Alan Carr's BAFTA Dance Compared to Nativity! Character as Stephen Graham Wins

Alan Carr has been compared to his eccentric character in Nativity! after his hilarious reaction to The Celebrity Traitors winning a TV BAFTA on Sunday night. The comedian and actor, 49, enthusiastically hopped onto the stage after his victory scene in the first series of the show was named the year's Most Memorable TV Moment. He excitedly hopped up and down and danced his way to the microphone before giving his acceptance speech.

Alan then cheekily questioned his fellow contestants' intelligence on the show, saying: 'Was I really good – or were the other celebrities just thick?!' – in reference to their failure to identify him as a Traitor. His reaction to the win has now been compared to a scene from Nativity! where his theatre critic character Patrick Burns does a memorable tap dance during the final school play scenes. Sharing videos of the two moments side by side, one BAFTA viewer penned on X: 'Alan Carr possessed by his Nativity Critic Man at the Baftas.'

Earlier in the night, host Claudia Winkleman had accepted the Reality Award for The Celebrity Traitors. The host, 54, revealed she had flown down from Scotland on Saturday morning from filming the second series to collect the gong. The Traitors host left less than half an hour after receiving the BAFTA to get back on the plane and return to Ardross Castle.

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Stephen Graham Wins Best Actor for Adolescence

Elsewhere, an emotional Stephen Graham was awarded Best Actor at the British Academy Television Awards, as his show Adolescence broke records at London's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday. The actor, 52, revealed he had previously been nominated eight times for shows including Help, Time and This Is England '90, before finally landing the gong for Adolescence. The four-part Netflix show, which received a staggering 11 nominations when it was announced in March, received the most ever wins for a series as it also took home Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Limited Drama.

Adolescence, which was created by actor Stephen and writer Jack Thorne, tells the story of British teenager Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), who is found guilty of murdering a female classmate after being sucked in by the manosphere online. Each episode is filmed in one continuous shot and has been widely praised for addressing topics such as online radicalisation and misogyny.

During his acceptance speech, Stephen, who played Jamie's father, said: 'I might take my time. I've been nominated eight times and this is the first time I've won. I'd like to thank all my fellow nominees. Especially our James and our Ellis, both of you are magnificent. When I was a kid, I watched a television programme called Scully, written by Alan Bleasdale, and it had the wonderful Drew Schofield in it. He lived across the road from my nanna's house so he showed me then that I could be on the television. Drew was such a wonderful man. He was my inspiration so for any young kid, no matter where you're from, anything is possible.'

Owen, 16, who has made history by becoming the youngest winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at both the Golden Globes and the Emmy Awards, continued his award-winning streak as he took home the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor. Meanwhile, Christine Tremarco, who played Owen's mother in the show, won Best Supporting Actress in a surprise result, beating co-star Erin Doherty, who previously took home the Golden Globe and Emmy Award. Stephen wiped away tears as Christine took to the stage and said: 'I hold this BAFTA high to Hannah Walters and Stephen Graham, thank you so much.' The Netflix series also won in the Limited Drama category, beating the shows I Fought The Law (ITV), Trespasses (Channel 4) and What It Feels Like For A Girl (BBC Three).

Owen said of his win: 'Every time we are at these events and your name gets called out your mind flashes back to your first audition, the first time on set, the first time you met the cast, it's been an unreal two years. I'm just grateful to everyone who is here today.'

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Other BAFTA Winners

Elsewhere, the Entertainment BAFTA was awarded to Last One Laughing. The show follows ten comedians competing to make each other laugh without laughing themselves. Host Roisin Conaty said: 'Thank you it's such an amazing honour. This is such a beast of a show, it's like a war room.' Judi Love added: 'This was a show that you can sit down and enjoy with all generations of your family and that's what TV in the UK is about.'

Steve Coogan won a BAFTA for actor in a comedy for his performance in How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge). He said: 'If anyone wants to know when Alan Partridge is going to die, it's probably about the same time as I am going to die – I will keep doing it. Doing comedy in times like this is so important and it's a privilege to make people laugh. I'm not going to be very funny because my comedy writers haven't written anything funny for me to say.'

Katherine Parkinson won a BAFTA as best actor in a comedy for Here We Go and thanked her husband Stephen who she said: 'wasn't here tonight because he didn't think I'd win.'

The Specialist Factual BAFTA was won by Simon Schama's The Road to Auschwitz. 'I think the BBC is the only broadcasting institution that would dare to make this kind of film,' said the historian. The BAFTA for factual series went to See No Evil, about the career of prolific abuser John Smyth and the 35 year cover up which led to the fall of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The BAFTA single documentary went to Grenfell: Uncovered. The Current Affairs BAFTA went to the series Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. It had been commissioned by the BBC but went out on Channel 4. The corporation paused its production following the launch of an investigation into another documentary Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, which starred the son of a leader of Hamas – a fact that the film failed to mention.