"I had a thing in my ear and you can't hear very specifically what's happening. I haven't actually asked them, but I don't imagine that Delroy and Michael B Jordan heard the actual slur either, they were probably just, like, 'Well, there's someone shouting in the audience.'"
"I watched myself back. I was very smiley. I didn't do it with the gravitas and tone I would have used had I known. It was an international scandal. Then poor John gave this interview saying, 'I'm not a racist. I called Alan Cumming a paedophile too.'"
"Oh great! He's equal opportunities and my name and 'paedophile' were in the same sentences all over the world."
During the BAFTA Film Awards broadcast, Tourette's campaigner John Davidson shouted a racial slur that was not edited out, creating an international scandal. The BBC initially failed to remove the moment from iPlayer. Host Alan Cumming did not hear the slur due to his earpiece and was unaware of the incident when delivering an apology from his teleprompter. Davidson also used a homophobic slur that was edited out. Cumming criticized BAFTA leadership's response as poor, describing the situation as intense. Davidson later expressed deep mortification and gave an interview attempting to clarify his character, which inadvertently created additional controversy.
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