"It was bad, bad, bad, bad leadership. Bad people who weren't doing their jobs properly, who really had not prepared and let people down."
"Tourette syndrome is a disability we apologise if you are offended tonight. He told the Sunday Times that neither he nor the audience had been warned by Bafta that Davidson might shout offensive slurs. They just said, There'll be noise.'"
"I had a thing in my ear and you can't hear very specifically what's happening. I haven't actually asked them, but I don't imagine that Delroy [Lindo] and Michael B Jordan heard the actual slur either."
"An independent review commissioned by Bafta said in April that it did not find evidence of malicious intent on the part of those involved in delivering the event."
Tourette activist John Davidson shouted the N-word twice and used a slur aimed at Alan Cumming during the BAFTA film awards ceremony broadcast by the BBC. The BBC coverage was later removed from BBC iPlayer, and both the BBC and BAFTA issued apologies. Cumming, who hosted the event, criticised BAFTA organisers for poor leadership and lack of preparation, saying he and the audience were not warned that Davidson might shout offensive slurs. An independent review commissioned by BAFTA found no evidence of malicious intent by those delivering the event. Cumming also apologised during the ceremony, noting Tourette syndrome is a disability and expressing regret if anyone was offended.
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