And while Joe wasn’t there on the night to accept his award, he celebrated the news on Instagram the following day.
“Thank you Bafta for my (THIRD!!!??) award last night. The lame-stream media said I wasn’t there but the first two pics surely prove otherwise,” he quipped, alongside two pictures of screen legend Elizabeth Taylor holding her own Bafta.
Joe’s post also included pictures of himself holding his latest award, while praising “all the team who worked on Late Night Lycett”, singling out co-writer James Kettle and his team, “without whom I would’ve just stared at the camera silently”.
Check out Joe’s post for yourself here.
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In 2023, Joe was also absent when he won his first TV Bafta for his consumer affairs show Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back.
However, he still managed to steal the show with his speech – delivered by one of his Got Your Back colleagues – which lampooned the then-very-topical rumours surrounding the fall-out between ex-This Morning hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.
A year later, he did make it to the awards show, where his outfit on the red carpet raised just as many eyebrows as his speech.
While accepting the award for Best Entertainment Performance, he gave a nod to his “mum and dad… Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII”, while sporting glammed-up Elizabethan attire.
Accepting Joe’s award on Sunday night, Taskmaster host Greg Davies quipped: “Unfortunately, ladies and gentlemen, Joe can’t make it tonight, but I’m sure he’ll be absolutely thrilled to get this. Except he won’t be getting it, because I’m going to keep it. Goodbye.”
Check out the full list of winners from this year’s TV Baftas here.