Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway's biggest controversies from blackface apology to vote scandal | Y056541 | 2024-04-13 21:08:01
Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway is airing its remaining episode tonight, and despite being a favourite weekend staple for 20 seasons, it nonetheless had loads of controversial moments.
Soon we'll be saying goodbye to the ITV programme as will probably be happening an indefinite hiatus (anyone else getting flashbacks to One Direction?) while the hosts Ant McPartlin& and& Declan Donnelly take a break to spend more time with their families – although, you'll be able to still catch them on Britain's Got Talent, and I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here.
For the primary time since 2002, the viewers don't know once they'll get their next repair of the family-friendly present. But first, Ant and Dec, each 48, will convey us a final extra-special episode. It is going to be two hours lengthy (versus the standard one hour and thirty minutes), with the most important audience ever, and the lately reunited Women Aloud would be the star visitor announcers.
Simon Cowell,& Davina McCall, Rylan,& Oti Mabuse,& Amanda Holden,& Dermot O'Leary, Craig David and& Alison Hammond will even seem within the jam-packed episode.
Whereas the show usually has a healthful, uplifting and inclusive really feel, there have been some controversial moments. Let's have a look back…
Using blackface
The comedy duo dressed up as two Jamaican women characters, Patty and Bernice, in 2003. For the sketch where they pranked Emmerdale forged members& they appeared in blackface.
In the course of the phase, the pair pretended to be troublesome extras in a scene filmed within the Woolpack pub. They pulled it off successfully and satisfied the forged that they have been unruly extras before revealing themselves.
In a Saturday Night time Takeaway DVD clip, Ant and Dec discussed stepping into character as Patty and Bernice.
Ant joked: 'It was humorous sitting in a room, learning Jamaican, choosing clothes, making an attempt on false nails, was something I didn't assume I'd ever, ever do.'
Dec then mimicked a Jamaican accent and stated: 'We needed to find who Patty and Bernice have been, so we'd need to go, "Properly, I feel Bernice in all probability came to England on a ship".'
Through the years, the comedy duo have impersonated individuals from other races together with Japanese women using make-up and an Arab man sporting conventional clothes.
In 2020, they apologised in a press release: 'During past episodes of Saturday Night time Takeaway, we impersonated individuals of colour within the undercover phase of the show.
'We realise that this was fallacious and need to say that we are sincerely sorry to everybody that was offended.
'We purposely stopped doing this several years ago and positively wouldn't make these sketches at this time.'&
It continued: 'We had already taken steps to make sure footage was taken down, and have once more lately confirmed with ITV that these segments, and some other historic content material that would cause offence, does not appear on either the ITV hub or the Saturday Night time Takeaway YouTube channel.'&
Telephone voting scandal
In 2007,& ITV have been fined greater than £5 million by Ofcom after it emerged that viewers on exhibits including Saturday Night time Takeaway had paid to enter premium fee telephone competitions which& that they had little or no probability of profitable. It was found Saturday Night time Takeaway had been choosing finalists based mostly on their suitability to be on TV.
Ant and Dec issued a public apology, all calling viewers have been repaid, and the income from the subsequent collection have been donated to charity.
'It is very important us that folks understand that none of the exhibits highlighted within the findings of ITV's unbiased evaluate have been made by our manufacturing firm, Gallowgate, and that there was no monetary profit to us from the telephone strains inside these exhibits,' Ant and Dec's assertion started.
'Our roles as government producers are purely artistic ones. We aren't involved in operating the telephone strains, the logistics of the competitions or choosing winners.
'We're deeply upset about what the evaluation uncovered. Nevertheless, we welcome the complete disclosure of these problems, not least as a result of we will make certain that our viewers have the opportunity to get their a refund.'
They later admitted on Desert Island Discs& it was the 'the worst part' of their career.
'I feel our viewers trust us and with that case we have been actually nervous that trust had gone,' Ant shared.
Dec added: 'We thought that in all probability that was it, to be trustworthy with you, because I feel the viewers would have been justified in considering their belief had been breached, and if that had been the top, I don't assume we might have had many complaints.'
Award show mix-up
On the 2005 British Comedy Awards aired on ITV, Saturday Night time Takeaway gained the Individuals's Selection award. It later transpired that The Catherine Tate Show had gotten extra votes.
Ofcom imposed an £80,000 fantastic& on ITV – they found viewers have been inspired to continue voting even after polling had closed which led to a £45,000 superb, and overriding the viewers' vote prompted an extra £35,000 high-quality.
Ant and Dec returned the award and have been stated to be 'utterly appalled' by the state of affairs.
Drink-driving charge
In 2018, Dec presented Saturday Night Takeaway alone for the first time.
His solo appearance came days after Ant was charged with drink-driving and checked himself back into rehab.
Dec opened the present by telling the audience: 'Thanks. Thanks for that very warm welcome.
'I've received twice the amount of work to do, so we're going to crack on.'
Dec went on to host that yr's I'm A Superstar… Get Me Out Of Here with out Ant, but on that event, he had Holly Willoughby to help out.
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night time Takeaway airs Saturday at 7pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
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