Vin Diesel remembers pal Paul Walker

Pays tribute to late actor as he accepts his prize at this year’s Teen Choice Awards

LOS ANGELES: Vin Diesel paid a glowing tribute to Paul Walker at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards on Sunday as the late star won the ‘Choice Movie Actor’ award in the ‘Action/Adventure’ category. Walker, who died in November 2013 in a car accident, outpaced Ansel Elgort, Dylan O’Brien, Taylor Lautner, Theo James and Diesel to claim the award for his performance in Furious 7.

Diesel remembered his friend when he took the stage to accept the surfboard for ‘Choice Movie: Action/Adventure’ alongside co-stars Michelle Rodriguez, Ludacris, and Jordana Brewster. “I can’t stand here and be rewarded like this without talking about somebody very, very, very important to us,” he said. “One of the best blessings in our lives was the fact that we had the opportunity to call Pablo our brother. Paul Walker is here in spirit with us,” he added.

Furious 7 also won the ‘Choice Movie: Action/Adventure’ award. The biggest winners of the night were British pop boy band One Direction, who bagged eight awards, including ‘Male Music Group’, ‘Choice Summer Music Group’, and ‘Choice Selfie Takers’. But the band, which now features Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson, weren’t present at the event and accepted their awards via video link. Fellow British band Little Mix won the surfboard award for ‘Choice Music Breakout Artists’.

Top winners include

Choice Movie (Comedy): Pitch Perfect 2

Choice TV Show (Drama): Pretty Little Liars

Choice Male Artist: Ed Sheeran

Choice Female Artist: Demi Lovato

Published in The Express Tribune, August 18^th,  2015.

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