Paloma Faith gave an insight into the not-so glamorous realities of attending awards shows nine weeks after giving birth, as she shared a post of her breast pumping in the toilets at the BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday night.
The singer, 44, welcomed her son with boyfriend Stevie Thomas in March and is already mum to two daughters, aged nine and five, with her ex Leyman Lahcine.
And showing how not even celebrities get to take a night off from parenting duties, Paloma took to her Instagram during the ceremony to reveal she had taken to the loos in order to pump.
Poking fun at her situation, she filmed herself in the bathroom as she removed her wearable breast pumps, revealing Amanda Holden had come to her aid to help get them in place under her fringed black gown.
Joking that the footage was ‘too graphic’ to show, she told fans: ‘I’m in the toilets at the BAFTAs and I’ve just taken my magic In-bra pumps out.
‘Breast pumping at the BAFTAs… in the toilets. I should’ve filmed it because Amanda Holden was the one who helped me get them in, but it was too graphic.’
Paloma Faith gave an insight into the not-so glamorous realities of attending awards shows nine weeks after giving birth, as she shared a post of her breast pumping in the toilets at the BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday night
Showing how not even celebrities get to take a night off from parenting duties, Paloma took to her Instagram during the ceremony to reveal she had taken to the loos in order to pump
Her dedication paid off, as the hitmaker then shared a proud snap with Amanda, 55, at their table, proudly holding the filled bags of breastmilk aloft and captioned it: ‘The end result, thanks @noholdenback’
Her dedication paid off, as Paloma then shared a proud snap with Amanda, 55, at their table, proudly holding the filled bags of breastmilk aloft and captioned it: ‘The end result, thanks @noholdenback’.
She recently got candid about her breastfeeding journey, admitting it ‘hurt like mad’ with her first two kids, but she’d persevered because she felt ‘so under pressure to do so’, as she urged mums to ‘stop blaming ourselves for everything that may succeed or not’.
She and Amanda were joined at the awards by their pal Alan Carr, who was also flushed with pride as he clutched his BAFTA, after landing the public-voted Memorable Moment Award for his Celebrity Traitors victory.
Paloma shared a hilarious selfie showing her in fits of giggles as Alan posed with the trophy over his face and sporting his famous spectacles.
And Amanda showed a glimpse into the riot the trio were having, with a picture of them all in hysterics at dinner and sweetly captioning it: ‘Blondes have more fun, especially with Alan’.
Paloma and Alan’s friendship was famously put to the test last year, after he ruthlessly chose her to be his first ‘murder victim’ on The Celebrity Traitors, leaving her ‘p***ed off’ to be out first.
Slamming her pal on the Traitors podcast, Uncloaked, she said: ‘I don’t think it was very nice, I still maintain to this day that if the shoe was on the other foot, I wouldn’t have done that. So I don’t think he should have done it to me and I’m surprised that he did.’
But Alan revealed that the pair had patched things up after a grovelling phone call, recalling: ‘She went on The One Show and said I stabbed her in the back.
Paloma recently got candid about her breastfeeding journey , admitting it ‘hurt like mad’ with her first two kids, but she’d persevered because she felt ‘so under pressure to do so’, as she urged mums to ‘stop blaming ourselves for everything that may succeed or not’
She and Amanda were joined at the awards by their pal Alan Carr, who was also flushed with pride as he clutched his BAFTA, after landing the public-voted Memorable Moment Award for his Celebrity Traitors victory
Paloma shared a hilarious selfie showing her in fits of giggles as Alan posed with the trophy over his face and sporting his famous spectacles
‘Then she said her child didn’t want me to come around her house ever again. Like I’m the Candyman. I rang her up and said, “Look, it’s all getting out of hand. I love you so much.”’
And the duo proved there is no bad blood between them as they posed together on the red carpet at the TV BAFTAs and larked about inside the ceremony, where they sat next to each other.
While Alan well and truly made up for his betrayal by dedicating his Memorable Moment Award to Paloma, declaring: ‘There’s no one else I would rather murder more than you.’
It was a big night for Celebrity Traitors all round, as the hit show also nabbed the Best Reality award, over The Jury: Murder Trial, Squid Game: The Challenge and Virgin Island.
