Red carpet posing, all the awards and of course the frock horrors! All the gossip from the BAFTAs with our live blog

Red carpet posing, all the awards and of course the frock horrors! All the gossip from the BAFTAs with our live blog

Tonight is the TV BAFTAS. The celebs have already been tweeting about it - Harry Derbridge is excited about presenting an award with Amy Childs and Alan Sugar has been making threats to Dara O'Briain to make sure he gives the Young Apprentice an award. We wouldn't mess Dara, just do what he says.

The goody bags ready to go for the celebs... *jealous face*

 

James from our 3am desk is down at the awards hanging about backstage, so we'll be hearing from him, as well as from a host of celebs, and also - most crucially - from US, who will be watching with you.

All of this will be taking place in our live blog, which you can check in with from 5pm. The show doesn't start until 8pm but there will be a lot of early on gossip to bring you before then.

Don't miss it.

This man totally wears best outfit though. Glasses matching his bow tie. WHY DON'T MORE PEOPLE DO THIS?

Mrs Brown's Boys wins. We don't watch that one either. We clearly have terrible taste in telly.

Nominations are: Fresh Meat (Channel 4)

Mrs Brown's Boys (BBC1)

Friday Night Dinner (Channel 4)

Rev (BBC2)

If Fresh Meat wins, Jack Whitehall is going to be so relieved he got those replacement trousers from Ted Baker earlier.

Ah, there's the answer then. Clearly while we were spending our live watching Corrie on catch up, a programme called The Fades was on and was a bit amazing. The Fades wins Best Drama Series.

Emilia Fox and Dominic West present the award for Drama Series. WOAH. Dominic has clearly been out in the park like Issy in our office, and like Issy, he stayed there for a tad too long. That is one incredibly brown face. Or incredibly white teeth. Perhaps both.

Here's the shortlist for drama series:

The Fades (BBC3)

Misfits (E4)

Scott And Bailey (ITV1)

Spooks (BBC1)

Who does your vote go to? And does anyone know what The Fades is?

Now, we love an awards ceremony full STOP, but the montage bits are by far the best. Telly's brilliant, isn't it?

And here goes with the awards. We're no going to lie to you, the first few are a bit dull and current affairs based until we get to the bits where Made in Chelsea comes on but let's all just stick with it. 

Nearly time! In the meantime, let's make do with some gossip. Rolf Harris had to skip most of the red carpet because he was 'overheating'.

Nick Hewer will be presenting one of the awards tonight, which reminds us how we once thought we saw him on the beach in Thailand, but our boyfriend just said 'nah, they've just both got white hair.'

Only half an hour until the show starts. Got a wine/ tea (depending on the mood - oh the sun's out, get a wine)? Got crisps/ grapes (depending on the diet - oh the sun's out, get crisps)? Good, good. Now let's remind ourselves of the nominees here.

TV's big night out: Stars prepare for telly Bafta Awards 

Apparently Holly Willoughby's got a grubby dress problem to deal with in the loo later because Keith Lemon's been standing all over it. Pesky Lemon. Come on Fearne, time to get the hand towels out and be a good mate.

Have a guess below who was the only 'celebrity' who was rude to James on the red carpet. WE AREN'T HAPPY WITH HIM.

Some more arrivals on the red carpet just added into our gallery here.

More news just in: Jack Whitehall lost his trousers only moments before the ceremony and had to buy some new ones. We aren't 100% sure how you lose your trousers - we've asked about but no-one seems to know.

NEWS JUST IN: Professor Green is not wearing socks, we repeat Professor Green is not wearing any socks.

Lauren Goodger is a gracious type. Despite TOWIE not being nominated (note the nomination for Made in Chelsea instead in the amazingly named 'Reality and constructed factual' category section), she's just tweeted this: 'This time last yr was BAFTA awards we won bafta for series 1-2 was an amazing day!Hope every1 is having fun!!love looking at the dresses x'

Oh, and for those following James' red carpet sweatiness rating, you'll be sad/ glad to hear that it's gone through the roof. We're going to see him in a minute and we're wondering how best to phrase 'STAY AWAY FROM US, YOU SWEATY SWEATY MAN'.

