BAFTAs host Alan Cumming apologizes for ‘robust language’ shouted by Tourette syndrome advocate throughout ceremony

Alan Cumming, host of the 2026 BAFTA Awards, requested for "understanding" from anybody who could have overheard some "robust language" shouted from the viewers in the course of the ceremony.

The Traitors emcee notified the group on the annual British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts Awards held on Sunday that they "could have observed some robust language within the background," in keeping with Variety. Certainly, numerous curses and slurs might be heard shouted from the viewers at London's Royal Pageant Corridor, even throughout some segments broadcast to audiences in England and overseas.

The colourful language got here from John Davidson, a celebrated advocate for these like himself residing with Tourette syndrome, who attended the ceremony as the topic of the nominated movie I Swear.

Cumming defined, "This may be a part of how Tourette's syndrome reveals up for some folks because the movie explores that have," and thanked the viewers "to your understanding and serving to create a respectful house for everybody."

Davidson might be heard shouting up towards presenters as early because the introductory speech from BAFTAs chair Sara Putt. The Scottish campaigner allegedly yelled "shut the f— up" throughout Putt's speech and shouted the n-word when Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo offered the Greatest Visible Results award to Avatar: Hearth and Ash.

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Cumming adopted up later with one other assertion, explaining that "Tourette's syndrome is a incapacity, and the tics you've heard tonight are involuntary, which implies the one who has Tourette's syndrome has no management over their language. We apologize if you’re offended tonight."

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Davidson's tics have been among the many potential sources of concern for broadcaster BBC main as much as the ceremony, Deadline Hollywood reported Thursday. The community doesn’t air the BAFTAs stay, however edits and condenses the three-hour present right into a two-hour program to be broadcast later. Final yr, the BBC reduce a Trump joke from host David Tennant and was reportedly vigilant this yr within the wake of feedback regarding Israel throughout a Glastonbury efficiency from musician Bob Vylan.

Davidson grew to become a nationwide determine at solely 16, when the BBC launched a TV documentary known as John's Not Mad, which chronicled his coming to grips along with his Tourette syndrome prognosis. He has since featured in quite a few follow-up movie and TV documentaries and was awarded with the excellence of MBE in 2019 for his activism.

Davidson was not personally nominated on the BAFTAs, however the actor who performed him in I Swear, Robert Aramayo, staged a surprising upset when he was introduced because the winner within the Greatest Actor class, defeating the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Timothée Chalamet.

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