On the eve of the BAFTA TV Awards, Alan Cumming has blamed “bad people who weren’t doing their jobs properly” for the film awards debacle that he oversaw as host.
Cumming was presenting the BAFTA Film Awards in February when tourette’s campaigner John Davidson yelled an involuntary racial slur at the stars of Sinners. He subsequently had to apologize and shepherd the rest of proceedings.
In an interview with The Times, Cummings lashed out at the organizers of the awards for a lack of preparation or pre-warning about Davidson’s condition.
“It was bad, bad, bad,
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