Ant and Dec have dedicated their Bafta TV
Award to the Queen after winning a prize for their presentation of her
90th birthday celebration event.
The duo won the best live event prize for fronting The Queen’s 90th
Birthday Celebration on ITV last May.
The top honours had been expected to go to Netflix’s fictionalised royal
drama The Crown, which led the nominations – but it missed out
entirely.
“Tonight, the Queen has finally won a Bafta,” Dec said after the
ceremony.
He told BBC News:
“She’s never won a Bafta. She was given an honorary
fellowship a few years ago but she’s never won a Bafta.”
Asked whether they really considered the Queen the recipient of the
award, Ant replied:
“Yes absolutely. It wasn’t our party, it was her
party, her birthday.”
Dec added: “She put it on, it was in her garden at Windsor, it was round
her gaff, so it’s her Bafta, she deserves it.
“We’re quite happy to take it round any time she wants it,” joked Ant.
“She pops the kettle on, and we’ll pop round with a Bafta.”
The duo also won best entertainment programme for their ITV show Ant and
Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway.
BBC One’s Damilola: Our Loved Boy, based on the death of Damilola
Taylor, took home two of the night’s big prizes.
Accepting the best single drama prize, Damilola’s father, Richard
Taylor, said he wanted to “send a strong appeal to young people on the
street killing themselves”.
He said: “Parents are crying, others are crying, the surge of killing
has gone up in the city of London, I beg you all to stop this
unnecessary killing of innocent people.”
Wunmi Mosaku took home the best supporting actress award for her
portrayal of Damilola’s mother, Gloria Taylor.
Happy Valley also won two prizes – best drama series and best leading
actress for Sarah Lancashire.
In her acceptance speech, Lancashire paid tribute to one of her fellow
nominees, The Crown star Claire Foy.
“You have given me the best 10 hours under a duvet I’ve ever had,” the
actress joked.
The best leading actor prize was won by Adeel Akhtar for his role in BBC
One’s Murdered By My Father, a one-off drama about an honour killing.
The BBC won 19 out of the 26 awards on offer.
Charlotte Moore, director of BBC Content said: “It was an incredible
night for the BBC and I want to thank all the winners for their
contribution to British television – the sheer quality on display is
inspiring and I feel honoured to lead BBC Content on such top creative
form.
”
Emmerdale was named best soap and continuing drama in a year that saw
the show praised for its portrayal of dementia.
Actor John Middleton, who played Ashley Thomas in the soap, criticised
the “woeful” attention paid to common health problems such as
Alzheimer’s disease.
“It is the biggest health problem that we have in the Western world and I
don’t think we are addressing it enough,” he said.
“It’s extraordinary how not a day goes by that I don’t get stopped in
the street by somebody saying, ‘Thank you very much for doing this
story’, because it has affected them because of a relative who has had
the disease.”
The “must see moment” – a prize introduced this year – was won by Planet
Earth II: Snakes vs Iguana Chase.
The scene from the David Attenborough series beat off competition from
Ed Balls’s Gangnam Style on Strictly Come Dancing and James Corden’s
Carpool Karaoke with Michelle Obama, among others.
And the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme took home the news coverage
prize for its story about abuse in football earlier this year.
Joanna Lumley was presented with Bafta’s highest honour – the Fellowship
– by her Absolutely Fabulous co-star Jennifer Saunders.
She paid tribute to all those who work in the entertainment industry,
not just the ones in front of the camera.
“We as actors, we’re dragged about in golden carriages… We are furnished
with words, costumed, made up, we have stunt performers to make us look
better. We have people who drive us, who dress us,” she said.
Source: BBC
Source: BBC
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