{"id":312764,"date":"2026-02-23T09:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/312764\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:29:08","slug":"hula-hoops-hobnobs-and-hollywood-how-host-alan-cumming-stole-the-bafta-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/312764\/","title":{"rendered":"Hula Hoops, Hobnobs and Hollywood: How host Alan Cumming stole the Bafta show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Alan Cumming delivers wit, warmth and a whole lot of crisps at the 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards at The Royal Festival Hall on February 22, 2026 in London\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Host Alan Cumming speaks on stage during the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2026 at The Royal Festival Hall on February 22, 2026 in London, England. (Photo by Stuart Wilson\/BAFTA\/Getty Images for BAFTA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c1950e6a-244c-4f30-8a28-8cb474599237.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Host Alan Cumming speaks on stage during the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2026 at The Royal Festival Hall on February 22, 2026 in London, England. (Photo by Stuart Wilson\/BAFTA\/Getty Images for BAFTA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At an Alan Cumming party, everyone leaves with snacks &#8211; even the Hollywood superstars. In the Official Alan Cumming Snack Basket at this year\u2019s EE Bafta Film Awards is a variety of traditional salty and sugary goods, the kind we take for granted around these parts. The kind that, say, two-time Oscar winner Emma Stone has never heard of.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cDo you know what a Hula Hoop is?\u201d Cumming asks Ms Stone, as he makes his way through the auditorium. She doesn\u2019t, but our playful host will soon change that. He\u2019s brought a bag of Skips for Stormzy (they\u2019re his favourite), Scampi Fries for Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet (the Marty Supreme actor will deliver his verdict soon, I\u2019m sure) and biscuits for Chalamet\u2019s partner, reality TV star Kylie Jenner (\u201cHave you ever had your gums around a giant Jammy Dodger?\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Cumming delivers wit, warmth and a whole lot of crisps at the 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[120229,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-312764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-baftas","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}