There’s something about Alex Hardee and awards ceremonies. First, there was the time Hardee proposed to his then girlfriend (now wife) Eloise on stage at the UK Festival Awards. “That was a high-risk strategy wasn’t it?” he deadpans.

Then there was the same event last year, where he invaded the stage, muttered, ‘I reject this’ and downed a shot, mimicking the warlord who’d killed himself in The Hague days earlier (Hardee’s glass contained spirit rather than cyanide, you may be ...