TV Choice Awards 2021: Davina McCall admits she's been 'crying her eyes out' as ...

Davina McCall accepted the Best Lifestyle Show TV Choice Award for her show Long Lost Family in a pre-recorded VT that was filmed after she'd been in floods of tears.

The presenter, who hosts the emotional, but uplifting series with Nicky Campbell, had filmed the acceptance speech from the edit suite.

She told the camera: 'I'm sorry I don't look my best - I've just finished recording a voiceover for the show. And I've been crying my eyes out!'

The series sees people hoping to be reunited with their relatives - often brought together in heart-wrenching scenes.

Davina added: 'Thank you so much to everybody that voted for us. We're so thrilled!

'This show means so much to all of us that make it. We want to thank our contributors for sharing their stories and their lives with us. It means so much to us also that it means so much to you.'

Nicky added: 'Long Lost Family is the most extraordinary thing to be involved with because it genuinely changes peoples' lives. And apart from that, it's changed all of our lives as well, being a part of it.

'Thank you so much for this amazing accolade.'

The 2021 awards streamed online on Monday night, having to continue virtually amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Hosted by comedian Rob Beckett, the ceremony saw Line Of Duty and Coronation Street triumph, picking up three of the reader-voted awards each.

Line Of Duty won Best Drama Series while the show's stars Martin Compston and Vicky McClure won their respective acting categories for the first time.

The critically acclaimed series from Jed Mercurio about the police's anti-corruption unit AC-12 also won the same gong in 2019.

The most recent season kept 12.8 million viewers hooked earlier this year, until the infamous 'H' was unmasked.

It was the UK's most-watched drama series of the century so far - despite receiving a lackluster reaction from fans left disappointed with who 'H' turned out to be.

Jed Mercurio said: 'Everyone involved in Line Of Duty is absolutely thrilled to be recognised in this way by the viewers and readers of TVChoice, it means an enormous amount to us and we couldn't be more grateful.

'It wouldn't be the show it is without the amazing performances of Vicky, Martin, Adrian [Dunbar] and our brilliant guest leads including Kelly Macdonald and all the other brilliant guest leads we've had.

'They're the guys who actually do it on camera so it's definitely a tribute to them.'

Coronation Street, which celebrated its 60th anniversary in December, celebrated a second hattrick in a row, with the long-running series scoring the same clean sweep as last year with Best Soap, Best Soap Actor and Best Soap Actress.

David Neilson - who first stepped foot on the famous Coronation Street cobbles as Roy Cropper in 1995 - took Best Soap Actor while Sally Carman's powerhouse performance as grieving mum Abi Franklin earned the actress her first Best Soap Actress TV Choice award.

Bridgerton was voted Best New Drama and Call The Midwife topped the Best Family Drama category for its seventh consecutive year.

Accepting the award on behalf of Bridgerton was actress Nicola Coughlan. She said: 'TV Choice Awards, thank you so much for this beautiful award, it's beautiful and very pointy which I love.

'Thank you to our wonderful cast and amazing crew. This means so much to us and I'll proudly take this back to Regency London.'

I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! won its 16th Best Reality Show gong, after its relocation to Wales amid the pandemic.