Claudia Winkleman accepted the gong, while a number of the celebs joined her onstage, including Paloma and Alan, Nick Mohammed, Celia Imrie and Cat Burns.
Claudia dedicated the trophy to the ‘extraordinary cast who played with dignity, gusto and their entire hearts and we love them’.
But it was Netflix drama Adolescence that dominated Sunday’s awards at London’s Royal Festival Hall, with a record-breaking four wins.
The four-part show, which received a staggering 11 nominations when they were announced in March, received the most ever wins for a series, taking home Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Limited Drama.
Adolescence, which was created by Stephen Graham 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.
Paloma and Alan’s friendship was famously put to the test last year, after he ruthlessly chose her to be his first ‘murder victim’ on The Celebrity Traitors, leaving her ‘p***ed off’ to be out first (pictured)
Each episode is filmed in one continuous shot and has been widely praised for addressing topics such as online radicalisation and misogyny.
An emotional Stephen won Best Actor for his portrayal of Jamie’s father, having missed out on seven previous nominations for shows including Help, Time and This Is England ’90.
During his acceptance speech, he said: ‘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 nannas 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 Cooper, 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 at the BAFTAs.
Meanwhile, Rose Ayling-Ellis’s crime drama, Code Of Silence, scooped Best Drama, beating out A Thousand Blows, Blue Lights and This City Is Ours.
The Lead Actress BAFTA went to Narges Rashidi for Passenger 951, over Erin Doherty, Aimee Lou Wood, Jodie Whitaker and Sheridan Smith.
She played Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, in the drama based on the true story of Nazanin’s wrongful six-year imprisonment in Iran for spying and Narges dedicated the award to her, her husband and her daughter – who attended the ceremony.
Meanwhile, Amandaland landed the gong for Best Scripted Comedy, but stars Lucy Punch and Philippa Dunne missed out on the Actress In A Comedy gong, which went to Katherine Parkinson for her performance in BBC One’s Here We Go.
The duo proved there is no bad blood between them as they posed together on the red carpet at the TV BAFTAs and larked about inside the ceremony, where they sat next to each other
While Alan well and truly made up for his betrayal by dedicating his Memorable Moment Award to Paloma, declaring: ‘There’s no one else I would rather murder more than you’
Katherine thanked her husband Stephen during her acceptance speech, who she said ‘wasn’t here tonight because he didn’t think I’d win.’
The Entertainment BAFTA was awarded to Last One Laughing, while Bob Mortimer’s performance on the show also landed him the Entertainment Performance gong.
Elsewhere during the ceremony, the acclaimed documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack won the Current Affairs category after the BBC controversially decided not to broadcast it, with Channel 4 then stepping in to air the film.
The producers took aim at the BBC for ‘refusing to air’ the important doc, with Ramita Navai thanking Channel 4 and declaring: ‘We refuse to be censored.’
While Ben De Pear cuttingly ended their speech: ‘Just a question for the BBC – given you dropped our film, will you drop us from the Bafta screening later tonight?’
The win was included in the broadcast, but within a sped-up montage of other awards that had been handed out on the night.
Channel 4 additionally received recognition for its reporting on the Iran conflict, while historian Simon Schama won for his BBC Two documentary The Road to Auschwitz.
The factual series category went to Channel 4’s See No Evil, which examined the Church of England abuse scandal surrounding serial abuser John Smyth and contributed to renewed scrutiny surrounding safeguarding failures within the institution.
Seth Rogen took to the stage to accept the Best International Series Award for his Apple TV show, The Studio – which he created, directed and starred in.
He dedicated the gong to his co-star, the legendary Catherine O’Hara, who tragically died in January, telling the crowd: ‘She meant so much to all of us. I assume her work was as important to you over here, as to us in the US, so this award is for Catherine.’
Martin Lewis was presented with the Bafta Television special award, recognising his ‘extraordinary and lasting impact on British consumers and public life’.
While Dame Mary Berry received the BAFTA Fellowship – the awards’ highest accolade – for her ‘exceptional contribution to television’, joining the ranks of Sir David Attenborough, Baroness Floella Benjamin and Sir Billy Connolly.
