BAFTAS host David Tennant has unlikely reaction to presenting awards for second time

Doctor Who and Broadchurch prima David Tennant is returning arsenic the big of the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards, and has revealed wherefore helium accepted the prestigious occupation for the 2nd time

The biggest nighttime successful British movie is upon america arsenic scores of beautifully dressed celebrities get acceptable to congregate astatine the Royal Festival Hall for the 2025 EE Bafta Film Awards.

On Sunday 16 February, stars including Demi Moore, Ralph Fiennes, Cynthia Erivo and Timothée Chalamet are expected to locomotion the reddish carpet astatine London’s Southbank Centre earlier entering the auditorium to observe who has won coveted prizes including the awards for Leading Actor and Leading Actress, Outstanding British Film, and the EE Rising Star Award – the lone grant voted for by the public.

The Princess of Wales could besides adhd a dash of royal glamour, accompanying Bafta president Prince William, successful what would beryllium her archetypal reddish carpet quality since being declared cancer-free. The star-studded lawsuit is achromatic tie, though past twelvemonth Ryan Gosling bucked normal successful a achromatic suit with nary tie, and Andrew Scott wore a reddish suit and open-necked shirt. Also lasting retired from the assemblage successful 2024 was big David Tennant. He rocked the reddish carpet successful an embellished overgarment and kilt, making respective outfit changes implicit the people of the evening.

David is backmost connected hosting duties this year. It’s a prestigious job, with celebrated names including Sir Billy Connolly, Sir Stephen Fry and Dame Joanna Lumley each having antecedently hosted. Doctor Who histrion David is looking guardant to returning to the Bafta stage. “It’s a lark! The nighttime went past successful a spot of a blur past year, but it was truthful overmuch fun,” helium says. “It feels similar a existent privilege to beryllium portion of it, and to get different ace astatine thing truthful breathtaking is simply a existent joy.

“I besides didn’t privation anyone to deliberation I hadn’t been asked back, truthful I thought I’d amended accidental yes! Luckily
this is not what I bash for my time occupation – if it each goes incorrect I’ll conscionable spell backmost to pretending to beryllium different people.”

The Bafta Awards are broadcast connected BBC One a fewer hours aft the existent ceremonial begins, but David reveals that it is conscionable similar taking portion successful a unrecorded broadcast. “I’m tense astir definite elements of the gig – it’s rather an unnatural spot to be, lasting successful beforehand of that hallway of stars and we dainty it arsenic a unrecorded broadcast, which keeps you connected your toes,” helium says.

He is besides alert he’s not the lone tense idiosyncratic successful the building. “It’s astir apt much nerve-wracking to beryllium sitting retired successful the assemblage wondering if you’re going to triumph a prize oregon not, whereas I’m connected the different broadside of it. Saying that, it is simply a small astonishing erstwhile you look retired astatine the beforehand enactment and you spot each of the astir celebrated radical successful the world staring backmost astatine you! And they each person a definite anxiousness successful their eyes, due to the fact that they are astir to beryllium celebrated oregon disappointed and that’s ne'er casual for anyone, nary substance who you are.”

This year, nominees see Demi Moore for The Substance, Hugh Grant for Heretic, Cynthia Erivo for Wicked and Selena Gomez for Emilia Pérez, truthful the beforehand enactment should look awesome from wherever David volition beryllium standing.

“You don’t truly get the accidental to speech to people, due to the fact that you person a precise circumstantial intent connected the night, and a precise defined crushed to beryllium there,” David says. “As the big you’re lasting successful a country portion everyone accepts their awards, and it’s a spot similar jumping retired of a plane: erstwhile it starts you’re determination for 3 hours until each those prizes are handed out, and you conscionable person to beryllium acceptable for the adjacent link.”

When the awards ceremonial ends, celebrities tin caput to a post-awards dinner, and past after-parties. David, however, doesn’t mean to enactment the nighttime away. “I’ll spell to the dinner. Beyond that I thin not to marque it to the existent late-night stuff,” helium says. “I don’t deliberation I was ever young capable for that, but it doesn’t assistance being a genitor and knowing that the alarm is going disconnected astatine 6am whichever time of the week it is!”

EE Bafta Film Awards 2025 is connected Sunday 16 February, 7pm, BBC One

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