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These Americans didn’t realise they were trolling an Aussie ‘John Davidson’ over the Baftas controversy and the way he handled it was just magnificent

John Plunkett. Updated February 24th, 2026

The controversy rumbles on from Sunday’s Bafta film awards over Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson’s verbal tic while Hollywood stars Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting a prize.

The concern appears chiefly (and rightly) around the BBC’s failure to censor the word despite broadcasting the ceremony on a two-hour delay, presumably precisely for this sort of thing.

We mention it because some Americans have been keen to let John Davidson know exactly what they think.

That would be awful if they were seizing on the real John Davidson, obviously. But instead they’ve been targeting an entirely different John Davidson – this one resides in Australia, so basically as wrong as they could possibly be.

And Davidson’s supremely patient and extremely funny responses to just about each and every one of them made – they’re not all Americans, obviously, just most of them – the whole thing even better.

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