2026-02-26
11 分钟This is The Guardian.
I think what was especially baffling is the fact that no one actually came to speak to Michael B.
Jordan or to Del Rue Lindo after the event.
Michael B.
Jordan has basically said that he was repulsed and also that his family,
who witnessed it, were very upset too.
Other cuts were made from the programme.
speech giving saying Free Palestine was cut.
The BBC say, while our edit was being done from a truck,
we couldn't hear it, but I mean, it doesn't wash, does it?
It doesn't wash, and it kind of begs his belief.
I can't emphasise enough how much this is a failure of the BBC.
The BBC is under fire for its handling of a racial slur heard during Sunday's BAFTA awards ceremony from someone with Tourette syndrome.
From the Guardians Today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hobb.
I'm joined by Jason Okendaya who is assistant opinion editor at The Guardian.
So you were at the BAFTAs on Sunday night when this incident took place.
It sounds like BAFTA and the BBC had done quite a lot of work to prepare the audience who were there physically for the fact that there was going to be a member of the audience with Tourette's Syndrome,
that audience member being John Davidson on whom the film I Swear is based.
Yeah so...
John Davidson was introduced, you know, he stood up,