Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has a long-lasting feud with the TRIC Awards - despite taking home the coveted Best News Presenter gong last year. The GB News star and Clacton MP turned up to the Television and Radio Industries Club Awards in 2024 only to be greeted by boos from the crowd - and even "stormed off" the red carpet.

Things didn't go smoothly from the off, and as Farage took to the stage to accept his trophy, he was faced with booing from the audience. Putting on a brave face, he said: "It's like the crowd at a wrestling event - I noticed much less hostility than last year!"

He flipped the bird to his haters while posing with his award, adding in his acceptance speech: "And just think about it - GB News Breakfast has won, the Camilla Tominey interview with Alastair Stewarrt has won, and I've won for the second year in a row, news presenter of the year. And that says to you that GB News is now here to stay as a mainstream broadcaster in this country and thank goodness for that."

He added: "Well no, those that boo clearly don't like competition!"

Things turned tense on the red carpet, too, when Farage was quizzed about having a milkshake thrown over him by reporters. A reporter asked him: "So the whole milkshake thing... it wasn't real?" - leading Farage to refuse to answer, turning on his heel to walk away.

2024 marked the second time Farage took home the prize - and he was heckled and booed in 2023 too. But that year he started a very public feud with TRIC, accusing them of deleting a tweet which announced him as winner.

He accused them of taking down the tweet after he questioned the "Barb figures", which show the TV ratings of programmes, compiled daily by the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. He criticised Barb during his acceptance speech, and later fumed in a video: "Well it would seem I've committed the ultimate cardinal sin of broadcasting by questioning the Barb figures.

"By questioning the fact that the industry owns the very organisation that rates its programmes. Well today, TRIC, the organisation that put together the awards yesterday, deleted their tweet announcing that I had won News Presenter of the Year."

He branded the move a "disgrace", insisting GB News would "be complaining in the strongest terms".

On stage in 2023, Farage said: "Barb are 5,300 boxes that are in people's homes around the country, and guess who owns the organisation that publishes the viewing figures... all of the other broadcasters.

"They are allowed effectively to choose the panel and to mark their own homework... and how can you judge in a country of 66million people... how can we judge that audience by just 5,300 boxes? The whole thing is a complete and utter farce... there are massive advertising revenues that come off the back of those Barb figures, but that's the way it's been forever and nobody has ever got up and challenged it."