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The woman said she was "disgusted" by Stewart, a grandfather who had worked for Royal Mail for 22 years, and he had "tainted lives".

“The whole campaign for that movie was about championing human creativity, so when that came out, it felt a little tainted,” one Oscar voter told me recently.

For obvious reasons, it’s considered tainted information, “the fruit of the poisonous tree,” and so inadmissible in court.

He nursed his bruised ego by suggesting the result was tainted by “millions and millions” of fraudulent ballots — even though there’s zero evidence supporting that claim.

Ms Niaz-Dickinson told the tribunal in her closing submissions: "There is no evidence whatsoever that the second shortlisting was conducted with any taint of racial bias."