{"id":2296027,"date":"2026-02-23T19:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2296027"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:38:27","slug":"bafta-apologizes-unreservedly-to-delroy-lindo-michael-b-jordan-in-public-statement-after-use-of-slur-at-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bafta-apologizes-unreservedly-to-delroy-lindo-michael-b-jordan-in-public-statement-after-use-of-slur-at-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"BAFTA Apologizes \u2018Unreservedly\u2019 to Delroy Lindo, Michael B. Jordan in Public Statement After Use of Slur at Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The BAFTAs have released a public statement addressing the use of a racial slur on Sunday while <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0430107\/\">Michael B. Jordan<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005148\/\">Delroy Lindo<\/a> were presenting at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take full responsibility for putting our guests in a very difficult situation, and we apologise to all,\u201d the British Academy of Film and Television Arts said in the statement. \u201cWe will learn from this and keep inclusion at the core of all we do, maintaining our belief in film and storytelling as a critical conduit for compassion and empathy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0203384\/\">John Davidson<\/a>, an activist with Tourette syndrome and subject of BAFTA-nominated film \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt31514146\/\">I Swear<\/a>,\u201d shouted the n-word as&#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 m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BAFTAs have released a public statement addressing the use of a racial slur on Sunday while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting at the ceremony. \u201cWe take full responsibility for putting our guests in a very difficult situation, and we apologise to all,\u201d the British Academy of Film and Television Arts said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2296028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2296027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","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\/BAFTA-Apologizes-\u2018Unreservedly-to-Delroy-Lindo-Michael-B-Jordan-in.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296027","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=2296027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296029,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296027\/revisions\/2296029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2296028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}