{"id":452495,"date":"2026-03-01T20:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452495\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:09:08","slug":"delroy-lindo-thanks-fans-after-baftas-slur-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452495\/","title":{"rendered":"Delroy Lindo thanks fans after BAFTAs slur incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delroy Lindo has said he appreciates &#8220;all of the support and love&#8221; he and Michael B Jordan have received after a racial slur was shouted while they were on stage at last week&#8217;s BAFTA Film Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The actor addressed the incident at the 57th NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena, California, on Saturday, as he appeared on stage alongside Sinners director Ryan Coogler.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the audience, Lindo said the response in the aftermath &#8220;means a lot&#8221;, adding that it was &#8220;a classic case of something that could\u2019ve been very negative becoming very positive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2026\/0223\/1559921-apology-after-slur-broadcast-during-bafta-ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The incident happened during the BAFTA Film Awards<\/a> in London on Sunday 22 February, when Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson shouted a racial slur as Lindo and Jordan presented the award for special visual effects. Davidson later said he was &#8220;deeply mortified&#8221; by what happened, describing the outburst as an involuntary tic.<\/p>\n<p>At the NAACP ceremony, actress Regina Hall also acknowledged the pair from the stage, praising their composure and sending them &#8220;so much love for your class&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC previously apologised after the slur was not edited out of its delayed broadcast of the BAFTA ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was founded in 1909 and is one of the US\u2019s largest civil rights organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Press Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delroy Lindo has said he appreciates &#8220;all of the support and love&#8221; he and Michael B Jordan have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-452495","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\/452495","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=452495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}