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Celeste: No audience BAFTA performance a 'unique opportunity'

Celeste: "You get to have an intimate reaction with this historic venue that otherwise you probably wouldn't get, other than in a sound check, so I think it's quite amazing".
Celeste: "You get to have an intimate reaction with this historic venue that otherwise you probably wouldn't get, other than in a sound check, so I think it's quite amazing".

Celeste has said performing at the British Academy Film Awards in an empty Royal Albert Hall is a "unique opportunity".

The 26-year-old singer was speaking as she arrived at the second of the two ceremonies for this year's awards, which is going ahead without winners and nominees present.

She is due to perform Hear My Voice from best film nominee The Trial of the Chicago 7.

Speaking ahead of the ceremony, she told the PA news agency: "I think it has such an allure to be able to perform without an audience and I was saying earlier that it’s such a unique opportunity to be able to perform in a place like this, sort of fully ready to go, dressed, without a crowd so I look forward to that, and hopefully I’ll come back another time where I can have a big audience".

She added: "You get to have an intimate reaction with this historic venue that otherwise you probably wouldn’t get, other than in a sound check, so I think it’s quite amazing".

Tonight's show will be hosted by Dermot O'Leary and Edith Bowman, with presenters, including Hugh Grant, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Tom Hiddleston, while nominees will appear virtually.

Click here for the full list of nominees.

The BAFTAs will be on BBC One at 7.00pm on Sunday evening.

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