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BAFTAs: The best speeches, winners and jokes from the night

There was even a dog on the red carpet…wearing a dickie bow.

LAST NIGHT’S BAFTAS had some surprises in store with underdogs taking top prizes and Margaret Thatcher being thanked in a speech.

The best actor and actress awards went to first time winners – Jason Watkins and Georgina Campbell.

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Campbell (23) took home her first major award for her role in BBC Three’s Murdered By My Boyfriend while Watkins won the award for his role in The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries.

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The most talked about speech of the night came from Channel 4 journalist Jon Snow when he was presented with a BAFTA Fellowship award.

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It was all going great until he ruffled some feathers by thanking Margaret Thatcher:

He also loved the dog that sponsors House of Fraser had on the red carpet:

Well everybody did really:

Hard not to fall for this …

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Poor Graham Norton lost out to Ant and Dec for the Best Entertainment Performance award.

House of Fraser British Academy Television Awards - Aftershow party - London Ian West Ian West

But the BAFTA presenter had a great rejection speech piping up with “and suddenly I’m Ed Balls”.

Norton did win a BAFTA for Comedy Entertainment Programme.

House of Fraser British Academy Television Awards - Press Room - London

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    May 11th 2015, 9:53 AM

    Took me a moment to realise Ant and Dec were sitting down on a black platform

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    May 11th 2015, 10:21 AM

    Great comment v funny

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    May 11th 2015, 12:14 PM

    Have to say Clive James gave a touching speech too..you got the feeling that not only was he saying thank you for his award but the he was saying goodbye to his television followers as he’s suffering from terminal leukaemia. I remember laughing at the dry wit he showed on many occasions. I wish him the best.

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    May 11th 2015, 10:57 AM

    It was so funny watching the looney lefties go from gushing admiration of Jon Snow on twitter to seeing him as the spawn of the devil when he mentioned Margaret Thatcher. The majority didn’t even seem to know it was Maggie’s government that allowed for CH4 to be set up.

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    May 11th 2015, 11:21 AM

    @Richard – Exactly!

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    May 11th 2015, 4:22 PM

    Is there a point buried in there somewhere lads? What ‘exactly’ are you agreeing with, Lebowski?
    Any old excuse to say “looney lefties” yeah? You guys are so on top of things. Got everything figured out except for what to do with your lives when justice eventually prevails.

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    May 11th 2015, 12:10 PM

    Graham Norton was brilliant, as usual.

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