As we discussed, we’re currently in Day 4 of the “Meghan wore a red dress at a charity gala” freakout over in Salt Island. Part of the reason why they’re still obsessing over Meghan and her dress is because the left-behinds weren’t giving them anything in recent days. Kensington Palace hasn’t had any new briefings about how much William hates his brother, and no one will even suggest that the Princess of Wales could do a charity Zoom or something. Well, Prince William is here! He stepped out today in London. He went to a smallish event at BAFTA headquarters:
Prince William has arrived at BAFTA HQ in central London to celebrate young creatives with BAFTA, and The Royal African Society. He has been joined by several well-known faces, including Celia Imrie, Andy Serkis, Stephen Merchant and director Paul Greengrass. They are all supporters of the Prince William BAFTA Bursary fund.
The heir to the throne started the bursary in 2021 and helps assist young people from underrepresented groups to progress their careers in film, games or television through grants.
He will meet with the 2024 recipients today, as well as students from the National Film and TV School who have been supported by the Royal African Society.
William will also meet with students who have been working with the Royal African Society on their upcoming Film Africa festival by helping to curate the festival program and give guidance on the short films that have been selected to represent diverse voices and narratives in African storytelling.
BAFTA and the Royal African Society? Surely this will count as two events. William is BAFTA president, an honorary position, although he skips the BAFTAs half the time. I didn’t even think he cared enough to start the “Prince William BAFTA Bursary fund.” It’s likely something that was handed to him by BAFTA and he got to slap his name on it, like so many of his wife’s carefully curated projects. Anyway, the event is fine, it is what it is (his first day of work this week).
PS… On this week’s Gossip With Celebitchy pod, CB and I talked about his awful beard and I wondered if William is actually trimming his beard to achieve this particular “two day growth” look. I think he is – there’s no way this is a full month’s growth. Meaning, he wants it to look this creepy and scuzzy.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- (left to right) The Prince of Wales speaks to Bafta Director of Learning & New Talent, Tim Hunter and actor Sheila Atim during an event co-hosted by Bafta, and the Royal African Society, at Bafta, in Piccadilly, London, to celebrate young creatives and showcase the importance of supporting young people in the film, games and television industries Featuring: William, Prince of Wales, Tim Hunter, Sheila Atim Where: London, United Kingdom When: 09 Oct 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales during an event co-hosted by Bafta and the Royal African Society, at Bafta, in Piccadilly, London, to celebrate young creatives and showcase the importance of supporting young people in the film, games and television industries Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 09 Oct 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales during an event co-hosted by Bafta and the Royal African Society, at Bafta, in Piccadilly, London, to celebrate young creatives and showcase the importance of supporting young people in the film, games and television industries Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 09 Oct 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales speaks to donors and beneficiaries of the Prince William BAFTA Bursary during an event co-hosted by Bafta, and the Royal African Society, at Bafta, in Piccadilly, London, to celebrate young creatives and showcase the importance of supporting young people in the film, games and television industries Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 09 Oct 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales during an event co-hosted by Bafta and the Royal African Society, at Bafta, in Piccadilly, London, to celebrate young creatives and showcase the importance of supporting young people in the film, games and television industries Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 09 Oct 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales gives a speech during an event co-hosted by Bafta and the Royal African Society, at Bafta, in Piccadilly, London, to celebrate young creatives and showcase the importance of supporting young people in the film, games and television industries Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 09 Oct 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
That man is miserable. You will never be able to convince me otherwise. Dead eyes.
Why is he so dull and unattractive 🙄🙄🙄
You really should throw in a picture of King Felipe whenever William and his strugglebeard are shown. I think that’s what he thinks he looks like, but he does not.
Exactly what I was thinking, too!
What’s with all the fist clenching at the people? Is he showing them how he deals with other people? That icky face hair is doing nothing for him. He will never look as great as Harry does. What’s that saying “ beauty comes from within “. Peg is hateful within.
I suspect that he has been given the same type of media training that Kate, the keenly gimacing, jazz handed freeze poser was given, which is to assume an “arresting” or “engaging” (ha!) position whenever the cameras were on him. This is his version of her gurning and jazz-handing. It’s awful, but he has been doing it more and more frequently, which means someone has been telling him how great it looks. He looks like an angry, constipated buffoon. And just as people used to do with Kate – notice how everyone is looking AT the speaker, while William is assuming a stupid pose for the photographer? They really are two daft peas in a pod.
William is going to break out into Trump’s YMCA dance any day now because it’s so manly. He’s just practicing getting the fists right.
AFRICA IS MINE, Harry.
That should show him.
🤭
That said, it’s a good cause, but having Harry’s brother attached is not it. He’s not known for watching movies, especially, as we all remember from the last BAFTA ceremony, movies he feels the need to comment on and getting everything wrong. Just ask Mia McKennaBruce.
You know what. It took me a minute but I’m kind of offended by this. Only in that there are lovely people who absolutely want to fund underrepresented kids in the arts. That’s a great thing. But they have to fund something called Prince William’s BAFTA bursary fund. That man is out there leaking how Meghan is damaged and psychotic. He bullied a black woman out of the RF. A black actress! What the hell kind of representation is that? And I get that people want to fund this program bc it’s good for the kids and they should! But man, naming it after Prince William after all he’s done to smear Meghan through his alliance with the racist and misogynistic British tabloids? It’s just a bitter and gross pill to swallow. And that’s before even getting into his asinine comments at the last bafta ceremony.
