Ant and Dec apologise for blackface in Saturday Night Takeaway episodes
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mirror.co.ukAnt McPartlin and Dec Donnelly have apologised for using blackface in Saturday Night Takeaway episodes. The well-loved Geordie duo said they were sorry for imitating people of colour in a segment of their show and acknowledged this was "wrong".
Their infamous disguises include using make-up to impersonate Japanese girls, Ant dressed in cultural clothing to look like an Arab man and they played two Jamaican women.
As the Black Lives Matter movement engulfed the world, Ant and Dec have made the move to remove all traces of the episodes involving blackface sketches.
Historic footage of the presenting pair portraying blackface has now been wiped from ITV. The award-winning presenters regularly dress up as other people to disguise themselves
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