Nigel Farage booed and heckled as he picks up news presenter of the year award

Nigel Farage’s victory at the Television & Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards went down like a lead balloon.

During Tuesday’s ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House hotel, the former politician and UKIP leader, 59, was heckled and booed when he stepped up to accept his prize for news presenter of the year.

Farage, who is now a regular commentator on GB News, won the award in a public poll, beating out category nominees Piers Morgan, Susanna Reid, and colleagues Eamonn Holmes and Stephen Dixon.

But his victory stunned the TRIC crowd, who expressed their displeasure as he delivered his acceptance speech, in which he lambasted the ‘system’ and’mainstream media.’

Farage said: ‘GB News set out to be the People’s Channel and I’m incredibly proud of that. The establishment media doesn’t always like it – we’re not for them – but this award shows that the people do…

‘I am really rather proud to have this because I’m a new boy – I have only been doing this for a couple of years.

‘So a huge thank to all those good, ordinary folk who live outside the M25 for voting for me.’

As he began to be heckled, he declared: ‘Please keep the abuse coming, because it says a lot more about you than about me.’

At the end of the speech, during which he was drowned out by boos, he shouted: ‘I feel very, very sorry for all of you!’

It comes after Farage repulsed GB News viewers when he started to strip tease to Right Said Fred’s song I’m Too Sexy… live on air.

‘How can I unsee this !!? Please send help’, one person tweeted at the time.

Others called the part ‘hideous,’ and several even named Ofcom in their tweets.

Source My Celebrity Life.