Fans have hailed Happy Valley’s Rhys Connah for his ‘brilliant’ acceptance speech after the drama won Memorable Moment at the TV BAFTAs this evening (12 May).
The 19-year-old actor, who has played Ryan Cawood since he was a youngster, took to the stage alone at London's Royal Festival Hall to pick up the award and provided viewers with a very sweet moment.
One X user penned: "So bloody happy #HappyValley won well deserved #BAFTATVAwards x."
A second gushed: "A BAFTA for Happy Valley, absolutely deserved."
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"Thank God Happy Valley, best of British #BAFTATVAwards," quipped a third, while a fourth chimed in: "Happy Valley should win every category #BAFTATVAwards."
A fifth praised: "That young man from Happy Valley just nailed his speech on the BAFTAs when he had to go up to accept it alone. #BAFTAS."
"Poor lad, fancy sending him up on his own. He did brilliantly though. Happy Valley should be winning every award it is nominated for! #BAFTATVAwards," added another.
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And a final user echoed: "THAT is how to accept an award. Brilliant stuff."
The full list of nominees and winners from tonight's TV BAFTAs are as follows:
Comedy entertainment programme
The Graham Norton Show (BBC One)
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Late Night Lycett (Channel 4)
Rob & Romesh Vs... (Sky Max) - WINNER
Would I Lie To You? (BBC One)
Current affairs
Inside Russia: Traitors And Heroes (BBC Four)
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Putin vs the West (BBC Two)
Russell Brand: In Plain Sight (Channel 4)
The Shamima Begum Story (BBC Two) - WINNER
Daytime
Loose Women and Men (ITV1)
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Lorraine (ITV1)
Make It at Market (BBC One)
Scam Interceptors (BBC One) - WINNER
Drama series
The Gold (BBC One)
Happy Valley (BBC One)
Slow Horses (Apple TV+)
Top Boy (Netflix) - WINNER
Entertainment programme
Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas (Apple TV+)
Later… with Jools Holland (BBC Two)
Michael McIntyre’s Big Show (BBC One)
Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One) - WINNER
Entertainment performance
Ant & Dec - I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! (ITV1)
Big Zuu - Big Zuu's Big Eats (Dave)
Graham Norton - The Graham Norton Show (BBC One)
Hannah Waddingham - Eurovision Song Content 2023 (BBC One)
Joe Lycett - Late Night Lycett (Channel 4) - WINNER
Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan - Rob & Romesh Vs... (Sky Max)
Factual entertainment
Celebrity Race Across the World (BBC One) - WINNER
The Dog House (Channel 4)
Endurance: Race to the Pole (Channel 5)
Portrait Artist of the Year (Sky Arts)
Factual series
Dublin Narcos (Sky Documentaries)
Evacuation (Channel 4)
Lockerbie (Sky Documentaries) - WINNER
Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland (BBC Two)
Female performance in a comedy
Bridget Christie - The Change (Channel 4)
Gbemisola Ikumelo - Black Ops (BBC One) - WINNER
Máiréad Tyers - Extraordinary (Disney+)
Roisin Gallagher - The Lovers (Sky Atlantic)
Sofia Oxenham - Extraordinary (Disney+)
Taj Atwal - Hullraisers (Channel 4)
International
The Bear (Disney+)
Beef (Netflix)
Class Act (Netflix) - WINNER
The Last of Us (Sky Atlantic)
Love & Death (ITVX)
Succession (Sky Atlantic)
Leading actor
Brian Cox - Succession (Sky Atlantic)
Dominic West - The Crown (Netflix)
Kane Robinson - Top Boy (Netflix)
Paapa Essiedu - The Lazarus Project (Sky Max)
Steve Coogan - The Reckoning (BBC One)
Timothy Spall - The Sixth Commandment (BBC One) - WINNER
Leading actress
Anjana Vasan - Black Mirror's Demon 79 (Netflix)
Anne Reid - The Sixth Commandment (BBC One)
Bella Ramsey - The Last of Us (Sky Atlantic)
Helena Bonham Carter - Nolly (ITVX)
Sarah Lancashire - Happy Valley (BBC One) - WINNER
Sharon Horgan - Best Interests (BBC One)
Limited drama
Best Interests (BBC One)
Black Mirror's Demon 79 (Netflix)
The Long Shadow (ITV1)
The Sixth Commandment (BBC One) - WINNER
Live event coverage
Coronation Concert (BBC One)
Eurovision Song Contest 2023 (BBC One) - WINNER
Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance (BBC One)
Male performance in a comedy
Adjani Salmon - Dreaming Whilst Black (BBC Three)
David Tennant - Good Omens (Prime Video)
Hammed Animashaun - Black Ops (BBC One)
Jamie Demetriou - A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou (Netflix)
Joseph Gilgun - Brassic (Sky Max)
Mawaan Rizwan - Juice (BBC Three) - WINNER
News coverage
Inside Gaza: Israel and Hamas at War (Channel 4) - WINNER
Inside Myanmar: The Hidden War (Sky News)
Israel-Hamas War (Sky News)
Reality
Banged Up (Channel 4)
Married at First Sight UK (E4)
My Mum, Your Dad (ITV1)
Squid Game: The Challenge (Netflix) - WINNER
Scripted comedy
Big Boys (Channel 4)
Dreaming Whilst Black (BBC Three)
Extraordinary (Disney+)
Such Brave Girls (BBC Three) - WINNER
Short form
Mobility (BBC Three) - WINNER
The Skewer: Three Twisted Years (BBC iPlayer)
Stealing Ukraine’s Children: Inside Russia’s Camps (Vice News)
Where It Ends (BBC Three)
Single documentary
David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived (Sky Documentaries)
Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family (ITV1) - WINNER
Hatton (Sky Crime)
Vjeran Tomic: The Spider-Man of Paris (Netflix)
Soap
Casualty (BBC One) - WINNER
EastEnders (BBC One)
Emmerdale (ITV1)
Specialist factual
Chimp Empire (Netflix)
The Enfield Poltergeist (Apple TV+)
Forced Out (Sky Documentaries)
White Nanny, Black Child (Channel 5) - WINNER
Sports coverage
Cheltenham Festival Day One (ITV1) - WINNER
MOTD Live: FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 (BBC One)
Wimbledon 2023 Men’s Final (BBC One)
Supporting actor
Amit Shah - Happy Valley (BBC One)
Éanna Hardwicke - The Sixth Commandment (BBC One)
Harris Dickinson - A Murder at the End of the World (Disney+)
Jack Lowden - Slow Horses (Apple TV+)
Matthew Macfadyen - Succession (Sky Atlantic) - WINNER
Salim Daw - The Crown (Netflix)
Supporting actress
Elizabeth Debicki - The Crown (Netflix)
Harriet Walter - Succession (Sky Atlantic)
Jasmine Jobson - Top Boy (Netflix) - WINNER
Lesley Manville - The Crown (Netflix)
Nico Parker - The Last of Us (Sky Atlantic)
Siobhan Finneran - Happy Valley (BBC One)
Memorable moment award
Beckham - David teases Victoria about her ‘work class’ upbringing (Netflix)
Doctor Who - Ncuti Gatwa being revealed as the 15th Doctor (BBC One)
Happy Valley - Catherine Cawed and Tommy Lee Royce’s final kitchen showdown (BBC One) - WINNER
The Last of Us - Bill and Frank’s Story (Sky Atlantic)
The Piano - 13-year-old Lucy stuns commuters with performance (Channel 4)
Succession - Logan Roy’s death (Sky Atlantic)
Topics: Baftas, Celebrity, TV And Film
Rhiannon Ingle