Winner's acceptance speech by Phoebe Waller-Bridge for Fleabag in the Female Performance in a Comedy Programme category
PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE: Oh! Oh! I was trying to get as many kisses from you as I could then. I came in for two. Oh my God! Thank you all so much for this. This is so incredible. I promised myself I wasn't going to say anything rude but I have actually been wet dreaming about getting a BAFTA for the whole of my life. So many amazing people to thank for this. Obviously it came from a one-woman show which wouldn't have happened without my theatre company, DryWrite, and everyone I worked with there. Vicky Jones, my best friend in the world, who directed it, and going on from there, Two Brothers Pictures, who just said, "For God's sake, make what you want to make", and not that many people say that. And then the BBC said that and then Amazon said that, so thank you all for being so incredible, and Tim Kirby for kicking us off and Harry Bradbeer for getting that performance out of me. Thank you so much, incredible, incredible man. And Lydia for being there the whole time as well, and to my wonderful husband, Connor, for being so supportive.
But most of all, I just want to say thank you to my mother, who said to me, "Darling, you can be whatever you want to be, as long as you are outrageous". And so thank you for that. Thank you, mum!
(Applause)
