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BGT's Diversity bringing back controversial BLM routine despite Ofcom complaints

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Diversity have revived their Black Lives Matter routine. The dance troupe are performing it on their latest tour — despite it sparking a major backlash when they did it on Britain’s Got Talent in 2020.

Frontman Ashley Banjo told Daily Star: “We had big discussions about whether we mention or even allude to what happened. On the one hand, we didn’t want to.

But at the same time, we felt it was impossible not to. “This show follows the positive and negative side of having such open communication between people.“And we don’t have a better example of the negative battle than what happened to us.

It’s a big landmark moment in the show.”The routine includes a move depicting the murder of George Floyd, which sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.It made Diversity’s members the target of death threats and sparked a record number of complaints to Ofcom.Ashley said: “There is a small part of me every night I get a little bit scared because you’re not sure what the response is going to be.

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