The Baftas aren’t all about you, viewers tell Fry
IT was, to use his own words, an attempt to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Bafta host Stephen Fry could not resist sharing his pre-show make-up session with his millions of social media followers.
Make-up artist Sue Sian was armed with an array of tools to assist her, from various bottles and tubes of Dermalogica products, to concealers, bronzers, foundation, Elnett hairspray and even large pink powder puffs.
Fry, 57, clearly enjoyed being pampered, captioning the picture: ‘My beloved @SueSianMakeUp trying to make a silk purse out a sow’s ear.’
After Sunday’s film awards were broadcast on BBC1, however, Fry found himself under fire from viewers who called him ‘embarrassing’ and said he spent too much time talking about himself. He opened the awards by thanking the audience of A-list actors for coming to his wedding reception – a reference to his marriage to Elliott Spencer, 27, earlier this year.
He forgot the name of Boyhood actress Patricia Arquette and also peppered his presentation with fawning remarks about the handsome leading men in the room.
Fry was also accused of performing a tasteless vocal impression of Professor Stephen Hawking, who was in the audience and is played by Bafta best actor winner Eddie Redmayne in The Theory Of Everything.
Comments on Twitter included: ‘Stephen Fry doing an impression of Stephen Hawking was the most horrifically awkward thing I’ve ever seen.’
Others wrote: ‘The Baftas are more boring with each passing year. Surely it’s time to retire Stephen Fry and inject some energy into the proceedings’, and: ‘Is anyone watching the Baftas awards and getting bored with Stephen Fry talking about himself.’ Anger of Sinden’s family: Sebastian
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