TV BAFTAs: Claudia Winkleman breaks down as she collects TWO gongs

BAFTA TV Awards 2023: ‘I’ll forever be grateful!’ Claudia Winkleman holds back tears as she collects TWO gongs for hosting The Traitors

Claudia Winkleman held back tears during Sunday’s BAFTA TV Awards after winning two trophies for her reality show, The Traitors.

The presenter, 51, was overcome with emotion when the BBC programme won its second trophy, especially since it was for her involvement.

She secured the award in the Entertainment Performance category while the wider team bagged the top spot for Reality and Constructed Factual show.

During her latter speech, the Strictly star said: ‘Sorry I don’t know what to say. I know it’s ridiculous, I can’t get emotional because I’m wearing so much eyeliner… thank you so much.’

‘Thank you so much. I can’t believe it,’ she continued while vowing to be ‘forever grateful’.

Emotional: Claudia Winkleman held back tears during Sunday’s BAFTA TV Awards after winning two trophies for her reality show, The Traitors

Overwhelmed: The presenter, 51, was overcome with emotion when the BBC programme won its second trophy, especially since it was for her involvement

Deserving: She secured the award in the Entertainment Performance category while the wider team bagged the top spot for Reality and Constructed Factual show

The Traitors, along with The Masked Singer, were among the big winners at the 2023 British Academy Television Awards with P&O Cruises.

The star-studded ceremony, held at London’s Royal Festival Hall, saw the best and brightest of British TV descend on the capital, with hosts Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganatha acting as hosts for the evening. 

While Anne-Marie Duff was awarded Supporting Actress for Bad Sisters, the viewer-voted BAFTA for the The P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award was given the moment Paddington Bear enjoyed tea with The Queen during her Platinum Jubilee concert.

The BBC received the most nominations out of all the broadcasters with 47 nods in total, while Channel 4 received 21 and ITV scored 15.

At the start of the show, Siobhan McSweeney won her first BAFTA TV award for best female performance in a comedy programme, for playing Sister Michael, the eye-rolling principal of the show’s Our Lady Immaculate College in the Channel 4 programme Derry Girls.

The comedy about a group of teenagers growing up in Londonderry in the 1990s was a sleeper hit that built a large and committed following across its three series.

Set during the Troubles, the show was praised for offering a new perspective on the period of the IRA and loyalist ceasefires through the eyes of a group of young girls.

Well done! The Traitors, along with The Masked Singer, were among the big winners at the 2023 British Academy Television Awards with P&O Cruises

In the humorous speech, which she said in double speed given the short time given, she said: ‘So I’ve been warned not to do a political statement, so as my mother laid dying in Cork, one of the very last things she said to me was would I not consider retraining as a teacher.

‘If she could see me now, getting a Bafta for playing a teacher. Joke’s on you.’

She also thanked Derry Girls writer Lisa McGee ‘for not listening to me when I said I could play all the girls parts’ and she also thanked Channel 4, adding ‘you have my devotion’.

McSweeney added: ‘To the people in Derry, thank you taking me into your hearts and living room, despite the ignorance of your so-called leaders in Dublin, Stormont and Westminster.

‘Into the words of my beloved Sister Michael, ‘its time they started to wise up’.

She also thanked the BBC and referenced the meeting where commissioning editors agreed to make the show saying: ‘We are going to Scotland, we’re going to use the word murder – are you okay with that?’

BAFTA TV Awards Winners

DRAMA SERIES

Bad Sisters – WINNER

The Responder

Sherwood

Somewhere Boy 

LEADING ACTOR

Ben Whishaw – This Is Going To Hurt – WINNER

Chaske Spencer – The English

Cillian Murphy – Peaky Blinders

Gary Oldman – Slow Horses

Martin Freeman – The Responder

LEADING ACTRESS

Billie Piper – I Hate Suzie Too

Imelda Staunton – The Crown

Kate Winslet – I Am Ruth – WINNER

Maxine Peake – Anne

Sarah Lancashire – Julia

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Adeel Akhtar – Sherwood – WINNER

