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Jonte Richardson<\/a>, an independent producer who has worked on the BET Awards, posted on social media that the awards body\u2019s \u201chandling of the unfortunate Tourette\u2019s N-Word incident\u201d was \u201cutterly unforgivable.\u201d<\/p>\n He accused BAFTA of \u201crepeatedly failing to safeguard the dignity of its Black guests, members and the Black creative community.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI hope BAFTA leadership comprehend the damage they and the BBC<\/a> have caused and taken the necessary steps to ensure their production staff are inclusive enough to prevent such an issue in the future,\u201d Richardson<\/a> wrote.<\/p>\n Richardson sat on the emerging talent judging panel and said his decision was \u201cunfortunate\u201d given that \u201cthis year\u2019s cohort boasts some incredible Black talent\u201d including the team behid Janice Okoh<\/a>\u2019s BBC comedy drama Just Act Normal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The fallout from the BAFTA racial slur saga has extended into a third day with a producer stepping down from one of its juries. Jonte Richardson, an independent producer who has worked on the BET Awards, posted on social media that the awards body\u2019s \u201chandling of the unfortunate Tourette\u2019s N-Word incident\u201d was \u201cutterly unforgivable.\u201d He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2297294,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2297293","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\/BAFTA-Jury-Member-Steps-Down-Over-Racial-Slur-Debacle-MPs.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297293","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=2297293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297295,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297293\/revisions\/2297295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2297294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}