This Morning were crowned the winners of the daytime category at the National Television Awards on Thursday evening.
The win may have come as a surprise to some after Holly Willoughby, who arrived on the red carpet separately from Phillip Schofield, and her co-host Phil received furious backlash over false claims they skipped the queue to see the Queen lying in state.
After insisting they would "never skip a queue" and receiving backing from the This Morning bosses, the pair have continued to face mixed reactions from the public. But, a sign the public were still on side became clear as they won the NTA on Thursday evening.
Here, body language expert Judi James gives an insight into the hosts on one of the top nights in television...
It was a tidal wave of mixed emotions as This Morning picked up an award at the NTAs last night, with responses ranging from Oscar-winner-style tearfulness and expressions of relief and validation (Phil) to the ‘weaned-on-a-pickle’ pursed lipped losers expressions on the faces of the Loose Women team.
Kaye Adams clearly saw she was on screen but her facial expression remained about as cheerful as it had when she was voted off Strictly.
In the middle of it all it was Alison Hammond, who grabbed the moment and the award with both hands, upstaging everyone on stage in a way that looked totally appropriate to set the room alight as she said she should have won the presenter award, too.
The cameras were on Holly and Phil for very obvious reasons as the winner was announced and Phil’s mouth clamp pulled down at the corners as he fell into the kind of tears and facial cut-offs that said ‘they still love me’.
He and Holly hugged to put paid to rumours of rifts and even told the audience they were friends in a way that was reminiscent of the ‘best friends’ ritual we saw previously with Eammon and Ruth.
Alison moved in to stroke Philip’s arm in a comedy way while he was having his serious, tearful moment and it was clear from the way the rest of the team hugged, stroked and beamed at her while Phil was doing his acceptance speech, with knowing nods to the queue-gate problem, that she is hugely popular backstage.
If anything their behaviour seemed to be encouraging Alison in her little coup of the night.
Did we see the new star taking over the This Morning crown? It certainly looked like it from the body language of all concerned.
Phil generously handed Alison the trophy and she pushed into the middle for the mic and the crowd and the cast and crew all went wild with delight.
Even the Loose Women team cheered and punched the air in a complete change of body language, suggesting they love Alison too.
Previous co-presenters might have held the award in quieter poses of reflected glory but Alison clutched it as her own and took over the middle spot in the group in a way that seemed to show she wasn’t going to let Phil take all the top status and glory.
While Phil and Holly adopted humble poses Alison chose some hilarious honesty to raise the roof.
It was poor Dermot, her partner on the couch, who got a bit lost in the moment, only coming forward when Alison called him in and barely taking his own moment because the crowd wanted to cheer on Alison.
