“When you haven’t won the award, what do you do?” Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd has ISSUED a STRONG STATEMENT in response to CRITICISM levelled at him at the 2025 NTA Awards.

Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd has responded to claims that he was annoyed live on air at the 2025 NTAs.

Shepherd, who was nominated for the Best Serial Drama Performance for his role as David Platt, lost out to EastEnders star Steve McFadden, who won the award for his part as Phil Mitchell.

Speaking on his podcast On The Sofa with Colson, Jack and Ben, which he hosts alongside Corrie stars Colson Smith and Ben Price, Shepherd said that he knew he hadn’t won before it was even announced.

Explaining the situation to his co-hosts, Shepherd recalled: “They said my name first and there was no reaction.

“But then the next person was Steve McFadden and everyone goes mental. So everyone who’s nominated, you have cameras [facing you]. And then they went, ‘and the winner is…’.

“All the cameras turned away from me and went to Phil Mitchell. So it was like, there’s obviously not a camera on me, just to give you a clue that I’ve definitely not won this.”

While Shepherd said that some viewers thought he looked upset about not winning his category, the soap star explained that this was not the case.

He said: “My trick of the trade this week is the ‘loser’s face’, when you haven’t won the award, what do you do? Do you graciously clap and go, ‘yep, well done’?

“Do you over-egg the pudding as though you’re pleased they’ve won and you’ve lost? Do you do the really pissed off face? Or the other one, to pretend not to be paying attention and laugh at some joke that someone has not made?

“Usually I do the ‘massively pissed off’ look because it makes me laugh. But this year, because I had no camera on me, I didn’t do anything but they had a little sniper camera.

“So I was in shot and my reaction was ‘I’m just watching the NTAs’. I genuinely wasn’t pissed off.”