Joel Dommett joins pregnant wife Hannah Cooper at BAFTA TV Awards

They announced last week they’re expecting their first child.

And Joel Dommett and Hannah Cooper were every inch the beaming parents-to-be as they graced the red carpet for the British Academy TV Awards with P&O Cruises on Sunday night.

The pair joined a star-studded guest list for the ceremony, which saw Joel’s series The Masked Singer earn a surprise win for Entertainment Programme.

On the red carpet, Hannah showed off her growing bump in a stunning gold dress studded with delicate diamantes.

The dress boasted an elegant off-the-shoulder neckline and a flowing sheer skirt as she joined her comic husband on the red carpet.

Baby on the way! Joel Dommett and Hannah Cooper were every inch the beaming parents-to-be as they graced the red carpet for the British Academy TV Awards on Sunday

A vision! On the red carpet, Hannah showed off her growing bump in a stunning gold dress studded with delicate diamantes

A vision! On the red carpet, Hannah showed off her growing bump in a stunning gold dress studded with delicate diamantes

Soon are the ceremony began, Joel took to the stage as The Masked Singer were awarded the Entertainment prize, beating out longtime favourites Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway.

Joel said in his speech: ‘I really didn’t expect this, Strictly normally wins everything. Thank you so much to ITV firstly for believing in this silly show, it is so silly and it’s so wonderful, it has brightened up so many families and homes.

‘It is such a joy to make. All of the crew love making it. Thank you to all of the celebrities who have been on the show.’

Judge Mo Gilligan said: ‘People tied to mock it when it first came out, and now it has won a Bafta. It is great escapism…people at home don’t want to watch something depressing. We are just the faces of it, aren’t we Joel?’

Taking to Twitter, viewers asked whether the world had ‘gone mad’ while claiming they’ll ‘never know’ how TMS ended up winning the prestigious trophy, collected by host Joel Dommett. 

Later… With Jools Holland: Jools’ 30th Birthday Bash and Strictly Come Dancing had also been nominated in the entertainment category.

One wrote, ‘The Masked Singer? Has the world gone mad? Utter c**p #BAFTAS,’ while another joked, ‘The Masked Singer? Seriously? #BAFTATVAwards.’

Kate Winslet was awarded Best Actress for her critically-acclaimed performance in I Am Ruth, and during her speech she paid tribute to her co-star and daughter Mia Threapleton. 

Stunning! The dress boasted an elegant off-the-shoulder neckline and a flowing sheer skirt as she joined her comic husband on the red carpet

Stunning! The dress boasted an elegant off-the-shoulder neckline and a flowing sheer skirt as she joined her comic husband on the red carpet

Happy couple! Last week the couple announced they were expecting their first child

Happy couple! Last week the couple announced they were expecting their first child

BAFTA TV AWARDS 2023: WINNERS AT A GLANCE

 Best Drama Series: Bad Sisters

 Leading Actor: Ben Whinshaw – This Is Going To Hurt

Leading Actress: Kate Winslet – I Am Ruth

Supporting Actor: Adeel Akhtar – Sherwood

Supporting Actress: Anne-Marie Duff – Bad Sisters

 Male Performance In A Comedy: Lenny Rush

Female Performance In A Comedy:  Siobhán McSweeney – Derry Girls

Single Drama: I Am Ruth

Memorable Moment: Party at the Palace – Paddington Meets The Queen 

 BAFTA Fellowship: Meera Syal

One of the big winners proved to be BBC’s runaway hit The Traitors, which scooped the Reality And Constructed Factual award, while host Claudia Winkleman won Entertainment Performance for fronting the show.

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.

Ben, who won critical acclaim for his performance as NHS junior Adam Kay in This Is Going To Hurt, was awarded the Best Actor prize, beating out competition including Gary Oldman, Martin Freeman, Cillian Murphy and Chaske Spencer.

On stage, the actor, 42, said: ‘Oh goodness me, I really didn’t think that would happen and I love so much the actors in this category.’

Whishaw also said ‘everybody in the show is just mind-blowing’ and ‘most of all thank you, Adam Kay, for writing this wonderful role. I’m very humbled, and blessed.’

The medical drama is based on Kay’s book This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor which chronicles his work training to be a doctor in the NHS. 

The night also saw Sir Mo Farah win for his BBC One documentary The Real Mo Farah which revealed he had been illegally trafficked to the UK as a child.

Collecting the best single documentary prize, the four-time Olympic champion dedicated the award to ‘children who are being trafficked’.

In his speech, he said: ‘The kids have no say at all, they are just kids and no child should ever go through what I did, I hope my story shows they aren’t alone, we are in it together.’

The 40-year-old thanked the team at the BBC because it ‘wasn’t easy’ to film and he wouldn’t have been able to it ‘without them’, while his wife Tania Nell said it was the couples children who ’empowered’ them to tell the story.

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 reality and constructed factual award was given to psychological adventure show, The Traitors, and collecting the prize, presenter Claudia Winkleman, 51, said she and the team are ‘blown away by this, thank you so much’.

Things got even better for Claudia, as later that evening she received the Entertainment Performance award for hosting The Traitors.

Lenny Rush took home the award for Best Male Comedy Performance for his lauded performance in Am I Being Unreasonable?

Anne-Marie Duff won the Supporting Actress Award for the comedy Bad Sisters, said she was ‘completely shocked’ and thanked the cast and production team. 

It was a huge night for the Irish Apple TV+ drama, which also won the award for Drama Series. 

Adeel Akhtar received Best Supporting Actor for his role in Sherwood, and he thanked his mum for ‘smuggling’ him into youth theatre when his father wanted him to be a lawyer, and his wife who ‘seven years ago agreed to go on a date with me’, before referencing diversity and inclusion in his speech.

The BAFTAs also paid tribute to stars including talk show host Jerry Springer, Strictly Come Dancing’s Len Goodman and presenter and drag queen Paul O’Grady who have died over the last year.

Doctor Who actor Bernard Cribbins, comedian Barry Humphries, Hi-De-Hi! actress Ruth Madoc and Emmerdale star Dale Meeks were also named by the ceremony.

Shock! Soon are the ceremony began, Joel took to the stage as The Masked Singer were awarded the Entertainment Programme prize

Shock! Soon are the ceremony began, Joel took to the stage as The Masked Singer were awarded the Entertainment Programme prize

Surprise: Home audiences began scratching their heads when the ITV talent show beat the popular variety programme fronted by Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly

Surprise: Home audiences began scratching their heads when the ITV talent show beat the popular variety programme fronted by Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly

In a shocking upset, The Masked Singer beat Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway and Strictly Come Dancing to win Best Entertainment Programme.

Presented by Doctor Who returnees David Tennant and Catherine Tate, Joe Lycett Vs Beckham: Got Your Back At Xmas won the TV Features award, thought the host was not present to accept,

The Memorable Moment TV BAFTA was given to Paddington Bear having tea with the late Queen during the Platinum Jubilee: Party At The Palace celebrations on the BBC.

The Daytime award was given to The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit which saw the King, then Prince of Wales, take part.

Comedy legend Meera Syla placed a Bindi on her Bafta Fellowship award after taking to the stage to accept the coveted honour.

The coveted BAFTA Fellowship was given to comedy legend Meera Syal for her illustrious career.

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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