Ryan accepted the shock award, joking, “I simply completely love popping out of right here 12 months after 12 months, weaving violence towards girls right into a comedy opening monologue. I imply, God rattling it, and also you simply sit there along with your white wine… it is a powerful gig, however I like it. I like being counted amongst these very unimaginable girls.”
Keely Hodgkinson: Sporting Hero
After profitable the silver medal within the 800 metres on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and rising as one of many 12 months’s largest observe stars, Hodgkinson made historical past at this 12 months’s Paris Olympics, when, at simply 22 years outdated, she took house the gold.
“To know that I’ve impressed younger women to get into sport is each humbling and superb,” she stated. “It is one thing I nonetheless discover onerous to understand. However standing right here in the present day, I hope to shine a lightweight on the unimaginable athletes, notably feminine athletes, as a result of we have now so lots of them in our sport proper now and which have devoted their lives to compete in our world at this stage.”
Jameela Jamil: Gamechanging Voice
The Gamechanging Voice award went to actor, activist, podcaster and — properly — all-round gamechanger, Jameela Jamil. Past her appearing profession, which has included roles in The Good Place and She-Hulk, Jamil has additionally been a voice of empowerment for ladies together with her activism and her podcast. Impressed by her personal journey with physique picture, consuming problems and physique dysmorphia, her podcast I Weigh tackles the whole lot from psychological well being to local weather change to physique positivity to self-love.
Jamil’s exceptional acceptance speech highlighted the inherent sexism embedded in our society’s youth-obsessed magnificence requirements. “No one has taught us that we have to defend and protect the remainder of our superb lives, we’re solely imagined to protect our youth… I promise you, you solely get higher with age,” she stated. “Rising older, wiser, extra assured, opinionated, discerning, highly effective and fewer tolerant of bullshit is a lovely (and horny) factor, and solely somebody insecure and afraid that they’ll’t rise to the event wouldn’t need to have fun that in you.”
She went on to talk about honouring the “outdated lady” she is going to someday grow to be.
“The whole lot I do from today ahead is for the wild, and fabulous outdated lady I hope to grow to be someday,” she stated. “Time is a lovely and sensible privilege and I’m so grateful to folks like Emma Thompson, Miriam Margolyes, and Maggie Smith, for modelling the third act in a approach that makes me so fucking excited to get there.”
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Pamela Anderson: UK Impression Award
A popular culture icon since her career-making flip in Baywatch within the ’90s, Anderson has gone on to grow to be a passionate advocate for animal welfare, AIDS and HIV consciousness and unhealthy magnificence requirements.
“For many of my profession, I discovered girls had been so aggressive and merciless one another standing right here, I can inform you, it is significantly better after we love and assist one another,” she stated.
Anderson additionally spoke about residing as a survivor of sexual violence. “I do know it takes super energy to heal. And I thank everybody who supported me on this journey,” she stated. |These previous couple of years have felt like a contemporary slate. I am on my path a brand new, superb and imperfect one. However the lesson I’ve discovered is I can’t let what occurred to me outline me. Is what I do this defines me. I dedicate this award to girls in every single place, rising above their painful paths and discovering the braveness to be their finest selves.”