Jack Lowden – Slow Horse

Josh Finan – The Responder

Salim Daw –  The Crown

Samuel Bottomley – Somewhere Boy

Will Sharpe – The White Lotus 

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Adelayo Adedayo – The Responder

Anne-Marie Duff – Bad Sisters – WINNER

Fiona Shaw – Andor

Jasmine Jobson – Top Boy

Lesley Manville – Sherwood

Saffron Hocking – Top Boy

MALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME

Daniel Radcliffe – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Jon Pointing – Big Boys

Joseph Gilgun – Brassic

Lenny Rush – Am I Being Unreasonable? – WINNER

Matt Berry – What We Do In The Shadows 

FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME

Daisy May Cooper – Am I Being Unreasonable?

Diane Morgan – Cunk On Earth

Lucy Beaumont – Meet The Richardsons

Nastasia Demetriou – Ellie & Natasia

Siobhán McSweeney – Derry Girls – WINNER

Taj Atwal – Hullraisers 

INTERNATIONAL

The Bear

Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story – WINNER

Wednesday

Oussekine

Pachinko

The White Lotus 

MINI-SERIES

A Spy Among Friends

Mood – WINNER

The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe 

This Is Going To Hurt

SINGLE DRAMA

I Am Ruth – WINNER

The House

Life and Death In The Warehouse  

SPORT

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 – WINNER

Wimbledon 2022 

DAYTIME

The Chase

The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit – WINNER

Scam Interceptors 

THE P&O CRUISES MEMORABLE MOMENT AWARD

Platinum Jubilee: Party at the Palace – Paddington Meets The Queen

BAFTA SPECIAL AWARD

Professor David Olusoga OBE

COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME

Friday Night Live – WINNER

The Graham Norton Show

Taskmaster

Would I Lie To You

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME

Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway 

Later… With Jools Holland: Jool’s 30th Birthday Bash

The Masked Singer – WINNER

Strictly Come Dancing

ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE

Big Zuu – Big Zuu’s Big Eats

Claudia Winkleman – The Traitors – WINNER

Lee Mack – The 1% Club

Mo Gilligan – The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan

Rosie Jones – Rosie Jones’ Trip Hazard

Sue Perkins – Sue Perkins: Perfectly Legal

FACTUAL SERIES

Jeremy Kyle Show: Death On Daytime

Libby, Are You Home Yet? – WINNER

Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi

Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing

FEATURES

Big Zuu’s Big Eats

Joe Lycett vs Beckham: Got Your Back at Xmas – WINNER

The Martin Lewis Money Show Livee

The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

LIVE EVENT

Concert for Ukraine

Platinum Jubilee: Party at the Palace – WINNER

The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II

SCRIPTED COMEDY

Am I Being Unreasonable?

Big Boys

Derry Girls – WINNER

Ghosts 

REALITY & CONSTRUCTED FACTUAL

Freddie Flintoff’s Field Of Dreams

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK

The Traitors – WINNER

We are Black and British 

SHORT FORM PROGRAMME

Always, Asifa

Biscuitland

How To Be A Person – WINNER

Kingpin Crisis

SINGLE DOCUMENTARY

Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes

Escape From Kabul Airport

Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story

The Real Mo Farah – WINNER

SOAP & CONTINUING DRAMA

Casualty – WINNER

EastEnders

Emmerdale 

SPECIALIST FACTUAL

AIDS: The Unheard TaPes

The Green Planet

How To Survive A Dictator with Munya Chawawa 

Russia 1985-1999: Traumazone – WINNER

CURRENT AFFAIRS

Afghanistan: No Country For Women

Children of the Taliban – WINNER

The Crossing (Exposure)

Mariupol: The People’s Story (Panorama) 

NEWS COVERAGE

BBC News at Ten: Russia Invades Ukraine

Channel 4 News: Live in Kyiv – WINNER

Good Morning Britain: Boris Johnson Interview 

BAFTA FELLOWSHIP 

Meera Syal

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