National Television Awards 2016: Danny Dyer wins an award and his acceptance speech is EPIC!

His acceptance speech was... PWOPA NAWGHTY!

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by Jennifer Read-Dominguez |
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Whether he's kicking off at Twitter trolls, coming out with hilarious one-liners or donning a pink dressing gown, who in their right mind doesn't like the diamond geezer that is Danny Dyer?! So it comes as no surprsie that the EastEnders' actor, who plays Mick Carter in the BBC soap, picked up a big silver gong for Best Serial Drama Performance (for the second time) at tonight's National Television Awards.

And it wouldn't be Danny Dyer without a hilarious acceptance speech. The 38-year-old joked: "Oh, EastEnders! I'm so honoured, listen, to be part of such a sublime, depressing programme as EastEnders. It's a beautiful thing, I thank every single one of ya."

Discussing his fellow nominees, he added: "Ali King, I’ve known you for such a long time. Great actress. You don’t wanna come up here, you’d rather have it brought to you. Michael Parr, I don’t know you that well… and Raki!

"I hold my hands up Rak, you’re better. What you’ve done is beautiful. It's a huge subject you’ve had to deal with, and you've done a beautiful thing. You've got a great career ahead of you."

Dyer proceeded to talk directly to his fiancée, Joanne Mas, in the audience, saying: "My Juanita… she’s giving me daggers for some reason, I dunno what I’ve done. I wanna thank my mum and dad for having a roll about in 1977 and conceiving me. Thank you very much, have a wonderful evening, thank you."

Dermot O’Leary then summed up what pretty much the whole of the UK were thinking, saying: "Oh man. He started early…"

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