{"id":444872,"date":"2026-02-25T13:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444872\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:47:07","slug":"john-davidson-questions-his-proximity-to-a-microphone-at-bafta-film-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444872\/","title":{"rendered":"John Davidson questions his proximity to a microphone at Bafta Film Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5ykl7y2zv9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the corporation&#8217;s chief content officer Kate Phillips told staff<\/a> that another racial slur had been edited out of the broadcast. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In contrast, the one shouted when Lindo and Jordan were on stage &#8220;was aired in error and we would never have knowingly allowed this to be broadcast&#8221;, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davidson, from Galashiels in Scotland, said he shouted about 10 different offensive words during Sunday&#8217;s ceremony as a result of his tics, but the media coverage has given the impression the N-word was the only one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Variety reported that he has contacted Warner Bros in order to apologise directly to Jordan, Lindo and Sinners production designer Hannah Beachler, who also spoke about hearing racial slurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/02\/google-apologizes-bafta-news-alet-n-word-1236734448\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google has apologised after sending a news alert, external<\/a> about the story which included the N-word.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re very sorry for this mistake,&#8221; the company said of the computer-generated alert. &#8220;We&#8217;ve removed the offensive notification and are working to prevent this from happening again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, the corporation&#8217;s chief content officer Kate Phillips told staff that another racial slur had been edited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-444872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}