Overview
- The presenter became visibly emotional during a live interview with Stephen Mangan about Landscape Artist of the Year and stopped to pay tribute.
- Madeley said he had known Stuart Prebble for five decades and noted he spoke at his friend’s funeral, which Mangan praised as a beautiful eulogy.
- Struggling to continue, Madeley asked co-host Kate Garraway to take the next segment as the programme moved on.
- Prebble died in August 2025 at the age of 74, with the Mirror reporting he had pancreatic cancer.
- The veteran executive worked at the BBC and Granada, led ITV in the early 2000s, and helped create Grumpy Old Men as well as the Portrait and Landscape Artist of the Year formats.