Netflix’s Baftas afterparty in turmoil after fire rampages through celeb hotspot

Netflix has been forced to change the location of its glamourous post-Bafta party after a fire ripped through the original venue. It will no longer be held at celebrity hotspot Chiltern Firehouse after a blaze on Valentine’s Day resulted in the evacuation of around 100 people. Instead, Netflix has moved its afterparty to luxury hotel The Twenty Two in Mayfair’s Grosvenor Square. The London Fire Brigade said that 20 fire engines and about 125 firefighters were involved in tackling the fire on Chiltern Street in Marylebone on Friday.

A firefighter at the scene told the PA news agency the five-star hotel and restaurant will likely need a ‘large refurbishment.’. This afternoon, A-listers including the likes of Demi Moore and Cynthia Erivo will grace the Bafta red carpet. Demi, 62, is nominated in the leading actress category and has already picked up gongs at the Critics Choice Awards and Golden Globes for her role in body horror film The Substance.

Cynthia, 38, who played Elphaba in movie musical Wicked, is also a nominee in the leading actress category. She will be joined by her co-star Ariana Grande, who has received a supporting actress nod for her role playing Glinda in the reimagining of L Frank Baum’s stories. Cynthia and Demi will go head-to-head with Mikey Madison, who plays a sex worker in Anora, Karla Sofia Gascon for Spanish language musical Emilia Perez, and Saoirse Ronan for The Outrun – a film exploring mental health and addiction.

Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez, stars of Emilia Perez and Bafta nominees, are to present prizes at the awards, with actress Gascon unconfirmed among those attending, amid criticism over a number of tweets. The 52-year-old has stepped back from promoting the film after the X posts, made between 2019 and 2024, about Islam, the death of George Floyd and diversity at the Oscars resurfaced following the musical’s release.

The main event will be presented by Doctor Who and Rivals villain David Tennant for the second year running. However, he previously told Metro he was worried about ‘breaking’ the whole thing. ‘I definitely have the advantage of this not being my day job,’ David elaborated further. ‘It’s a lovely thing to be asked to do. It’s a huge privilege and it’s very giddy-making. ‘But I’ve sort of got a bit of a free pass because nobody expects me to be any good at it.’.

Other attendees at this year’s ceremony include leading actor nominees Ralph Fiennes, Sebastian Stan, Hugh Grant, Adrien Brody, Colman Domingo and Timothee Chalamet – as well as Kate Winslet, who stars in Bafta-nominated film Lee, and Jesse Eisenberg, whose film A Real Pain is nominated. What I Own: We lived rent-free to afford our £278,000 flat in the London suburbs. This is the salary you need to buy a house in every London borough — and it's bleak.

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