DeadlineBBC Told By UK Culture Secretary That Airing BAFTA Racial Slur Was “Unacceptable & Harmful”
#News #BAFTAFallout #BAFTAFilmAwards #JohnDavidson #LisaNandy
https://deadline.com/2026/02/bbc-lisa-nandy-bafta-racial-slur-1236736067/
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Oh boy, they really, really fucked up there, didn't they?
Fucked over Black people, fucked over the Disabled community, so long as the Minorities are fighting each other and not the Whiteness, yeah?
Rolling Stone BrasilJohn Davidson, ativista com Síndrome de Tourette, sentiu vergonha por incidente no BAFTA
BAFTA irá revisar protocolos após ofensa racista feita por ativista durante cerimônia
John Davidson: BBC Could Have “Worked Harder” To Stop N-Word Tourette’s Tic From Airing
#News #BAFTAFilmAwards #BBC #DelroyLindo #ISwear #JohnDavidson #MichaelBJordan #Sinners
https://deadline.com/2026/02/john-davidson-bbc-stopped-racial-slur-tourettes-1236735527/
Strong LanguageJohn Davidson: "Tourette’s can make my body or voice do things I don’t mean, and sometimes those tics land on the worst possible words."
https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/john-davidson-tourettes-tics-bafta-n-word-interview-1236671850/
IndieWireBAFTA Promises ‘Comprehensive Review’ After Racial Slur Incident in New Letter to Members: ‘We Will Learn from This’
John Davidson Says He Was Told Swearing Would Be Cut from BAFTA Awards Broadcast and Questions Decision to Seat Him Near a Microphone
Flipboard Culture DeskRE: https://flipboard.social/@CultureDesk/116128359777212906
Update: @Variety interviewed John Davidson about this incident and he gave some deeper explanation of his condition and what happened. According to this conversation, this was not the only offensive word he shouted that evening, and he was assured by BAFTA that swearing would be edited out of the broadcast — yet there was a microphone in front of him in the auditorium. His team says he has reached out to the team behind “Sinners” in order to directly apologize to Michael B. Jordan, Delroy Lindo and production designer Hannah Beachler.
VarietyJohn Davidson Gives First Interview and Explains Tourette’s Tics After Shouting N-Word and Other Slurs at BAFTAs: ‘I Felt a Wave of Shame’ (EXCLUSIVE)
