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NTA viewers left in floods of tears as awards pay special tribute to late Paul O’Grady
A BEAUTIFUL tribute to the late Paul O'Grady had National Television viewers in tears.
Clips of the legendary presenter's incredible career from his days as Lily Savage to The Paul O'Grady Show were played on the screen.
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"@OfficialNTAs for the beautiful video to honor the wonderful, much loved and sorely missed Paul O'Grady. I'm a blubbering wreck after that," one wrote.
"Lovely well deserved tribute to the late great Paul O’Grady. A beautiful person," another added.
"Cried like a baby at that," a third wrote.
The star won the Factual Entertainment NTA award for his heartwarming show For The Love of Dogs.
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Awards host Joel Dommett celebrated the “kindness” and “sense of fun” of the star, who died aged 67 in March.
Joel said: “His career came in many guises and no matter what he did, coupled with a unique sense of fun, that won over audiences in an instant.”
Accepting the award in his place was one of the show's bosses, but one of the guests stole the limelight.
The rescue dog from Battersea Dogs Home barked and wagged his tail through the entire speech - leaving the audience in fits of laughter.
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"Paul would have absolutely loved the dog barking through the speech," one viewer said.
The family of the TV legend revealed the Radio 2 star passed away "unexpectedly but peacefully" on March 28.
His official death certificate confirmed that Paul died from sudden cardiac arrhythmia.
Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome, or SADS, is when someone dies suddenly following a cardiac arrest and no obvious cause can be found.
The certificate, seen by the , showed he died at home.
In 2020, at the age of 65, Paul opened up about having three heart attacks, kidney failure and a coronavirus scare behind him.
At the time he told The Sun: “My cardiologist says I have the constitution of an ox.
"Three days after my last heart attack, I was back fire-eating with McFly.
“The heart is a muscle so you have two choices: Sit on the sofa and count your tablets all day, or get on with it and get moving — swimming and walking, gentle exercise.”
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