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Star accepts prize via satellite link wearing a dinner jacket – but camera reveals he is sporting only shorts on his bottom half

The National Television Awards' new "best detective" category appears to have been tailor made for Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch – although he did face stiff competition from Broadchurch's David Tennant and Olivia Colman, Luther's Idris Elba, Scott & Bailey's Suranne Jones and Law & Order UK's Bradley Walsh. Viewers therefore may not have been surprised at his win – but many were gobsmacked by the end of his acceptance speech. Cumberbatch accepted the award smartly dressed in a dinner jacket by satellite link from Los Angeles, where he said he was "working". However, he then stood up, revealing he was wearing a pair of red board shorts. Monkey wonders what Sherlock's Mrs Hudson would have made of that.

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