Lorraine Kelly is sitting out of the 2024 National Television Awards (Picture: Karwai Tang/WireImage)
Lorraine Kelly has revealed why she won’t be attending this year’s National Television Awards.
The ITV daytime host is often seen on the red carpet for glitzy events, having attended the NTAs and the Baftas before.
Lorraine, who recently became a grandmother for the first time, is invited to the NTAs – hosted by Joel Dommett – each year, with her morning programme frequently nominated in the daytime category.
However, the 64-year-old Scottish star is sitting tonight’s ceremony out for a heartbreaking reason, admitting she doesn’t feel confident enough and finds the pressure overwhelming.
Speaking on her own show this week, Lorraine made the confession while interviewing Holly Matthews, who was promoting her new book called Find Your Confidence.
Lorraine said: ‘It’s the NTAs and normally I would be going to that and I would usually go.
The daytime star receives an invite every year (Picture: Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage)
‘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,’ she admitted.
Confidence coach Holly, 39, whose own previous TV roles include acting in Casualty and Byker Grove agreed: ‘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 praised Holly’s new self-help book, adding: ‘This book really helps – it’s proper advice. It’s common sense.’
Lorraine doesn’t feel ‘confident’ enough to walk the red carpet (Picture: Dave Hogan/Getty Images)
She then asked Holly for advice on how to grow in confidence, with Holly telling her: ‘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.’
Holly proceeded to share that her ‘litmus test’ is tea drinking. If someone is willing to drink tea ‘however it comes’, she knows they ‘accept a lot of things in their lives’.
Instead, she urged people to ‘be specifics’ about what they want to ‘get a really lovely cup of tea’.
Lorraine replied: ‘That’s how to get exactly what you want. And that example could apply to everything.’
She recently became a grandmother for the first time (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Lorraine’s only daughter, Rosie Smith, gave birth to baby Billie on August 29 (Picture: Jeff Spicer/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA)
The broadcaster is not nominated for an NTA this year, but fellow ITV shows This Morning and Loose Women go head-to-head in the daytime category.
She has, however, been asking people to vote for The Masked Singer, having made a surprise appearance as Owl in the last series.
Other big ITV names nominated include Alison Hammond, who has been recognised in the presenter category once again and will be hoping to break Ant and Dec’s winning streak.
Something tells us Lorraine won’t mind watching from the sofa this year, though, having welcomed a special bundle of joy into her life last month.
Rosie Smith, the star’s only child, was born on August 29, with Lorraine announcing her arrival via Instagram with a picture of the newborn’s hand wrapped around a finger, confirming the newborn’s name as Billie Kelly Smith-White.
The National TV Awards airs tonight at 8pm on ITV.
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