Nicole Scherzinger gave a heartfelt thanks to god during her Olivier Awards acceptance speech, thanking him for saving her from tripping.
The actress won the Best Actress in a Musical prize for her performance in Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy Theatre, but had a stumble on her way up to the stage during Sunday’s ceremony.
After kissing her fiancé Thom Evans, Nicole carefully made her way to the Royal Albert Hall stage in her daring gown.
Host Hannah Waddingham helped her up the steps but as she reached the top, the actress stumbled, with actor David Oyelowo reaching out to help her.
Nicole Scherzinger gave a heartfelt thanks to god during her Olivier Awards acceptance speech, thanking him for saving her from tripping
An emotional Nicole made a joke about her near-disaster, opening her acceptance speech with: ‘First of all I would like to thank god for saving me from that trip right there.’
She continued: ‘But seriously, without him I am nothing.’
‘Thank you to the London theatre community for wrapping your arms and legs around me like a spider monkey and embracing me as one of your own.’
Fighting back tears, she added: ‘Coming from really humble beginnings I always wanted to be a singer and do musicals’, she also said she wants to do ‘so many roles’ in the future.
The US actress and singer also said that she ‘was coming for blood’ on Broadway ahead of her taking Sunset Boulevard to New York.
Sunset Boulevard came out on top with an impressive seven wins at this year’s Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall, including a gong for Nicole’s co-star Tom Francis who took home the Best Actor in a Musical award.
After weeks of accolades it was almost inevitable that Sarah Snook might lead the winners – and so it proved as the n star was named Best Actress.
Snook – best known for her starring role in HBO series Succession – scooped the award for her mesmerising one-woman performance in a new West End production of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture Of Dorian Gray.
An emotional Nicole made a joke about her near-disaster, opening her acceptance speech with: ‘First of all I would like to thank god for saving me from that trip right there’
Sunset Boulevard came out on top with an impressive seven wins at this year’s Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall, including a gong for Nicole’s co-star Tom Francis who took home the Best Actor in a Musical award
After weeks of accolades it was almost inevitable that Sarah Snook might lead the winners – and so it proved as the n star was named Best Actress
Elsewhere there was triumph of sorts for Andrew Scott, who surprisingly lost out on the award for Best Actor but found himself among the winners after VANYA claimed the award for Best Revival (L-R: Simon Stephens, Rosanna Vize, Andrew Scott and Sam Yates, accepting the Best Revival award for VANYA)
The n actress takes all 26 roles in the production, among them Basil Hallward, Sibyl Vane and of course Gray himself.
Elsewhere there was triumph of sorts for Andrew Scott, who surprisingly lost out on the award for Best Actor but found himself among the winners after VANYA, director Stephen Simon’s contemporary rendering of the Anton Chekhov classic, claimed the award for Best Revival during the event at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Scott brings to life multiple characters in adapter and co-creators Stephens’ radical new version of the play, with Sunday’s accolade coming just weeks after the death of his mother, Nora.
Adapted and directed by Sydney Theatre Company’s artistic director Kip Williams, the play has already had successful runs in Adelaide, Auckland and Melbourne with actress Eryn Jean Norvill starring.
While Scott celebrated Vanya’s triumph with his colleagues on Sunday night, the much-fancied star missed out on the award for Best Actor, with Mark Gatiss pipping him to the coveted gong.
Gatiss plays the late screen and stage legend Sir John Gielgud in Jack Thorne’s The Motive And The Cue, a theatrical take on the fraught history behind a notorious 1964 Broadway production of Hamlet, starring Gielgud and Richard Burton.