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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Lisa McLoughlin

BBC pulls BAFTAs off iPlayer and issues apology after racial slur from audience broadcast

The BBC has apologised for failing to remove a racial slur from its broadcast of Sunday’s BAFTA Film Awards before transmission.

The incident occurred during the ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall, when Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson shouted the slur from the audience as Sinners actors Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan presented the award for special visual effects.

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