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

Nigel Farage winning a top gong at the Television & Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards understandably went down like a lead balloon.

The former politician and UKIP leader, 59, was heckled and booed after he went up to collect his award for news presenter of the year during Tuesday’s event at London’s Grosvenor House hotel.

Farage, who is now a regular contributor on , took the coveted accolade in a public vote ahead of category finalists , , and his colleagues and Stephen Dixon.

But his win shocked the TRIC audience, who made their feelings very clear as he delivered his acceptance speech in which he predictably slammed the ‘establishment’ 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 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 described the segment as ‘hideous’ and in their tweets.