Overview
- At the NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena, Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo received standing ovations as Regina Hall and Quinta Brunson offered public support.
- Delroy Lindo delivered his first remarks since the BAFTAs, thanking audiences for their support and calling the experience a negative turning into a positive.
- Host Deon Cole acknowledged the controversy with an opening monologue joke that nodded to the incident without naming those involved.
- BAFTA apologized and said it takes full responsibility, and the BBC has removed the original program from iPlayer and opened an internal investigation into the edit failure.
- Questions about tape-delay safeguards persist, including reports that Warner Bros. requested the moment be cut, as debate continues over involuntary coprolalia linked to Tourette’s.