{"id":2294640,"date":"2026-02-23T01:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2294640"},"modified":"2026-02-23T01:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:47:19","slug":"tourettes-debate-sparked-at-bafta-film-awards-after-campaigner-john-davidson-heard-cursing-shouting-slurs-at-presenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tourettes-debate-sparked-at-bafta-film-awards-after-campaigner-john-davidson-heard-cursing-shouting-slurs-at-presenters\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourette\u2019s Debate Sparked at BAFTA Film Awards After Campaigner John Davidson Heard Cursing, Shouting Slurs at Presenters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">A debate has been sparked among BAFTA Film Awards attendees and online after a Tourette\u2019s campaigner, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0203384\/\">John Davidson<\/a>, was heard cursing throughout the show.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm16021583\/\">Davidson<\/a> is the inspiration behind the BAFTA-nominated I Swear. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7075019\/\">Robert Aramayo<\/a>, who depicted the Scotsman in Kirk Jones\u2019 widely acclaimed film, nabbed the BAFTA for best actor on Sunday night \u2014 over <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000138\/\">Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3154303\/\">Timothee Chalamet<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000160\/\">Ethan Hawke<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0430107\/\">Michael B. Jordan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The film follows a man\u2019s struggle growing up with Tourette\u2019s syndrome, a condition characterized by sudden, involuntary and repetitive movements or sounds. These are known as tics, and they often manifest as outbursts such as loud swearing, which occurred numerous times over the first 20 minutes of the BAFTA ceremony as Davidson shouted, \u201cBoring!\u201d while guests were taken through some of the housekeeping rules before the show began, and \u201cBullshit!\u201d when people were asked not to curse.<\/p>\n<p>He also exclaimed, \u201cShut the fuck up,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A debate has been sparked among BAFTA Film Awards attendees and online after a Tourette\u2019s campaigner, John Davidson, was heard cursing throughout the show. Davidson is the inspiration behind the BAFTA-nominated I Swear. Robert Aramayo, who depicted the Scotsman in Kirk Jones\u2019 widely acclaimed film, nabbed the BAFTA for best actor on Sunday night \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2294641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2294640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tourettes-Debate-Sparked-at-BAFTA-Film-Awards-After-Campaigner-John.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294642,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294640\/revisions\/2294642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}