The BBC received more complaints about the BAFTA Film Awards N-word debacle than for any other broadcast since the Glastonbury crisis, in which Bob Vylan chanted “death to the IDF.”
The British broadcaster clocked up 1,588 complaints from viewers who said they were “unhappy a racial slur was heard and that it was not edited out of the broadcast,” according to the BBC’s complaints log.
No other BBC show or broadcast has registered this number of complaints since June 2025, when the corporation received 3,396 messages from viewers who were upset when Bob Vylan’s anti-Israel chant was live-streamed on iPlayer.
The complaints figure is somewhat ironic, given that the BBC and producers held planning meetings before the BAFTA Film Awards, in which they discussed not repeating the Glastonbury disaster. The contingency meetings were first revealed by Deadline.
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