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RTÉ News
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Baby Reindeer's Jessica Gunning gets an early Bafta win
Baby Reindeer's Jessica Gunning won the Bafta for best supporting actress for playing a stalker in the hit Netflix series as Ariyon Bakare picked up the corresponding male gong for Mr Loverman. The female performance in a comedy Bafta - where Nicola Coughlan was also nominated - was snapped up by Welsh comedian Ruth Jones for BBC sitcom Gavin And Stacey: The Finale. "I'm not going to lie this is immense," she said. "The person I would like to thank most his my dear, dear talented friend James Corden." She said without British actor Corden "Vanessa Shanessa Nessa' Jenkins would not exist", as their final instalment of the show brought to a close the love story between his character and hers. Netflix hit Baby Reindeer, said to be inspired by the real-life experiences of creator Richard Gadd, sees his character Donny being hounded by a woman called Martha, played by Gunning, after he serves her a free cup of tea in the pub where he works. Elsewhere, the Bafta for limited drama was awarded to ITV's Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, which has renewed public attention on the subpostmasters who fought to clear their names in the wake of the Horizon scandal. Yorkshire-born Gunning beat her fellow Baby Reindeer star, trans actress Nava Mau, to the prize, who played Donny's girlfriend Teri. On stage on Sunday at London's Royal Festival Hall, Gunning said: "Hello, cheeky chops, gosh, thank you Bafta, wow", before joking that she used to pretend to be a dog in her garden. "I sometimes do this kind of cheesy thing where I look back on the younger me and moments in my life, and I imagine the kind of then me, seeing me now, and think, 'little did we know'," she said. She said last year, her and Gadd were at the ceremony, and "little did we know what the year had in store", while thanking him for changing "her life". Gunning has previously picked up an Emmy, Sag award and Golden Globe for playing Martha, whose interference in Donny's life makes his world unravel, as the show also dramatises the failing comedian character's other traumas. Picking up the best supporting actor prize was Ariyon Bakare for the BBC LGBT drama Mr Loverman, based on the Bernardine Evaristo novel of the same name. The programme follows Barrington Walker, played by Lennie James, as he contemplates leaving his wife for Bakare's character. Accepting the prize, Bakare appeared to stop a few times as he became "nervous" and thanked his sister for her support. He said: "This award stands on the shoulders of those who came before me, those who might have been afraid to come out, to be who they want to be." He also thanked James and Sharon D Clarke, who played Barrington's wife Carmel. Collecting the limited drama prize, Mr Bates producer Patrick Spence said that they would never have been able to make the show without ITV and the journalists who had covered the scandal. He said that people such as Alan Bates "demanded action with such rage" and that the airing of the drama proved the public "cannot abide liars and bullies". The ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London was opened by host and Scottish actor Alan Cumming, who referenced his presenting role on The Traitors US in a sketch with footage of him shown in the Scottish Highlands castle where the hit reality series takes place. On stage, Cumming also joked about his acting career, Facebook, and brought a fake children's book about long speeches and who winners are supposed to thank.
The Independent
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Gavin And Stacey, Andrew Flintoff and The Traitors up for RTS awards
The end of the sitcom Gavin And Stacey, Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff's documentary and the game show The Traitors are up for 2025 Royal Television Society (RTS) awards. Christmas special Gavin And Stacey: The Finale will compete against the BBC comedy Things You Should Have Done, and Channel 4's sitcom We Are Lady Parts, in the scripted comedy category. More than 19 million watched Neil 'Smithy' Smith, played by co-creator James Corden, finally decide to marry Vanessa 'Nessa' Jenkins, portrayed by co-creator Ruth Jones, in the emotional farewell to the beloved BBC show. Comedian Tom Allen will host the RTS ceremony on March 25 at JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel in London. The BBC leads the way with 45 nominations across the 29 categories, with its shows Freddie Flintoff's Field Of Dreams On Tour up for formatted popular factual section, and The Traitors up for the entertainment gong and entertainment performance for host Claudia Winkleman. The third series of the popular reality show, in which the 'traitors' get rid of the 'faithful' contestants to grasp a prize pot, will face the last edition of ITV's Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway before it went on a break, and BBC reality show RuPaul's Drag Race UK. Channel 4 received 14 nominations for 2025, with the broadcaster's coverage of the Paris 2024 Paralympics recognised in both the sports presenter for Rose Ayling-Ellis and Clare Balding, and sports programme categories. Strictly Come Dancing co-presenter Winkleman, 53, will face Geordie duo Declan Donnelly and Anthony McPartlin for their variety show, and Steven Frayne, and Steven Frayne's Sky Max special Miracles after the magician said goodbye to the name Dynamo. For the drama series award, hit banking show Industry and period drama Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light, both from the BBC, will compete against Netflix superhero programme Supacell. British writer Peter Straughan, who won a Bafta and Oscar for writing the screenplay of papal drama Conclave, is also nominated for writing the final series of Wolf Hall, about King Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell. Also receiving nods in the same section is British writer Will Smith for Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, about failed spies, and the Disney+ adaptation of Dame Jilly Cooper's novel Rivals . Leading actress is a competition between Ambika Mod for Netflix hit romantic show One Day, Anna Maxwell Martin for ITV crime series Until I Kill You, and Monica Dolan for ITV's true story drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office. The drama about the scandal of subpostmasters who were blamed for accounting errors is also up for the award for limited series and single drama, against the BBC's Birmingham-set This Town, and ITV medical drama Breathtaking about the Covid-19 pandemic. British actor Adeel Akhtar is up for the leading actor gong for legal drama Showtrial, alongside Lennie James for the BBC's Mr Loverman, based on the Bernardine Evaristo novel of the same name, and Paddington star Ben Whishaw for Netflix thriller Black Doves. In the female supporting actor category, Dolan is nominated for her role in James Graham-drama Sherwood, against The IT Crowd star Katherine Parkinson for the 1980s' romp Rivals, and Yorkshire-born actress Jessica Gunning for Netflix hit series Baby Reindeer. Gunning has previously picked up an Emmy, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award and Golden Globe for playing Martha Scott, who stalks Richard Gadd's failed comedian and barman character Donny Dunn in Baby Reindeer. Baby Reindeer has faced controversy since being aired on Netflix last year, after a woman claiming to be the 'real' Martha brought a lawsuit against the streaming company. RTS also nominated former EastEnders actor Danny Dyer for Rivals, US star McKinley Belcher III for Netflix show Eric, and Liverpudlian Sonny Walker for mystery thriller The Gathering, in the supporting actor category. The BBC's coverage of Coldplay at Glastonbury and D Day 80: Tribute To The Fallen, is up for the live event gong, along with ITV's The Martin Lewis Money Show Live – Budget Special. The RTS awards will be held on Tuesday March 25.
