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    Baroness Floella Benjamin ‘floating ever since’ news of Bafta Fellowship

    by Kerri-Ann Roper May 12, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: PA Archive

    Baroness Floella Benjamin said she has been “floating ever since” finding out she will receive the Bafta Fellowship at this year’s Bafta Television Awards.

    The beloved children’s TV presenter, 74, known to millions of Britons as the host of children’s TV shows Play School and Play Away, is being honoured for her “tireless support of children and young people”, and “for her unwavering championing of diversity”, Bafta chairwoman Sara Putt previously said.

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