Stephen Fry will return to host the BAFTAs once more despite causing controversy with his infamous comments about Oscar-winning costume designer Jenny Beavan at the 2016 ceremony.

While hosting the event earlier this year, the 58-year-old comedian poked fun at Beavan’s choice of outfit, saying: “Only one of the great cinematic costume designers would come to an awards ceremony dressed as a bag lady.”

However, following outrage on social media, Fry ended up quitting Twitter between February and August, writing on the social media platform before his silence: “Jenny Beavan is a friend and joshing is legitimate. Christ, I want to leave the planet.”

The Mad Max: Fury Road costume designer responded by saying she was “absolutely not upset” by the joke because Fry was a close friend.

Director of production at BAFTA, Clare Brown, told Variety of Fry's return: “With Stephen Fry and hosts of that caliber with that sense of humor you have to let them have their rein a little bit.

"We will have a script, quite obviously, and we have to run to time… It was a bit of a storm in a tea-cup. We felt that it was blown out of proportion, and we are actually looking forward very much to working with him again.”

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Next year’s BAFTA ceremony marks Fry’s eleventh time hosting and the ceremony’s return to the London Royal Albert Hall, the first time the event has been held there since 1997.