Any tweets that come through from the celebs now will be marked DISGRACEFUL by us as they have all now taken their seats. As have we. Our seat is less posh though - it's at our desk - but it does have two massive bars of Green and Blacks chocolate next to it, so swings and roundabouts.

When the show starts on BBC1 in an hour, the first BAFTA award will be Best Drama Series - the nominees are (we don't feel like our HM maxi is posh enough to say a sentence like that):

The Fades (??)

Misfits

Scott and Bailey

Spooks

 

Check out all the BAFTA red carpet looks in proper full sized lovely pics HERE...

BAFTA's spelling of champagne suggests they've maybe had a bit too much of it: 'The champaign reception has become very quiet, the red carpet is almost empty...the ceremony is about to begin!'

Confirmation from moderately sweaty James on the red carpet: 'Amy Childs is wearing a dress by Victoria Beckham. She modestly gives herself 10/10 in look rating.'

BAFTA will be tweeting the winners in real time, but we're not ones to ruin your fun, so we'll be waiting until it's on the telly - at 8pm. In the meantime we'll be updating with gossip from the celebs and behind the scenes, and we will tell you if James' red carpet sweatiness rating (currently at a 4 out of 10) has gone up at all.

Let's have a look at Holly, Fearne and Keith Lemon arriving, shall we... If you can't see their outfits clearly enough, they'll be here imminently, but you should know that Keith looks the hottest OBVIOUSLY.

 

Oooh apparently Amy Childs is wearing Victoria Beckham. Let's all take a moment to imagine the massive rage Posh is flying in to right now in her lovely LA mansion. TAKE COVER DAVID.

James is keeping us abreast of everything on the red carpet, which includes three recent bits of information.

1. The Celeb Juice cast have arrived

2. He is awfully sunburnt

3. Rolf Harris has been giving him sunburn tips

BAFTA (who in our head is that mask, which is kind of sinister) just tweeted this:

'Guests have been invited to take their seats... It's getting close!'

All we can think about is if the seats are sticky, as that could cause terrible thigh-based problems on a hot day. The crucial questions: ASKED RIGHT HERE.

The Made in Chelsea girls have hit the red carpet here - do they look boozy? Have a look at their eyes, they've been having cocktails. MMM COCKTAILS.

 

 

Remind yourself who's nominated for all the awards RIGHT HERE...

3am's James is currently arguing with Pro Green on the colour of his suit. It's either blue or purple, but it's definitely not green, disappointingly.

Bloody hell, we'd actually forgotten Matt Cardle existed. Has anyone checked his invite?

 

 

And our favourite current celebrity couple, presenting... Millie Mackintosh and Professor Green.

 

Karren Brady's arrived! She looks pretty (these pictures will all be on our site in big pretty non-bloggy form shortly FYI)

 

Keith Lemon's got a decent back-up plan if he doesn't win tonight anyway... This is what he just tweeted: 'On me way t' Baftas! Can't believe I just said that. Sweating a bit, wish I'd have worn me new shorts. So if we win, ace! If we don't .... Loose and booze!' (We think he means lose) (Though we can't be sure)

Don't worry though, the MIC boys are having fun too. Oh wait, they're not, they're just looking a bit sweaty in the car. 

The Made in Chelsea lot are having a nice old pre-BAFTA cocktail - @ollielocke just tweeted: 'My Girls Cheska85 and BinkyFelstead having a cocktail before a fabulous evening a the BAFTAS xxx

 

The stars will be putting the finishing touches to their looks ABOUT NOW... Find out how they got their looks with this video of the experts giving their tips. Though with this heat, they possibly won't need fake tan today.

See how the stars get primped and preened backstage at the BAFTAs (plus Prof Green's man tan!) 

We just got this live from the red (and blue) (and white) carpet...  

From 3am's James LIVE (and possibly sweaty) on the red carpet: @3am 'LIVE AT THE SCENE: If only they swapped champagne receptions for Slush Puppy. The red carpet is HOT.'

Hi everyone! BAFTA build up is starting early - 3am's James is down there and confirms arrivals will start at 4.30pm. And BAFTA themselves just tweeted: 'The Royal Festival Hall is a hive of activity. The red white and blue carpet looks dazzling. We're nearly there...BAFTA'

 

And check out the red carpet looks RIGHT HERE...