Captain Tom Moore Receives Pride Of Britain Award On Good Morning Britain

On top of that, tributes also came from David Jason, Joanna Lumley, and Julie Walters.

Not a bad list, altogether.

Moore appeared to be left speechless by the award, which was presented to him on ITV this morning. He also gave an interview to presenters Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan.

The ex-army man said: "That is absolutely amazing.

"It's very difficult for me to believe something like this because the Pride of Britain award is a very important one. You are all so very very kind.

"I thank all the people who nominated me for the award. I am very humbled by receiving this magnificent award.

"I'm completely taken aback by this because I know it's such an important award."

Viewers were equally as moved at Tom's award, and - as seems to be a running theme - his good nature, humility, and positive attitude in the face of what is a pretty bleak global crisis.

One person tweeted: "Sat here crying my eyes out! @captaintommoore you are the pride of Britain @piersmorgan @carolvorders @susannareid100 thank you."

Another wrote: "Crying my eyes out. Well done Sir. Well done @piersmorgan. So well deserved you are truly inspirational keep up the fantastic work xxx"

A third person said: "Aww I love seeing captain tom get his well deserved pride of britain award scriked my eyes out!"

Now, Captain Tom is building up towards his 100^th birthday, which takes place on April 30 - that's next Thursday.

As we all know by now, Tom prepared for that by agreeing to walk 100 laps around his garden to raise money for the NHS.

Despite only setting out to raise £1,000 - which would have been a fantastic effort too, by the way - his cause quickly found the way to the heart of the general public around the world.

At the last check, he's raised more than £28m off the back of donations from 1.3m different people.