Ashley Banjo hired security to protect wife and kids after BGT Diversity backlash

mirror.co.uk:

Eyes wet, swallowing back emotion, Ashley Banjo stood on stage at the BAFTAs on Sunday night, pointed to his trophy and told tens of thousands who engulfed him in a “torrent” of racial abuse last year to take a good look. “Just take a look, because as much as there are so many conversations and so much that needs to change, this is what change looks like,” he said.

Ashley, 32, and his dance group Diversity, which won Britain’s Got Talent in 2009, scooped the public-voted Virgin Media’s Must-See Moment Award for the now famous routine during Ashley’s stint as judge on the ITV show last year.

The routine chronicled the events of 2020 but the controversy came from a section that referenced the killing of American George Floyd and the Black