Meghan Markle and Holly Willoughby land nominations in 2026 TV and Streaming Awards

Holly Willoughby’s Together and Meghan Markle’s With Love, Meghan are among the contenders for Best Lifestyle Show at the 2026 Where to Watch TV & Streaming Awards, competing against established British television favourites.

Holly Willoughby and Meghan Markle are going head-to-head in the lifestyle television category at this year’s Where to Watch TV & Streaming Awards, with both of their series included on the public-vote shortlist.

Willoughby’s Holly Willoughby: Together and the Duchess of Sussex’s With Love, Meghan feature alongside This Morning, The One Show, Morning Live, Vanessa and DIY SOS in the Best Lifestyle Show category.

The nominations bring together two high-profile personalities whose latest projects have taken different approaches to lifestyle entertainment, while putting them up against programmes with established audiences and long-running television histories.

The awards, organised by wheretowatch.tv, opened for voting on Monday, 12 October, giving viewers the opportunity to choose winners across a broad range of television and streaming categories.

Voting is open internationally, with multiple votes permitted. The deadline is 9am on Monday, 2 November 2026. According to the organisers, voters can also enter their email address to double their votes.

Holly Willoughby takes Together to the awards

Willoughby is nominated for Holly Willoughby: Together, a lifestyle and conversation series that represents a different direction from the mainstream television presenting roles for which she became widely known.

The presenter spent years fronting ITV’s This Morning, alongside other entertainment programmes, before moving away from her regular daytime television role. Her new series gives her an opportunity to explore a more personal format, with an emphasis on conversation and shared experiences.

Her inclusion in the awards shortlist places the series alongside some of the UK’s most familiar lifestyle and daytime programmes.

This Morning, The One Show and Morning Live represent established magazine-style television, combining interviews, topical discussion and lifestyle features. DIY SOS, meanwhile, is known for its home renovation projects and community-focused transformations.

The category also includes Vanessa, adding another presenter-led entry to the competition.

For Willoughby, the nomination offers recognition for a project outside the traditional ITV daytime format and puts her latest work before an audience voting across a wide selection of television genres.

Meghan Markle’s With Love, Meghan also shortlisted

Meghan’s With Love, Meghan is also nominated in the Best Lifestyle Show category, bringing her lifestyle television work into the same competition.

The Netflix series centres on cooking, hosting, gardening and entertaining, with the Duchess of Sussex sharing ideas and activities alongside celebrity guests and friends.

The programme launched in 2025 alongside the introduction of her lifestyle brand, As Ever. Across its episodes, the series explores food, home life and ways of bringing people together.

Its appearance in the Where to Watch shortlist adds another awards platform for the Netflix production. In July 2026, With Love, Meghan also received a Daytime Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Lifestyle Programme category, according to The Independent.

The series’ inclusion in the British awards shortlist reflects the organisers’ decision to bring streaming productions into a category alongside traditional television programmes.

Although Willoughby and Meghan have different television backgrounds, both have used their public profiles to develop lifestyle-led projects beyond conventional studio presenting.

A varied shortlist spanning television and streaming

The Best Lifestyle Show category is one part of a much wider awards programme covering drama, comedy, factual entertainment, reality competitions, animation, quiz shows and television personalities.

Among the other categories, Best TV Presenter(s) includes Ant & Dec, Alison Hammond, Claudia Winkleman, Graham Norton, Alan Carr, AJ and Will, Piers Morgan and the new Strictly Come Dancing presenting team of Emma Willis, Johannes Radebe and Josh Widdicombe.

The Best Public Competition Series category features Big Brother, Love Island, The Apprentice, Bake Off, Race Across the World, Hunted, Portrait Artist of the Year, Marvellous Miniature Workshop and The Piano.

Celebrity-led formats have their own category, with The Celebrity Traitors, Celebrity Race Across the World, Celebrity Bake Off, Celebrity Sewing Bee, Strictly Come Dancing, I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and Celebrity Hunted competing for votes.

The awards also recognise factual entertainment, where The Grand Tour is shortlisted alongside Clarkson’s Farm, Countryfile, Rob Vs Romesh, Zero S and Gogglebox.

In drama, the contenders include WAR, The Blame, Time, Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials and Pierre. The International Drama category features Heated Rivalry, CSI, The Pitt, Lanterns and Young Sherlock.

Comedy is represented by Amandaland, Ann Droid, Saturday Night Live, Last One Laughing UK, Ted Lasso, Small Prophets and Mock the Week.

The Best Continuing Drama category features Coronation Street alongside a wide range of scripted productions, including Blue Lights, All Creatures Great and Small, Casualty, Trigger Point, This City Is Ours, House of Guinness, The Night Manager, Bridgerton, Slow Horses, Cooper & Fry and Rivals.

Other categories cover cosy crime, animated series, quiz shows, acting talent, visualised podcasts and companion programmes, as well as anticipated series including Harry Potter, Doctor Foster, Neuromancer, The Choir and a Peaky Blinders sequel.

How to vote in the 2026 awards

The Where to Watch TV & Streaming Awards invite viewers to select their favourites from the nominated programmes and personalities.

For the Best Lifestyle Show award, voters can choose between This Morning, The One Show, Morning Live, Vanessa, Holly Willoughby: Together, With Love, Meghan and DIY SOS.

Voting closes at 9am on 2 November 2026, and the organisers say multiple votes are permitted.

The full shortlist and voting form are available on the official Where to Watch TV & Streaming Awards website.

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