Martin Lewis tearfully recalled losing his mother when he was just 11 years old as he received the special award at Sunday’s TV Baftas . The 54-year-old – who hosts a self-titled personal finance programme and serves as a regular presenter on Good Morning Britain – received the honour in recognition of his “ extraordinary and lasting impact on British consumers and public life”. Lewis’s mother, Susan, died in a car accident just days before his 12th birthday. Accepting the accolade at London’s Royal Festival Hall, Lewis joked that his ITV show is “mainly a PowerPoint presentation with a Q&A after”. Getting serious, he continued: “I wrote this on Thursday, 42 years to the day since we suddenly lost my mum just before I was 12. My childhood was over. For six years, I barely left the house and now I’m picking up a Bafta. “So to all those of you out there struggling with your own demons, know this – life can be transformed. It can get better.…