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Wales Online
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
Alex Jones says it makes her 'feel sick' as BBC show misses out
Alex Jones says it makes her 'feel sick' as BBC show misses out Alex Jones has revealed how she felt saying "it takes a village" Alex has revealed how she felt (Image: Alex Jones/Instagram ) Welsh TV star Alex Jones has revealed how she felt about the Bafta TV Awards as a fellow BBC show missed out on winning. Saying it "makes me feel sick" and that it "takes a village" Alex spoke about her time at the awards. Posting photos of her from the red carpet, Alex said: "Thank you so much to @pandocruises for inviting me to @bafta last night. You were such wonderful hosts and it was lovely to bump into lots of friends! "It takes a village to get ready for a night like this though and even then the thought of the red carpet still makes me feel sick! "Loved wearing this gorgeous skirt and top from @suzannahlondon it got a big thumbs up from Annie and it was fun to grow my hair long for one night only "As always, thanks to the dream team @lizbeckettmua @mayfivehair and @tesswrightstylist" Included in the photos that Alex posted were selfies of her with presenters from fellow BBC show, Morning Live, including Helen Skeleton and Michelle Ackerley. Article continues below Content cannot be displayed without consent Morning Live missed out on winning best daytime show, with the award going to Clive Myrie's Caribbean Adventure. For the latest TV and showbiz gossip sign up to our newsletter . Elsewhere at the Baftas, Ruth Jones won the award for best female performance in a comedy for her role as Nessa in the Welsh sitcom Gavin & Stacey. Beginning her acceptance speech as Nessa, she said: "I'm not gonna lie, this is immense. "I weren't expecting to win this, no way. "I've won a Bafta before, of course I have, in 1976. Article continues below "It was the Barry arcade fruity technician award and I was grateful for that but this, this is cracking." Swapping to speaking as herself, she added: "I really wasn't expecting to win this." She went on to thank the cast, the director, the crew, and production team, and the BBC. You can read more, here.
Powys County Times
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Powys County Times
Mr Bates Vs The Post Office wins Bafta but fight for victims ‘not over yet'
The writers of Mr Bates Vs The Post Office said the fight is 'not over yet' after it won the Bafta TV Award for limited drama. The four-part series focuses on the subpostmasters who fought to clear their names in the wake of the Horizon scandal, which wrongly convicted them of offences such as fraud because of the faulty software. Creators of the show including actor Toby Jones who played Sir Alan Bates, writer Gwyneth Hughes and producer Patrick Spencer, hopes the Bafta win will keep the scandal at the forefront of the public's mind as subpostmasters continue to wait for compensation. 'It's not over yet. It's a complicated situation. There's several different compensation schemes going on,' Ms Hughes said at a winner's press conference shortly after receiving the award. 'They're all mired in different parts of the government. Nobody seems to know what's happening. 'Our main characters have not been paid. They haven't got their compensation. It's been going for 25 years. 'If we're on front pages tomorrow waving our very heavy statuettes, then that's bound to get it back in people's consciousness and get people to make an effort.' Mr Bates vs The Post Office wins the BAFTA for Limited Drama 👏 #BAFTATVAwards with @pandocruises — BAFTA (@BAFTA) May 11, 2025 She also said it was 'very distressing' when she realised the scandal was happening in Britain comparing the situation to something that might occur in a country where 'little people don't have any power'. 'It's a British story. I couldn't believe it was happening in my country. When I first heard about it, I thought that can't be true, that can't be right,' she explained. Kevin Lygo, managing director of ITV Studios, received the Special Award at the Baftas for commissioning Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, and urged all TV corporations to continue making series to 'make power to account'. 'It really falls to us to remember that these are incredibly important things that must continue to be learned,' he said on stage at the Royal Festival Hall. 'At a time when funding is tricky but not impossible, the ITV and the BBC must continue to make power to account, institutions like the post office to account. 'It is part of a long tradition on TV of these genres that true stories that shine a light on corruption, criminality, miscarriages of justice… but nothing, I think, has had quite the effects Mr Bates' has had.' He urged for those in power to speed up the compensation process for the subpostmasters still waiting to receive payment. 'It's been successful in every way, except one, which is that they still, many of them, have not got their compensation,' he said. 'So I say to anybody who's in charge of sorting out the compensation, will you hurry up and pay these people what they do?' Star of the show Jones described the series as being representative of the 'state of the world now'. Speaking at the winner's press conference, Jones said: 'I think that there's something archetypal about the story that keys into the state of the world now. 'It's not just the postmasters, there's a general sense of disenfranchisement of people feeling cut off from their dreams, cut off from just a lifestyle, cut off from living their lives.' The show's producer Patrick Spence has called for the media to continue 'spreading the message' and raise awareness about the Horizon scandal. 'I think we've done our bit. We carried the baton for a bit. We need you guys to spread the message that they haven't been paid yet,' he said. 'It's not over, and they're being bamboozled with bureaucracy, so please, we beg you, don't make us make another drama. 'Get the message out and tell them seriously if there are still people in abject poverty waiting for compensation.'
