SCOTTISH comedian Ashley Storrie paid tribute to her late mother Janey Godley in her Bafta Scotland winners speeches.
Storrie, the only daughter of Godley, won the Bafta alongside Matilda Curtis for their BBC Scotland comedy show Dinosaur in the Writers for Film/Television category. The actress later went on to win the Audience award.
Godley died this month at the age of 63 after a long battle with ovarian cancer. The mother-daughter duo shared they had cried when Storrie first received the Bafta nomination.
Accepting the award on Sunday evening in Glasgow, Curtis thanked the audience with excitement as Storrie jokingly said, "I think I'm going to throw up".
Storrie then thanked Curtis for writing the pilot of the show and casting her as the lead, Nina, and added: "I was making videos on Facebook and being Harry Potter but shouting 'bawbag', and now I've got a Bafta".
Curtis said: "And thank you to everyone who saw yourself in Nina, this one is for you, and thank you Ashley for being the most beautiful and incredible Nina that I could ever have asked for. You're so wonderful and talented."
The creator of the show went on to thank "the love of my life Nick", while Storrie added, "and thank you Ma" while looking up.
Later, when accepting the award voted for by the public, Storrie thanked "all the woman on Facebook" who watched her early videos and said: "I've been coming here since I was 15 with my mammy. We snuck into her first Baftas."
In tears, she added: "We snuck into the after party and a lady came up to us and said 'who are you?', and my mum lied and said 'Elaine C. Smith', and she just went, 'oh, okay'."
The audience applauded as she left the stage.
Godley found viral fame with her dubbed parodies of Nicola Sturgeon’s coronavirus news briefings during the pandemic, with most of them ending with the catchphrase “Frank, get the door”.
After her death, Storrie posted a short video on social media confirming Godley had died surrounded by her “found family” and ended it with "Frank, get the door."
