Carey Mulligan forced to 'laugh off' mistakenly being named BAFTA winner in unseen blunder

Carey Mulligan sportingly laughed off a BAFTA howler after excruciatingly being wrongly named the Best Supporting Actress winner.

The awkward blunder was quickly edited out for broadcast by frantic BBC bosses, with the ceremony half an hour ahead.

Last year's recipient Troy Kotsur, 54, had presented the gong using sign language.

He correctly signed that Kerry Condon had won at London's Royal Festival Hall.

But the interpreter made a big howler when telling the audience, before realising his mistake.

Kerry Condon was confused with Carey Mulligan (BBC)

He sheepishly said: "This is a bad moment" as gasps were heard around the venue.

It was at first given to the actress, who had previously won a BAFTA for her role as Jenny in An Education.

Kerry won for her role in Banshees of Inisherin, while Carey had been in the running after her performance in She Said.

Kerry got her award in the end despite the confusion (BBC)

Mum Carey looked 'visibly shocked' when the slip up but took it in great spirit, it has been claimed.

After confused Kerry accepted the award on stage, host Richard E Grant joked: "A defibrillator needed for Carey Mulligan" as the stunned crowd giggled.

The gaffe was edited out of the BBC One broadcast but that didn't stop everyone finding out at home.

A source at the bash told MailOnline : "Carey was a really good sport and laughing about the mix up.

Carey went home empty handed but was a good sport laughing off the howler (Corbis via Getty Images)

"She looked visibly shocked when her name was announced."

But for Carey, it seems that awards come a very distant second - to bathing her kids!

The 37-year-old star, who also played avenging medical student Cassie in Promising Young Woman, is mum to Evelyn, seven, and Wilfred, four, who she shares with Mumford & Sons frontman Marcus Mumford , 36.

Things turned very awkward and the viewers missed it all (BBC)

She said last year: “I feel very strongly about my job and I love my job and it’s the best job in the world, but also, it is a job.

“It can’t be more important than when I have to get home and have to do bathtime. Someone said the other day, ‘Did you bring Cassie home with you?’

"And I was like, ‘The nails I brought home, the hair extensions I brought home, but everything else, you can’t bring that into a house with two kids.

"You’ve got to leave all of that stuff at work. So I think it’s a system that works for me for now.”