. 

The loss comes just months after Stacey, 35, was left disappointed when her show Sort Your Life Out lost out on the Factual Entertainment prize at the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards. 

At the time the star let rip at the BAFTA judges in an online rant as she said her team were ‘robbed’ of the accolade, prompting backlash from fans who branded her a ‘bad loser’. 

A source for MailOnline said: ‘After it was announced that GB News Breakfast had won, there were a few boos around the room’

Meanwhile Stacey Solomon once again lost out on a career accolade once again after she missed out on the award for Social Media Broadcaster at awards 

The TV presenter was nominated alongside Eddie Hall (The Beast), Rob Beckett and LadBaby (pictured) and it was the latter who received the honour

And once again Stacey lost out on an accolade after this year’s TRIC winners were decided by a million votes from the British Public from a list of pre-established nominations.

Taking to the stage to accept the award Ladbaby, whose real name is Alex, was joined by his wife Roxanne as he began: ‘Thank you so much. 

‘We started in social media 10 years ago when we were in a very difficult place in life, we were struggling to pay our mortgage we had just had a kid, we were living on about £20 a week and it really changed our lives.’  

Elsewhere Clarkson’s Farm, which has just seen season four released, grabbed the gong in the Entertainment category over Gavin And Stacey, I’m A Celebrity…. Get Me Out Of Here! and The Traitors. 

While Strictly Come Dancing and Loose Women were dealt a brutal blow, with both shows among a series of high profile snubs to not even be nominated. 

In the Daytime category, A Place In The Sun secured the win as it triumphed over Escape To The Country, Richard Osman’s House Of Games and This Morning.

Best Drama went to Call The Midwife as it won over All Creatures Great And Small, Baby Reindeer and Bridgerton. 

24 Hours In Police Custody beat Freddie Flintoff’s Field Of Dreams On Tour, The Martin Lewis Money Show Live and The Repair Shop in the Factual category. 

At the time the star let rip at the BAFTA judges in an online rant as she said her team were ‘robbed’ of the accolade, prompting backlash from fans who branded her a ‘bad loser’ 

Clarkson’s Farm , which has just seen season four released, grabbed the gong in the Entertainment category

It was a day to celebrate for Sam Thompson and Pete Wicks after their podcast Staying Relevant triumphed in the podcast category 

Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden won best Radio Show (Jamie pictured with Christine McGuinness) 

It was a day to celebrate for Sam Thompson and Pete Wicks after their podcast Staying Relevant triumphed against Begin Again with Davina McCall, Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed, and That Peter Crouch Podcast. 

While in the Food category fan favourite The Great British Bake Off came out on top in a strong category with Great British Menu, James Martin Saturday Morning and MasterChef. 

As for the Game Show award, there’s Ant & Dec’s Limitless Win, Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel, The 1% Club and The Chase were nominated and it was Lee Mack’s The 1% Club which grabbed the gong.

Six Nations Rugby won best Live Sport and GB News Breakfast took home the prize in the news category. 

Charlie Peters took home best News presenter as he went head to head with Dan Walker, Fiona Bruce and Susanna Reid.

As for the Radio Presenter award Jordan North was named number one against Ally McCoist, Simon Mayo and Vernon Kay. 

The Radio Show category featured Capital Breakfast with Jordan North, Chris Stark & Sian Welby, Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden, Rylan on Sunday and White & Jordan.

But it was Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden that won the award. 

The Soap Actor award went to EastEnders’ Steve McFadden who plays Phil Mitchell while EastEnders also received the honour of Soap Of The Year. 

He beat other nominees Barney Walsh who stars as Cam Mickelthwaite in Casualty, Beth Cordingly who plays Ruby Fox-Milligan in Emmerdale and Jack P Shepherd who portrays David Platt in Coronation Street.

TV Personality went to Bradley Walsh as he pipped Alison Hammond, Ant & Dec and Martin Lewis to the post.

As the stars gathered at London’s Grosvenor House, the event was hosted by TRIC President Dan Walker and welcomed close to 1,000 guests and featured a show-stopping live performance by Magic Radio’s Lemar.