And the winner is…
Well, it looks like early indications suggest that the Wybrow Award for Best Supporting Role in a Holiday Day Out for this season might be going to CJ and Nick Richard for their work in Liverpool Day.
Late entries are looking unlikely in the face of the advancing close of the entry period, and CJ and Nick have edged out their biggest competition, Chris Orr, by a significant margin.
If the experts’ predictions hold true, CJ and Nick will take the joint prize from Francesca Bull, whose sterling efforts down in Basingstoke during the previous holiday period earned her the award last time.
We now go live to our awards correspondent, Bill, with his views:
Well, as you know, this holiday’s themes have been Triumphing over Adversity and Long Distance Collaboration. What we’ve seen this afternoon is an incredible debut performance by Nick, with CJ’s solid, dependable brilliance prevailing over all the difficulties they both faced in this gruelling trial-by-fire. If they place first this holiday, as we all by now expect, it will have been well earned and well deserved. Back to you in the studio:
As you can plainly see, we are in very little doubt of the brothers’ success this time. The small and dignified handover ceremony will be due to take place in just a few short weeks, hardly time for latecomers to prepare and deliver anywhere near a performance of this calibre. CJ and Nick will, I’m sure, be patting themselves on the back this week for a job well done. And, as usual, we offer our commiserations to Chris Orr, who currently stands to take second place.