Most National Television Awards for Best Presenter won consecutively

Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly (both UK, better known as Ant & Dec) have won Best TV Presenter (formerly Best Entertainment Presenter, 1995–2015) at the UK’s National Television Awards (NTAs) for 21 years in a row.

Ant & Dec’s remarkable winning streak began at the 7th NTAs in 2001, with their most recent trophy presented – in their absence due to COVID-19 – at the 27th NTAs at Wembley Arena in London on 13 October 2022 (there was no awards show in 2009 owing to a scheduling change for the ceremony). The duo were specifically honoured for SM:TV Live (2001) and Pop Idol (2002) for the first two years, but from 2003 their Best Presenter awards turned the spotlight on two ITV shows, first aired in 2002, that are still going strong today: Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway and I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!

Michael Barrymore (1995-98 and 2000) and Lily Savage (1999; the drag-queen alter ego of Paul O’Grady) were the only previous winners before Ant & Dec. The 22 individuals who have been frozen out of the Best Presenter award since Ant & Dec first got their hands on the trophy in 2001: Fern Britton, Alan Carr, Rylan Clark-Neal, Justin Lee Collins, James Corden, Jim Davidson, Noel Edmonds, Alison Hammond, Keith Lemon, Gary Lineker, Davina McCall, Michael McIntyre, Mel & Sue, Piers Morgan, Graham Norton, Paul O’Grady, Dermot O’Leary, Jonathan Ross, Phillip Schofield, Chris Tarrant, Bradley Walsh and Holly Willoughby. Ant & Dec have also collected a Special Recognition Award (2002) and a Landmark Award (2014) from the NTAs.