{"id":5022,"date":"2026-04-03T05:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/bafta-awards-2026-bbc-apologizes-after-racial-slur-shouted-by-guest-with-tourettes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:07:22","slug":"bafta-awards-2026-bbc-apologizes-after-racial-slur-shouted-by-guest-with-tourettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/bafta-awards-2026-bbc-apologizes-after-racial-slur-shouted-by-guest-with-tourettes\/","title":{"rendered":"BAFTA awards 2026: BBC apologizes after racial slur shouted by guest with Tourette&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1bnRiSBKUaU?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Britain\u2019s film academy and the BBC apologized to viewers after an audience member with Tourette syndrome shouted a racial slur during the British Academy Film Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The highly offensive word could be heard as \u201cSinners\u201d stars Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting the award for best visual effects during Sunday\u2019s ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Host Alan Cumming had earlier told the audience that a guest at the ceremony was John Davidson, a Scottish campaigner for people with Tourette\u2019s who inspired the BAFTA-nominated film \u201cI Swear.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1bnRiSBKUaU\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s film academy and the BBC apologized to viewers after an audience member with Tourette syndrome shouted a racial slur during the British Academy Film Awards. The highly offensive word could be heard as \u201cSinners\u201d stars Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting the award for best visual effects during Sunday\u2019s ceremony. Host Alan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150814,"featured_media":5023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5024,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions\/5024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}