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26th January 2023
04:12pm GMT

"In text running across the screen, we reported that Paul Mescal was one of two British actors who had been nominated for an Oscar for a leading role. "The text should have said that Paul Mescal is Irish. We apologise for the mistake."The BBC apology follows another incident involving the actor back in 2020 when the actor was forced to declare his nationality. In July of that year, when Normal People and Fleabag were hugely successful, Mescal and Andrew Scott were both dubbed as British in various media outlets when they were nominated for Emmy Awards, despite Mescal being from Maynooth in Kildare and Scott being a native Dub. Of course, it caused an uproar on Irish Twitter, so much so that Paul decided to take matters into his own hands and simply tweeted: "I'm Irish." https://twitter.com/mescal_paul/status/1288463823846936576?s=20&t=4gLjhh1GtAibP0LHCOZmCA This article originally appeared on JOE Header images via Shutterstock READ ON: You can now get the viral Logan Paul drink at this Dublin 6 spot