{"id":786579,"date":"2026-02-24T20:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/786579\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:48:17","slug":"bbc-edited-another-racial-slur-out-of-bafta-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/786579\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC edited another racial slur out of Bafta ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the ceremony, Lindo told Vanity Fair that he and Jordan, who were handing out an award “did what we had to do” as they carried on presenting, but also said he wished “someone from Bafta spoke to us afterward”.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Deadline reported that a representative from Warner Bros,, external<\/a> the studio behind Sinners, which stars Lindo and Jordan, complained to Bafta in the minutes after the slur was shouted, and reportedly received assurances that their concerns would be passed on to the BBC. Bafta has been asked for comment. <\/p>\n

In a letter to its members on Tuesday, the organisation said: “We are in contact with the studios involved and conversations are ongoing.”<\/p>\n

Bafta also said it wanted to “assure all our members that a comprehensive review is under way”.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Monday, Davidson said he was “deeply mortified if anyone considers my involuntary tics to be intentional or to carry any meaning”.<\/p>\n

“I have spent my life trying to support and empower the Tourette’s community and to teach empathy, kindness and understanding from others and I will continue to do so,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“I chose to leave the auditorium early into the ceremony as I was aware of the distress my tics were causing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the ceremony, Lindo told Vanity Fair that he and Jordan, who were handing out an award “did…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-786579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-news","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116127577179116514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}