{"id":2305896,"date":"2026-03-01T02:38:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2305896"},"modified":"2026-03-01T02:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:38:46","slug":"brit-awards-host-jack-whitehall-takes-jab-at-baftas-over-racial-slur-incident-weve-got-the-best-in-the-business-on-the-bleep-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brit-awards-host-jack-whitehall-takes-jab-at-baftas-over-racial-slur-incident-weve-got-the-best-in-the-business-on-the-bleep-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit Awards Host Jack Whitehall Takes Jab At BAFTAs Over Racial Slur Incident: \u201cWe\u2019ve Got The Best In The Business On The Bleep Button\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm3099754\/\">Jack Whitehall<\/a>, host of the 2026 Brit Awards, took a jab at the BAFTAs on Saturday night\u2019s award show following the racial slur incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Brit Awards are the first live award show in the UK since the BAFTAs, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm9595961\/\">Whitehall<\/a> took the opportunity to issue a warning to viewers during the broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere may be some swearing, but don\u2019t worry, we\u2019ve got the best in the business on the bleep button,\u201d Whitehall said during the live show. \u201cIt\u2019s the guy who did the BAFTAs. Nothing gets past him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the BAFTA Awards on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co1075114\/\">BBC<\/a> last week, and 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 an award on stage, Tourette\u2019s campaigner <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0203384\/\">John Davidson<\/a>, who is the subject of the biopic <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt31514146\/\">I Swear<\/a>, shouted an involuntary remark from the audience.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm7418728\/\">Davidson<\/a> yelled the n-word as Jordan and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm11515010\/\">Lindo<\/a> were presenting and although the gala was on a two-hour delay,&#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>Jack Whitehall, host of the 2026 Brit Awards, took a jab at the BAFTAs on Saturday night\u2019s award show following the racial slur incident. The Brit Awards are the first live award show in the UK since the BAFTAs, and Whitehall took the opportunity to issue a warning to viewers during the broadcast. \u201cThere may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2305897,"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-2305896","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\/03\/Brit-Awards-Host-Jack-Whitehall-Takes-Jab-At-BAFTAs-Over.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305896","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=2305896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305898,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305896\/revisions\/2305898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2305897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}