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Published 11:54 06 Aug 2026 GMT
Ted Lasso season four hit Apple TV+ this morning, which means Hannah Waddingham is back on screens as Rebecca Welton and the internet is doing what it does best - digging up the clip of her tearing a strip off a photographer who asked her to get her leg out on the red carpet.
If you haven't seen it, you should.
Back in April 2024, Waddingham was hosting the Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall for the second year running.
She turned up in a purple lavender gown with a thigh-high split, tulle cape, and jewels.
She looked incredible and was posing for photos - all perfectly normal.
Then a photographer shouted at her to show more leg.
Her face changed instantly.
A fan called Bruna Guimaraes, who had flown from Brazil specifically to see Waddingham, was already recording. She caught the whole thing.
"Oh my God, you'd never say that to a man, my friend," Waddingham said, looking directly at the photographer.
"Don't be a d***, otherwise I'll move off. Don't say 'show me leg.' No."
The crowd behind her started cheering. She shook her head, walked off down the steps, then turned back and added: "Have some manners."
That was it - over and done with.
The photographer was left standing there while the rest of the press pack tried not to laugh.
A few days later, Waddingham appeared on The One Show and confirmed she had received a written apology.
"I'm good," she told host Alex Jones.
"I called out what needed to be absolutely necessary to call out, and I've received a written apology."
She was keen to move on from it.
"I'm so ready to move on, and I'm not having it overshadow what was the most, I think even more than last year, the most glorious, joyful, positive night."
She pulled off three outfit changes during the ceremony that night and hosted the entire show.
The photographer got told off on camera and became a viral cautionary tale, which seems about right.
Season four of Ted Lasso dropped on Apple TV+ on August 5, with Waddingham returning as the brilliant, terrifying and occasionally vulnerable Rebecca Welton alongside Jason Sudeikis, Brett Goldstein, and Juno Temple.
Whenever Waddingham is in the news, the Olivier Awards clip follows.
It has become one of those moments that gets shared every few months because people genuinely enjoy watching someone refuse to put up with something they shouldn't have to put up with.
It works because she doesn't hesitate, she doesn't soften it, and she doesn't apologise for saying it.
She is also - for what it's worth - someone who has consistently refused to be defined by how she looks on a red carpet.
When her nine-year-old daughter made her a clutch bag out of cardboard for the SAG Awards, Waddingham carried it on the carpet alongside her designer gown.
That tells you everything about what she thinks matters and what she doesn't.
Waddingham is 52, from south-west London, and trained as a musical theatre performer.
She spent years on the West End before breaking into television.
Most people under 30 know her as Rebecca Welton, but most people over 40 know her as Septa Unella who walked Cersei through King's Landing chanting 'Shame' over and over again in Game of Thrones.
She has spoken about how the waterboarding scene on the GoT set left her with chronic claustrophobia.
She won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Ted Lasso in 2021.
The star also hosted Eurovision in 2023 alongside Graham Norton and has become one of the most in-demand presenters and performers in British entertainment.
She is also - as it turns out - not someone you should ask to show you her leg.
To be fair, maybe it's best to steer clear of that question with anyone.
Ted Lasso season four is streaming now on Apple TV+.
