The annual award show took a pause to remember the stars who have died during the past 12 months
The Bafta TV Awards viewers called out a beloved late star who was missing from the ceremony’s in memoriam segment.
A host of stars attended this year’s ceremony, which was held at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London. On presenting duties for the evening was Greg Davies, best known for presenting Taskmaster and appearing in The Inbetweeners.
As is usual with the ceremony, which was dominated by the Netflix series Adolescence, a portion of the programme was dedicated to the stars who lost their lives over the past 12 months.
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Norwegian singer-songwriter AURORA performed a beautiful rendition of Through the Eyes of a Child, from Adolescence, as pictures and clips of the stars who had died were displayed. Among those featured through pictures was Rivals author Jilly Cooper, Only Fools and Horses’ Patrick Murray, Kim Woodbourne, Ozzy Osbourne and EastEnders legend Derek Martin.
It wasn’t just UK stars who were honoured, with Grey’s Anatomy’s Eric Dane, Dawson’s James Van Der Beeke and The Cosby Show’s Malcolm-Jamal Warner all featured. Also shown was Married at First Sight Australia’s Mel Schilling.
Those who received video clips of their work were Fawlty Towers’ Prunella Scales, Top Gear’s Quentin Willson, Wycliffe’s Jack Shepherd, ITN News’ Sandy Gall, the BBC’s Alan Yentob and Keeping Up Appearances’ Patrica Routledge.
One star who was not shown at all was Home Alone’s Catherine O’Hara, in spite of her series The Studio winning Best International series moments before the in memoriam. Her co-star Seth Rogen paid tribute to her during his acceptance speech.
He said: “I’d be remiss not to mention one of the key parts of this show, Catherine O’Hara. She meant so much to all of us. I assume her work was as important to you all over here as it was to us. So this is for Catherine. Thank you all very, very much.”
Those watching the Baftas at home rushed to X, previously known as Twitter, to have their say on why they were annoyed by the screen icon’s omission from the poignant segment.
@cj_787 said: “Catherine O’Hara not featured on the celebs who have passed away segment?” @rosekdl9 added: “Did I miss the tribute to Catherine O’Hara in that segment.”
@JulesItsjules wrote: “Where was the legend Catherine O’Hara in the tributes? They always do this. Miss someone out. #BAFTA.”
@PoshKathryn commented: “What the actual F! How do you not include Catherine O’Hara in the memorial section? And while I’m on a rant, a nod to Ted from Gone Fishing wouldn’t have gone amiss either! #baftas.”
Some people have pointed out that the reason Catherine wasn’t featured due to her being show during the Bafta Film Awards earlier in the year.
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