That’s England for you, everything is named after royals 😫they maybe still have a Princess Margaret Pub 😎
Hey hey. He did a work event. Is he good for the week then😂? I’m sure those school runs are keeping him busy. I’m curious to see if William and Kate will lay low during Charles’ big Australian trip or if they’ll play games and purposely pull focus.
I guess he’s met his weekly work quota. Must be exhausting.
Most likely. He was everywhere last week because Harry was out but now he can go back and chill wherever he spends his time.
I can’t believe they have an organization still called The Royal Africa society in 2024. Talk about colonial sounding. Also he still looks like a hobo with that struggle beard.
They also still have the university called Imperial College London, and another uni called the School of Oriental and African Studies, despite the empire and the colonies being gone.
Reminds me of the Royal Africa Company, something discussed in an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about the monarchy. Three guesses what RAC did. Hint, it was England’s version of the East India Trading Company.
Dirt beard.
I’ll bet you a fried mars bar that David Beckham has encouraged Huevo in his pursuit of this tonsorial nightmare.
Boy oh boy, that man looks old. I don’t want to see Willy at fifty.
The most unkempt looking things is a salt and peper plucked beard, with the rest of the (remaining) hair on ones head still in natural colour.
Well today is the first time I’ve heard of the Prince William BAFTA Busury. So he’s doing good job promoting it if started in 2021 (sarcasm). I’ve come to the same realization as Kaiser about his beard and the worse is somebody is gaslighting him into believing that it looks good.
First time for me too. I wonder if that woman who ran the BAFTAS, handed William one for his documentary that no one watched and then went to the Royal Foundation started it for him? But then why no press about it? And how much is actually involved?
Also, William wearing that blazer shows how much weight he has lost – it’s huge around his chest and arms….
To be fair the bursary is an industry-only thing, for young artists who are just starting out in their careers. Absolutely everyone in the industry has heard of it but there’s zero reason for anyone outside of the industry to have heard of it, it would be pretty weird for someone not working in the industry to have heard of such an industry-specific thing that’s aimed at young creatives.
I could name like 20 similar bursary schemes, I bet not one person here would have heard of any of them.
So it’s widespread and common to many industries, already existing, and Prince William slapped his name on it and tried to bag credit. That tracks!
Creepy and scuzzy. Truer words were never spoken.
The beard makes him look in need of a good wash. Fred Denmark and Felipe both look good with beards but not William. Yuk
He’s trying to hide his Quagmire jaw but it’s not working.
I feel for the people in those photos with Pegs. How tiresome it must be to have to stand there and pretend that this lazy entitled lout with the struggle beard is better than you.
The “beard” looks so dry. He should have stayed hidden until it was fuller and more moisturized.
Why is he so Walllace and Gromit looking? So is his father? Like even the little hands. And not just in these pictures 😂
I’ve commented before how unjust it is that men age better than women; more dignified, distinguished etc. William is the exception. He continues to lose whatever good looks he once had.
I think he is trimming the beard because he isn’t committed to it and when he decides to shave it off, it won’t be too much of a transition.
It always makes me chuckle how everyone around him always looks so checked out and disinterested when he’s speaking. How embarrassing.
@NIKI agree 100 percent! I just look at the people in the background to find out what’s really going on. 💅🏾
Yeah, that thing is straggly! If this represents a month of growth, it’s time to give it up! I agree that he probably IS trimming it to look like this, but the question is, why? Why is this the desired result? It just looks patchy and unkempt, just half-ass. There are so many dudes with blonde or greying blonde hair that have great beards, and none of them look like this! I say, grow it or don’t show it at all.
I think he’s been told that a groomed beard makes him look more ‘statesman’ like or maybe he’s deciding to wear one in public now TQ is not here to tell him not too (now that he’s PoW he can do what he likes). But I suspect its his Harry cosplaying going to a new level – we know there was some beard jealousy when H&M got married.
He’s one of those guys who does not suit any sort of facial hair. I like facial hair on a man as long as its looked after.
He looks like some random middle-aged divorced guy who’s going to show up for cheap wine from the dispenser at his divorced-guy apartment complex later.
Whatever is his new valet or equerry or whatever-that-manservant-is-called doing? Because he’s not improving his style.
Williams face looks worse with that beard
he’s trying for a David Tennant-esque “unshaven” look. unfortunately his egg sgaped bald head and his coloring do not go well with that look. so, nope.
He’s not getting a cookie from me for getting one event, he’s still lazy as hell. And his beard is ugly.
No one takes William seriously
“helping to curate the festival program and give guidance on the short films that have been selected” … ha ha ha. No. I seriously doubt it.
Oh LOL. I have a BAFTA Access card through BAFTA Connect, which officially grants me access to BAFTA whenever I like.
I was in town yesterday and very nearly popped in to have a coffee and do a bit of work on my laptop but it was pouring with rain so I went home instead. I’m sure Will was kept well away from any regular people!