00:00It's my favourite night of the year. It's actually my third year presenting the awards
00:06this year and I keep coming back because you're just surrounded by incredible young people
00:11every year. I sit down in the week and I read the stories and I watch the videos and I'm
00:15an absolute bit. But I always realise it's not tears of sorrow or sadness, it's actually
00:21tears of joy, of inspiration. What I can never get my head around is people so young are
00:28able to take on so much adversity and then turn that into something positive in that
00:32community and that's what tonight celebrates. Yeah, it is amazing and the things that Child
00:37of Wales do for young people is absolutely phenomenal. So the work going on everywhere
00:42all around the country, you know, we're here to support it as well as have a good time
00:45but also of course remember the main reason why we're here is to raise some money. So
00:49often Wales is mentioned as a footnote, an afterthought, you know, an addendum type thing
00:57and it's very England centric. So to be here and to celebrate the work that's going on
01:03in this country, especially with children, the future, I think is vital. Yeah, it's very
01:09very amazing. I've read some of the stories of the children and they're just incredible
01:12human beings to be honest, what they've done. So their feats and some bravery and it's incredible
01:16and yeah, it's really humbling actually to be honest and I've done lots of events over
01:20the last say eight months, some amazing events but this is probably the one I'm most nervous
01:24of being and also the most privileged to be at. I've been looking forward to this for
01:28such a long time since Blanche asked me to come here. I've been so looking forward to
01:31my diary so nothing was going to stop me from being here tonight. You know, what people
01:36are going through, you know, people go through some hard things in life and you know, our
01:44problems are so much nothing really when you realise what people are actually going through.
01:49So it's so inspiring what so many people are going through and how they're battling on
01:53with their life. So yeah, I'm just happy to be a part of it.
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