Dame Pippa Harris said: 'We didn’t have that information... this whole affair has been extremely difficult, as you can imagine, for everyone involved’'
The deputy chair of Bafta has defended the organisation’s decision to still award Noel Clarke with a recent honourFollowing claims raised by 20 women in a Guardian report last week, Bafta was criticised for the Academy’s response to allegations of misconduct.with the outstanding British contribution to cinema award at the April ceremony.
However, defending the Academy’s response to the claims, Dame Pippa Harris told Sky News the film academy was not in possession of ‘one fraction’ of the detail The Guardian had about the allegations against Clarke.it was not aware of the allegations relating to the Bulletproof actor before announcing he would be given the award, adding it was in the following days they received anonymous emails about the claims from second or third-hand sources.
Dame Pippa also said Bafta chairman Krishnendu Majumdar ‘worked all the way through’ the decision-making process with the board of the film academy.
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