Nicola Coughlan admits Googling her name 'doesn't make her feel great'

Nicola Coughlan paid tribute to Victoria Beckham arsenic she accepted the Television Actress grant astatine the Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year Awards connected Tuesday night.

The Irish actress, 37, was recognised astatine the yearly event, hosted successful concern with The Platinum Card by American Express, astatine London’s Claridge’s Hotel, alongside chap stars Sophie Turner, Ambika Mod, Raye and jock Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

Taking the stage, the Bridgerton prima opened her code by sharing, “I emotion being a woman, I emotion being a pistillate actor, but sometimes, it's f**king hard.”

Coughlan revealed that she’d Googled herself up of the ceremony, lone to spot the apical searches were “Nicola Coughlan partner, Nicola Coughlan age, and Nicola Coughlan size” and admitted seeing the searches “didn’t marque her consciousness great”.

Touching connected the scrutiny and unit women successful the spotlight face, she spoke astir her “favorite popular star” Victoria, astonishing the decorator successful the audience, and applauding her for battling misogyny her full career.

Coughlan recalled how, arsenic a child, she’d adjacent chopped her hairsbreadth into a Posh Spice-inspired bob. The Big Mood prima went connected to stock however she watched a documentary connected the Spice Girls, expecting a amusive solemnisation of the band’s bequest but alternatively was struck by the “misogyny” they endured.

“[Victoria Beckham] was inherently cool... she was truthful funny. She was truthful profoundly funny,” Coughlan shared connected stage, referencing the star’s iconic humour with a enactment from Spice World The Movie.

Facing Beckham directly, the Derry Girls prima continued: “You are my favourite, you'll ever beryllium my favourite. I admired you for each those things, but I respect you for your tenacity, due to the fact that I watched a documentary arsenic an big of the Spice Girls and it horrified me.

“I thought if I ticker it, it'd beryllium fun, 'oh wow retrieve these women who I was inspired by' and the magnitude of bulls**t you dealt with. The magnitude of misogyny successful the media... the things they asked you connected unrecorded television, the scrutiny astir your life, astir everything.

Before admitting: “I conscionable don't cognize however you person done it due to the fact that I person a tiny, tiny magnitude and it's f**king hard.”

Coghlan past addressed the “responsibility” women successful the manufacture person for the adjacent generation, mentioning her ain acquisition of inappropriate questions during Bridgerton’s property tour, peculiarly astir her relationship with co-star Luke Newton, who is dating dancer Antonia Roumelioti.

“I did a six months property circuit for Bridgerton for a amusement I emotion and americium truthful arrogant of,” she said. “The magnitude of inappropriate questions I got asked astir my appearance, astir my relationships, it's not bully enough, we're not doing bully enough.”

Concluding: “I deliberation we person to admit that and bash amended for the adjacent procreation truthful they tin basal present and go, 'I didn't person to woody with immoderate of that bulls**t'.”

Coughlan, who donned a Dior look for the evening with her Artists4Ceasefire pin, was honoured astatine the lawsuit alongside Beckham, writer Jilly Cooper, histrion Harriet Walters, Francesca Amfitheatrof, creator manager for watches and jewellery astatine Louis Vuitton and creator Rana Begum.