Ryan accepted the shock award, joking, “I simply completely love popping out of right here 12 months after 12 months, weaving violence in opposition to ladies right into a comedy opening monologue. I imply, God rattling it, and also you simply sit there together with your white wine… it is a robust gig, however I adore it. I like being counted amongst these very unimaginable ladies.”
Keely Hodgkinson: Sporting Hero
After successful the silver medal within the 800 metres on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and rising as one of many 12 months’s greatest monitor stars, Hodgkinson made historical past at this 12 months’s Paris Olympics, when, at simply 22 years outdated, she took residence the gold.
“To know that I’ve impressed younger ladies to get into sport is each humbling and wonderful,” she mentioned. “It is one thing I nonetheless discover exhausting to know. However standing right here at present, 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 — effectively — 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 girls along with her activism and her podcast. Impressed by her personal journey with physique picture, consuming problems and physique dysmorphia, her podcast I Weigh tackles all the pieces from psychological well being to local weather change to physique positivity to self-love.
Jamil’s outstanding acceptance speech highlighted the inherent sexism embedded in our society’s youth-obsessed magnificence requirements. “No one has taught us that we have to shield and protect the remainder of our wonderful lives, we’re solely purported to protect our youth… I promise you, you solely get higher with age,” she mentioned. “Rising older, wiser, extra assured, opinionated, discerning, highly effective and fewer tolerant of bullshit is a wonderful (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She went on to discuss honouring the “outdated girl” she is going to in the future grow to be.
“All the things I do from at the present time ahead is for the wild, and fabulous outdated girl I hope to grow to be in the future,” she mentioned. “Time is a wonderful 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 ladies have been so aggressive and merciless one another standing right here, I can inform you, it is significantly better once we love and help one another,” she mentioned.
Anderson additionally spoke about dwelling as a survivor of sexual violence. “I do know it takes great power to heal. And I thank everybody who supported me on this journey,” she mentioned. |These previous few years have felt like a contemporary slate. I am on my path a brand new, wonderful and imperfect one. However the lesson I’ve realized is I cannot let what occurred to me outline me. Is what I try this defines me. I dedicate this award to ladies in every single place, rising above their painful paths and discovering the braveness to be their finest selves.”