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Wunmi Mosaku Flaunts Baby Bump at Essence Awards

Wunmi Mosaku showed off her bump in a pearl-embellished dress as she joined her husband, Tash Moseley, at the Essence Black Women In Hollywood Awards in Los Ang...

Wunmi Mosaku Flaunts Baby Bump at Essence Awards
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Bintano News

March 13, 2026

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Wunmi Mosaku showed off her bump in a pearl-embellished dress as she joined her husband, Tash Moseley, at the Essence Black Women In Hollywood Awards in , , on Thursday.

The Sinners star, 39, who is currently expecting her second child, looked radiant as she was joined by her husband for several photos on the red carpet ahead of the awards ceremony, held at Fairmont Century Plaza. 

The glamorous number featured a scoop neckline, delicate pearl embellishment all over, and fringed detailing at the waist. 

To complete her look, the actress added inches to her frame with pointed heels and accessorised with gold statement earrings. 

Meanwhile, her husband cut a smart-casual figure in a stone blazer and dark blue denim jeans as he sweetly wrapped one arm around his wife, placing his hand on her growing bump. 

The 2026 Essence Black Women In Hollywood Awards honoured achievements in both film and television. 

Wunmi Mosaku showed off her bump in a pearl-embellished dress as she attended the Essence Black Women In Hollywood Awards in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday

The Sinners star, 39, who is currently expecting her second child, looked radiant as she was joined by her husband Tash Moseley for several photos on the red carpet ahead of the awards ceremony

A-list stars, including Zendaya, Kerry Washington, and Halle Bailey, were also in attendance. 

Wunmi's appearance at the event comes after she admitted a 'shadow' was . 

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The actress took home the Best Supporting Actress gong last month - but says the night was overshadowed by Tourette's sufferer John Davidson's racial slur while Wunmi's co-stars Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo presented an award.

John, whose life is documented in the film I swear, which was also nominated at the awards, made the involuntary comment as a result of a tic. 

The slur was left in for the televised edit of the show, which was broadcast on the BBC two hours later.

Speaking about the incident in her recent interview with Glamour Magazine, Wunmi confessed: 'Obviously, the BAFTA win, there's been a shadow. It's been very difficult since the BBC decided to air what it aired.'

Adding how she felt supported by her cast, she continued: 'We've just held each other. I was [up for] the next award, so I came off the stage and I saw them, and I hugged them.'

Wunmi made it clear that her upset is directed at the BBC, not John, who has since reached out to Jordan and Lindo to apologise.

The glamorous number featured a scoop neckline, delicate pearl embellishment all over, and fringed detailing at the waist

Meanwhile, her husband cut a smart-casual figure in a stone blazer and dark blue denim jeans as he sweetly wrapped one arm around his wife, placing his hand on her growing bump

The BBC said the moment 'was aired in error' and claimed its Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) 

'Everyone who was impacted deserved the grace to have it taken out – the care to have it taken out. We found out later that night that it was online. 

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'We'd been told that it was a family-friendly show at 7pm and that there was a two-hour delay. So how could it possibly have been left in?'

After the BAFTAs, John said he was 'deeply mortified' by his outburst, which he said had been involuntarily triggered by the neurological condition he has suffered from since the age of 12.

Sinners has marked a pinnacle point in Wunmi's career, with the film dominating awards season and grossing $368 million worldwide. 

'This is such a rare moment, and it's such a big moment for the film: 16 nominations!' she said: 'This is the moment that I have worked 20 years towards.'

And Wunmi was thrilled when her co-star Michael was crowned Best Actor at The Actor Awards.

'Oh, I forgot I was pregnant, and jumped and jumped and jumped! That gave myself a few issues.'

Wunmi previously opened up about how her BAFTA-winning celebrations were 'tainted' by the racial slur that occurred and vowed she 'won't forgive' the BBC for keeping it in the broadcast.

Speaking at the Actor Awards at the start of the month, Wunmi said she found it 'exploitative and performative to have someone there without the full protection of everyone, including him and anyone in that audience', and added that there would have been children present. 

She told US TV show Entertainment Tonight: 'I was there and it was painful to have that celebration kind of really tainted for me.

'I have no hard feelings towards John Davidson at all. He has a condition. I feel like Bafta has a lot of lessons to learn.'

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The couple looked more loved-up than ever as they shared several laughs together on the red carpet ahead of the ceremony, held at Fairmont Century Plaza

and has claimed that the  were 'careless' amid the ongoing Tourette's racism row surrounding the recent ceremony.

Jayme spoke out on what happened, telling The Hollywood Reporter at the 57th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday that John's 'disability got exploited that night'. 

She said on the red carpet: 'I'll first say a big shout out to Mike and Delroy, like let's continue to honour them for how they handled that in real time, the grace and the dignity that they exercised, and the whole home team, everybody that was out there, like really carried themselves well. 

'I think the events this weekend exposed a couple things - Institutionally, we still don't understand what inclusion means.

'Just because you invite someone into a space, but you don't provide the necessary resources to keep them and everyone else in that room safe by them being there, that's not inclusivity. That's exploitation.

'That man's disability got exploited that night, and it led to multiple offences. That's the BAFTA's fault. And then the BBC, to air what they aired, is careless.

'And not like some haphazard accident, no, like a real lack of care was exercised for those two Black men. And we know the BBC knows how to take care of what they care about, right, because they censored a bunch of other... they went so far as to make sure certain things weren't topics of conversation.

'They censored Akinola's speech, the director of My Father's Shadow, which is an amazing film, by the way. So you censored one Black man, you failed to protect two others. You do not care for our dignity, our humanity.' 

'You want to celebrate our art, but you won't protect, and that's why we celebrate Sinners. That's why we celebrate Ryan (Coogler) [the director of Sinners]. That's why we show up to the NAACP, because those are spaces where we felt safe, where we feel safe.'

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