TV BAFTAs latest: Winners being announced; Top Boy takes top gong

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19:57:23 Awards come to an end – here’s tonight’s big winners

That’s all the awards done until next year.

We’ll bring you a full list of winners shortly, but the big winners of the night have been Top Boy, The Sixth Commandment and Happy Valley with two BAFTAs each. 

And, despite entering the show with the most nominations, The Crown has come home empty handed. 

19:53:49 Sarah Lancashire wins leading actress award

It’s the final award of the night – best leading actress. 

And the winner is… Sarah Lancashire for her performance in Happy Valley. 

Taking to the stage in tears, she thanks the other nominees and all those involved in the production of the show. 

“I feel very, very privileged to have been surrounded by these brilliant actors,” she adds. 

“Thank you to the BBC for giving this very British drama a very British home.” 

Here are the other nominations: 

Anjana Vasan, Demon 79 (Black Mirror) – Netflix Anne Reid, The Sixth Commandment – BBC One Bella Ramsey, The Last Of Us – HBO/ Sky Atlantic Helena Bonham Carter, Nolly – ITVX Sharon Horgan, Best Interests – BBC One

19:47:30 Timothy Spall wins leading actor award

Timothy Spall has won the leading actor award for his performance in The Sixth Commandment. 

Accepting the BAFTA, he tells viewers to look on IMDB for details of those involved in the show because he hasn’t prepared a speech. 

“Acting is a stupid thing,” he says, but he acknowledges that it also has the power to tell emotional stories. 

“I’ve always wanted one of these,” he adds. “Thank you very much”. 

Here are the other nominations: 

Brian Cox, Succession – HBO/ Sky AtlanticDominic West, The Crown – NetflixKane Robinson, Top Boy – NetlixPaapa Essiedu, The Lazarus Project – Sky MaxSteve Coogan, The Reckoning – BBC One

19:45:11 Joe Lycett wins best entertainment performance

This award is being handed out by Lenny Rush, who won at last year’s awards for his role in Am I Being Unreasonable? 

As he prepares to congratulate the winner, he jokes that there is a clause in the BAFTAs contract that means they have to be best friends. 

And the winner is Joe Lycett for his performance in his Channel 4 show Late Night Lycett. 

He has come dressed as a Queen Elizabeth I tonight after losing a bet with his aunties. 

Wonder how Lenny is feeling now… 

Here are the other nominations: 

Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! – ITV Big Zuu, Big Zuu’s Big Eats – Dave Graham Norton, The Graham Norton Show – BBC One Hannah Waddingham, The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 – BBC One Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, Rob & Romesh Vs – Sky Max

19:41:48 ‘Remember there’ll always be somebody who loves you – and that’s me’

Baroness Floella Benjamin has been awarded the fellowship prize this year. 

She says the industry is currently facing a number of issues, and calls on the government to provide support. 

“Oh how I wish my mum and dad were alive to celebrate this part of our Windrush journey,” she adds. 

She acknowledges challenges she has faced, including being told to “shut up”. 

But she adds that she wanted industry head to “have diversity and inclusion in their DNA”. 

She also thanks her children for “sharing their mummy” and her husband for being the “wind beneath her wings”. 

“Remember wherever you go, whatever happens to you, there’ll always, always, always be somebody who loves you and that’s me Floella,” she concludes. 

19:32:23 Such Brave Girls wins scripted comedy award

Such Brave Girls has won the scripted comedy award. 

The BBC Three show sees a single mother and her two daughters attempt to piece their lives back together after their husband and father leave.

Accepting the prize, writer Kat Sadler says she started writing the show while she was sectioned and her co-writer and sister Lizzie Davidson was in £20,000 of debt. 

She ends by saying thank you to BAFTA. 

Here are the other nominations: 

Big Boys – Channel 4 Dreaming Whilst Black – BBC Three Extraordinary – Disney+

19:26:25 Top Boy wins best drama series

It’s time for the biggest award of the night – best drama series, and it goes to Top Boy.

Accepting the prize, producer Charles Steel thanks Netflix and the production team for the show. 

Jasmine Jobson, who plays Jacqueline on the show, jumps in to say thank you as well.

“I am the woman who has been standing in a group full of men, you have shown me what it is to be strong and independent and how important it is to stand out in a crowd full of people where it’s easy to be invisible,” she says.

“Netflix, Top Boy you changed my life. We got two,” she shouts. 

She won best supporting actress earlier.

Unfortunately, there’s no sign of Ashley Walters, who plays Dushane in the hit drama which follows the story of rival drug-dealing gangs in London.

The BAFTA was expected to go to Happy Valley, which has already picked up the most memorable TV moment prize. 

Here are the other nominations: 

The Gold – BBC One Happy Valley – BBC One Slow Horses – Apple TV+

19:20:01 ‘I never ever take it for granted’ – Lorraine Kelly accepts special award and reveals she’ll soon be a grandmother

As we have already mentioned, Lorraine Kelly has won the special award this year. 

Accepting the BAFTA, the TV show host says it is an “amazing” honour and takes a moment to thank everyone she has worked with over the years. 

“I never ever take it for granted that so many people trust me with their stories,” the 64-year-old says. 

“I would just say don’t pull up the ladder… I just want everyone to have the best opportunities.” 

Taking a moment to thank her daughter Rosie, Lorraine reveals she is soon going to be a grandmother. 

19:14:46 Matthew Perry remembered

The ceremony now turns slightly more sombre, as it remembers industry stars who have died over the last year. 

Photos of several celebrities including Benjamin Zephaniah, Richard Franklin and Matthew Perry have been shown as a piano rendition of the Friends theme tune is played. 

Perry, who played Chandler in the show, died in October after being found unresponsive in a hot tub at his home in Los Angeles.

Tributes were also paid to talk show legend Sir Michael Parkinson, Lord of the Rings star Bernard Hill and newsreader George Alagiah.

19:13:57 Stars pose with their gongs

It’s been a great night for these TV stars who have managed to get their hands on a famous golden mask.

Some have already posed for the cameras with their awards…

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